 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marvin A. Kreidberg, Merton G. Henry - 1955 - 756 pages
...lines. The Governor of Kentucky telegraphed : "Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States."19 But John A. Andrew, (iovernor of Massachusetts, replied cryptically to Cameron: "Dispatch... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 pages
...this reply was rendered : "FBA.NKFOBT, April 16, 1861. " 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 subduiug her sister Southern States. "B. MAGOFFIH, " Governor of Kentucky." Four days prior to the... | |
 | 1980 - 224 pages
...and western boundaries flowed southward. Her governor defied Lincoln's call to arms with a ringing: "Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her Sister Southern States." Her legislators, assuming the pose of a sovereign power in international relations, announced Kentucky... | |
 | Edison H. Thomas - 1975 - 162 pages
...Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington City: Your dispatch is reviewed. In answer, I say, emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern states. Yours, B. Magoffin, Governor of Ky. However Kentuckians felt about the governor's reply, many families... | |
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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. 
