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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
rtained, but few moons had filled and waned before the defiant occupation of her territory and the enrollment of her citizens as soldiers in the army of invasion must have dispelled the illusion. The following correspondence took place in August between Governor Magoffin of Kentucky and President Lincoln—also between the governor and myself, as President of the Confederate States—relative to the neutrality of the state: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Executive Department. Frankfort, August 19, 1861. To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. sir: From the commencement of the unhappy hostilities now pending in this country, the people of Kentucky have indicated an earnest desire and purpose, as far as lay in their power, while maintaining their original political status, to do nothing by which to involve themselves in the war. Up to this time they have succeeded in securing to themselves and to the State peace and tranquillity as the fruits of the policy
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 13: (search)
were authorized and made exchangeable for any of the above treasury notes. All these notes and bonds were subject to the same conditions as those of the acts of August 19 and December 24, 1861. On April 17th five millions of treasury notes were authorized to be issued in denominations of one and two dollars, which were receivableon exported in the raw state. At the second session, in May, a complete tariff law was enacted, with a lower scale of duties than had previously existed. On August 19, 1861, a war tax of fifty cents on each hundred dollars of certain classes of property was levied for the special purpose of paying the principal and interest of th tax equal to one-fifth of the amount of the existing tax upon all subjects of taxation for the year. Within six months after the passage of the war tax of August 19, 1861, the popular aversion to internal taxation by the general government had so influenced the legislation of the several states that only in South Carolina, Miss