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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 24: Grant's first administration (search)
n tendered you, and yet I hope you will not decline it. It is the point on which our success in collecting the customs revenues turns, and I know of no place in which you can render so efficient aid to the government. If you accept, as I sincerely hope you will, I shall esteem it a personal favor, and you may count on my constant support. Dana's reply is an excellent illustration of his style, as well as of his independence and his views of public duty. It is dated, Sun Office, April 17, 1869, and is here inserted in full: Your unexpected favor of the 14th instant was duly received. It would have been more speedily answered but for the personal request with which it closes. In these days of corruption in high places as well as low places, no upright citizen ought hastily to refuse such a request; but, after due consideration, I find myself constrained to decline this mark of esteem and confidence. I beg you, however, to believe that this is not done from either of th