(LOUISIANA) Slidell John Letter on his appointment as attorn

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(LOUISIANA.) Slidell, John. Letter on his appointment as attorney general. Autograph Letter Signed as "John" to sister Caroline in New York. 3 pages, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, on one folding sheet, with address panel and postal markings on final blank; folds, minor wear. With a typed transcript. New Orleans, LA, 31 March 1829

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John Slidell (1793-1871) was a native New Yorker who settled in New Orleans as a young man and gained success in law and politics. His first appointment to public office was as district attorney: "My gratification at this event is not a little enhanced by the reflection of the pleasure which it will give you at home. I had to contend with numerous & powerful competitors, all of them of much longer standing at the bar & older residents of Louisiana & some two or three of them having strong claims on the administration. You may believe that I do not mention these things in the spirit of vanity or boasting, but that it may allow you the better to appreciate the consideration in which I am held here. I am half tempted to send you an extract from the Louisiana Advertiser of the 30th inst. noticing my appointment, but I am afraid that it is rather extravagantly eulogistic. . . . I have studied & I think successfully to conciliate the good will of the community in which I am destined to live. The effort was at first rather irksome, but I now find that it is much easier to be habitually civil than to be occasionally so." He also notes his failed efforts in "the matrimonial line." Slidell later became a United States Senator for Louisiana, and then a diplomat for the Confederacy in Europe, settling in France after the war.