Unknown to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-1740

Document Genre

Correspondence

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG23-61

Place of Creation

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

19 March 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-03-19

Unknown to Beriah Magoffin, 19 March 1862, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG23-61, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1740, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Covington Ky
Mar, 19. 1862
Govenor Maggofin
D Sir,

The grand jury in this city during the present term, indicted B. H Elliston, a Hotel Keeper of the City of Eighteen years standing, for Keeping a Tippling House; -- This legally true but in point of fact untrue -- Mr Elliston Keeps the best House in Covington and has for years; no man in Ky would be further than he would be in trying to evdate the Revenue laws of the State, and the Indictment is simply for Keeping a house without license which you Know however well and orderly Kept, the law, makes it per see a Tippling house if Kept without a license.. Mr Elliston thought his license had not expired, he saw the clerk of the county court (Judge Perrin) who informed him he would give information when a renewal of his license was necessary and promised to look to it for him -- He relied on the Clerk, and he forgot it -- and hence the indictment -- as the penalty is a high one, and the
cost large -- M^r Elleston, has thought it advisable to ask a pardon or release of the penalty ~~[...]~~ ~~[...]~~ this will save considerable to him and in these days of "Hard times" a penny is worth "Salvation" -- You will remember I have troubled you but little since you have been Gov^r about matters like the present -- but I know B H Elliston well, and can (as I now do) vouch for his truthfulness and integrity. I therefore ask you "to give relief and Heaven will bless your store"

Thes ^above^ letter is to you as Governor. -- I now write you, as a citizen -- How vastly difficult ^is^ our country's condition than that which it was, in when I first saw you, in a democratic Convention more than Twenty long years ago -- and you made a democratic speech in a large Blanket coat" how well do I remember it -- circumstances, I need not refer to them, for which neither you or I was able responsible caused us to differ in choice of candidates in our party some years ago

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