Correspondence

C. S. Abell to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG1-390 to MG1-391
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-023-0143
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210998

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C. S. Abell 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-0001-023-0143 (November 13, 2026).

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"Lebanon
Democrat"
March 7th
Harrodsburg Ky ^Feby.^ 7th
Dear Gov,

I send you above a slip from Andy Barnett's paper of today. No one here has access to the journal and I hope Tom Monroe will do me the favor to set me right, He can say that if the Editor of the Demct had taken the trouble to consult the representative from Marion who sat immediately upon

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the right of the [...] from Mercer ^he would have learned^ that when the bill first passed the House (without a division) Dr Abell voted no, and if he consults the journal he will find that upon its final passage after the bill had been returned with the objections of the Governor he also voted no,

Pardon me for dis troubling you with this but I don't know where a letter would reach the Editor of the "Statesman" and I am desirous of having the correction made at once

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for reasons that are sufficiently apparent,

I have yet to meet with the firstman who does not approve the veto. I consider it highly as perfectly inconsiderable,

In [...] Yours
Most Truly
C S Abell

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C. S. Abell
Refer to Editor Yeoman —