Non-partisan (constitutionalist) Governor Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, refuses the call from Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united states, for volunteers to subdue the Confederate States: “Tennessee will not furnish a single man for the purpose of coercion, but 50 thousand necessary for the defense of our rights. …”
NOTE: In addition to Kentucky and Tennessee, the governors of Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, and the Commonwealth of Virginia each refused Lincoln’s request.
[restored 3/18/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Constitution for the Confederate States, Article 4, Section 4
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp#a4
References:
Isham G. Harris, Governor of Tennessee, to Simon Cameron, Secretary of War (April 17, 1861), War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. III, vol. 1, 81.
American Civil War, 1861
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar2.htm
Isham G. Harris – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isham_G._Harris#Secession_and_the_Civil_War
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