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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
The Correspondence connected with the resignation of Hon. James A. Seddon. Confederate States of America,War Department,Richmond, Va., January 18, 1865. His Excellency Jefferson Davis, President:Sir: I have been surprised to learn that, on a recent conference of the members of Congress from Virginia, they resolved, as a delegation, to advise you to re-organize your Cabinet by relieving all the present heads of departments.--While this action operates with different influences on me than on the other members of this Cabinet, you will understand my feeling that it ought to be, as it is, controlling with me. After such an expression of opinion on the part of the delegation from my own State, I could no longer fill my present position with its full measure of usefulness to you or the Confederacy. As a sense of duty has alone induced me to undertake and endure the incessant labors and anxieties of my office, I can have no hesitation in relinquishing it when a similar motive imp