I am researching the guns at the statehouse and found a letter from General Hooker to the Governor of Ohio that has become on of my favorites. He requests that an Ohio National Guard battery in Cleveland remain in service due to a confederate threat from Canada, and states:
"I need not tell you, Governor, that if anything of this sort is attempted I intend that somebody shall be hurt before it is over, if I have to go into Canada to do it. If the Canadian authorities allow our enemies to enter the territory to organize for hostile purposes, I shall exercise the same right, and if exception in taken it can be arranged afterward by negotiation."