Greenville KyNov 29, 1864
Gov Bramlette:
Dear Sir:

Inclosed you will receive the petition of R. Sullivan, endorsed and concurred by in by the Judge, the officers and attys of the court, and other worthy citizens, for the remission, by your Excellency, of five judgments against him, lately rendered in the Muhlenberg Circuit Court, on forfeited bail bonds

R. Sullivan, the petitioner, is a good man and an excellenct citizen. He is a conservative, Constitutional Union man- opposed to all radicalism and sectionalism, and, for his devotion to these principles, he has, like many others, been oppressed & harassed. It would break him up to pay the judgments. His wife is dead, and an afflicted son, unable to do any thing, and a young daughter, besides other children are dependent on him

He Other & numerous signatures to the petition could have been obtained, but I thought he had enough

I hope his case will commend itself to your clemency. It was but natural in him to bail his son. The latter had not lived with his father for years. Three of the forgeries charged consisted in his signing the names of his co obligors in a note, on which judgment had been

rendered against all, to a replevyin bond, replevin in replevying the execution on said judgment. One of these had been his employer- had raised him in his store. and there had been a usage, tacitly, if not expressly, sanctioned by all, for any one of them toas principal in a judgment to sign the names of his sureties to the bond replevying the same. The other two forgeries charged purported to be reciepts of the attys wfor plffs in executions in the hands of the sheriff, and delevered to the sheriff after the return day ^of the execution^ and never credited and never actually received by the sheriff as in payment or satisfaction of the executions.

I have gone thus briefly into the case, so that you might consider all the points.

I am, with much respect, yours &c
Charles Eaves