Petition

John B. Crouch 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
MG1-195
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-023-0020
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FTP Identifier
32210875

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John B. Crouch 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-0001-023-0020 (November 12, 2026).

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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.

John B. Crouch
Granvill Casen
N Stone
Thos Boyd
G Daugheretty
J. C. Edwards
George, S, Ingels
L, C, Boyd
William, G, Hedges,
Henry C Hedges
R L Spradling
James Edwards
Joseph Ingels,
J S Mcnees
J. P. Blair
G. B. Fishback
John Angel
Thos Corwin

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Thos Boyd

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