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obtaining a pardon, otherwise he shurely could not have procured
the number of petitioners which he has. Moore was surrounded
by his friends, who were large men. Broyles was alone with
the exception of John Brown his brother-in-law, Who is a
very small man. These lines are not addressed to you for
the purpose of dictating to you, nor is it wished that they
should have any influence upon your determination. If it
is just that he should suffer, shurely it is also just that his
punishment should not ext^end beyond what he merits. And
our constitution has provided for a means by which the
execution of the law in its rigor can be defeated when a
proper case is presented to the executive of the state.-

I am sir your obedient
servant
A. B. Lane.-