The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-11

by the senate, cheerfully consented to
your request. 4
My nomination has non Oeen submit
ted to the senate, and Recognizing both
their right and duty to Subject its fit
ness to the most critical examination,
would still wait in my present position
fneIT decisIon; out / tn
ranted in supposing that
ion may be delayed some tJnIt
As you have at the sam by Il
mated my successor in Thu befol
and his successor in the ! Flour
partment, this delay ma discu
tent at least, embarrass the the
ton of the public bushes riate
partments mentioned. iquc
TO avoid such embarr-
is my duty to you
and to leave b
final judgment h,'
sole question lti1
ton, disassOc A IIv..- Lom-
ination and ..nSfected by any |other
consideration, / now respectfully ask
you to accept my resignation as Secre-
| tary of the Interior, which / hereby
tender.
In terminating my relations to you a.
member of your official family, /
desire to express my grateful sense of
the obligation / am under to you per-
sonally for the consideration and kind
ness which have always characterized
your treatment OF me, and for the gen.
erous confidence and support which you
have steadily given me in the trying
and arduous administration of this de-
partment.
shall always be proud to have been
associated with the honorable record
you will leave upon the page of your
country's history. Sincerely and re-
spectfully,
L. Q. c. LAMAR, Secretary.
Executive MANSION, Washington.
Jan. Mr.. Dear Mr.. Lamar-When
determined to nominate you to a posi-
ton upon the bench of the supreme
court, the personal qualification afforded
by the tender to you of so honorable and
suitable a place and the satisfactory
conviction that an important executive
duty would be performed well, led me
almos. to forget that my action invol-
we'd the loss of your conscientious and
valuable aid and service in cabinet
councils, which for nearly three years
have so much enjoyed and apprecia-
ted.
Your note of to day forces me to con-
template this contingency with the most
profound and sincere regret. But since
that / know that the separation you
now insist upon arises from that con-
ception Of public duty which has always
so entirely guided your conduct in your
official relation, am constrained to &C
eept the resignation you tender, hoping
that it only anticipates yong entrance
upon the discharge of higher and more
congenial functions than those now
relinquished.
What / have thus far written seems
: very formal indeed. / intended this
. because am sure that the close conf
dence and the relations of positive affec
ton which have grown up between III
need no expression or Interpretation.
: And yet find it utterly impossible
: for me to finish this note without assur
! ing you that the things which hav,
\ characterized your conduct and be RIM
! in the position from which you nov
+ retire-an you devotion to your eountr,
. and your chief; your self-sacrifcing ear
+ and solicitation for public interests-al
e the benefit which your official servic
has conferred upon your fellow-country
men, and all the affection and kindnes
so often exhibited toward me personally
| shall constantly remember with ter
derness and gratitude.
!, Yours, very sincerely,
e GROVER CLEVELAND.
n l. @. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Il
r terror, Washington.