The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-01-12
LAMAR'S RESIGNATlON
Full Text OF the letter, and
Also that Of the Accept 7
EnPe.

Secretary Lamar yesterday form
ally tendered his resignation and
tie President accepted it. The let
ters which passed between tho Sec
retary and the President read MS
follows:
Washington, d. C. Jan. Z. 1883.
To THE PREsIDENT-Sir: When
some months ago you invited ME to
accept the vacant Jadgeship in the
Supreme Court of the United States
you expressed The wish that, as the
Court was not in session, / should
postpone the resignation of my
present Office until the meeting Of
Congress. allowed you to send my
nomination to the Senate. AS there
were certain matters before the De
partment, inaugurated by me, which
it was therefore desirable tha. |
should close before leaving, and as
| would have been very reluctant
to take the place upon the bench un-
til your nomination had been con-
firmed by the Senate, l cheerfully
consented to your request. My
nomination has now been submitted
to the Senate, and, recognizing
both their right and duty to subject
its fitness to the most critical exam
lnation. | would still wait in my
present position their decision. But
1 think l am warranted in suppos-
ing the final decision may be delay
cd for some time. As you have at
the same time nominated both
my successor in this Department
and his successor In the Post-Oflice
Department, this delay may to some
extent at least, embarrass the adj
ministration of the public business
in the Department affected. To
avoid such embarrassment, which is
my duty to you and to the country.
and TO leave before the Senate, in
its final judgment upon my nomin-
alton, the sole question of my fit
ness for the position. dissociated
from any other nominations and un-
affected by any other considerations
| now respectfully ask you to accept
my resignation as Secretary of the
Interior, which | hereby tender.
In terminating my relation to you
as Il member of your official family,
| desire to express my grateful
sense of the obligations | Am under
to you personally for the consider
alton and kindness which bave al
wavs characterized your treatment
Of me, aud for the generous conf
dcnce and support. which yon have
steadily given me in the trying and
arduuus administration of this De-
partment. l shall always be proud
to have been associated with the
honorable record you will leave up
on the pages of your country's his
tory. Sincerely and respectfully,
l.. @. G. LAMAR, Secretary.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Washington. b. q. Jan. Z, 'SS.
Ny DEAR Nh. LAMAR: When |
determined to nominate you to
position upon the bench OF the Su-
preme Court. the personal grailfica-
ton afforded by the tender to you
of 81 honorable and suitable q place
and the satisfactory conviction that
an important Executive duty would
thus be we'll performed, led me al
most to forget that my action in
volved the loss of your conscien
tious and valuable and and advice
in Cabinet counsel, which for near
ly three years | have so much en-
joyed and appreciated.
Your note of today forces me 10
contemplate this contingency with
the most profound and sincere re-
gret. But since | know that the
r"n now insist upon
arise rom that co inception of pub