 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...Governor MagoGQn, of Kentucky, replied : "Your dispatch is received. In answer, I say, emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern states." Governor Ellis, of North Carolina, expressed himself in no moderate terms: "I can be no party to this... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1861 - 884 pages
...Missouri furnish to carry on such an uuholv crusade." — Governor Magoflin, of Kentucky, replied, "In answer, I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of suUluing her sister Southern States." — Governor Lctcher, of Virginia, answered, "I liave only to... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...16th, 1861. " Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War : " Your dispatch is received. In answer, I ssy emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subdning her sister Southern States. " B. MAGOFFIN, Governor of Kentucky.'1 there were few to protest... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, in reply to Secretary Cameron's dispatch calling for troops, says,— " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." Governor Letcher, of Virginia, in reply to the call for troops from that State, says, — " The militia... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...Kentucky in suppressing the insurrection. " Your dispatch is received. In answer," wrote the Governor, " I say emphatically, that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduin<r her sister Southern States." o This official rebuff to the President of the United States... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - History - 1863 - 554 pages
...seventy-five thousand men, was received in a very different spirit. Governor Magoffin of Kentucky replied, "Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern states." Governor Letcher of Virginia — "the militia will not be furnished to the powers of Washington for... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1863 - 734 pages
...rebellion on the 15th of April, 1861, Governor Magoffln, then Chief Magistrate of Kentucky, replied, "Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." From this date till the early part of September, 1861, Kentucky attempted to maintain a neutral position... | |
 | Ann Sophia Winterbothom Stephens - United States - 1863 - 518 pages
...seventy-five thousand men for the national defence, Beriah Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky, replied by saying, that, " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister States." This act was looked upon with both sorrow and surprise by the loyal people of that State,... | |
 | Ann Sophia Winterbothom Stephens - United States - 1863 - 518 pages
...seventy-five thousand men for the national defence, Beriah MagoflBn, Governor of Kentucky, replied by saying, that, " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister States." This act was looked upon with both sorrow and surprise by the loyal people of that State,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 394 pages
...expression of concentrated defiance ; Governor Magoflin, of Kentucky, replied, that that State would " furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States ;" Governor Ellis, of North Carolina, telegraphed to Washington, " I can be no party to this wicked... | |
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Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States. 
