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          <p corresp='TTP35075843P0' xml:id='OTP35075843P0'>Tho<hi rend='sup'>s</hi> Bramlett Govenor of Kentucky<lb/>
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<p corresp='TTP35075843P2' xml:id='OTP35075843P2'>For a young man, of his high toned sensibilities, to arouse to soberness, in a strange city, without friends or mony, to be arrested, charged, tried, pronounced guilty of a crime, incarcerated in the Penitentiary, and there remain, eight long, dreary, months, ought to expiate a high crime, of an old offender. Then how much more abundantly, will they atone, for this inconsiderate errors, of a dashing, good hearted youth. In adition to all this, we are told, his deep anguish, and accumulated sorrows, are rapidly undermining his hitherto feeble health.
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          <p corresp='TTP35075844P0' xml:id='OTP35075844P0'>punishment, have been attained in his case. <lb/>
We, therefore, the premises considered, do most earnestly, and urgently, invoke Executive clemency, in his behalf.
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<p corresp='TTP35075844P1' xml:id='OTP35075844P1'>We pray you, to restore him to liberty, to citizenship, to the embraces, of his afflicted sorrowing Family
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<p corresp='TTP35075844P2' xml:id='OTP35075844P2'>Most Respectfully Yours<lb/>
Nashville Ten<lb/>
<date when='1865-01-18'>Jany 18<hi rend='sup'>th</hi> 1865</date>
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Petition of Judge Baxter &amp; other citizens of Nashville for his pardon from Penitentiary -- <lb/>
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