The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-01-01
N 0 43.
From the Microcosm
AMOS MINER.


This is the more surprising, as he vas
man of considerable intelligence, aud
ought TO have known that the pardoning
power rested only with the Legislature.
Ill. addressed letters to a namber of gen
tlelue,, soliciting their aid in his behalf,
among whom were Gov. Frances, and
the Hon. Judge Peters of Connecticut.
He even entertained the belief that
Congress might afford him some assls-
tance, as the following letter and me-.
moral-which were drawn up by fei-
low-prisoner at hisdiciation-wills show.
Providence jail, Dec. 10, 1888.
Honored Sir.-I beg you will excuse
the liberty have taken in sending the
enclosed TO you, but as il is the last re-
source of a dying man to escape from
su In dreadful situation, and the agony
of mind have to experience on account
of my afflicted family, as well as myself
trust need not further apologize.
most humbly beg sir, you will lay the
said petition before the House, that
they may take into consideration the m
Justice have met with, and act accor-
dinghy. You will confer an obligation
on poor and wretched man, as well as
his afflicted family, for your kind inter.
cession, and may God grant that you
may meet with your reward, is the pray
er Of your mos, humble and obliged SER
want. AMOS MINER.
Hon. DUrEE J. PEARcE.
To the Honorable Senate and House
Of Representative of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled, the
Petition of the undersigned citizen of
the United States respectfully repre-
sents.
That Amos Miner Of Stonnington
Connecticut, now confined under the aw-
ful sentence sf Death in the county Jail
ofProyidence, Rhode Island, for the al
ledged murder Of John Smith, of Foster
r. l. now awaiting the execution Of the
law, being doomed to suffer an ignom-
inious death on the 9th inst. between
the hours Of eight A. M. and two p. NJ.
he therefore being deeply impressed
; Awilhshis iread(ui situation as wrsl MS his
accountability to his God, most Iiumbly
prays that Congress will grant him a re-
dress of grievances and avert the direful
calamity that must necessarily devolve
on his afflicted wife and nine Children
Your petitioner would therefore repre-
sent that on the Goth day Of June 1882,
he was proceeding from klllingIy, Con-
necticut, with his family, to factory in
Rhode Island, with view of benefttirg
his situation. That while travelling on
the road, his two eldest daughters being
ahead of him, two men rode by hIm in
Wagon, directly they came up with his
daughters, he heard screaming, they
having jumped out of the Wagon and
seized one Of his daughters and took a
way her bundle of clothes, having also
torn the handkerchief from her back and
scratched her breast until it was all
bloody, by dragging her into the woods
that lay convenient to the road side,
there being no house near his wife and
daughters begged orhim TO protect ,hcm
and that he Immediately demanded OF
them the cause Of their brutal conduct,
aud warned them TO desist from such at
tacks on the peril of their lives. That
these two individuals left .hem, and that
your petitioner and his family proceed
ed on their journey shortly after, bis
son aged seventeen, warned him of their
coming. That your petitioner went
from the rond side into lot adjacent
so that he might know if they had any
demands I'm II m, that he perceived three
men advancing towards him, one OF
whom was the deceased John Smith,
that they commenced stoning your pe-
titioner and telling him TO put down an
axe that he carried with him, having
his bundle on it. That his son begged
that they would not strike his father
without letting him know their inten.
tions, but hey paid no regard to his en-.
treaties. continuing TO stone him mil