The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
Judge Huse's letter to me, wrote a little
guarded note to him, as follows:


SAN Francisco, April 10. 1896.
My Dear Huse: Only God knows how glad
and grateful am to hear from you once more
in your old lucid and Gus tOmary style of ex-
pressing yourself. have considered well all
you have written and will do all you request.
/ have just written long letter TO DR.. NJ. B.
Campbell and assured him that your letter TO
me "clearly demonstrates that there are few
so-called sane men who are his (yOur) equals
in sanity and clear intelligence" and have
apr ealed to him TO let you go free on parole
under the care of faithful Gallardo, and 1 am
sure he will not refuse to do so. But you have
waited so long that you can be patient a little
longer. If possible would come to you on the
next train. Excuse this little letter when my
heart demands twenty pages in which to speak
TO you. AS ever yours,
Here follows the letter to DR.. Campbell.
under date of April 10:
My Dear Sir: l am indebted to you for two
courteous letters, giving me some details in
regard to the case OF Judge Charles E. Huse.
In reply, desire toimpress you with my pro-
found regard for him and my most earnest
desire TO serve him in the most devoted and
unqualified manner possible, for l was more
intimately associated with him in Santa Bar
bara from 1869 to 1876 than 1 have been
before or since with any other man; and
during all that long period day seldom
passed, unless one or the other happened to
be al bsent from the place, that we did not meet
and in the most confidential and informal
manner discuss al matters OF interest TO
s..
our own private and domestic concerns; for
think men rarely meet who find themselves
more congenal to each other, with more
tastes, am billions, hopes and aspirations in
common than we always had, there being no
clash that | can now recall in our views or
sense of duty, except once in minor political
mat ter Of a local and transient character.
In all those years, DR.. Campbell, l found
Judge Huse the most gentle, patient, generous
modest, faithful, unselfsh, public-spirited
self-reliant stable-minded and studious man /
have ever known. He seemed deficient in only
one quality whicI appears TO be requisite in
our DAY TO a complete, rounded and successful
man, namely, a lack OF self-assertion and
strife would have made him moral coward
but for an almost abnormal conscience, which
never permitted him to falter for moment in
the discharge of any duty, however irksome or
distasteful il might prove to be.
His sense of honor his unyleldlng integrity,
his alert conscience and his chivalrous love of
fair play made il impossible Tor him to shirk
responsibility, resort to diplomacy or yield to
the suggestions OF policy, and with the aver
age man of mixed motives and plant con-
science he never got on well, was usually mis-
understood and misinterpreted, and hence he
never became popular with politicians and
schemers. While a deeply spiritual and devout
man, his broad and generous nature made him
one of the most tolerant OF men toward all
faiths and aspirations which tend TO make for
righteousness and pure life. Altruism in
spired and nodded his character.
Such man, thus ippertectly characterized,
was Charles Z. Huse as knew him, loved him
and honored him all those years from 1869 to
1876. On leaving Santa Barbara in 1876, ii
was understood ana agreed between us that
the separation should not be for long. He was
TO close up his affairs there, and we were to
settle in Oakland. But as his property was in
real estate and as dull times reduced prices
and made sales difficult, he held on. and in
the meantime he met with some reverses and