Friday, January 24, 2014

Claiborne F. Jackson to Simon Cameron, April 17, 1861

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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