John C. Hardin 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
- MG1-193
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-023-0018
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210873
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Citation
John C. Hardin 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-0001-023-0018 (November 13, 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.
John C Hardin
Robert H Reneker
L Lewis D Terry
John M Stump
George Stump
George Reneker
Jacob Reneker
Robert May
James Stump
Dr James P Madison
Robert Ravenscraft
Aaron A Dills
Wm Conner
Bird Cason
Wm Townson
D W Haydon
Jackson D Conrad
Wm Gossett
B, G, Badgett
M Gossett
S Renneckar
A Renneker
Noah Renneker
G, P, Renneker
James Tippett
G, T Morison
R. M. Michael
B. B. Hume
Edward C Hutchinson
F. F — Wiglesworth
Hirram Ashbrook
D. S. Wiglesworth
W Clinkson
Wm F Carden
John Marr
Claborn Hutchison
W S Manson
S D Manson
S W Lockhart
Buton Bresaugh
James Bresaugh
Richard Bresaugh
Andrew Ashbrook
Moss Manson
James Mansn
David S Halls
R Lancaster
J W Lancaster
Benjamin, C Cason
J D Renneckar
Wm Pixley
Wm Gemmon
Richard Wolf
Marshall Steers
Robert A Levesque