FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION. , 269 



To consultation with Secretary of the Treasury, 1 50 



Cabinet consultation, .......... No charge. 



To mileage to and from Jerusalem, ♦ via Egypt, Algiers, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, 14,000 



miles, at 20c. a mile, 2800 



To salary as Clerk of Senate Committee on Conchology, six days, at $6 per day, . 36 



Total, . $29,86 



Not an item of this bill has been paid, except that trifle of 36 dollars for clerkship 

 salary. The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuing me to the last, drew his pen 

 through all the other items, and simply marked in the margin " Not allowed." So, 

 the dread alternative is embraced at last. Repudiation has begun ! The nation is 

 lost. 



I am done with official life for the present. Let those clerks who are willing to 

 be imposed on remain. I know numbers of them, in the Departments, who are 

 never informed when there is to be a Cabinet meeting, whose .advice is never asked 

 about war, or finance, or commerce, .by the heads of the nation, any more than if 

 they were not -connected with the Government, and who actually stay in their 

 offices day after day and work ! They know their importance to the nation, and 

 they unconsciously show it in their bearing, and the way they order their suste- 

 nance at the restaurant — but they work. I know one who has to paste all sorts of 

 little scraps from the newspaper into a scrap-book— sometimes as many as eight or 

 ten scraps a day. He doesn't do it well, but he does it as well as he can. It is 

 very fatiguing. It is exhausting to the intellect. Yet he only gets 1800 dollars a 

 year. With a brain like his, that young man could amass thousands and thousands 

 of dollars in some other pursuit, if he chose to do it. But no — his heart is with his 

 country, and he will serve her as long as she has got a scrap-book left. And I 

 know clerks that don't know how to write very well, but such knowledge as they 

 possess they nobly lay at the feet of their country, and toil on and suffer for 2500 

 dollars a year. What they write has to be written over again by other clerks, some- 

 times ; but when a man has done his best for his country, should his country complain ? 

 Then there are clerks that have no clerkships, and are waiting, and waiting, and 

 waiting, for a vacancy — waiting patiently for a chance to help their country out — 



* Territorial delegates charge mileage both ways, although they never go back when they get here 

 once. Why my mileage is denied me is more than I can understand. 



