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rejecting it on that ground it could affect only
Tie expectancy Of your action |; and, whatever
you may now believe as to the scruplcs existing
in your mnd in this and in kindred source
there is strong reason to believe they have their
origin
If be right in this, and doubt not am, here
Is great public measure demanded by the
country passed upon and approved by the re-
representatives. of the states and the people, re-
lcctcd by you as President, on grounds having
no origin in conscience, and no reference to the
public good. The rejection of this measure,
too. continues the purse with the sword in the
hands of the Executive, from which we strove
to wrest it, in the contest which elevated your
predecessor and you to power. cannot con-
cur in this your course of policy. In or out OF
office, my opinions remain unchanged. can
not abandon the principles for which, during all
my political career | have struggled especial
iy cannot be one of the instruments by which
the Executive Yields these combined, accumu-
lated, and dangerous powers.
These, sir, are the reasons for the important
step which have felt it my duty to take, and
submit them as its justification.
am, very respectfully, yours,
+. EWING.
To the PRESIDENT
ihC iohohiH5 iCttCi iiOiii hli. w CpetCif Sou-
tains his reasons for not resigning his place in
the cabinet -
WASHINGTON, Sept II, 1911.
My Dear Sir,-I thank you for your kind and
friendly letter.
You will have learned that Messrs. Ewing
Bel, Badger, and Chittenden, have resigned
their respective Offices Probably Mr. Granger
may feel bound to follow the example. This &C.
currence can hardly cause you the same degree
OF regret which it has occasioned to me; as they
are not only my friends, but persons with whom
! have had, for some time, a daily official inter-
course. could not partake in this movement
1t is supposed to be justified, presume, by the
differences which have arisen between the Pre-
sldent and Congress, upon the means of estab-
fishing proper Fiscal Agency, and restoring
sound state OF the currency; and collateral mat
tiers, growing out of those differences. regret
these differences as deeply as any man; but |
have not been able to see in what manner the
resignation of the Cabinet was likely either to
remove or mitigate the evils produced by them.
On the contrary, my only reliance for remedy
for those evils has been, and is, on the union,
! conci!aton, and perseverance of the whole
Wing party; and by no means despair of see
ing yet accomplished, by these means, all that
we desire. 1t may render us more patient
under disappointment in regard to one measure,
to recolIect, as is justly stated by the President
IN his last message, how great number of i'm
portant measures has been already successfully
carried through. hardly know when such a
mass of business has been despatched in single
session OF Congress.
The annual winter session is now near at
hand the same Congress is again soon to as
semblc and feeling as deeply as | ever did,
the indispensable necessity of some suitable
| provision for the keeping OF the public money
Tor aid to the operation of the treasury, and to
the high public interests OF currency and ex.
change, | am not in haste to believe that the
party which has now the performance will moi,
in all these respects, yet fulfil the expectations
OF the country. If it shall not, then our condi.
ton is orlorn indeed. But for one, | will no,
give up the hope.
| My particular connexion with the administra.
ton, however, is in another department. think
very numb y--none can think more humbly--o
| the value of the services which am able tc
render to the public III that post. But as there
is, SO far as knov, on all subjects affecting
our foreign relations, a concurrence of opinion
between the President and myself, and as there
is nothing to disturb the harmony Of our inter.
course, have not felt i: consistent with the
duty which | owe the country, to run the risk
by any sudden or abrupt proceeding OF embar.
RAISING the Executive, in regard to subjects and
questions now Immediately pending, and which
intimately affect the preservation Of the peace
OF the country.
| am, dear sir, with constant regard,
Yours, &c.
| (Signed) DANL WEBSTER.
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