Alexander H. Rust et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-0063

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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, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

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MG17A-136

Place of Creation

Hopkins County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

11 February 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-02-11

Alexander H. Rust et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 11 February 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG17A-136, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0063, (accessed April 18, 2024).

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To his Excellency
Beriah McGoffin
Governor of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of Hopkins County and state of Kentucky have many of us heard a detail of all of the Testimony and circumstances connected with the Trial of Tho B Wadlington for the killing of M. A. Cartwright which occured in the county of Caldwell some time past, would respectfully state that it is our candid opinion upon a fair and Impartial investigation of all the facts connected with this unfortunate affair that said T. B. Waddlington has been unjustly dealt with -- while we say this we would not wish to be understood in the slightest degree to cast any censure or reflection upon the Court, or the officers of the Court whose province it was to adjudicate in the case, but we feel authorized to say so from several circumstances that have presented themselves, previous to as well as during the pendency of the Trial. We feel satisfied in our own minds that the difficulty was not sought for by Waddlington, and that that the killing was wholy and entirely in self=defence We therefore under the circumstances appeal to Your Excellency in good faith and under our honest convictions of right & Justice to extend to him that Mercy which his case demands. And when you shall weigh the Testimony in his case investigate thoroughly all the varied circumstances connected therewith, we feel conscious that your high regard
for a practical ^conformity^ to the Laws and principles of rectitude, will not conflict with ^that^ high sense of Justice and propriety which you hold & cherish so dearly, And we therefore hope that you (as we do) will come to the conclusion that this unfortunate man may not only be Judged in Mercy, but that he may secure ^at the hands^ of Your Excellency full and freePardon, and we your Petitioners will feel as ever Your friends truly

H. G. Pritchett
J, H, Brown
E. S Hockersmith
N M Holeman
Wiley P Hobgood
L. M. Pankey
Wm W Harvey
S A Fugate
James Bartlett
Josiah Howell
R. F. Brown
J. R. Hibbs
T,, Sisk
G H Sisk
W. C. Tice

Kentucky
Hopkins County } Sct

^That^ H, N, Grace Says that^ each & every name annexed to the within Petition was voluntarily signed by the party, or with his consent. & that said ^names were all obtained by him^

H, N, Grace

Subscribed & sworn to before me by H. N, Grace this 11^th day of Feby 1861

George C. Bronaugh clk
Hopkins Circuit Court

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