| Faunt Le Roy Senour - 1865 - 736 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States. " With Great Respect, &o., "WT SHERMAN." INCIDENTS. When Sherman was a member of the Hon. Mr. Swing's... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1865 - 410 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States. ' " With great respect, &c., " (Signed) WT SHERMAN." What a scorching rebuke is that in the first paragraph... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 574 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States." His resignation was, of course, promptly accepted, and he at once returned to St. Louis. In consequence... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 566 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me. as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States." Tfia resignation was, of course, promptly accepted, and he at once returned to St. Louis. In consequence... | |
| Thomas M. Stevenson - 1865 - 368 pages
...were getting control of the South. " On no earthly account, " he wrote to the Governor of Louisiana, "will I do any act, or think any thought, hostile...defiance of the old government of the United States. " Such was the emphatic language of this true patriot. He went to Washington and was made Colonel,... | |
| Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States. With great respect, &c., (Signed) WT SHEBMAN. "Inhere spoke the true hero and patriot, " On no earthlyaccount... | |
| 1866 - 672 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of, the old government of the United States." It is curious to remember that it was the man who wrote this letter, — and who wrote it in the far... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pages
...letter to Governor Moore, resigning the position, furnishes the secret of his subsequent .fame : " For on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States." Like thousands of his countrymen, he regarded the cause of slavery, to a certain extent, as being identified... | |
| 1866 - 662 pages
...take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent the moment the State determines to secede; for on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of, the old government of the United States." It is curious to remember that it was the man who wrote this letter, — and who wrote it in the far... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...the position, furnishes the secret of his subsequent fame : " For on no earthly account will I do qny act, or think any thought, hostile to, or in defiance of the old Government of the United States." Like thousands of his countrymen, he regarded the cause of slavery, to a certain extent, as being identified... | |
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