The President was quite willing to base his request for their resignation, not upon the ground that they were guilty of the offenses charged, but that new officers could probably deal with the reorganization of the customhouse with more freedom and success than the incumbents.
Sherman discusses the President's rationale for requesting resignations to facilitate reorganization.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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