The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-12

lone who was considered comp peteit
Ito take my place in holding UP this
corner of the national fabric.
now once more resign. lido mol
do it because. i am .iispIesssed With
l.the Government. because 4 asifGm ia /.
but teeanse / do not care fai public
life. There is no reason why the
Government and myself sholla moi
Iscentinue % be friends, but under the
aiew reansf fpr united slaiez cam.
fcomp@lied to retire from the ufficlal
capacity which | have long filled
with so much skill and credit. both
to myself and the United States.
The Department of Justice nov
requires me to furnish a detailed
statement every month of all the
business done by the Commissioner.
with his official certificate attached.
| am also required to keep a large
volume in my office as record of
| United States raseS examined by me.
! am To do this at my own expense
/ in order that the honor and high
moral tone of the Nation, may re-
main unsmirched.
All these requirements | could, of
course, comply with, but am cursed
with the horrible apprehension that
4 in the future shall be required to do
more and more of this till the eX-
pf nse will be more than can meet.
i. could now, Of course, get little
chores to do around town, enough
for necessary funds to buy the rec
ordS, ETC.. but before another. year
the Government may require me to
buy "a marble-top centretableand two
or three paintings by the old masters
in order to give the popular amount
of terror to the United States crimi-
nails. This would compel me to go
without a new overcOat and under
clothes, of which am sadly In need.
| had hoped that with the financial
prosperity of the past year there
would be one case, at least. for eX-
animation. for which | could realize
S6 TO 81, and Which would ease this
branch of the Department of Justice
temporarily, but | have been disap-
pointed all the way through. | could
squeeze along without the overcoat
in order to get the required record
this winter, but the underclothes l
feel as | ought to have.
l might die suddenly while on the
bench, and it would sound harshly
if the telegraphjc dispatch were to
state that when the post mortem was
held the jury found a verdict that
the United States commissioner had
died from exposure and temporary
stagnation in undercl0thes.
Our winters here are quite severe,
and if the Department of Justit e
should some day require me in my
official capacity to buy an upright
piano and keep it on file | would
have to clothe myselfin my uns ~erv
ing integrity and pair of gold
bowed eye glasses.
There is no question about the air
of cheerfulness that a piano would
give TO my office. especially if a lady
were to be tried on some charge or
another, for she could bang an over
ture out of the instrument while
waiting for the United States attor-
ney to come, and it would help to
kill time. but the court would either
have to lock itself in an adjoining
closet till the defendant had gone or
ask her to loaE him her shawl during
the trial.
You will see from these suggestions
whittier we are drifting.
/ will now turn the office over to
the Department. 1t consists of a pine
box with some specimens of second
hand chewing tobaccn preserved in
saw-dust and bald headed feather
duster. The Department will please
receipt to me for these archieves. as
1 desire to haye everything done cor
rectly and with the usual amount of
precision and delay.
The United States in my resigna-
tion sustains loss which it can i'll
afford, and the national superstruc.
ture becomes almost a tottering
wreck. The popular man may be
raised up for this crisis, but it is not
at all probable.
DR.. Tanner would be good man.
| simply throw this out as sugges-
ton.
Still he would require clothes. /
hadn't thought of that.
1t is very seldom that you find a
man with the happy union of ofuualifi.