"2. He tried to defeat the party by his attack upon the Liberal Republicans. "3. He made a deadly effort to foreclose success by forcing Potter. "4. He never, during the whole convention, said a word to encourage the Presidential canvass. "Yours truly, "NELSON J. WATERBURY." SAMUEL HAND[11] TO TILDEN _"Confidential._ "SATURDAY EVENING, _Sept. 9th, 1876_. "MY DEAR GOVERNOR,--I had supposed, after what was said at Saratoga, Tuesday and Wednesday, that our friends tacitly agreed with me that the idea of bringing my name forward for Governor should not be seriously entertained, and therefore I did not think it necessary or becoming to take any further steps about. But I learn, on my return from the North, from Mr. Manning and others, that the project is assuming definite shape and may, unless at once ended, be carried to a nomination. [11] Mr. Horatio Seymour having refused to accept a nomination for Governor to succeed Governor Tilden, Mr. Hand, a leading barrister at Albany, was urged by Mr. Tilden and his friends to accept such nomination. "I appreciate how high the office is, and of what importance and conspicuousness, and am sensible how much it is beyond anything to which I could at present naturally aspire. I feel gratified that I should have been thought of at all in connection with so great a trust, and am especially proud that you should have deemed me fit successor. "The more I reflect, however, the more convinced I am that _it will not do_. "I feel certain that under the present circumstances my nomination would be a mistake, and _know_ that it might be fatal. "Aside from these public considerations, I have private reasons which you would admit sufficient, if I could trouble you with them, to prevent my acceptance of the nomination. I should deeply regret it if these, in fact, interfered with the success of our party, but I am sure such is not the case. I regard them as insuperable, and I have written Mr. Manning a note, of which he can make public use, declining to have my name used at the convention. "I write this that you may first and at the earliest moment know of my conclusion. "Yours with the greatest respect, "SAMUEL HAND." THE SHERIFF OF NEW YORK CITY TO TILDEN "SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, "_September 14, 1876_. "To his Excellency SAMUEL J. TILDEN, "_Governor of the State of New York_: "The recent publications in the newspapers of the capture of William M. Tweed, at Vigo, in Spain, are confirmed by a private telegram received by me. "There are several indictments for forgery, found by the Grand Jury of this county, against said Tweed, which were untried at the time of his escape on the 4th day of December last.