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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,...

Edwin M. Stanton: An Address on Stanton Memorial Day at Kenyon College - Page 30
by Andrew Carnegie - 1906 - 35 pages
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Trial of Andrew Johnson: Preliminaries, opening arguments, evidence

Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 1064 pages

...your resignation when you concluded not to be made a party in any legal proceedings. You add : "I aui in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by your...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the i4th ultimo you addressed a note to the President, requesting in writing au order given to you...

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