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Cloverport
His Excellency
Gov Magoffin
Sir
Although declining to sign the petition presented to your Excellency yet I have yielded to the solicitation of your petitioner that I should Join with him in the prayer to your Excellency for relief.
I was prosecuting attorney in the case against the petition and was satisfied from the proof, that he had violated the law under which he was arraigned & convicted; but I thought then and think now that he did it in ignorance and with no unlawful intention. I have known the petitioner for a long time, and can bear testimony to his respectabily, his honesty and integrity as a man -- and do hope that your Excellency may grant him the relief prayed for,
and are sure that no one will even have occasion to request the exercise of Executive clemency in his case.
respectfully, your obt servt
Jas T Morehead