 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
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...HABIUS, of Tennessee, replied, April 18: " Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." " Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defence... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...MAQOFFIN, of Kentucky, replied, April 15: " Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern Slates." Governor HARRIS, of Tennessee, replied, April 18: " Tennessee will not furnish a single man... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1884 - 586 pages
...President's call for troops, he telegraphed : " Your despatch is received. In answer, I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister States." He had no authority for giving this answer, as Kentucky had not been consulted ; and there... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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." Governor Harris, of Tennessee, replied: "Tennessee will not furnish a single man for Coercion, but... | |
 | josephine pollard edwin forbes - 1886 - 242 pages
...lead-ing men will show you the state of feel-ing at that time. The Gov-ern-or of Ken-tuck-y said: " Ken-tuck-y will fur-nish no troops for the wick-ed...pur-pose of subdu-ing her sis-ter South-ern States." The Gov-ern-or of North Car-o-li-na said: "You can get no troops from North Car-o-li-na." The Gov-ern-or... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1886 - 890 pages
...— Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of IVar: Your dispatch is received. In answer, I say, emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States. " B. MAGOFFIN, Governor of Kentucky." In a speech at Lexington. Senator Crittenden appealed to Kentucky... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 838 pages
...states. He replied on 15 April, 1801, to the president's call for 75,000 men, that Kentucky would " furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern states." In May he issued a proclamation forbidding either the United States or the Confederate government to... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical, and cannot be complied with." The Governor of Kentucky said : " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." The Governor of Tennessee : " Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand,... | |
 | William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin - Kentucky - 1888 - 1108 pages
...to the call upon the State for its quota of troops, on the 15th of April, 1861, GOT. Magoffin said: "Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." This action of the governor was endorsed at an immense meeting held on the 20th, at Louisville, where... | |
 | Alexander Black - Ohio - 1888 - 344 pages
...half-hearted answer. A few days later Magoffin responded to Lincoln's call by proclaiming that " emphatically Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States," and warning all States whether in or out of the Union that Kentucky would resent any entrance upon... | |
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