Petition

T. W. Hedges 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
MG1-187
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-023-0012
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32210867

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T. W. Hedges 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-0001-023-0012 (December 10, 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 unnecessarily lead to additional taxation.

T. W. Hedges
E, Swern
U. S. Asbury
Thomas H. Rankin
Samuel Martin
M Limerick
Wm C A. White
Thomas Edwards
T J Terry
John Bruce
N. L. Hume
Thomas Clemmons
L. B. Bryant
Dotson Dunaway
W H H Coleman
J. W. Kenady
James,, Ingels,,
John M. Lyter
John C Johnson
G,, S, Gordon
B Robinson
R. T. Ryan
J Newton Smith
G W Huffman
John J Monroe
C W Barker
H Ditts

G. W. McNees
Wm W Boggess
Benjamin Winsele
J. C. McKinley.
Isaac Ramey
S. C Perrin Jr
Harison Smith
John P. Swinford
James Dunaway
J. D. Dudley
A. McNees
J W Limerick
Isaac N. Knoe
W. Howard
Jeremiah Keith
Geo Million
Charles Latimer
William Ratliff
J W. Lawson
Daniel R Ramey
Burrell Million
E. M. Pogue
[Gary] Bryant
John P. Dunaway
S. C. Sheppard

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