Letters Concerning a Petition and an Executive Pardon for an Elisha Hudson
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Identifier
Q0000133852_Q0000133854
Title
Letters Concerning a Petition and an Executive Pardon for an Elisha Hudson
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Type
text
Creator
Mitchell, Robert; Carlisle, A. [J?]; Meadows, W. W.; Moore, Andrew B.
Date
1859 December
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letters concerning the petition of several individuals concerning charges of manslaughter against an Elisha Hudson and Andrew B. Moore’s decision to pardon Elisha Hudson. One of the petitioners was Elisha Hudson’s employer, A. [J?]. Carlisle. Elisha Hudson was an overseer of slaves, and he was arrested after shooting an enslaved man from another plantation who was forbidden by both plantations’ owners from visiting the slaves of A. [J?] Carlisle. The man who was shot seemingly made many attempts to visit the plantation of A. [J?]. Carlisle, and he resisted when the plantation owners tried to “punish” him. An unspecified senator and an unspecified “representative” reportedly involved themselves with this case on Elisha Hudson’s behalf. The locations of the concerned plantations are unspecified. Th Elisha Hudson listed in these documents is seemingly the Elisha “Heutson” listed in a related document (the identifier for this related document is listed below). Elisha Hudson is also sometimes listed as [Wr?] Hudson, but the name he seemingly went by most of the time was Elisha.
Format
Petition; Pardon
Language
English
Place
Chambers County (Ala.) 32.911111, -85.393889
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Stephen H. Boutwell
Relation
Q0000133878_Q0000133880; Q0000133855_Q0000133856
transcription
To his Excellency [[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|A. B. Moore]] Governor of Alabama
The undersigned respectfully recommend that a pardon be granted to [[Hudson, Elisha]|[Wr?]. Hudson]] who was found guilty of [[Manslaughter|manslaughter]] in the 2nd degree at the last [Spring?] Term of [[Chambers County (Ala.)|Chambers]] [[Circuit Court|Circuit Court]]:—The undersigned understand I believe the [leading?] facts as disclosed by the evidence [on?] the trial of the case. to be as follows [?] [?] [?] the [[Slave|slave]] alleged to have been Killed by [Wr?] Hudson, was the property [of?]
[[Fuller, [W?]|[W?] Fuller]]; that [Wr?] Hudson was at the time the overseer of
[[Carlisle, W. Thomas|W Thomas Carlisle]]; that <s>W</s> the [[Plantation life|plantation]] of W Fuller adjoined or was near to that of W [Caslisle?]; that the slave Killed was a stout [[African American|negro]] fellow [?] of bad character; that one of the plantation regulations of W [Caslisle?] was that slaves of other persons should not visit his negroes or be with them on his place without first obtaining his consent; that the negro Killed had long before the Killing been Expressly forbidden by his own [[Slave owners|master]], by W [Caslisle?] & by [Wr?] Hudson not to come on the plantation or among the negroes of W Caslisle; that said negro had not long before he was Killed violated said [prhabition?] [to?] come upon [Wr?] [Caslisle's?] plantation & been [impudent?] toward W Hudson & succeeded in [[Slave revolts—United States—History.|preventing]] W Hudson from punishing him; that after this impudence & prevention the negro was found among the negroes of W [Calisle?] in or near the [[Slave quarters|negro houses]] of W. Carlisle shortly after dark, by W Hudson who as usual was walking with his gun round [?] about the negro houses to see whether things on the plantation [?] among the negroes were going on [right?]; that on being so found the negro was killed near a negro house of W. [Caslisle?], the shot striking him first above one of his ears and ranging downwards. that no white person was present at the Killing; that [page torn] a day or two after [page torn] Killing, [Wr?] Hudson
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[sumendened?] to an officer & gave a statement of the circumstances attending the Killing; that this statement was not offered by the State [on?] the trial, but on objection by the prosecuting [[Attorneys|attorneys]] was Excluded from the [[Jury|jury]] when offered by the defendent;—that the jury trying the case was a jury [?] intelligence—[?] that a recommendation by a majority [?] them [and?] by the [presiding?] judge, ought to be most [favorably?] regarded by your Excellency; that Hudson is a man [of?] family [?] is believed to be without property at this time; and that the majority [of?] the law is sufficiently vindicated by the confinement already inflicted on him.
Very respectfully
<u>Robert</u> <u>[Mitchell?]</u>
A. [J?] Carlisle
W W Meadows
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[Executive?] [Department?]
11 [Dec?] 1859
Elisha Hudson was convicted at [the?] Spring Term of the Circuit Court of Chambers County of manslaughter in the second degree and was sentenced to [two?] months imprisonment in the county jail—The jury who convicted him and the judge who [prosecuted?] at the [head?] as well as the [Senator?] and [representative?] from said [same?] county have urged me to [lower?] the [balance?] of the term of his imprison—mint for [?] [?] [?] [?] [petition?]—for [those?] [reasons?] & [others?]—[the?] balance of the term of said imprison—ment is remitted
A B Moore
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Elisha [Hutson?] balances of im—prisonment re—mitted <u>Dec</u> <u>17th</u> <u>1859</u> <u>[Remited?]</u>
The undersigned respectfully recommend that a pardon be granted to [[Hudson, Elisha]|[Wr?]. Hudson]] who was found guilty of [[Manslaughter|manslaughter]] in the 2nd degree at the last [Spring?] Term of [[Chambers County (Ala.)|Chambers]] [[Circuit Court|Circuit Court]]:—The undersigned understand I believe the [leading?] facts as disclosed by the evidence [on?] the trial of the case. to be as follows [?] [?] [?] the [[Slave|slave]] alleged to have been Killed by [Wr?] Hudson, was the property [of?]
[[Fuller, [W?]|[W?] Fuller]]; that [Wr?] Hudson was at the time the overseer of
[[Carlisle, W. Thomas|W Thomas Carlisle]]; that <s>W</s> the [[Plantation life|plantation]] of W Fuller adjoined or was near to that of W [Caslisle?]; that the slave Killed was a stout [[African American|negro]] fellow [?] of bad character; that one of the plantation regulations of W [Caslisle?] was that slaves of other persons should not visit his negroes or be with them on his place without first obtaining his consent; that the negro Killed had long before the Killing been Expressly forbidden by his own [[Slave owners|master]], by W [Caslisle?] & by [Wr?] Hudson not to come on the plantation or among the negroes of W Caslisle; that said negro had not long before he was Killed violated said [prhabition?] [to?] come upon [Wr?] [Caslisle's?] plantation & been [impudent?] toward W Hudson & succeeded in [[Slave revolts—United States—History.|preventing]] W Hudson from punishing him; that after this impudence & prevention the negro was found among the negroes of W [Calisle?] in or near the [[Slave quarters|negro houses]] of W. Carlisle shortly after dark, by W Hudson who as usual was walking with his gun round [?] about the negro houses to see whether things on the plantation [?] among the negroes were going on [right?]; that on being so found the negro was killed near a negro house of W. [Caslisle?], the shot striking him first above one of his ears and ranging downwards. that no white person was present at the Killing; that [page torn] a day or two after [page torn] Killing, [Wr?] Hudson
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[sumendened?] to an officer & gave a statement of the circumstances attending the Killing; that this statement was not offered by the State [on?] the trial, but on objection by the prosecuting [[Attorneys|attorneys]] was Excluded from the [[Jury|jury]] when offered by the defendent;—that the jury trying the case was a jury [?] intelligence—[?] that a recommendation by a majority [?] them [and?] by the [presiding?] judge, ought to be most [favorably?] regarded by your Excellency; that Hudson is a man [of?] family [?] is believed to be without property at this time; and that the majority [of?] the law is sufficiently vindicated by the confinement already inflicted on him.
Very respectfully
<u>Robert</u> <u>[Mitchell?]</u>
A. [J?] Carlisle
W W Meadows
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[Executive?] [Department?]
11 [Dec?] 1859
Elisha Hudson was convicted at [the?] Spring Term of the Circuit Court of Chambers County of manslaughter in the second degree and was sentenced to [two?] months imprisonment in the county jail—The jury who convicted him and the judge who [prosecuted?] at the [head?] as well as the [Senator?] and [representative?] from said [same?] county have urged me to [lower?] the [balance?] of the term of his imprison—mint for [?] [?] [?] [?] [petition?]—for [those?] [reasons?] & [others?]—[the?] balance of the term of said imprison—ment is remitted
A B Moore
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Elisha [Hutson?] balances of im—prisonment re—mitted <u>Dec</u> <u>17th</u> <u>1859</u> <u>[Remited?]</u>
Subject
Alabama--History--19th Century; Crime--Alabama—History; Manslaughter; Slave owners; Slave quarters; Slave revolts—United States—History.