Petition from multiple authors to Andrew B. Moore; 15, 1858
Item
Identifier
Q133528_Q133530
Title
Petition from multiple authors to Andrew B. Moore; 15, 1858
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Type
text
Creator
Multiple Authors
Date
1858 15
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor Andrew B. Moore Collection. Petition from citizens of Butler County to Andrew B. Moore about Archibald Thompson's prison sentence.
Format
Petition
Language
English
Place
Butler County (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Danielle Leonardi
Relation
Q133531 ; Q133532
transcription
[[Butler (Ala.)|Butler, Ala]]
Och 15th 1858
His Excellency,
[[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|Governor A. B. Moore]]
Sir – I was acting as [[Solicitor|solicitor]] for the state when [[Thompson, Archibald|Archibald Thompson]] was convicted in the [[Circuit courts|circuit court]] of [[Choctaw County (Ala.)|Choctaw Co. Of Ala]] crime of [[Manslaughter|manslaughter]], the in the 1st upon – for which he is now confined in the Penitentiary.
I was satisfied at the time that his [[Conviction|conviction]] war-rented by the facts given in evidence upon his [[Trial by Jury|trial]] – and I did not then think his period of confinement a [?] [?] for the offence tried.
But for information obtained by me given his conviction, regarding his habit of life & general deportment as a peaceable & quiet citizen, [?] [?] his conviction of the offence for which he is now suffering. I do not hesitate to recommend a commendation of his sentence.
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Thompson is an [[Old Man|old man]] without any family, exalting a wife equally aged - and upon whom his conviction has fallen with crushing weights - Besides the advanced age of the convict - another & perhaps ^more^ weighty reason for the exercise of executive [?] [?] in his behalf exist in his feeble health.
As a prisoner in the county jail before his trial, suffered greatly from severe cold the last season winter [?] and the nation of his complaint is such as to rend-er extremely hazardous, his [?] to the signs of another convict in a plea when he will [?] be [?] the [?] of his --- “rigors of his [?] the use of fires
[?] [?] -- Your
[?]
[?]. [?].Lowell
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I have signed a different Petition not [?] in the view herein me [?] [?] [?]. Dec. 1858
A Hammer
Och 15th 1858
His Excellency,
[[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|Governor A. B. Moore]]
Sir – I was acting as [[Solicitor|solicitor]] for the state when [[Thompson, Archibald|Archibald Thompson]] was convicted in the [[Circuit courts|circuit court]] of [[Choctaw County (Ala.)|Choctaw Co. Of Ala]] crime of [[Manslaughter|manslaughter]], the in the 1st upon – for which he is now confined in the Penitentiary.
I was satisfied at the time that his [[Conviction|conviction]] war-rented by the facts given in evidence upon his [[Trial by Jury|trial]] – and I did not then think his period of confinement a [?] [?] for the offence tried.
But for information obtained by me given his conviction, regarding his habit of life & general deportment as a peaceable & quiet citizen, [?] [?] his conviction of the offence for which he is now suffering. I do not hesitate to recommend a commendation of his sentence.
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Thompson is an [[Old Man|old man]] without any family, exalting a wife equally aged - and upon whom his conviction has fallen with crushing weights - Besides the advanced age of the convict - another & perhaps ^more^ weighty reason for the exercise of executive [?] [?] in his behalf exist in his feeble health.
As a prisoner in the county jail before his trial, suffered greatly from severe cold the last season winter [?] and the nation of his complaint is such as to rend-er extremely hazardous, his [?] to the signs of another convict in a plea when he will [?] be [?] the [?] of his --- “rigors of his [?] the use of fires
[?] [?] -- Your
[?]
[?]. [?].Lowell
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I have signed a different Petition not [?] in the view herein me [?] [?] [?]. Dec. 1858
A Hammer
Subject
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry, 1807-1873. ; Thompson, Archibald. ; Solicitor. ; Circuit Court. ; Trail by Jury.