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Hugh Hays et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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: MG1-345 to MG1-345C
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-023-0110
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Hugh Hays 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-0001-023-0110 (November 14, 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.

Hugh — Hays
W, H, Dix
J, A, Krack
J. T. Mullen
Hugh Irvine
Jno B Hemp
W^m E Kennedy
F, F, Smith
J N Marion
L S Moxley
H M Clanan
JacobSmith
John Snyder
W^m.U. Cranks
J. P. Downing
Wm S Davis
W, W, Hulings
Stephen Charles
E. D. Weatherford
J, W, Bryan
Theobald Bentz
B. F. Mallott
Roderick Cooper

Garrett Bull
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N, D, Smith
W^m Ross
Richd. J. Smith S
Charls. A Sale
Franklin Shell
E. Harrison
J. H. Myers
R. Delano
John Garbutt Senr
John Garbutt Jun.
J. T. Fuller
Thomas Gilpin
Henry Paslick
James Mahoney
S. T. Sheppard
Johann [...]
P. Reuter
T Holand
Jno Cronan
P Gilwan
Wm N Chalk
S Harper
W Odell

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John Bell
W^m M^cMurray
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S Holbarn
James M^cFarlin
J Todd
Charles Callen
Wm L Connell
J. Hesse
James Winn
Luis T Cox
Geo W Smith
George Schell
J Lownely
Jacob Nevian
David Crull
A Williams
F Donahy
David Miller
Buck Boringer
L. Echstenkemper
A. Fischer
Anton Faber
A J Harrington
P. T. Davidson
M B Perry
Chas L. Tomppent
J Comich

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Wm Cornwall
T. Welsh
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James T Davis
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Samuel Detwitzer
W^m Donaghy
T Dognal
B Ritman
J Watson
Sam Leland
William Maare
H T Taylor
Robert Watson
N. Oherren
A T Healdn
P Re Riedelsburg
John Fritz
James Bradley
F C. Nichols
Julian Huble
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Thomas Stanton
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