It wasn’t until after Lincoln called for an invasion of the South that North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas left the Union. Several states that remained in the Union reacted to Lincolns call with outrage. The governor of Kentucky contemptuously replied that his state would furnish no troops “for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Souther States.”The Missouri governor sent a wire claiming that such an idea was “illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary in its object, inhuman and diabolical, and cannot be complied with.”
Now you want an unconstitutional act try this one on for size; At the outset of the Civil War, Kentucky’s sympathies were with the South, but when Lincoln guaranteed the continuation of slavery in the Union the state decided to remain neutral.
At the outset of the Civil War, Kentucky’s sympathies were with the South, but when Lincoln guaranteed the continuation of slavery in the UnionWhen did he guarantee that?
the state decided to remain neutral.
Neutrality that the south broke when Polk invaded the state and drove them into the United States camp.