Petition

W. P. Boone et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
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MG1-343 to MG1-343A
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KYR-0001-023-0108
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32210963

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W. P. Boone 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-0001-023-0108 (November 13, 2026).

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To B. MAGOFFIN,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

IT is asserted and believed that a body of armed men have it in contemplation to march through a portion of the State, to make an attack upon troops encamped by authority of the United States at Cairo in the State of Illinois. Whether this be absolutely certain or not, we are not able to say. Considering passing events, and the feeling between the North and the South, this seems likely to occur. Therefore, in view of this probability, and the terrible consequences that might flow from such an act, we earnestly request your Excellency to issue a Proclamation forbidding the passage of such armed bodies of citizens over the soil of Kentucky.

W, P. Boone
W H Evans
R F Randolph
Wm Hunter
L D Parrish
James Phelien
Michal Fle[...][mming]
Philip Brem[...]
Michal Bransefield
W H McCoy
Patrick Gruner
John Coleman
Gabriel Long
Martin Byrne
S. T. Newkirk
T. Whift
John Kirce
Michl Harrington
John Flowers
John M Kareth
Jos Gary Poff
Jesse W. Terell
Chris Crider
F. J Ziegenhaim
Jas McNulty
Henry Bowling
F H. McHarry
S. S. L. Avery.
T. W. Orr
A, H, Sinclair
Patrick [...]

T Whelan
M Colby Stout
Wm W. Price
[...]
Michil Coffee
John Aiikin
[...]
Sam Cline
William Yates
John Johnston
[...]
[...] Stemiller
[...]
T. P. Cosby
H. Sherb
Wm Shane
James [Raregatz]
Owen Sullivan
Johny S. Ford
Michael Tickner
[...]
[...]
[...]
Daniel Carol
Jas Young
Benj. F. Avery