practically closed with this order concerning the jury lists. In my

judgment this had become a necessity, for the disaffected element,

sustained as it was by the open sympathy of the President, had grown

so determined in its opposition to the execution of the

Reconstruction acts that I resolved to remove from place and power

all obstacles; for the summer's experience had convinced me that in

no other way could the law be faithfully administered.

The President had long been dissatisfied with my course; indeed, he