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Show JIUCKBRADIF.V'S RETORT He Wrote Various Opinion lu the Florida Case. But JDectlMl It U.uetlylur HaycH. Jiidice It turn Plcel ou the New York, G. The Sun gives Bradley's letter in full as follows: Stowe, Vt., 2. Editor of Newark Advertiser: Sir: I perceive the New York Sunhas reiterated its charge, til at after preparing a written opinion in favor ol the Tildert electors in the Florida esse submitted to the electoral commission I changed my views during dur-ing the night preceding the vote in consequence ot the pressure brought lo bear upon me by republican politicians politi-cians and Pacific railroad men, whose carriages, it is said, surrounded my house during the evening. This I believe is the important point ot the charge. Wuatber I wrote one opinion opin-ion or twenty in my private examination examina-tion ot the subject is of little consequence, conse-quence, and ol no concern to any body, if the opinion which 1 finally gavu was tne lair result of my deliberations, delib-erations, without iufluenco from outside out-side parties. The above slander was published some time since, but I never Baw it until recently, and (i mm d it Lm ahAiird In nnwl refnbi- tion; but as it is categorically re pemed, perhaps I ought to notice it. Tue same story about the carriages of leuding republicans and others congregating con-gregating at my bouse was circulated in Washington at one time, and came to the ears ot myfaniily, only to raise a smile of contempt. The whole thins is a falsehood. Not a single visitor called at my bouse that evening, even-ing, and during the whole sitting of the commission I had no private discussion dis-cussion whatever of the subjects at issue with any person interested on the republican side, and but few words with auy persou. Iudeed I sedulously Bought lo avoid all discus sion outside the commission itself. The allegation that I read an opinion to Judges Clifford and Field is entirely untrue. I read no opinion to either of them aud have no recollection of expressing any. It I did it could only have been suggestively, or in a hypothetical hypo-thetical manner, aud not intended as a committal ol my final judgment or action. The question was one ot greut importance lo me and of much difficulty and embarrasment; I earnestly earn-estly endeavored to come to a right decision, lree from all political or ex-Iraueous ex-Iraueous considerations, la my private pri-vate examination of the principal question about going behind the returns re-turns I wrote and rewrote the arguments argu-ments and considerations on both aides as they occurred to rue, sometimes some-times being inclined to one view of the subject, and sometimes to the other; but finally I threw aside these lucubrations and, as you have rightly stated, wrote out the short opinion which I read in the .Florida case, during dur-ing the sitting of the commission. ihis opinion expresses the hoDest conclusion to winch i bad arrived, and wuicb, after a full consideration ol the whole subject, seemed lo me the only satisfactory solution of the question, and I may add that the more I have reflected on it since the more ea lie tied have 1 become that it was right. At all events it was the results of my own reflections and consideration, without any suggestions from any quarter except the arguments argu-ments adduced by counsel in the public pub-lic discussion, and by the members of the commission in private consulta tions. As for the insinuation contained con-tained in a recent article published in a prominent periodical by a noted politician, implying that the case was decided in consequence, of a political conupiracy, I can only say, and from the peculiar position I occupied on the commission I am able positively to say, that it ia utterly devoid ol truth, at least so far as the action of the commission itself was concerned. In that article the writer coupleB my name wi:h the names of those whom he supposes obnoxious to public odium. The decencies of public expression, ex-pression, if nothing more, might well have deterred so able a writer from making personal imputations, which he did not know to be well-founded. Yours respectfully, (Signed) Joseph P. Bkadley. 10NSU1HE. The New York Sun editorially regards re-gards Bradley's letter as a confession : of the call for his impeachment. |