With the sectional crisis increasingly engaging the state, large meetings were held in Kentucky aiming to demonstrate citizen's loyalty to the Union and to plead for a political solution that would preserve it. The first of these was held at the court-house in Maysville, Mason county, in northern Kentucky and on the border with Ohio. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July,1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 8.