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He remained at Winchester, and the pleasant home where he and his wife had found such kindly welcome was the scene of much discussion. Governor Letcher was not alone in his endeavours to alter his decision. Many were the letters that poured in. From every class of Virginians, from public men and private, came the same appeal.
Letcher always managed to get hold of him about six in the afternoon, and at bedtime some one else would send one in. And poor Father, who never drinks anything at home, it not being good for him, was in an awful state of mind at first, and then he decided he would rather die than hurt the feelings of the senders and he'd take the chance on his health. He took.
The proclamation further declared that any person assuming to exercise any authority in Virginia by virtue of a military of civil commission issued by Jefferson Davis, President of the so-called Confederate States, or by John Letcher, or William Smith, Governors of Virginia, "shall be deemed and taken as in rebellion against the United States, and dealt with accordingly."
I regard the recent expedition as a great success...I desire to say nothing against the Secretary of War. This letter had the desired result. Not content with reminding Jackson of the effect his resignation would have on the people of Virginia, and begging him to withdraw it, Governor Letcher took the Secretary of War to task. Mr.
"You weren't too smart, the first go. Why the deuce didn't you hamstring the brute? You heard them shouting?" "That's asackly what I told 'en," put in the butcher. "Oh, stow your fat talk, you silly Devonshire-man!" The butcher's tongue was too big for his mouth, and Letcher mimicked him ferociously and with an accuracy quite wonderful, his exhaustion considered. He leaned back and panted.
'I'll letcher know when it's ready. And he hopped out. I finished my pipe, yawned, opened the Concordance, and shut it again hastily, by reason of the extraordinarily pungent mustiness its pages emitted. Then I went prospecting into the passage between the stairs and the private bar.
To my dismay, he halted but five paces from me. "Is that you, Leicester?" he whispered. "Sergeant Letcher, if you please," answered a quiet voice close by; "unless you wish to be called Pickthall." "Not so loud the windows are open. How on earth did you come here? You're not with the van to-night?" "I came on a horse, and a lame one: one of your tub-carriers.
"Well?" "And he didn't come back?" "Well?" "He stepped out because he was whistled out. There was a man waiting for him." "What man?" "His name's Letcher at least " "I don't know the name." "He was one of the soldiers on the beach this evening." "The devil!" "But he hadn't come about that business." "About what, then?" "Well now, sir, I must ask you a question.
The Rockbridge Rifles, and a company of cavalry left Lexington April 17, under orders from Governor John Letcher, our townsman, who had just been inaugurated Governor of Virginia, to report at Harper's Ferry. The cavalry company endeavored to make the journey without a halt, and did march the first sixty-four miles in twenty-four hours.
There's no limit to our indulgence toward gentlemen afflicted as you are, she nodded her ringleted head, and said: 'Right you are, sir. I'll send Boots to letcher know when it's ready.
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