150 Years Ago: Gov. Claiborne F. State Help to Suppress the Rebellion

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JEFFERSON CITY -- Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson, in scathing language, refused to send state troops to meet President Abraham Lincoln's call for state help to suppress the rebellion.

"There can be no doubt but the men are intended to form a part of the President's army to make war upon the people of the seceded States," Jackson wrote to Secretary of War Simon Cameron. "Your requisition, in my judgment, is illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary in its object, inhuman and diabolical, and cannot be complied with. Not one man will the State of Missouri furnish to carry on any such unholy crusade."

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150 Years Ago: Gov. Claiborne F. State Help to Suppress the Rebellion

Jackson also sent two officers of the state militia to Confederate President Jefferson Davis appealing for siege guns and mortars "to batter down" the "...

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