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KYR-0001-023-0067.xml

Accession Number

KYR-0001-023-0067

Document Genre

Note

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG1-261 to MG1-262

Place of Creation

Washington, District of Columbia

Date of Creation

10 July 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-07-10

Copy of a memorandum furnished the Inspector General by President Lincoln, in the presence of Hon. J. J. Crittenden who endorsed on it his initals, — in Washington City, July 10. 1861. — not for publication.

"It is my duty, as I conceive, to suppress an insurrection existing within the United States. I wish to do this with the least possible disturbance, or annoyance to well disposed people anywhere. So far I have not sent an armed force into Kentucky; nor have I any present purpose to do so. I sincerely desire that no necessity for it may be presented; but I mean
to say nothing which shall hereafter embarrass me in the performance of what may seem to be my duty — "

July 10. 1861."

(signed) "J. J. C"

Lincoln^s answer

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