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had made application for an appointment as sub-assistant of the Bureau. He is beyond question, one of the last men in the state I would consent to have appointed.  As Chief Justice his course has been so palpably corrupt that, should he succeed, I will be compelled to resign. I would have the the duty to perform, even with him there

You cannot possibly have forgotten the vast number of complaints preferred against him at your Head Quarters. Neither he or the party joining in the petition would have made one only with the view to keep me out.  They had learned I was ordered to move my Head Quarters to Seguin, and I preparing to do so, when the writ was served on me.  I had just been long enough in office to enable them to have found out I could neither be bribed or intimidated.

The jurisdiction of the Bureau will next be tried under an injunction to restrain me from selling or attaching property for debt, the very first time I will or may do so.

I am prepared for it, and will defend myself to the best of my ability. In the mean time, you can assure the Gen'l the object for which the Bureau was established entirely absorbs my very being.

I will again have to ask you to