"(_Sept. 30, 1871._)
"TO HON. FRANCIS KERNAN, Utica:
"Anti-Tammany organizations letter received. All have united on
delegation headed by Charles O'Conor and Oswald Ottendorfer, and filled
by our strongest representative citizens. Nearly all will personally
attend. O'Conor gives his soul to the movement, and considers
compromise as equivalent to ruin in State and nation. That is also my
opinion. Action and not words can save us, but it must be complete and
decisive action, and must fully satisfy the public opinion and the
immense masses who now accept our lead and are strong enough to carry
us through to success. We have no danger except in half-measured and
half-hearted counsels."