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Show LETTER FllUJI Mil. FITCH. Salt Lake Cm, July I, 1871. Editurt Utmhl (jentlemen Some per-nn ha- been inipo.-ing on I he iSew Vork journal' with a siatement lliat IVesideut Grant 1 ubh been uraud "by a ring of Calilbr- nia and Nevada capitali-u" to appoint , me Cloel Justice oi' the Suj rcme Coui t I of Utah. 1 v ill you ponuit me through the ; cohimtiH of your paper to sum. thai ! ihere m piobably no. one word of trutf : in ihiB report. Certainly 1 have never , been con.-ulted on tlie sulject; and, although it may be c-teemed pre ma I ture to decline uuotfercd honor?, I wili I iierliajwi be excused for saying that the I duties ,f a judicial position aro not at all to my taste; that tho proper dn : eharge of such duties demand-, in cn judfdiient, a higher order of profes-i.tinnal profes-i.tinnal ability than t claim to png-ess; jnnd, finully, that there is no office in Utah in the gift of the President ol of the United States that I could afl'ord to accept. Very respectfully, Thomas Fitch. |