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Brook's L & N R R
th June '62
To His Excellency
Gov Magoffin
My old friend & Neighbour Rev Geo Rogers comes to you with a petition in favor of his son, he will present all the facts of his case which I believe ^fully^ Entitle him to Executive clemency. I am entirely satisfied that the boy has been dealt hardly & unjustly with & if not inconsistint with your own conclusions after a review of the case. I would be glad if you would exercise one of the powers of which a Constitutional? Legislature failed to deprive you
Permit me now Govr to add, that you have here & every where in the State
firm & devoted friends, whom you have grappled to you with hooks of steel by your conservatism, consistency, & firmness, any one of whom will repay for the sloughing off of a host of
As Ever sincerely & with great respect --
Jno, O, Harrison