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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A singular affair of honor. (search)
highest sense of duty and the irresistible instincts of manhood. To defend your birthright and mine, which is more precious than domestic ease, or property, or life, I exchange, with proud satisfaction, a term of six years in the Senate of the United States for the musket of a soldier. This letter is written at the first moment since my expulsion from home that I could place my feet upon the soil of Kentucky.--I have not been able to see or communicate with my friend and colleague, Gov. Powell, nor do I know, what course he will think it proper to take. But this you and I know — that his conduct will be controlled by pure motives Your fellow-citizen, John C. Breckinridge. Bowling Green, Ky., Oct. 8, 1861. In this address, Mr. Breckinridge returns to the people of Kentucky the commission of Senator in the Congress of the United States, with which they had honored him. He does not censure the Kentucky Legislature as the cause of any of the evils to the State which