Governor Randall delivered his message to the legislature, setting forth the dangers threatening the Union and denying the right of a State to secede.

The evidence

• “The designs of the secessionists were so far developed at the ending of the year i860 as to show that resistance to the national authority had been fully determined on. It is not a matter of wonder, then, that Governor Randall in his message to the legislature, early in January, 1861, should, have set forth the dangers which threatened the Union, or should have denied the right cf a. State to secede from it.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/02-wisconsin-as-a-state.md, PDF p. 65

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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