Cleveland (OH) Herald, “What Is Meant By ‘Armed Neutrality,’” May 21, 1861

    Source citation
    “What Is Meant By ‘Armed Neutrality,’” Cleveland (OH) Herald, May 21, 1861, p. 2: 2.
    Original source
    Lexington (KY) Statesman
    Newspaper: Publication
    Daily Cleveland Herald
    Newspaper: Headline
    What Is Meant By ‘Armed Neutrality’
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    2
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    WHAT IS MEANT BY ‘ARMED NEUTRALITY

    If there was any doubt as to the meaning of an “armed neutrality” in Kentucky, it will be dispelled by the following extract from the Lexington (Ky.) Statesman. That paper says:

    The State is unarmed and defenseless. It is not prepared to incite a conflict with either section. Immediate secession, therefore, might not now be politic. But the State can fail to furnish troops to the Federal Government and protest against the assumption of any portion of the enormous debt being contracted. Meantime she can arm her people, organize her army, and when prepared establish herself new relations. This is the “armed neutrality” which the present juncture demands – it is the position which the large majority of the people of Kentucky will vote for.

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