Stephen Hale (Deputy from ... to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862) from ... addresses the governor of Kentucky as a 'sister Southern state.' In his argument for secession, he focuses on the violations of the Constitution by the northern states. Magoffin, in his public letter, agreed with Hale that Lincoln was "dangerous." However, he argued that instead of secession, the Constitution and remaining in the Union better... It was a classic statement of Kentucky's proslavery loyalty.

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