Leslie Combs to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-03-21
- Date of Creation
- March 21, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
- Box / Folder
- BR13-118
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1647
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204534
Citation
Leslie Combs to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03-21, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-1647 (November 12, 2026).
His Exly Thomas E. Bramlette
Frankfort
My dear Sir,
I have been informed that there is now confined in the penitentiary & has been for a year or more, a mulatto freeman for attempting to run away with a mulatto girl, who was a Slave, in order to marry her — Now, you know, I am no Abolitionist I would be as far as any man no earth from violating, or justifying the violation of the rights of the owner of a slave. but while the whole State, county & town & village, is filled with white men, in the constent habit of running off slaves — men women & children, without the motive of feeling influencing this coloured man, & yet going "unwhipt of justice", I respectfully urge that it is a cruel mockery to keep this man longer confined — He was raised in a barber Shop in Lexington by a remarkably respectable freeman of colour, and always bore a fair character for honesty & truth — I therefore petition you to pardon him for the residue of his term of confinement & in so doing do but simple justice, in mercy —
Yrs truly
Leslie Combs