"I wish the State Committee would do one thing--that is, send a circular to any Democratic paper in the State asking them to print John Q. Adams' speech, which is published in Friday's _World_. The National Committee should see to its publication elsewhere. To my mind it is the most effective speech made in years. This will cost nothing, but it will tell at this time. "Please to send me back Mrs. Moore's letter. "Truly yours, &c., "HORATIO SEYMOUR." "_Hon. S. J. Tilden._" JNO. D. VAN BUREN TO TILDEN (ENCLOSING MR. VAN BUREN'S CHECK FOR $200) "_Private._ "NEW YORK, _Dec. 3, 1867_. "MY DEAR SIR,--Take a cool, philosophical view of this note, but believe every word of it. "It is very hard for me to do an ungracious thing, and few things are more ungracious than to reject kindness. I have carried the enclosed in my pocket a good while, but could not muster courage, when I saw you repeatedly, to take away from you the pleasure of having done the kindness. "No matter tho' none but you and I know it, I cannot go to the club while _I feel_ that I have not paid my own footing; I have given it a good thinking, and I am sure I shall never incline to go there until this is done. So that the very object you desire would not be attained. You must, therefore, of necessity, take it back. "It is not because I am unwilling to receive kindness from _you_ that I return it; and pray do not forget that the balance of favors done is very largely to your credit as between us. _You_ would have made me Comptroller if I had not refused; and your intentions with me are just as much a cause of gratitude as the realization would have been. "One other thing. I will continue to give you my aid in the State Committee business, and follow your orders promptly so long as I have time; but for such work I cannot take pay. "Yours truly, "JNO. D. VAN BUREN." "_S. J. Tilden, Esq._" WILLIAM CASSIDY TO TILDEN "THE 'ARGUS,' ALBANY, _7 Decr., 1867_. "DEAR TILDEN,--The convention is going on, after a fashion, with the judiciary; New York is absent, except Daly, who has confessed judgment for the judicial partnership in New York, upon which execution is to issue and the corrupt concern to be closed. Opdyke is ready to adjourn if there is Democratic strength enough to accomplish it. Let the New York delegates be on hand on Tuesday and Wednesday, and we can accomplish it; either adjourn till spring or to New York, for a winter month. Do you notify the city members confidentially to be on hand. I will write also. "Schev, according to Warren's account, is not to blame for the protested draft. He spent $1000, and it was arranged in State committee that I was to go to the 8th dist. You need not come up to abolish him!