W. C. Jarboe to Beriah Magoffin
1861-05-01
- Date of Creation
- May 1, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG4-35
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-017-0145
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32207414
- People
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Hall, Joseph A.
- Berry, Nicholas T.
- Burton, Robert A.
- Jarboe, William C.
- Douglass, William
- Places
- Daviess County, Kentucky
- Frankfort, Kentucky
- Lebanon, Kentucky
- Marion County, Kentucky
- Raywick, Kentucky
- Organizations
- Fifth Judicial District of Kentucky
- General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
- Louisville Democrat
- Louisville Journal
- Dates
- 1861-05-01
Citation
W. C. Jarboe to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-01, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0145 (November 12, 2026).
Lebanon Ky
Honl. B. Magoffin
Frankfort
Dear Sir
a few of us have. Sent you the names of Jos A. Hall for a commission for Justice of the peace for this district in place of Wm. Douglass Esqr Decd the office has been vacant 6 months — Mr Hall is a qualified good citizen morally & politically
our clerk did not Issue a writ of Election in time for may Election
our political trobles in this county is great Journal & Louisville Democrat has rebounded influence and keeps our people in Ignorance as to the true position of our Distracted Country — your refusal of Abes Demands gave universal satisfaction for a few days — the Journal found fault they now Say you are a cesessionist and desire
arms &c for Daviess — I shall Look for our legislature to appoint a dictator for our state controle arms &C — friend Burton is now Endeavoring to save the Union at Raywick hope he will succeed those people down there need assistance and if Benten and the Journal fails they can find comfort with the Southern Rights party — we are few and far — between but no no such won as fail
Respectfully