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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Secession of Southern States. (search)
J. A. Elmore; to Maryland, A. F. Hopkins; to Virginia., Frank Gilmer; to Tennessee, L. Pope Walker; to Kentucky, Stephen F. Hale; to Arkansas, John A. Winston. Georgia sent to Missouri Luther J. Glenn; to Virginia, Henry L. Benning. Mississippi sent to South Carolina C. E. Hooker; to Alabama, Joseph W. Matthews; to Georgia, William L. Harris; to Louisiana, Wirt Adams; to Texas, H. H. Miller; to Arkansas, George B. Fall; to Florida, E. M. Yerger; to Tennessee T. J. Wharton; to Kentucky, W. S. Featherstone; to North Carolina, Jacob Thompson, the Secretary of the Interior; to Virginia, Fulton Anderson; to Maryland, A. H. Handy; to Delaware, Henry Dickinson; to Missouri, P. Russell. Ordinances of secession were passed in eleven States of the Union in the following order: South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860; Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861; Florida, Jan. 10; Alabama, Jan. 11; Georgia, Jan. 19; Louisiana, Jan. 26; Texas, Feb. 1; Virginia, April 17; Arkansas, May 6; North Carolina, May 20, and Tenness
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
nor Magoffin, by circular, submits to the governors of slave States six propositions, among them: To amend the United States Constitution to forbid nullifying the fugitive slave-law. That all Territories north of 37° shall come in as free States, all south as slave States. To guarantee free navigation of the Mississippi forever to all States. To give the South protection in the United States Senate from unconstitutional or oppressive legislation upon slavery ......Dec. 9, 1860 Col. W. S. Featherstone as commissioner from Mississippi visits Frankfort to urge Kentucky to co-operate in efficient measures for the common defence and safety ......Dec. 25, 1860 Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, Secretary of War......Dec. 31, 1860 Montgomery Blair, of Frankfort, Postmaster-General......March 7, 1861 Governor Magoffin answers a War Department call for troops: I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States ......April 15