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ster States had adopted ordinances of secession, her people solemnly declared—by the election of the 28th of February, 1861—that they desired no convention even to consider the propriety of secession. But after the newly-elected President's Springfield speech, after the widespread belief that the Federal government had attempted to reinforce Sumter in the face of a promise to evacuate it, and especially after President Lincoln's requisition on the governor to furnish troops for what Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, called the wicked purpose of subduing sister Southern States,—a requisition that Governor Jackson, of Missouri, in a superflux of unlethargic adjectives, denounced as illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical,—there was a rapid change in the feelings of the people. Strong union sentiment was changed to a fixed determination to resist coercion by arms if necessary. So rapid was the movement of public events, and so rapid was the revolution in public