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been, will feel myself bound to apply
any proper remedy when my error has
been disclosed TO me.
Your obedient servant,
Il. +. BAYARD.
The Hon. Roscoe ConkIing. U. s. senator,
Utica, N. Y.
UTICA, November IT, 1se0.-Dear
Sir: read with surprise your letter OF
the 18th instant, just received. l en-
clio ed YOU a statement widely published
in two newspapers Of definite charges
said to have been publicly made by you,
and made on your own knowledge Of
their truth. These charges were Of un-
lawfu and criminal conduct imputed to-
gether to several persons, OF whom !
am one. l asked you whether you made
the statement. This would seem TO call
for frank disclaimer or admission
You answer pothins as 10 any one con-
cerned except me. As to me your dem
ial is infcrential, by impeaching the hon.
esty of the reporter, and then you pro-
coed with o new, quite different and err
roneous statement which you say you
uttered as 10 me, in the form of alleging
what "Was understood"
Thus your response to plain and
warrantable inquiry Is one which does
not meet the inquiry, but consists of al
leg atoms far different and, though less
Injurious, offensive and untrue, basiDg
them, you say, on publications and
statements of which have no knowl-
edge. Do you wish to leave the matter
here? If you think it deserves further
attention, will you answer my question,
namely, whether the published state
ment rent you In print was made by
you?
Your obedient servant,
RoscoB CoNKLING.
The Hon. T. r. Bayard. Senator, Will
mtngtoD, Del.
WILMINaroM, Del. November 2l 1880
Sir: Your letter dated the 18th instant
and postm arked the 10Th was received
this morning. You sent me on the 18th
an anonymous communication cut II Jm
a Republican newspaper In Philadelphia
pui porting to be an extract from . speech
ma ie by me at Dover near the end oil
| The recent canvass. I should not have
considered statement so irresPonsibly
male worthy of notice, but as you did
] replied 10 you Instantly, In spirit OF
courtesy, that had never before seen
| or heard of the article; that II was 90
| grossly inaccurate as to cause tho belief
| that IL could not have been wr tten by an
| honest person. But as had spoken OF
| the case Of Phelps, Dodge & Co., and
mentioned you in connection with it,
went on candidly to give you as fully o.
| memory enabled me what 1 did say
| which ne oessarily excluded what l did
not say, aud included "au Of my speech
tohich had any reference to you or the moi
| ETY. question.
| Tue extract you sent me is untrue
| aud beheve malicIously 50, and can
| only be surprised, rs your letter had an
| sured me that you did l. OF mean ITO impl,
| that you supposed that did or would
| make such an utterance," that any fur
| ther statement than that contained In my
letter could be desired.
La that letter also expressed my re
| Rret il the slightest injustice had beer
done you, and that should feel myself
| bound to apply any proper remedy when
any error had been pointed out 10 me.
| Your letter in reply to this character
lies my statement as "ne0, quite diteTen
| and erroneous" and subsequently thai
| my "response consists Of allegations tai
different and though less injurious, ofen
sive and untrue, Dnsiug en- upon publ
cations of which | (you) have DO knowl
| edge"
The publications to which l made ref
erence, of which you say you have nc
| connection with the case OF Phelps
| Dodge & Co., you will find in the testi
mopy of William e. Dodge, at page 226
and Of the Hon. Woah Davis, at pagt
247 and 24s, OF House Miscella neou,
Documents No. 246, OF nrst session For
ty-ihird Congress. The statement o
William p. Wood, bave already stated
was published in the New York Sun o
the 26.h ultImo'
To your inquiry whether "wish y
leave the matter here" can only repl.
that.I have no wish on the subject bu
to be just to myself and others, an,
wherever that leads me L shall try to fol
low.
| Your obedieBt servant,
| T. +. BAYARD.
| Hon Roaeoe GonklinQ. UtiCa. N Y.