Petition

John Spohn 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
MG1-196 to MG1-196A
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-023-0021
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FTP Identifier
32210876

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John Spohn 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-0001-023-0021 (November 13, 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 Spohn
H, Cox
J L Magee
J I [Frozill]
D Black
G, W, Whaley
J. N. Moller
E M Bailey
Wm H [...]
Geo, W, Dunn
W Y Mcduffee
R A Mclean
Ephraim Knight
George Brown
J A J J Reeves
E S Johnson
John Criswell
Charles. W. Rose
John Riggin
J F L St Thomas
W W Trimble
H Nichols
A C Marsh
Chas. T. Daniel
W, O, Smith
H, L, Northcutt
I, Y, Stevens
Benaj [...] Dunn

J, A, Nesbit
James T Nichols
A,, Renecker
J, Reneker Jr
Jas H. Coffman
A. S Weld
John Lair
J, H, Thompson
A. J Norey
T. R. Rankin
John. W. Stifler
Wm J. Grisman
F A, Eveleth,
J. P. King
Clifton Andrew
George Lamb
J. E. Dickey
R C Nelson
C. T. Delling
WmShumate
W, Tabed
J S. Brooks
S Douglass
Paul Douglass
Geoe C Phillips
C. [...]Whaley

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Emanuel Zimmer
Beng. Humphries
Hermann Rohr
W R Epperson
H. Coffman
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Allen Stewart
Thos. Harney
J F. Toadvine
M McCabe
John Dunn
Wesley Ammerman
L H Wheeler
E. P. Rose

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Thomas J Dunn
A C Burns
Asbary Lenex
John Poindexter
Robert Scott
John A Daniel
McKendry Toadvine
John J McClintock
Santford [Floares]
John Van Deven
Jacob Maybrier
W. H. Rose