Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-02
THE ONLY SOUTHERNER IN
GRANTS CABINET.

denied that the Administration
suffers a grievous loss. Jack
Bunsby was an oracle to Captain
Cutie, but Hoar was even a more
useful expohnder of law and fact
to the Federal authorities. In
vulgar parlance, he could deliver
an opinion "as was an opinion.
He had a knack for confounding
sense and nonsense that was amaz-
ing. Father Tom himself never
proved that black and white are
the same thing more quickly and
conclusively. No political meas
urc or trick has ever been con.
cocted,by the Administration that
Hoar did not undertake to find or
invent some legal justification for
it No man in the country has
probably framed so many absurd
and dishonest defences for utterly
indefensible acts as has this shal.
low,braincd and bigotted adviser
of the President. His opinion,
which declared the Legislature Of
Virginia TO be Legislature in re.
spect to all matters upon which
the Radical party desired it to
take action, and no Legislature at
all 80 far as oil other matters were
concerned, was beneath contempt.
As dull as he was wrong headed,
his reputation will stand even be-
low that Of Judge Holt, whose
frantic rhetoric served 10 conceal
his absurditles to q certain extent,
or to confuse the public mind.
But he was an unscrupulous and
scrviceable servant, and is there
fore serious loss to the Admin
istration.
Yet it is apparent from the cor
respondence which passed between
Grant and Hoar, that Hoar re.
signed in q "big disgust" He
had just left a stormy Cabinet ses.
sion, when, upon reaching his Of.
flee, he penned the following:
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
WARRINGTON, D. e., June Is, '70.}
SR-I resiGn the Office nf At.
torney General of the United
States, the resignation to take ef
feet upon the appointment and
qualification Of my successor.
Very respectfully,
L. r. HoAR.
To the President.
There is evidence of lily sup.
pressed indignation and anger;
possibly the creature had become
wearied playing the plant tool to
a smoke. .befogged humbug.
In his reply Grant exhibited the
only evidence of sagacity which
we have ever been able to discover
about him in any of his official
acts. He evidently felt the full
force Of. the suppressed indigna-
tion and contempt which formed
the substrata ofthe retiring letter oI
his legal adviser, and justly fearing
the construction which the outside
world would put upon it, he labo.
riously endeavOrs to decrease Its
purpose by the use Of the most
fulsome terms of friendship and
praise. Hoar had studiously
avoided the use of the phrase
"Your Excellency,' and indulged
alone in the cold, frigid, morosely
lofty "Sir.' Upon the other hand
Grant is exceedingly intimate
courteous and friendly. He com
mcnces his reply, "My Deal
Judge" and fills his note with
the strongest terms ever used il
expressing sentiments Of thu
warmest friendship, as follows;
EXECUTIVE MANSION, /
WASHINGTON, D. c., juno l6, '70.(
My Dear Judge-In accepting
your resignation as Attorney Gen
eral, upon the appointment ant
qualification of your successor,
take the occasion to express Il
you my high appreciation of TIL
able, patriotic and devoted name
in which you have performed tn
functions of that office. In n,
less q degree do l appreciate tn
pleasant personal relations whicI
have existed from the beginninI
of our association officially in pub
lie place. Hoping that you vii
carry with you nothing but pleas
ant recollections Of your ConneC
ton with the present administra