This was the feather that broke the clerical camel's back.

I said, "Sir, do you suppose that I am going to work for six dollars a day?
If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else.

I am the slave of no faction! Take back your degrading commission.

Give me liberty, or give me death!" From that hour I was no longer connected with the government.

Snubbed by the department, snubbed by the Cabinet, snubbed at last by the chairman of a committee I was endeavoring to adorn, I yielded to persecution, cast far from me the perils and seductions of my great office, and forsook my bleeding country in the hour of her peril.
But I had done the state some service, and I sent in my bill: The United States of America in account with the Hon.