Governor Magoffin, 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. Abraham Lincoln - Page 246by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...no troops from North Carolina." Magoffin, the Governor of Kentucky, wrote : "I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." Governor Harris, of Tennessee, replied : " Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...carry on each an unholy crusade." " Tour dispatch is received. In answer, I say emphatically, that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." Similar responses came from several of the Governors of States still professedly in the Union. But... | |
| 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
...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 374 pages
...expression of concentrated defiance; Governor Magoffin, 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 violation... | |
| Ann Sophia Winterbothom Stephens - United States - 1863 - 518 pages
...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,... | |
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