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n for year unjust act is that the last Administration left me on furlough pay, and you did not think proper to order me on duty. But the real motive for treating me so unjustly is to be found in the fact that I am a Catholic and a Southern man. I desire to call the attention of the Arch bishops of Baltimore and New York to these facts. They know that civilization and religious freedom met in me a friend throughout my cruise among the islands of the Pacific ocean. I have been persecuted by Toucey and Welles because I am a Southern man and a Catholic. It is in their nature to hate both. In taking leave of the naval service, Mr. President, allow me to say, that the grief I feel at leaving it, after a service of forty two years, would be much greater, but for the fact that honor and justice do not dwell in the breasts of those who now control the naval service of the United States. I resign my commission in the United States Navy. Your obedient servant, E. B. Boutwell, Com. U. S.