The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-27

Soule to Mr.. Perry and we now have before u
number of letters of the very same cast from
the equally as well known E. Warren Noise
a democratic ex-speaker of the Louisiana house
Representatives, addressedto president Pierce
and sundry federal office-holders. It woule
appear that the vanity of Mr.. Noise was irrepa
rably wounded, because the authorities a
Washington, doubling his legal ability or incli
nation to conduct the case, appointed specia
attorney to prosecute the charges brought by
the mail agents against Kendall, the New Or
leans postmaster, and he could think of no 9th
er method of getting rid of his modification
than by telling the world what he thought ofthe
executive. The correspondence is the richest
extant The following is portion oft:
New ORLEANS, April %, 1855-Sir: l have
received a letter from the hon. Caleb Gushing,
attorney general of the United States, asking
my professional services in matter of serious
Importance. At a later stage of the proceed
ings, it will require the use of your professional
aid and name (the United States being the par
ty prosecuting.) May Irely upon the use of
your name as dlstricb attorney, when the pro-
per time shall arrive. am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, ISAAC b. MORSE.
Z. W. Noise, esq, U. S. district attorney, &c.
Reply. Nav ORLEANS, April %, 1856
Sir: l am in receipt of your note ofto-day. You
ask my official aid and my official name to car
Try on prosecution in behalf of the U. States
This prosecution you have been requested to
tit,,tn b,,t IF no taH
States. Ny official sanction can only be given
to such business as is under my official control.
If it were the desire of the attorney general that
the name fthe u S. attorney should be attach
ed to documents not drawn up by himself of
the contents of which he must be ignorant, but
for which he would be responsible to public
opinion, if not to the government do not
doubt that direct instructions would be issued
to regulate his conduct in so remarkable a pro-
ceedng. AS none such have been issued, l
decline permitting my name to be used. Very
your obedient servant,
E. WARREN MoIsE, U. S. attorney.
By telegraph. Office of the solicitor Of the
treasury, WAsu1Neros, May 3, 1855. Sir:
Y GU will be pleased to give to Mr. Isaac E.
Morse such official aid as he may deem requi-
site in the proceedings against Mr. Kendall, late
at New Orleans.
E. B. STRETER, solicitor
For E. Warren Noise, U. s. district attorney.
By telegraph NEW ORLEANS May S, 1855. |
Sir: [ have just received your telegraphic dis
patch of Sd of May. will not give Mr. Isaac
:. Morse such official aid as he may deem re-
luisite in any business which the law imposes
N me to manage and CONTROL under the advice
If the proper officers of the government. The
prosecution of Kendall is of that character
'he object of those who required you to issue
he instructions received, was-doubtless-to
0rce me to res On. ] shall at once crafty
hem. | hold ne Office under those, who, with
ut the courage to remove me, have the mean
ess to offer me an indignitv.
E. WARREN MoIsE, U. s. atty.
To F. B. Streeer, solicitor, &c
BY telegraph to president Pierce. Nav
'RLEANs, May S, 1866 Sir Hereby resign
le Office of U. S. attorney for the eastern dis
let of Louisiana. You may be curious to have
n explanation of that which will be, by certain
ersons, regarded as phenomenon This ex-
anation will be found in letter addressed TO
If. Isaac E. Morse, the joint production, I sup
ose. of your attorney general and your post
aster-general and in a dispatch but now re-
lived from your solicitor Of the treasury. You s
ay learn from these communications that +
ose who have so small appreciation of the re- :
'ect due to others, are entitled to none them
lves-and so are not fit persons to take care {
the honor of the republics | would have re- a
gned when the letter to Mr.. Morse was first +
en- BY me, had dared to think that the pres ..
cnt of the United States had lent his sanction '
the vulgar outrage of two of his minister's | /
dulged, too, the hope that the letter to Mr.. v
orse was written by your attorney general t.
lder some such halluclnation as one might be
opposed to suffer who is the trumpeter of his
vn fame. l still hope you have been no party c
the conduct of your immediate officers. Yet d
resign now, because | have been deliberately =,
structed to compromise my self-respect I
mot hold office under an administration, the
embers of which, whose Instructions I am "
CURED to obey, are alike incapable Of under is
lnding the prophecies of official station and f
e common couresies due from gentlemen 10 !,
ntlemen. Respectfully, E. WARREN MoisE. u =
To Franklin Pierce, president of the U. States. q
By telegraph. -WAsnINGroN, May 1856 a
Ga. E. W. Notes.-The appointment of the n
II. Isaac E. Morse to prosecute the complaint
ainst the late postmaster at New Orleans, IL
Is made by the president. 1t appears that
r. Blair, the agent of the department, could "
t cordially yet act in confidence with you =,
cause of what he represented concerning his u
ations avth you, in former legal proceedings in
ainst clerk in the postof1ice at New Orleans. 1
rave the honor to be, very respectfully, h,
G. CUSHING. :.
By telegraph. New ORLEANS, May 1885 q
our dispatch, dated 3rd of May, reached me al
sterday after five o'clock, P. M. From this W
I'm that the officer appointed by and with the he
vice and consent of the senate whose duty it
S under the law TO prosecute Kendall, was
respectfully superseded, and that the politi- III
department of the government assumed ar
; control of a criminal action through an un J..
cial person. in order not to offend the deli "a A
e susceptibilities of detective agent of the tn
stoffice department. Itseems this agent could gr
cordially act with me. So far as I am con- te
ned, | assure you that nothing copld disturb NJ
equanimlty less than the necessity of hold AZ
official intercourse with Mr.. Blair vet lean NJ
but respect and admire the generous if not p
'genial sympathy, manifested by you for this SO
Sitiyp gentleman and his Decrliar ,,o,o+;on e.