W. A. Stewart et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-023-0017

Document Genre

Petition

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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, 1859-1862

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MG1-192

Place of Creation

Harrison County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

n.d.

W. A. Stewart et al. to Beriah Magoffin, n.d., Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862, MG1-192, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-023-0017, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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To His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky:

WE the undersigned, citizens of Harrison County, protest against the Governor of the State calling a Convention, for the following reasons:

First: Because the Legislature is alone authorized by the Constitution to call a Convention, and the Governor has no power to do so; that a Convention which would be called by him would be illegal, revolutionary, and the principle if acquiesced in, will inevitably lead to anarchy and the destruction of Constitutional Liberty.

Second: It will unnecessarily lead to additional taxation.

W A Stewart
John Gossett
Darius Gossett
W^m. P. Holden
John Goodnight
William Holden
George Goodnight Seinor

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