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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
to address your Excellency directly upon the subject instead of writing to the Heads of Departments- Independent of the almost unanimous recommendation of the me~- bers of the late Convention in his favor I beg leave further to urge in support of his qualifications for and claims to the office that he had filled the same station in Florida for ten years to the entire satis- faction of that community without having a single one of his decisions reversed by the Supreme Court. He resigned his situatiOD on the Bench for the purpose of emigrating to this country. During his residence here for the last seven or eight years he has filled various responsible public stations and in all of them he has conducted himself in a manner which has secured the almost undivided confidence and affections of his fellow citizens. Judge Webb is a gentleman in every sense of the term - in principles, in manners and in education.. His character is without a blemish; ,his integrity is above suspicion, and his talents and acquirements are of the highest order. As to his experience and legal qualifications he is without a rival; and I am confident that his appointment to the office solicited would be more satisfactory and acceptable to the people at large than any other that _can be made. I should regard it myself as a public benefaction. The Judge is now advanced in life with a large familv and in limited circumstances. It would suit him to retire from his profession. If under these considerations it would please your Ex- cellency to give him the appointment it would be a great good to the country. an accommodation to him and would impose an obligation of the highest nature upon myself. It is not my intention to trouble your Excellency with many of my recommendations to office but if the names of Gen Hugh McLeod Gen William L Casneau Caotains Mark B Skerritt and James Sutton shouM be laid before you ( as thev probably will be) I embrace this oj)porturiitv of bearing testimony to their respective merits. Gen Mc- Leod is II P.'entJeman of eminent abilities - a prominent member of our Congress and has Ion/? been identified with the military affaire of the countrv. He is a soldier bv nature habit and education and is no less destin.guished for his eloquence & various llttainments than for his chivalry and honor. If a nPw regiment shoulrl be raised in Te~as I know of no one better Qualified to command it than himself or more deserving the honor- I recommend him with the most perfect con- fiden<'e.. Gerieral Ca1meau mav ask the apnointmerit of appointment of f sicl U. S. Marshall for the first Dist of Texas-an office for which ~e is t>e<'Uliarly fitted bv his extraordinarv energy hi!i rrreat businei,s habits anil his incorruptible intf,irrity. Re has been for :-:everal veai-s a con- tro11inl! member of our Congress-was a Dele~ate in the late Conven- tion and h11s been very recentlv elected to the command of the Western Briirnde. His merits· are above the aopointment he solicits. Captain~ Skerritt & Sutton :ire fit for nothing- hut the army and the 1mny can never have two better officers. Mrs Grav· a most estimable Ladv· with a larl!e falllily and in indi~ent circumstances desires a situation in the Navv for hP~ son 'F11irf11'\" Grav He is R meritorious youth for some time a mid1:thinman in the FIPTVice of Texas anil iFI now I believe on some merchant vessel in the United States
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