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Yazoo City Miss.
July 15, A. D. 1866.

To
The Governor of the State of Mississippi.

I to-day visited the cell of a young man na-med Nelson, Convicted of murder in this County and sentenced to be hung on Friday next.

He seems to be truly peⁿitent for the wickedness of his past life; but is in an unfortu-nate state of mind, through ignorance of God's laws and God's mercy, that is truly distressing.

Can you not delay his execu-tion for a time? If only a month or two? I ask this favor, for a wretched man,