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Dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th ult. came in my absence.

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

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying

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

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

The suits were first brought to my notice Standish & Ballard's bill, Mich. see p. 288 ante 479 by a letter

United States in the injunction suit to restrain the work at Hallett's Point, New York; and asking for my

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

Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the

But it is just to him to declare that, according to all my information, he is a zealous and faithful

I have directed that he apply for information to Captain Loyd Wheaton, of the 20th Manitoba expedition

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.

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

to file a map of their route, etc., has been withdrawn, and that therefore there is no necessity for my

This Opinion was then considered by me as my final action upon the subject.

argument upon such facts, not intending to reëxamine the questions unless such facts should be brought to my

Co. not at any request, but, as I suppose, for my convenience in the event that cause for revising the

My consent to hear further argument on new facts was not intended as a recall of the Opinion, or as a

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

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."

Remak seems to have been made in good faith by Captain Hagen, and that the services were cannot pay S

My original direction, following the request in the letter received from your Department was confined

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

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

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,

which I wrote you Sept. 6th after I had received the precious packet, a letter in which I opened all my

I know too my own shortcomings, faults, flaws.

Love & Hope are so strong in me, my souls high aspirations are of such tenacious, passionate intensity

But I cannot like you clothe my nature in divine poems & so make it visible to you. Ah foolish me!

I felt as if my silence must kill me sometimes.

the suggestions which you have made on that subject are entirely reasonable, and if it shall be in my

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

instructions from this Department to the District Attorney of Dakota, I have the honor to enclose a copy of my

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

regulations issued by this Department to Marshals, relative to executing their bonds, you enquire whether in my

of Judge Trigg, and have desired that I should make known to you the effect of that statement upon my

My letter of the 28th ultimo, addressed to you at Knoxville, in the case of Mr.

repeat that you seem to understand your Commission as requiring a much larger expenditure than was in my

It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated

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

The furnishing of professional defence went to the very verge of what I understand to be my authority

To go further, and pay costs out of any funds under my control, seems to me unauthorized.

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 5th instant, I have to say that I am daily at my office and receive

Yet such is the pressure on my time from the multitude of visitors at this season, and other causes,

Clausen) your letter of 19th October, from Kopenhagen—& I cheerfully forward you my poems "Leaves of

I also enclose several articles & criticisms written about my books in England & America within the last

Please accept my best, brotherly good will.

Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he

I desire to add my own personal tribute to your worth and character as an officer of the United States—as

I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services

But it is my rule to direct compensation for no unauthorized services.

Sir: Your letter of the 12th instant enclosing a communication from Captain Gillespie, Engineer of the

Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts

Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere

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

I should be glad to comply with his request for a detective, but the fund at my command for detective

done by him as military duty while provost marshal for the Fourth District of Wisconsin, and inviting my

As he invites my criticism I transmit herewith his draft of the joint resolution, with an interlineation

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

And I beg you in that case, as a precaution against any detective in Fla. slip in my memory, to remind

Texas. for the Mexican Commission—and to say, in reply, that no answer to my communication has been received