"You will thus have opportunity for mature consideration, and for manifesting your vigilance in protecting the public interest.
"It is very possible that you will come to the conclusion to withhold from it your approval.
"That is my judgment of what ought to be done.
"I have dictated this letter, after reading, this evening, the newspapers, and finding out as well as I could what has been done to-day. I will endeavor to write about the remaining bill to-morrow.
Very truly yours,
"S. J. Tilden."
TILDEN TO BIGELOW
"Greystone, May 2, 1885.
"Dear Mr. Bigelow,—I send you the two addresses. Do not cut them. Carefully preserve them. If lost, I probably could not replace them.
"1. The address to which I referred in the account, I gave of it to you, is entitled 'Address of the Democratic Members of the Legislature of the State of New York.'