"MY DEAR SIR,--Would it not be a good idea to publish a quantity of the veto message of the military bill for general circulation? There might be other things put with it and make a document and circulate it through the committees. I think it would do far more good now than during a campaign. "This measure seems to me so momentous in every aspect of it that I cannot keep quiet. If we cannot do anything else, let us howl. Our papers do not make as much noise as they ought to about it. The _World_ is the most outspoken, and it should keep it up; but the most effective work would be the circulation of the veto message, with a brief history of reconstruction since the war closed. "Johnson talks and writes well, but he lacks executive pluck. He shd. have forced Congress to let the South in at the start, but he failed, and it is now too late. "He now trembles for fear of impeachment, and will in the end give the radicals all the offices in hopes thereby to propitiate them and prevent impeachment. But they will impeach him and despise him, besides, for yielding, and before another year rolls around Ben Wade will occupy his place. They know that he is cowardly and will not fight, and they will for that reason go to the extreme. "I know that you are averse to a row. So we all are, but I tell you there is no other way. It must come sooner or later; these devils are bent on destruction, and the sooner the crisis comes the better for us, because they are strengthening themselves every day. "There is only one chance left, and that is when the impeachment comes for the President to refuse to yield the office in the first place, and in the second place to refuse to be tried by part of a court. He ought to refuse to carry out the military bill, and let the fight commence now. "Please write me. "Yours truly, "S. E. CHURCH." "P. S.--The dist. atty. matter is not yet disposed of. It would be a disgrace to reappoint Dart, and I hope they won't do it." TILDEN MADE AN LL.D. "UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, _17 May, '67_. "SAMUEL J. TILDEN, ESQ. "DEAR SIR,--It gives me pleasure to inform you officially that at a meeting of the council, held last evening, the degree of _Doctor of Laws_ was conferred on you by their unanimous vote, and the same will be announced at the coming commencement. "With great respect, "I am, Yours, &c., "ISAAC FERRIS, "_Chancellor_." JOHN A. DIX TO TILDEN ANTI-RENTERS AND THEIR LEASES "PARIS, _19 June, 1867_. "MY DEAR SIR,--I wrote you some two months ago, but have not heard whether you received my letter. I expressed the hope that you would be a member of the constitutional convention, and was very glad to see that you were chosen.