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Sir: On my return from the south, I find your official and unofficial letters of Sept. 13, 1871, which

on the 18th of that month were answered by the Solicitor General, reserving a final answer until my

the Current, I do not feel at liberty to give further directions in this matter than are contained in my

perplexity appears to have arisen from the use of the phrase "civil prosecution," which was quoted in my

Have you found an Act of the Legislature ceding jurisdiction, as I suggested in my letter of April 5th

Still, I am not absolutely certain that my construction is right, and you do well to make the point.

all cases been obliged to decline approving said accounts; and must therefore in your case adhere to my

I must therefore decline to give you account of my official sanction. Very respectfully, A. T.

Delano has referred the matter to my "favorable consideration."

Of course whatever may be my interest as a citizen in the politics of the South generally, and of Alabama

I am unable at this distance, and with my limited information to determine whether the transactions in

Please forward the list called for in my letter of the 14th instant. A. T.

in the Supreme Court, on error to the Circuit Court for your District, for the purpose of preparing my

In my classification which I advised in my letter of the 10th ultimo, it was my intention that all persons

Although you were informed in my letter of the 23rd of November last that I did not intend to authorize

you to subject the Government to expense in the inquiry directed in my letter of August 30th last, I

As you have referred the matter to my decision, I will make this change;—leaving the compensation for

In my letter of the 29th of August last I directed you, in pursuance of a suggestion from the War Department

Brown in my letter of August 21st, as now addressed to yourself. Very respectfully, A. T.

Patton whom you were authorized in my letter of the 1st instant to prosecute in the State Courts of New

But if authentically advised that no real cause for prosecution exists, the direction in my letter of

behalf of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ionia, Mich. more than the sum indicated in my

From all my information I incline to think that Mr.

Y., sought to be acquired for Customs' purposes; and to state that, in my opinion, the proposed conveyance

By this grant, the United States have, in my opinion, acquired a valid title to the land described.

After my distinct personal announcement to you that such delinquencies must not be repeated, this conduct

to take this step until the present moment, in the hope that your course would enable me to gratify my

investigation to be instituted in the Treasury Department, and if anything should be produced which changes my

I am sure that if no unexpected business comes to this office, and my health holds out in this hot weather

Such things are very common, and my only advice on the subject is that you pay no attention to them.

suit in Baltimore different from the first impression which a verbal statement of the matter made upon my

Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, asking whether my attention had been called to the

Willard, would in any degree affect my official action in that matter.

Perhaps it is not possible for one in your circumstances to view such cases as they appear to one in my

so disproportioned a share of attention given to it, and which was cheerfully given, (on account of my

But this was only a passing impulse on my part, and I desire you to feel that I retain no unkindness

or the mere addition of respectable names to the list of petitioners, will not produce a change in my

Sir: The case of John Pierce, brought to my notice by your letter of the 23d inst. shall receive immediate

Sir: There is no fund under my control appropriated for paying such services as are described in your

Sir: I have just returned from Philadelphia, and find your letter of the 16th instant upon my desk. salary

careful perusal, it fails to satisfy me that I should reverse the determination I expressed to you in my

I write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs

Sir: Your letter of the 16th ultimo asks for my opinion whether the keeper of the harbor Light House

Sir: In order that there may be no mistakes as to my position in regard to a rehearing upon the questions

presented by the Interior Department, p. 225 for my opinion in relation to the asserted rights of the

made by that time, I cannot promise to hear it at all, in view of the engagements which press upon my

however, I should find no cause for such suspicion, the opinion already prepared may be considered as my

I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.

In reply I regret to have to say that my absence from the city at that time will be impracticable.

I hope you will give yourself no uneasiness upon the matter of your retainer, and promise my personal

services rendered and expenses incurred by you while in the performance of official business under my

Dear Sir: On my return to Washington I find your letter of the 18th ultimo. I do not see how Mr.

the Government is in possession absolutely demand that the case shall be laid before a Grand Jury, my

that no matter affecting the Guano Islands in the Pacific Ocean, alleged to have been discovered by Captain

In my interview with a gentleman connected with the New York Times, I gave an outline of my observations

Whether his version of my conversation was accurate in all other particulars, I cannot at this moment

A spirited, yes, a desperate contest with bad men is, in my judgment, the most expedient course for the

While you have my warmest sympathy, I do not feel that it would be proper official action for me to arrest

You misunderstand my position.

According to my information, this was not the case until the 25th of October.

books and furniture here some two weeks before, I feel at liberty to pay from the time indicated in my

answer to your letter of the 31st ultimo, requesting me to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior my

My judgment concurs with yours as to the expediency of prompt arrests, but Mr.

I hope I was not understood in my previous letter any suspicion that your conduct had not been dictated

I refer to this simply to show my indisposition to advise the removal of an officer upon unproved charges

The transaction which has been lately brought to my notice in the Thomas case obliged me to suggest to

I was not moved in the slightest degree by any thing in the Stokes and Beatty case, but my action was

taken from my own views of propriety, without any suggestion whatever any suggestion whatever from the

In my judgement, the judicial force of the United States can be advantageously increased in the South

I am not quite certain whether a recommendation on the subject would be proper in my official report,