Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-03

fenced to i've yea.t,' Imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary Says Mir. Dawes:
 ..I had received petition to the president, signed.by many leading eiti- zens of the neigh borhood of the offen- der,s home, indorsed and certified to by the physician of the penitentiary and also by leading physician of my own town, gasking for his pardon on the ground of failing health, and repre-. senting him to be in sad condition of decline, with every prospect of 8 speedy death unless he were released.
 II took this petition to MT Lincoln, who, after carefully reading it, turned to me and said
 1" Do you believe that statement?'
 .' Certainly l do, Mr. President, or I should not have brought it to you.
 Please say so here on the back of it, under these doctors
 .I did as requested, adding: And be- cause believe it to be true I join in this petition
 s'As I signed my name MT. Lincoln remarked, We can't permit the man to die in prison after that statement, and immediately wrote under itall:
 Let this man be discharged. A. L.
 ssHe handed the paper back to me, and told me to take it to the war office and give it to Mr Stanton. He saw at once something in my countenanee which led him to think that I had all ready encountered some rough weather in that quarter, and had little relish for more. Mir. Lincoln took back the paper, and smiling, remarked that he was going over there pretty soon, and would take it himself.
 ssFhe next day. on going to the house, I was met by two Michigan representatives with the inquiry; What have you been doing at the White House? We wentthere to get 8 poor Michigan soldier pardoned who had been sentenced to death for deser- tien, but we couldn't do anything with the president. He told us that you were there yesterday. and got him te pardon man out of the penitentiary, and when he took the paper to MT. Stanton he wouldn't discharge him.
 '' .'He told me-" said the president, ssthat it was a sham, and that Dawes had got me to pardon the biggest ras. cal in the army, and that l had made gambling with the funds perfectly safe couldn't get him to let the man off The truth is, I have been doing so much of this thing lately that have lost all influence with this ad. 4 I 1, nf 4t cf
 ''T went immediately to the White House, with my hair on end, but was greeted by the president in the mildest manner. I inquired if the pardon had gone out. He replied that it had not and then recounted, in his quaint way i the scene in the war office.
 .'. said to him that could not afford to have this matter rest on any uncer tainty. Retain this pardon, send 2 message to Albany, and make certain the truth or falsity of this statement at my expense, if we have been imposed upon Mir. Lincoln's reply was:
 s.1 think, if you believe it, 1 will At any rate, I will take the risk on tht side of mercy.
 'sSo the pardon went out And ye' the sequel proved that MT. Stanton was the nearest right of the three; for on my return to Massachusetts, almos the first man who greeted me in th' street was the same dying quarter master, apparently as hale and robns as the best of the people around him Atlantic Monthly.
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