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the general rule forbidding the buying and selling of men, women, and children, with an intent to enslave them ......Oct. 18, 1858 Death at Shippingport of James D. Porter, the Kentucky giant; height, 7 feet 9 inches......April 24, 1859 Joseph Holt, of Louisville, appointed Postmaster-General......1859 Destruction by a mob of the True South, an abolition paper published at Newport......Oct. 28-29, 1859 Legislature adopts the boundary-line between Kentucky and Tennessee surveyed by 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 t
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