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Clemency Plea
03-01-2015, 09:27 AM
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Clemency Plea
A few days ago, someone mentioned wanting to know the wording of the clemency plea for Mrs. Surratt. Here 'tis:

To the President: The undersigned, members of the military commission appointed to try the persons charged with the murder of Abraham Lincoln, etc., respectfully represent that the Commission have been constrained to find Mary E. Surratt guilty upon the testimony of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, and to pronounce upon her, as required by law, the sentence of death; but in consideration of her age and sex, the undersigned pray your Excellency, if it is consistent with your sense of duty, to commute her sentence to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary.
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