 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
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...upon the liberties of a free people." The governor of Kentucky made answer that that State would " furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." The governors of Tennessee and Arkansas replied in a like strain ; and the governor of Missouri, who... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 686 pages
...Justice Taney.1 In answer to the President's call for State militia, Governor Magoffin telegraphed, " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States," and at once summoned his legislature to meet in special session on the 6th of May. So far Magoffin... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1895 - 900 pages
...— Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War: 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... | |
 | Roger Foster - 1895 - 730 pages
...the border States at Baltimore,81 replied to the call for soldiers : " In answer. I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." 62 President Lincoln, with his usual tact, at first respected this neutrality, without acknowledging... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 pages
...Justice Taney.1 In answer to the President's call for State militia, Governor Magoffin telegraphed, " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States," and at once summoned his legislature to meet in special session on the 6th of May. So far Magoffin... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 pages
...Justice Taney.1 In answer to the President's call for State militia, Governor Magoffin telegraphed, " Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States," and at once summoned his legislature to meet in special session on the 6th of May. So far Magoffin... | |
 | Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead - 1896 - 300 pages
...Magoffin promptly telegraphed the following reply to this demand: "In answer, I say, emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." Troops requested for the Confederate States were also refused by the governor./^ The Union men now... | |
 | Nelson Edward Jones - 1897 - 386 pages
...called on Kentucky for volunteers to defend the Union, he received the reply: "I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States." On hearing of the reply of Governor Beriah Magoffin, the Governor of Ohio immediately telegraphed the... | |
 | 1897 - 856 pages
...withdraw from the Union. But when Pres. Lincoln issued his first call for troops, the gov. said ' K. would furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern states,' and the legislature approved his response. The federal govt. at once cstab. Inhed camps in the state.... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1899 - 1040 pages
...1861. Hon. STMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: 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. ' Lint (omitted) shows Maj. RC Gatliu, Fifth Infantry, detailed... | |
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