Letter from P. G. Edmonds Jr. to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; December 14, 1875

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Letter from P. G. Edmonds Jr. to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; December 14, 1875

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Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933 Edmonds, P. G. Jr.Jenkins, Curtis

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Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure--Imprisonment Criminal Procedure--Pardon Criminal Procedure--Trial Death Rituals--Burial

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Political Parties Political Parties--Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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Alabama--Sumter County. York Mississippi--Lowndes County. Columbus

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African Americans African Americans--Historically Free and Newly Freed Enslavers Imprisoned People's Families

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York Sta., Ala.,
Dec. 14, 1875

His Excellency,
Governor Ames:—

In reply to your Excellency's most highly appreciated favor concerning a petition sent in for the pardon of Curtis Jenkins, sometime last July all I have to say is that the petition was most assuredly sent in, by myself, and was accompanied by certificates of former good behavior from his former masters whom he had never left 'til within the last two years

The petition was signed by 15 or 20 of the most prominent republican citizens of Columbus Miss.

Your Excellency's early and

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earnest attention is solicited in favor of the boy whose unhappy fate is to be impris-oned for the long space of ten years, and whose aged mother will during that time pass away to her eternal rest. During his trial money was sent him to employ counsel but his brother instead of using it for that pur-pose used it for pleasure, thereby depriving him of that which he most needed—good Counsel. If the Petition is not on file either the mails did not carry it to its intended destination or else it was thrown away, for I most assuredly sent it in.

I remain,
Yours with respect,

P. G. Edmonds, Jr.