"ALBANY, _January 26, 1846_.
"DEAR SIR,--I am informed by a member of the Legislature, whose
veracity I cannot question, that you stated to him that I had made a
proposition in relation to a compromise of the questions of difference
between the _Argus_ and _Atlas_, which had been accepted by you or your
friends, but which I had flown from or violated under the pretence of
consulting my friends.
"Allow me to ask whether I am to understand you as having made such a
declaration.
"Very respectfully,
"Yr. obt. servt.,
"E. CROSWELL."