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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 115 (search)
Gen. Butler and the Perfectionists. in Norfolk there is a society called Perfectionists, and in their behalf some ten or twelve of this number addressed a letter to the Commanding General of that department, setting forth their objections to swearing allegiance to any earthly government. The subject was disposed of by General Butler in the following characteristic manner: headquarters of eighteenth army corps, Fort Monroe, Va., January 13, 1864. J. F. Dozier, E. H. Beaseley, and others: gentlemen: I have read your petition to General Barnes, setting forth your objections to swearing allegiance to any earthly government. The first reason which you set forth is that all human governments are a necessary evil, and are continued in existence only by the permission of Jehovah until the time arrives for the establishment of his kingdom, and in the establishment of which all others will be subdued unto it, thus fulfilling that declaration in the eighth of Daniel, fourteent