Thomas B. Stevenson to Beriah Magoffin
1862-03-17
- Date of Creation
- March 17, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG23-54
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1734
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210142
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- Dates
- 1862-03-17
Citation
Thomas B. Stevenson to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-03-17, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 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-0001-020-1734 (November 13, 2026).
Confidential
Maysville,
To His Excellency Gov. Magoffin
Frankfort, Ky.
My Dear Sir: Along with this you will probably receive a petition from Lewis Golling and citizens of this place, praying your Excellency to remit fine against said Golling, for selling liquor on Sunday. A number of such men were summarily strung up this morning and fined on a similar charge. It would be instructive and significant to consider, if you knew the parties as I do, the meaning of this movement, for nothing like it, in my recollection, has occured in a residence of twelve years in this city. It would be greatly significant to remark upon the parties exempted from this harsh operation, parties just a guilty as those fined. It has has been put [likely] said in high quarters here, that certain parties ought to be deprived of the very means of existence; and in my opinion this is part of the proscriptive programme Some friends here paid the fines, without appeal to your Excellency. Mr. Golling is too poor to pay without deprivation of means necessary to his family. His house has long been near my own and I can truly say he keeps an orderly house and is a quiet well behaved citizen. Under the circumstances, I really think his fine right to be remitted. Indeed, all of them ought to be, even those already paid.
Your friend & Obt St. Tho. B. Stevenson
Remitted
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