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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Va. (search)
r laws as an unlawful assembly. On Saturday evening of May 1st, 1858, I left my office, and on my way home met Major Jackson on the pavement in front of the court-house, in company with Colonel S. McD. Reid, the clerk of our courts, and William McLaughlin, Esq., now judge of our circuit court. They were conversing on the subject of his Sunday school. Colonel Reid said to him, Major, I have examined the statute and conferred with the commonwealth's attorney. Your Sunday school is an unlawful assembly. This seemed to fret him much. Mr. McLaughlin then said to him that he had also examined the question, and that his school was against the letter of the law. This fretted him still more. I then said to him, Major, whilst I lament that we have such a statute in our Code, I am satisfied that your Sunday school is an unlawful assembly, and probably the grand jury will take it up and test it. This threw him off his guard, and he replied with warmth: Sir, if you were, as you sh