President Millard Fillmore 1856 Autograph Letter Signed To Erastus Corning

"They have discharged a patriotic duty to the country that gave them birth". , four pages of a bifolium, with the letter closing and Fillmore's signature at the top of the fourth page, December 5, 1856, 5x7.5, Buffalo.

Fillmore thanks Erastus Corning for the railroad pass he sent, and encourages him to accept the nomination as Secretary of the Treasury in the upcoming Buchanan administration. Your kind favor enclosing a pass on the Central R. For 1857 came to hand during my absence in N.

I know it must be a great sacrifice to you to go to Congress, and I perceive by the papers that you may be called upon to make a still greater one by being required to preside over the Treasury Department by the incoming administration. This is a matter upon which in a political point of view I should not feel justified in saying a word, but I trust that our private relations are such that I may.

Impropriety, appeal to you personally in the strongest manner, to accept the appointment for the sake of our common country, should it be tendered as I sincerely hope it may be. We want your practical knowledge, your industry, and above all your firmness and integrity at this time in that place. Then we shall thus far have'the right man in the right place', and I shall feel that at least one point and that a very vulnerable one is made secure against corruption.

I know you can not desire it. Know you can not take it without sacrificing much in a pecuniary point of view and more in your case and comfort; but if we are to live in this country and maintain this free government, men in your position must make sacrifices and feel that they have a compensation in the consciousness. That they have discharged a patriotic duty to the country that gave them birth, in maintaining in all their purity the free institutions which they inherited from their ancestors and which only freemen know how to prize. But I have said more than I intended; and I will conclude for now without restating the hope that you will accept the Treasury Department if tendered, not for your sake but for the sake of the country.

Erastus Corning was elected to Congress in 1856. He would go on to serve his term as the appointment from Buchanan did not occur.

He failed to gain reelection in 1858, but was elected to a second term in 1860. Several small areas of chipping repaired with tissue.

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President: Millard Fillmore
Original/Reproduction: Original