Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1873 — Official Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Official Correspondence.

The following is the correspondence on the occasion of Secretary Boutwell’s resignation : Washington, March 17. • Sib: Having been elected to the Senate of the United Btatcs by the Legislature of Massachusetts, I tender my resignation of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. In severing my official relations with jou; it is a great satisfaction to me that on all occasions yon have given me full confidence and support in the discharge of rny public duties. In these four years my earlier acquaintance with you has ripened info the warmest public friendship, whieh I am confident will remain unbroken. I am yours very triily. George S. Boutwell. To U. S. Grant, President United States. - Executivt: Mansion, t Washington, D. G, March 17. f Dear Sir: In accepting your resignation of the office of Secretary of the Treasury, an office which you have tilled for four years with such satisfaction to the country, allow me to' express the regreM feel at severing the official relations which have been at all times so agreeable to me, and, as Tarn assured by y ourleTTefbf resignation, to you also. --Munr-mimiirfetTirttoTr-of-thc-riirptrrtant-trust-eontided to you- ftmr y-ears -s-im’e—hfts been so admirably conducted as to give the. -greatest,-Satisfactionto me, because, as I read public judgment and opinion, it has been satisfactory to the country. The policy pursued in the office of the Secretary of t|ie Treasury by your cuttessoi- I libpe may be as successful as yours has bqfn, and that no departure. from" it: will be loads except such as experience and change of circumstances may make necessary. Among your new official associates I trust; you will liud the same warm friends and co-workers that you have in the executive branch of the Government. You take with you my most sincere well wishes for your success as legislator and as citizen, and the assurance of my desire to continue the warm personal relations that have existed between us during the whole of our official connection. Very

truly yours,

U. S. GRANT,

President of the United States. To lion. George H. Boatwell.