 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1868 - 144 pages
...apprehended on his first removal might follow. 286 Page 27] CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GRANT AND JOHNSON And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. With the assurance, Mr. President, that nothing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1868 - 140 pages
...iajly understood, was in accordance with law, and not in disobedience of any orders of my superior. And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. With the assurance, Mr. President, that nothing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 1170 pages
...tendered your resignation when you concluded not to be made a party in any legal proceedings. Y9uadd: "I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th ultimo you addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to you... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 794 pages
...tendered your resignation when you concluded not to bo made a party in any legal proceedings. You add : "I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th ultimo you addressed a note to the President, requesting in writing an order given to you... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 774 pages
...tendered your resignation when you concluded not to b« made a party in any legal proceedings. You add : "I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 2 ( Jtb, in compliance with your request, I did give you instructions in writing "not to obey... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1868 - 548 pages
...tendered your resignation when you concluded not to be made a par t у in any legal proceedings. You add: "I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th ultimo you addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to you... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1868 - 552 pages
...concluded not to ha made a party in any legal proceedings. You add ; "I am in a measure confirmed in thjs conclusion by your recent orders directing me to disobey...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the '24th ultimo yon addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to you... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...orders, and thus to destroy my character before the country. I am, in a measure, confirmed in tliis conclusion by your recent orders directing me to disobey...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. With assurance, Mr. President, that nothing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...any legal proceeding. You add : " I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by your recent order directing me to disobey orders from the Secretary...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th ult, yon addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to you... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 794 pages
...conclusion by your recent orders directing me to disobey orders from the Secretary of War, my superior aud your subordinate, without having countermanded his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the U4th ultimo you addressed a note to the President, requesting iu writiug an order given to you... | |
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And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier and integrity as a man have been so violently assailed, pardon me for saying that I can but regard this whole matter, from the beginning to the end, as an attempt to involve me in the resistance of law,... 
