EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Jefferson City, Mo.,
April 17, 1861.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War:
SIR: Your dispatch of the 15th instant, making a call on
Missouri for four regiments of men for immediate service, has been received.
There can be, I apprehend, no doubt but the men are intended to form a part of
the President's army to make war upon the people of the seceded States.
Your requisition, in my judgment, is illegal,
unconstitutional, and revolutionary in its object, inhuman and diabolical, and
cannot be complied with. Not one man will the State of Missouri furnish to
carry on any such unholy crusade.
C. F. JACKSON,
Governor of Missouri.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III,
Volume 1 (Serial No. 122), p. 82-3
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