B. C. Day 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
- MG1-191
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-023-0016
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210871
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Citation
B. C. Day 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-0001-023-0016 (January 25, 2026).
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.
B C Day
Robert Jones
George Kimbrough
John P Crenshaw
Wm Thomson
A, H, Ward
Wm Nesbit
E, D, Rowland
N. Dunn
Jno. M. Kimbrough
Alfred Day
Saml Williams Sr
J M Givens
Daniel Grandbeck
Wm A Gray
Lewis Day
Allen Smith
T Bassett
Wm G Courtney
Napoleon B Wilson
W. J. Haviland
J,, B,, McKinley
Francis Gray
H S Webb
G. W. Barns
J. Q. Ward
Amos Ammerman
W L Wilson
Samuel Patterson jr
D R Ammerman
C. L. Williams
A J White
J W Pick
Richard Waits
J S Day
H B. Madison
Thomas D Bassett
L W [Shensen]
Philip Ammerman
H N Toadeine
J T Fitzwaler
L S Jameson
Wm Ammerman
Porter Jett
E D McAdams
Aaron Edelman
L Coppage
Charles W Dells
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