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[1] ALS, RPB. General Burnside telegraphed on May 29 at 12:40 P.M.:
``A messenger from Govr. Morton came to me this morning in reference to the arrest, by the military authorities of a citizen of Indiana. I understood from him that my action . . . was not approved by a single member of your Cabinet.
``This, taken in connection with your dispatch to me . . . approving of my course convinces me that my action here has been a source of embarrassment to you. . . . I should be glad to be relieved if the interest of the public service requires it, but at the same time I am willing to remain & assume the responsibility of carrying out the policy which has been inaugurated if it is approved.'' (DLC-RTL).
On May 30, Governor Morton wrote Lincoln a four-page letter protesting that Burnside's General Order No. 38, April 13, 1863, for violation of which Vallandigham had been arrested, had increased the extent and intensity of Democratic opposition to the war. Morton urged that, if military rule were needed for the Northwest, it should be instituted from the highest authority and not from department commanders, and expressed the opinion that state governments, aided by the federal government, should handle such problems. His state legislature, controlled by Democrats, had refused to appropriate funds for administration of the state. (DLC-RTL).