Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — Kentucky Did Not Want to Secede. [ARTICLE]

Kentucky Did Not Want to Secede.

The people of Kentucky did not desire to secede, and they showed it every time they had a chance to express an opinion. They showed it at the election in the summer of 1860, at the Presidential election in 1860, at the Congressional election in May, 1861, by a majority of over 54,000; they showed it at the legislative election in August, 1861, when the Union men were put in by an overwhelming majority in the Legislature; they showed it decisively by furnishing nearly 80,000 soldiers to support the Union cause, and they showed it, finally, and to the disgust of the Confederate generals and authorities, when they declined to rally to the Confederate standard when Johnston came to Bowling Green and Buckner to Green River; and again when Bragg brought his forces within sight of Louisville and Cincinnati. Senator Blackburn has made the claim that Kentucky furnished 47,000 soldiers to the Confederate cause, and Mr. Shaler, in his recent history, puts the number at 40,000. We believe that neither or them can give an authority to support his estimate. Twenty-five thousand, to our mind, is a liberal figure at which to put the number of Confederate soldiers furnished by Kentucky, although up to September, 1861, the facilities for enlisting in the Confederate service in Kentucky were as great as for enlisting in the Union service, although a good part of the State was in the possession of the Confederates from September, 1861, up to February, 1862, and although in the summer and fall of 1862 they had every facility for securing Kentucky recruits. — Louisville Commercial.

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