K. Farrow to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-017-0360

Document Genre

Correspondence

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG4-329 to MG4-330

Place of Creation

Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

28 February 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-02-28

K. Farrow to Beriah Magoffin, 28 February 1862, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, MG4-329 to MG4-330, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0360, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Mtsterling
Feb 28^h/62
Honble B M^cGoffin
Dear Sir

My friends unsolicited by me have placed my name before you for the Judgeship of this District, appreciating your position, I hope you will pardon me in saying that I only suffered it, to accomodate their wishes of preferance, and that the office is by no means desirable to me, and haveing conversed with, many both in this and other countys, I am satisfied that Daniel B Lacey of Owingsville Bath County will meet the hearty approval of all parties, he is a good Lawyer a man of unquestioned integrity a Union man, yet will as a Judge
=dge be guided by the Constitution & Laws of the land, he will have no Friends to Favour or enemys to punish -- he filled the office of attorney for the district for many years, to the satisfaction of all parties & is personally & favourably known to every body in the district -- at his appointment none can complain as the Democrats are largely in the asscendency, and the Union men have no right to dictate who you shall appoint, as he is union, that is all they can ask, it would be unjust while they are in the minority that the majority should be denied, to sellect out of their ranks the man -- that the majority is as here stated, the votes at the last election & for ten years preceeding clearly show -- he is sufficiently known to Justify his ap
pointment with application or recommendation, over the applicants, -- and it will be the more Honourable as it is not saught by him.

I have thus freely expressed my wish & your Friends in this quarter.

Yours Respectfully
K Farrow

P. S. This is private & confidential
K,, Farrow

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