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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee and Kentucky. (search)
has issued any order in relation to the occupation of Kentucky, or any place in it. This note is written for the purpose of removing any false impressions that may have been made as to the nature or extent of the message received. The undersigned beg leave to express the hope that something yet may be done to avert the calamities of war which threatens the people of both States, and restore to them not only peace, but a sense of security at their firesides Very respectfully. Jno. Marshall. Andrew Ewing. Edward S Cheatham Commonwealth of Kentucky, Executive Department. Frankfort, Sept. 9, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives I have received the following dispatches by telegraph from General Leonidas Polk, which I deem proper to lay before you B. Magoffin Columbes, Ky., Sept. 9, 1861. Gor. B. Magoffin.: A military necessity having required me to occupy this town. I have taken possession of it by the forces under my comm
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nd united with it the distinguishing trait of the whole vile race.--When the Israelites left Egypt, their great leader took up the bones of Joseph and carried them along with him. He would not leave them to be trampled on and otherwise desecrated by the "vilest of nations." In our opinion, the same thing ought to have been done with the bones of Washington the moment this war began. Who knows what sacrilege a Yankee may not be guilty of? They have already rifled the tomb of a sister of Jno. Marshall. In Newbern they ransacked every grave, to obtain the small piece of silver plate, with the name engraved on it, that is usually put on the coffin. Among other graves thus violated was that of Governor Stanly, whose son is now the Yankee ruler in that city, protected by those very soldiers who sacrilegiously tore up and scattered the bones of his father. Who knows that the remains of Washington may not be desecrated in the same way? The Yankees are not too good for anything vile. Th