"ESTEEMED SIR,--One with whom your name is sacredly linked is passing away--a private telegram informs us that Chas. O'Conor can live but a few hours. As Americans first, as likewise of the race upon whose name his genius and character shed lustre, we desire to fittingly honor his memory. If you will say a few words to our representative as to the public worth and services of Mr. O'Conor, that we may give to the _Irish World_ readers as your personal estimate of the man, it will be a favor that we shall heartily appreciate. "Very faithfully yours, "PATRICK FORD, "Per A. E. FORD, Man. Ed." MR. TILDEN'S REMARKS ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES O'CONOR "In my judgment, Mr. O'Conor was the greatest jurist among all the English-speaking race. He carried the best spirit of philosophical inquiry into every professional investigation. "In variety of resources, in every form of experience, participating in every important legal controversy during fifty years, with unexampled power of discrimination and memory, he had a vast mass of information on every professional subject. "He was a man of lofty integrity and honor, and scorned all idea of making his professional abilities the means of acquiring money. "His character is worthy of a more elaborate tribute than I have the opportunity to pay to him in the brief time of your call." JOHN A. McCLERNAND TO TILDEN "SPRINGFIELD, ILL., _June 5th, 1884_. "To His Excellency, SAMUEL J. TILDEN, President-Elect. "DEAR SIR,--The crime which defeated the will of the people in 1876, and kept you from exercising the Presidential office needs to be avenged. "Time and your example have subdued and conciliated all factious opposition to you in the Democratic party. The opponents of former years are now your most noisy partisans. Your nomination in July will follow as a spontaneous and consentaneous act unless you prevent it. "Preventing it calamitous consequences must ensue. The Democratic party will be left to fall into strife, anarchy, and impotency. The Old Guard and your old friends--what will become of them? The barriers to latitudinous construction will be broken down, and license given to public extravagance, official corruption, and the greed of unscrupulous and powerful monopolies. "Your declination is inadmissible. Accept the nomination, even if death should overcome you during or after the fight. If I know myself, I would, in the present extremity of country and party, suffer the martyrdom for you vicariously if it was possible to do so. "Excuse the freedom and energy of these remarks. They proceed from a sense of duty. I have done. "Very truly your obt. sert., "JOHN A. MCCLERNAND." JOHN A. McCLERNAND TO TILDEN "SPRINGFIELD, ILLS., _June 6th, 1884_. "To His Excellency, SAMUEL J. TILDEN, President-Elect.