Excerpt from Correspondence Between General Pope, Commanding Military Division of the Missouri, and His Excellency, Gov; Fletcher, Concerning the Condition of Affairs in Missouri, and the Relations of the Military Forces Thereto This seeming neglect of the duiv and the privilege of American citizens, a duty by the strict performance of which alone can we maintain our freedom and our free institutions, is to be attributed mainly, I think, if not wholly. To an alarming and fatal tendency among the people, which I have been astonished and dismayed to notice elsewhere in more favored regions, to surrender to the military the execution of the laws, and thus to abandon all safeguards against tyranny and Oppression, and to pass unconsciously into a condition of acquiescence in the complete dominion of military authority. Once let the American people abandon themselves to this practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.