Beriah Magoffin to Wiley P. Fowler
1862-05-20
- Date of Creation
- May 20, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Frankfort, Franklin 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
- MG24-178
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2116
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210523
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Citation
Beriah Magoffin to Wiley P. Fowler, 1862-05-20, 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-0001-020-2116 (November 13, 2026).
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Frankfort, Ky.
Hon W. P. Fowler
Dear Sir: Smithland Ky —
Your communication is received. For the dignity of the bench for the honor of the state ^in the name of the liberty of our people^ I hope you will pay no attention to the illegal unconstitutional and tyrannical action of Capt Stacy — Go on and hold your Courts under the laws & constitution, and do not degrade yourself, [the people you repri] your district or the State by appearing at Paducah to before the Military Subaltern, no matter by whose order. Each department of the government must be preserved within its legitimate sphere of action or we are lost. I will send your Communication to the President —
B. Magoffin
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Letter to Hon W. P. Fowler also Telegraphic Dispatch
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