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Covington Ky
Govenor Maggofin
D Sir,
The grand jury in this city during the present term, indicted B. H Elliston, a Hotel Keeper of the City of Eighteen years standing, for Keeping a Tippling House; -- This legallytrue but in point of fact untrue -- Mr Elliston Keeps the best House in Covington and has for years; no man in Ky would be further than he would be in trying to evdate the Revenue laws of the State, and the Indictment is simply for Keeping a house without license which you Know however well and orderly Kept, the law, makes it per see a Tippling house if Kept without a license.. Mr Elliston thought his license had not expired, he saw the clerk of the county court (Judge Perrin) who informed him he would give information when a renewal of his license was necessary and promised to look to it for him -- He relied on the Clerk, and heforgot it -- and hence the indictment -- as the penalty is a high one, and the
cost large -- Mr Elleston, has thought it advisable to ask a pardon or release of the penalty r about matters like the present -- but I know B H Elliston well, and can (as I now do) vouch for his truthfulness and integrity. I therefore ask you "to give relief and Heaven will bless your store"
Thes ^above^ letter is to you as Governor. -- I now write you, as a citizen -- How vastly difficult ^is^ our country's condition than that which it was, in when I first saw you, in a democratic Convention more than Twenty long years ago -- andyou made a democratic speech in a large Blanket coat" how well do I remember it -- circumstances, I need not refer to them, for which neither you or I was able responsible caused us to differ in choice of candidates in our party some years ago