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Excerpt from The Life and Services of Charles Jones Jenkins, a Memorial Address, Delivered Before the General: Assembly of Georgia, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at the Capitol, in Atlanta In organizing his Cabinet in 1850, President Fillmore tendered to Mr. Jenkins the portfolio of Secretary of the Interior. In consequence, however, of important proies sioual engagements (among them five retainers for the accused in capital cases) he felt compelled to decline the compliment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.