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Newport Ky
th 1861
Gov. Magoffin
Dear Sir:
I have known Joseph Temple lately convicted of false swearing in the Kenton Circuit Court, for nine years past. He is an old man now upwards of sixty years of age & has a large & interesting family, hitherto highly respectable. I heard a portion of the evidence in the trial, & feel satisfied from my knowledge of the man as well as the evidence heard by me that he could not have been wilfully guilty of the offense, though what he stated on oath may have been untrue. His confinement in the penitentiary, I believe would mark the ruin of his family. The public sentiment both of Covington & Newport is one of sympathy -- the like of which I never before saw -- for the unfortunate man & his family. I join in the application for the immediate exercise of Executive Clemency in Mr. Temple's case
Very respectfully
James R. Hallam
Gov. Magoffin
Frankfort
Ky.
pr Col. Hodge