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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0962 MG20-5 to MG20-6

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The undersigned Citizens of Warren County, Most respectfully beg leave to offer a few Sugestiens to His Excellency Govner Magoffin why Rufus Jones convicted of mans-slaughter for Killing Henry Jinkins Should not be pardoned

In the 1st Place it is useless to have laws unless they are executed. The great evil of oure day is that all laws and objectives Moral and Legal are relaxed,

In the 2d Place, There is nothing in the case certainly not in the testimony to show that Jones has got any more punishment than his case demands, Indeed it is almost the universal opinion that he got off very well with four years imprisonment and he ought to be glad of that and so far as we know his friends have not complained of the Jury for finding that the length of time.

In the 3d Place If Jones is pardoned we dont see why the whole lot of prisoners in the prison at Frankfort may not be turned out on the Same principal,

In the 4th Place If Jones is discharged it will amount to a general invitation to all violaters of the law to repeat their offenses, And the design of the law will not be met, While then we do not go with any Specific personal charge, we barely Say that the Gov can't read a copy of the testimony before the examining court on the final trial and Say on his oath or concience that Jones ought to be discharged, April 1st 1861

John J. Manning

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Names John J Manning S A McGinnis A. J. Stewart J W Koons Thos. Richards Wm Stewart J A Stevenson Henry Hester J, H, Hester G G Stewart A. C. Stevenson James Colvin James C. Stewart J. D. Ferguson Moses Taylor James B Taylor John S. Adams P C Romans G. W. Blankinship S.. P.. Sublett Bengamin Ward Jas H Hines W. P. Waddle Thos Alderson James Heard Jas. M. Taylor H. H Cox William Ressner H. J. Nieghbours C. W. Westbrooks J A Cherry Names Jas S. Cherry A. A. Cherry J. T. Cherry James J Manning W B Cherry I. A. Simmons Wm L Peak G, W, Stephens David Spencer B F Sublett Hugh Campbell