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Barren County Kentucky
To His Eccelency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of Ky --
We would respectfully state that a day or two since we together with many others of our fellow citizens subscribed most cheerfully a petition to your excellancy for the pardon of the youth Sidney Young charged with & convicted of the crime of firing a house -- His case in our estimation is another ^proof^ of the validity of the argument so common within Temperance Lecturers that a dram in Moderation is the fruitful source of drunkenness and its ill consequences Our neighbour John Young (the father of Sydney) is well known in the community although a poor man as a sober, honest, industrious civil, law abiding citizen. his three sons Benjamin F., Jn o W., & Sydney were like him in character honest, industrious, and inoffensive -- The two first named joined the Federal army and died in the Service Sydney the oldest surviviing Son learns too late the evils arising from a dram in Moderation as stated in the petition we cannot believe from our personal knowledge of the previous good character of the boy that the act would have been committed ^otherwise^ and respectfully repeat the solicitation for his pardon --
G. W. Erwin
J, W, Henderson
Gov. Bramlet, I am well acquainted ^with^ W EG. W. Erwin and J. W. Henderson they are citizens of this County and loyal men and two better citizens do not live than these men, for cander judgment & truth,
th 1865
W. F. Evans
I know nothing of the accused, but from what I can learn whisky was his downfall.