...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., WTSHERMAN. His resignation was accepted, and he removed to St. Louis. During...

...reads that that soldier, Gen. Sherman, who wrote to his loved and respected Southern friends that " on no earthly account will I do any act or think any...defiance of the old Government of the United States," and then kept his words by loyal deeds on the field of battle, finally, at his last days, " suffered...