Petition

John H. Ropke 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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MG1-358 to MG1-358A
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KYR-0001-023-0122
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John H. Ropke 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-0001-023-0122 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency
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 H. Ropke
Stege j Reiting
John Snyder
Henry Finck
F van Haaren
E. S. Higdon
A. Cassiday
A McBride
Rolinth A Hamilton M D
A. J. Clarke
G H German
S. Van Overbeke
J Lindle
C Proal
J. H. Johnston,
H Bowie
Bradas & Scholtz
W. H. Marshall
E. P. Fontaine
F, S, Parker
C, R, Stouffer
John F. Harvey
J. String
M Dyts
"Jno L Vallandingham

S. L Campbell
Jas Haxthauser
C Reich
Jas J. Nuttall
R Nuttall Snor
David Mills
B, P, Smart
Billing & Driesback
O Gathright
SWharton Jr
J C Goldbach
George Schweiss
A Geher
Koch I Leonhard
D Forst
D Roggenburger
P Thorton
H Foster
Louis Kratzer
A H Gardner
Mortimer Smith
W O Gardner
B F Jansen
J. A. Wilson.
James, E, Wolford
O. Ramson
A. Frankel

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D W Ashbridge
P Marchand
George Doyle
M. Muldoon
Samuel Browning
John E. Sheppard
John M Winter
W. Springer
F. Langengfeldt
S. Weil

W H Sheppard
J. A. Spence
E S Sheppard
John Austin
A W. Waller
Samuel Cole
X Schimpeler.
Edward Beck
C H. Knapp
A. Kleespies