"DEAR SIR,--In rummaging over and burning up the documents which have accumulated through twenty years' service, I found your old pamphlet, which gave to me many lessons during our perilous days before and during the war. Thinking that it might be of more interest to you now than to one who has learned it by heart, and knowing how valuable, after many years, are one's own thoughts for memory and suggestion, I cannot refrain from tendering it to you--if only for a retrospect. It may be more useful to you than to myself. "We are just closing up the long session. You will see by my last vote, all alone from New York--though for one, if alone--I would never consent to quiet bad title, even though technically legal. The worst things that I have ever known in public life have been statutory. "If ever the devil took a walk upon earth, according to Coleridge's poem, he took more delight in seeing a bad lawyer cheating by _statute_ than by any other mode. "Yours with respect, S. S. COX." "P. S.--Excuse the _mutilations_; you can see that I have used the pamphlet in various ways and at various times. The clippings are significant. "_Vide_: 'Logical result after disunion--' "P. S.--This is an interesting as well as curious coincidence, and will please you, I am sure; so I have told Mr. Cox to let his friendly and charming letter go to its destination. As I wrote you on Friday, Keith was the only speaker on the right side--but there were some staunch men who stood by him. I shall get to see you Wednesday morning, when I shall hope to be able to make our visit to Mr. O'Conor. Sincerely, H. W." ARPHAXED LOOMIS TO TILDEN "LITTLE FALLS, _August 4, 1878_. "HON. S. J. TILDEN,--I write to express to you the gratification I have felt on reading the _exposé_ in this morning's _Argus_, by Mr. Marble, of your opinions and course in respect to the memorable arbitration for the Presidency. The common sense of public opinion pointed in the same direction. Moral courage and firmness from the start in the House would most certainly have secured a just result.[22] The perpetrators of the wicked fraud would have cowed. If Grant's military _penchant_ had brought in the use of arms, the rash resort and its consequences would be for the other side to answer for. But timid counsels prevailed. Your friends consented to arbitrate whether your coat belonged to you or to Mr. Hayes--they had, moreover, the weakness to confide in the fair professions of the other side, so far as to give them a majority of the arbitrators.