[46] General Dix had been appointed by President Johnson Minister to France in 1866. [47] Mr. Loomis was best known in his day as an associate with David D. Field in drafting the Civil Code for this State. He had no sympathy, however, with the Lincoln government, its origin or conduct. He was a man deservedly of much influence by virtue of his sterling character and good-sense. He exerted no inconsiderable influence in shaping the revised Constitution of the State of New York in 1866. [48] Mr. Allen was a kinsman of Sandford E. Church; had been a Collector of Internal Revenue; was Comptroller of the State at the date of this letter, and subsequently became a judge of the Court of Appeals. [49] Frank P. Blair was a son of the former editor of the Washington Globe; he had been a Member of Congress from Missouri; he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He was nominated in the fall of 1868 as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket which selected Horatio Seymour, of New York, for President. General Grant was selected by the Republican party as its candidate for President, with Colfax, of New York, for Vice-President. The Republican ticket was successful. [50] Mr. Walker had been a Senator from the State of Mississippi, and subsequently Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk. [51] A member of Congress from California. [52] Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. [53] Hon. Azariah C. Flagg, former comptroller both of the State and late of the city of New York. [54] James McHenry, the promoter of the Atlantic & Great Western. [55] For an account of this grievance of Mr. Connolly and his relations with the Tweed ring and with Mr. Tilden, see Bigelow's _Life of Tilden_, Vol. I., pp. 182-210. 1871-1872 TILDEN TO W. CASSIDY "_Confidential._ "NEW LEBANON, _Aug. 1871_. "MY DEAR CASSIDY,--I think you had better note the tone of the 30 or 40 extracts which the _Times_ daily publishes from journals of all parts of the United States--nearly all administration, but a few Democratic. It indicates the _mode_ of using the exposures of the _Times_ which are employed throughout the country. "Two ideas are sufficiently apparent now: "1. That the evils and abuses in the local government of the city of New York are general characteristics of the Democratic party, and would occur in the Federal government if that party should come into power at Washington.