Petition

L. B. McClintock et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Harrison County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG1-186
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-023-0011
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32210866

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L. B. McClintock et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 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-0001-023-0011 (December 7, 2025).

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To His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky:

WE the undersigned, citizens of Harrison County, protest against the Governor of the State calling a Convention, for the following reasons:

First: Because the Legislature is alone authorized by the Constitution to call a Convention, and the Governor has no power to do so; that a Convention which would be called by him would be illegal, revolutionary, and the principle if acquiesced in, will inevitably lead to anarchy and the destruction of Constitutional Liberty.

Second: It will unnecessarly lead to additional taxation.

J. B. McClintock
R M Hedges
[...] Benson Roberts
Wesley Sparks
George Storey
S E Brachall
J, W, Royse
W H Burnbarger
Alex McClintock
Robert Thompson
William Lang
M. T. Broadwelt
Y A Nichols J. Vanderan
William Ravenscraft
Dennis Nichols
L C Rankin
Eli Howard
George Goodnight
William Toudvine
William B Renaker
Cornelius Ammerman
J. W. Ralston
S White
Newton Henry
John Conner
E. T. Lebrelar

Wm Lowry
John C Wilson
R J. Dalney
Alex Kimbrough
J Brown Nichols
Saml Kimbrough
Wash Bruce
M. J. Rankin
Thomas Ware
W. C. Musselman
N H Rowland
R M Wall
M. Hurdy
Reuben R Arnold
H Rowlan
R, C, Smith
D L Renneckar
Adam Juett
William D Stewart
K W. Lair
Jas W McKee
James Swinford
A. P. Rennekar
J M Walker
G. H Givens
M W Rankin

Caleb Walton
John McKee
Wm Vanderan
Eliga Kirtley
A Addam
C A Webster
F. T. McClintock

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