H. Berlin to Beriah Magoffin
1860-01-20
- Date of Creation
- January 20, 1860
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG21-385 to MG21-386
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1423
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209831
- People
- Carlan, Alonzo J.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Clark, Daniel S.
- Cox, E. Webster
- Clayland, Edward M.
- Harlan, Eli Summerfield
- Holmes, F.
- Steinhausar, F. Joseph
- Graer, Frederick E.
- Sprouse, G.W.
- Long, George H.
- Langtree, George S.
- Wages, H.
- Berlin, Henry
- Fischer, Henry
- Hartman, Henry
- Stoll, Henry
- Harlan, J. S.
- Guthrie, James B.
- Stafford, James
- Botkin, John
- Taggart, John D.
- McGaugh, John
- Harlan, S.
- Prather, Thomas
- Young, W. S.
- Armbruster, William
- Price William C., Jr.
- Lyle, William H.
- Patterson, William
- Parish, William R.
- Bodelly, William S.
- Brauise, [Unknown]
Citation
H. Berlin to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-01-20, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1423 (November 12, 2026).
Louisville Ky
His Excellency,
B Magoffin Govr of Kentucky,
The undersigned would represent that, at the
Now your petitoner Solemly avers that the true facts of the Case and these, He says that he Keeps a Tavern, near the Pork Phouse of A. S. White & Co, at the head of Jefferson street in the City of Louisville Ky, and that said slave was hired by his owner to work at sd pork house, and that on the day named in said in said indictment a white man came into the Tavern of the undersigned, with Said slave, and represented that he was one of the managers of said pork house — that the slave was in his Employ & directed me to let him have a Dram of whiskey, I done So, never thinking but that the white man was authorized to Call for the Drink, I have lived in Louisville many years & this is the first charge Ever brought — against me, no man is more opposed to Violating the law than I am, and the negro never should have had the whiskey if I had not of believed the white man Controled him, In viw of all the facts of the case I trust your Excellency will remit said fine,
Very Respectfully
H Berlin
I was the attorney of H Berlin in the above Case, and am Satisfied Berlin,s Statement is true, I have Known Berlin many years, & believe he is as peacable and as law abiding Citizen as we have in our City, and think his Case — Demands Executive Clemency,
We the undersigned neighbours of the above petitioner, H Berlin would state, that we believe his is a Case that Demands the Executive Clemency, and unite with him in asking your Excellency to remit Said fine, we are Satisfied that there is no more law abiding man in our city, & we believe that the account he gives of the transaction to be strictly true,
Louisville City Court
Respite 12 mo
B, M.
H Berlin
$50 } selling liquor to a slave
Issd
Remission Issd
- Food, Farming, and the Domestic Economy
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