Petition

John Roberts et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Petition
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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
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MG1-344
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KYR-0001-023-0109
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John Roberts 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-0001-023-0109 (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.

John Roberts
T C Everts
William Parker
Spencer Evans
James W, Stokes
C. C, Chinn
E D Tuley
W G Redman
John W Cue
John Winkleford
W. Sintin Jr
J Warren
S Glossbrenner
John Jones
Nat: wolfe
Joseph Shroder
T Bohlsen
Arthur Peter
Jas Hadely
Geo, E, Kidd
Joseph A Glover
H. G. S. Whipple
John Hale
James Brown
J C Hale
C C Hull
E L. Higdon
H C McDowell
James P Hull
J F Stone
Oliver P Myers
W R.[...]
Jno Bennett
F, I, Schaefer
A. R. Hamilton
J Ver Meule
W, H, Taylor
E A Buckner x
Saml K Page x
B. Thayer
John Engeln
F. Reidham
E. N. Woodruff x
Henry Hart
James E. Tyler
Chas D. Wrenn
W Adams
E D Tyler
Jno,, A,, Carter
G W Callum
C Soheper
George Kalmbach
M Howard
F B Webb
Thos Orange
John C Nants
A W Kaye
F Madden
Geo, W. Briggs
P Kew

J W Spilman
Charles Burdett
George Williams
D. McQueen
Edwd H, Vernon
Danl S. Vernon
Wm S. Vernon
P. Arnold
Alex Duvall