On all others,--the so-called race question not excepted,--he is in harmony with what I believe to be genuine Republicanism.

Still, as I have already stated, he was elected as a Democrat; and, since he holds that the office now occupied by me is a political one, it ought to be filled by one who is in political harmony with the administration.

I am not that man; for I cannot truthfully say that I am in harmony with the main purposes of the administration." The Judge remarked that my decision was a disappointment to him, and he believed that I would some day regret having made it, but that he would communicate to the President the result of our interview.

In spite of this, my successor, Morton, a Democrat from Maine, was not appointed until the following August..