But I must say that he or any other man appears to me to be very much
mistaken in supposing that he can claim any public office as a sort
of right, and treat the
conferring of it upon another as a personal
wrong.
I should think that the purport of the answer should be to direct the
Governor to inform
M Ring that you have received his letter of the
30 of August, together with the original documents by which it was
accompanied and which are now returned to the Governor; and further
instructing him to state to
M Ring that you consider it the duty of
the Governor, in appointing to a vacant public office, to make the
selection which appears to him best for the public service, and that
as you feel no doubt that he pursued that course on the present
occasion, you have found no reason to interfere with the discretion
which he exercised.