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you of your election as Treasurer of the State of Maryland
for the term of two years from and after the day of your
qualification.
It must be gratifying to you to again receive this evidence of
the confidence of the people of your State. The able manner
In which you have conducted the financial affairs of the State
in a time of great monetary depression has especially com-
mended you to the confidence of the people.
Permit us to express the wish that your future manage-
ment of the Treasury may be as successful as the past has
been.
We are, with great respect,
Your fellow-citizens,
JAS. C. CLARKE,
ALFRED SPATES,
JAS. T. EARLE,
F. DOESEY HERBERT,
S. BOYER,
JOHN K. CONWAY,
EPHM. ALBAUGH.
To the Honorable Committee, collectively and individually,
I tender my grateful acknowledgments for the kind allusions
they have made relative to my past official acts, and there is
no good reason why my usefulness as one of your fiscal
agents should not improve rather than diminish. I am not,
gentlemen, unmindful of the great honor you have given me
in again fully endorsing me, after having held this respon-
sible office so long, but will only add that I wilt do the best
I can to assure you that the confidence you have entrusted to
me shall not be abused.
To be again selected by the representative men of my
State, under all the circumstances and complications, is truly
gratifying to me, especially when it is known and admitted
that my honorable competitor was one of the most popular
and elegant gentlemen of this State.
I am at a loss to find words sufficiently strong to express
the gratitude and emotions which I feel on this occasion, but
permit me to say I do sincerely thank you, from my inmost
heart, for the very high honor and compliment you have
paid me ; for the approval of my official acts since I have
been Treasurer ; for the approval of my convictions of right
and duty toward the citizens of my native State, in lending
my humble influence toward restoring every voter to the
high and inestimable privilege of citizenship ; and, above
all, in that you have sustained me, by recognizing me as one
of a noble party who has made common cause for the restora-
tion of every State to a proper position in our once happy and
glorious Union.
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