owers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view.
Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object—an object, in my judgment, not within the purview of the Constitution, or the Act of 1795—will not be complied with.
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 fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brothers.
Governor Jackson of Missouri answered:
Requisition is illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical, and can not be complied with. Governor Rector of Arkansas replied:
In answer to your requisition for troops from Arkansas, to subjugate the Southern States, I have to say that none
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Hamlin, —, 42, 44.
Handy, Judge, 287.
Hardee, General, 351.
Harney, Gen. William S., 356, 357, 361.
Agreement with Gen. Price, 358-60.
Harpers Ferry, Va. Evacuation, 284-85, 296.
Harris, Dr., 327. Gov. of Tennessee, 350.
Reply to U. S. call for troops, 354.
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Hartford Convention, 63-64.
Hartstein, Captain, 234.
31, 293.
Tappan, Colonel, 345.
Tariff, 28, 428-29.
Act of 1828, 161, 430-31.
Act of 1816, 428-29.
Taylor, General, 33. Gen. Zachary, 294.
Teneyck, —, 38.
Tennessee. Admission, 34.
Defense preparations of Johnston, 348-52. Gov. Harris' reply to U. S. call for troops, 354.
Territorial government, 34-35.
Texas, 12, 28, 214. Annexation, 64.
Thayer, James S. Extracts from speech concerning with-drawal of states, 220.
Thirteen, committee of, 171.
Thomas,