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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-0001-023-0117 MG1-353

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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.

Jas Hammond Henry Pirtle Jno. Homire Saml Matlock Jos Clement. Jack Fry P, A, N, Bradley Colin C. W Alfriend M S Fields W C Wood Jos. B. Lilly W, W, Fry R, N, Rousseau Edwd Holbrook A. W. Gezlay S. T. Browman F Gorin J. Sacs. James Speed Wm F Barret P. B. Muir Tho P. Smith J. G. Baler J. G. Wilson Will. R. Henry Will H. Herris C W Logan Wm W Berry W. P. McDowell J. A. Gheen Tho A Morgan Jas F Merton W. B. Hegan Geo N Chappell Jno. J Speed C. L. Thomasson W. T. McClure Richd Isaacs R Knott E. W. Mcglone J. W. Bird Jas McCullough J f Coons