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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-023-0102 MG1-336 to MG1-337

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PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR. -- The following is a copy of a petition circulating in our city:

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 is 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.

Copies of this petition have been left at the following places to receive the signatures of

Jas Irvin W McKiver W S Butterfield Sen E McLellan B Thomas Chas Neal W Shlane B A Hardgroves S. K Caye J, Willeby W. S. Butterfiel W. H. Newhall R. Dillon J. B. Napier T. Berry G. W, Buchanon J. Noble O. Miles David Waits Antony Nash J M Houston Keal Weaver John C. Crane Aaron Ruth Henry Allen H. Lemons John Venar Frank Crofoot Wm Rictor Mike McNiff J. Pope George Carr John Conn F, H. Taylor Samuel Fertig D. C. Mcfee John Bell Louis Burch Pat. Oneal N. Bosler T , Fitsdew R. Phlants John, Graff