Cloudy. There is a
street rumor of a battle below, and on the Petersburg line. The wind is from
the west, and yet we hear no guns.
The Secretary of the
Treasury sent to the Secretary of War today an argument showing that, without a
violation of the Constitution, clerks appointed to places created by Congress
cannot be removed. We shall see what the Secretary says to that.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 311
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