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I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to
As he told you, there is a chance—not as yet more than a chance—that I may make my way over the Atlantic
New York June 1/70 Friend Walter I now take my pen in hand to write to you I am in good health at Present
not want to lend me the I asked for, why Did you not write and say so—not to make out you Did not get my
of it when you was I though thought I would put you in—mind of it if I would be man Enough to keep my
I would not mind if you would give me my Clothes now as I need them very I cant can't go out any wear
My Dear friend Walt I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am getting along I am in very good
health at present & I hope you are the same. my father is not very well at present he has been Laid
I bought some medicine for a freind friend of my fathers & he gave me the money to pay for them & I Spent
Robbins & then I will be Disgraced & Discarged Discharged I asked my Sister to lend three & she would
. /70 Dear friend Walter I now take my pen in h and to let you know how I am getting along.
received your letter of the Eight & was very glad to hear from you. we have been Stoping stopping at my
I am going to buy a fraim frame for your Picture I have it up in my room I wou ld like to see you very
Boss Mr Hawkins is going to leave the firm the first of march & my friend Oliver Allen & I thought we
entitled to a cancellation of the bond, nor to a discharge from the payment of the tax; and you ask my
—If, on a reëxamination of the case, you still desire my opinion, I shall be happy to give it; but as
it can easily be submitted to a court for its decision, if my opinion of it is not necessary for purposes
Justice of a Territory to leave his official post of duty to attend to them at Washington, I shall give my
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
Dear sir: I do not see that my being Attorney General requires or enables me to give you assistance or
Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.
In my letter to Mr.
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
believe that this is a sufficient answer to what you ask in your letter, and with the assurance of my
I have given no official opinion in writing relating to the affairs of Georgia, and have not in my possession
It would give me great pleasure to render you any assistance in my power in regard to your discharge
of your judicial duties, but as it is not my official duty to do so, and as I am doubtful of its propriety
You ask my opinion upon the correctness of these charges. I referred the bill to Benj.
The question you ask me whether further detention of the witnesses is, in my judgment, necessary, I will
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
On that day, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue came into my office and said to me that the Supervisor
—There is in my Department no list of U. S.
With the facts you state in your letter, I understand very well what impression my telegram made upon
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
I must beg to observe upon this,— supposing of course, it is my Department to which you refer—nothing
It is my rule to give notice to the officer concerned of any charges affecting his reputation as a man
more safely drawn the conclusion, when you learn that charges have been filed, that they did not, in my
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,
Sir: Since my letter of the 18th inst. yours of the 17th inst. has been received.
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
The case is under the charge of my Assistant, Mr.
Sir: I have received your letter of the 31st ult., calling my attention to your claim as informer in
My only wish is, that your rights to be adjudged informer shall be fully and fairly investigated and
No other course will, in my opinion, be satisfactory to the Department of War, and I do not think it
Sir: Your reply of the 6th to my letter of the 4th inst. in regard to the employment of counsel for the
As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of
Esq.,—undertake the management of this defence, a reasonable compensation, founded on the basis of my
return herewith the papers transmitted to me with your letter of the 7th of April last, requesting my
If Captain Cullen is a man of such worth and general good repute as seems probable from the telegram.
You will please communicate, as you may have occasion in the future, with the War Department—as my only
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, with my approval, the account of Albert H.
Richardson & Co. for refunding certain Internal Revenue taxes, in which you ask my opinion "as to whether
agreed statement of facts in the papers, and no statement of facts to be assumed by me on which to give my
—I will therefore thank you to so state the questions of law upon which my opinion is desired, as will
I have asked the Secretary of State whether he has any objection to my sending you a copy of the opinion
Department to which they are addressed, I will thank you to inform me whether you have any objection to my
I have to inform you that the clerkships under my control have either been filled or promised.
Under these circumstances I do not think it my duty to interfere. your obde't serv't, &c. A. T.
appoint a Territorial auditor and Treasurer during the recess of the Legislature, I have to say that in my
You desire such instructions in the premises as in my judgment shall best comport with the interests
Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.
Sir: On account of my sickness and absence, your letters of September 19th and September 22d instants
to breaches of the Neutrality Laws of the United States, near Brownsville, in Texas, never came to my
instant, informing me that it will not be in your power to furnish me the information requested in my
letter acknowledged & answered. to the property of patentees, and you add to that information that my
Her appeal, by the absence of exaggerations and other commendatory circumstances, has deeply moved my
There is an impression upon my mind that it was decided at the Rolls that the United States has legal
capacity to take as a Legatee—but I am unable to verify the accuracy of my recollection by a reference
Sir: The Secretary of War has called my attention to certain suits pending in the Circuit Courts of the
You will carry with you my best wishes for your success in life, and my thanks for the efficiency with