EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 4, 1853.
SIR,—I have the
honor to acknowledge the reception of your letter of this date, tendering to me
the resignation of your office as Attorney-General, and expressing your
readiness to continue in the discharge of your official duties until a
successor shall have been appointed.
I highly appreciate
the considerations of courtesy and of public duty which induced this act, and
with great satisfaction avail myself of your proffered service.
I am very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Hon. J. J. CRITTENDEN, Attorney-General.
SOURCE: Ann Mary
Butler Crittenden Coleman, Editor, The Life of John J. Crittenden: With
Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches, Vol. 2, p. 58
