Washington, December 30th, 1860.
My Dear Sir: —
I understand from General Jefferson Davis that you regard my letter of
resignation as offensive to you. I beg to assure you that I am deeply grieved
by this intelligence. Nothing could have been further from my wish, and nothing
more repugnant to my feelings. If there is any sentence or expression which you
regard in that light, I will take sincere pleasure in changing it. The facts
and the ideas alone were in my mind when I penned the letter, and I repeat that
nothing could have been further from my intention than to wound your feelings.
My friendship for you has been and is sincere and unselfish. I have never been
called upon by an imperious sense of duty to perform any act which has given me
so much pain, as to separate myself from your administration, and this feeling
would be greatly aggravated by the belief that in this separation I had said
anything which could give you pain or cause of offence.
I beg to assure you that I am very truly and sincerely your
friend,
John B. Floyd.
SOURCE: John Bassett More, Editor, The Works of
James Buchanan, Volume 12, p. 168-9
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