He was, with one or two exceptions,
the most eminent living veteran of the Civil War. He was
the hero of one of its noted exploits. "Hold the Fort" had
made him famous in song and story. The business men of Boston,
without distinction of party, were satisfied with him, and
recommended that he be continued in the service. There was
an association of the principal trades, nineteen in number,
in which each trade had three representatives, making fifty-
seven in all. Of these fifty-four were Republicans, and three
were Democrats. Fifty-four, though not the same fifty-four,
recommended the continuance of General Corse in the service.
He was recommended by the Republican members from Boston in
the Massachusetts Senate, and by most of those in the House,
and by several of the Republican members of Congress, whose
districts contained a part of the territory served by the
office.
President Harrison almost angrily refused to reappoint Corse.
He said that while Marshals were being murdered in Florida,
and the execution of the law resisted, he would appoint no
man to public office who either sympathized with such things,
or belonged to a party that did not oppose and resist them.
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