 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 574 pages
...President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...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 - United States - 1865 - 566 pages
...President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me. as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...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... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1865 - 408 pages
...President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...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... | |
 | Thomas M. Stevenson - Ohio - 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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - North American review - 1866 - 662 pages
...a fragment of it survives. .... " I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent the moment the State determines to secede; for on...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - North American review - 1866 - 672 pages
...a fragment of it survives. .... " I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...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... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as Superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...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... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on...defiance of the old Government of the United States. With great respect, &c., (Signed,) WT SHERMAN." The rebels had lost their general. • His resignation... | |
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And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to 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 any thought hostile to or in... 
