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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-0001-023-0123 MG1-359 to MG1-359A

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Mariah Begoffin 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.

James Crowell George Griswold Sam Grass Gite John G. F. B, Hubbard John Brown John Graham Wm. H. Gaslin Geo McKinney James Fitz Patrick Andrew Graham Wm R Beatty A Martin J B Webster E. A. Holyoke Wm Brent Jas. Gilbert John H. Heywood J T Miles Jr James Carlon Jas Thompson D W Saudell D Campbell Hamilton Griswold Charles A. Gill John G. Pixeyton G, G White Saml Johnson Philo. S. Penney Paul Danielli F W Dicksen John Burke G W Griffy John Leamay John S. Griffy W. H. Boyce E Z Webster Wm J. Owens Wm Swiney P Ryan A J Fried H Kleier, D. McPherson D C McIntosh John Moore S. P. Graham

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Geo. W. Anderson Wm P, Knox Ellis Chapman W S, Wilson G. Gordon Jas Kennedy Ben J. Webb Samuel Smith. Wm Klien Owen Ward Charles Williams William W. Thompson. Ben J Carrlton L B Lawrence J R Youce Jas, Youce John Gill Mathew Carmody William McDowell James W. Looney George Scott Dan Shelby John Clifford Thos S. Allen Orlando Lane JohnJohn R. Hurley H R, Parmele B. B. Huntoon W Handrey J, T, Wilson J J, Waterhouse G W, Woolverton Thrsk R Sintren C S Carder G. F, Downs J A Dickinson J. von Borries H. W. Wilkes Jr Wm Allen Chs J Kent. Geo. L, Page R. L. Butler F, L, Fisk Joseph W Mortose A Meaders R A KAMPF J, B. Wallace William Jones John Keilly Albert R Savage Thos Carroll J Humphrey John Christopher Wm Gaulbert John G. Bayless L. M. Jones Pat Nurer 100 voters

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2d Precint of 7th Ward

To Hon Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky 2nd precinct of 7th Ward. Louisville