"SPRINGFIELD, ILL., _June 21, 1876_.
"TO GOV. SAM. J. TILDEN,
"_15 Gramercy_.
"The Chicago _Times_ to-day says that you were chairman of platform
committee in eighteen hundred and sixty-four which put forth the
famous peace resolution pronouncing the war as a failure. Please
telegraph the fact. Large majority of this convention for you.
"P. H. SMITH."