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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-2116 MG24-178

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1862-05-20 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Frankfort, Ky. May 20, 1862. Hon W. P. Fowler Dear Sir: Smithland Ky --

Your communication is received. For the dignity of the bench for the honor of the state ^in the name of the liberty of our people^ I hope you will pay no attention to the illegal unconstitutional and tyrannical action of Capt Stacy -- Go on and hold your Courts under the laws & constitution, and do not degrade yourself, the people you repri your district or the State by appearing at Paducah to before the Military Subaltern, no matter by whose order. Each department of the government must be preserved within its legitimate sphere of action or we are lost. I will send your Communication to the President --

B. Magoffin

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Letter to Hon W. P. Fowler also Telegraphic Dispatch Sent May 20 1862