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resolved in this course of addressing you that you may interpose for my aged fathers relief.

He has been justice of the peace here for the past twelve or thirteen years without intermission until Gov. Smiths proclamation turned him out, Aug. 6th ult. If my petition does no good it certainly can do no harm, and as my father is now out of employment and almost penniless, this debt would greatly relieve him.

Maj Pierce is now our Congressman, and is spending the summer in his native state (Michigan).

I have committed the papers necessary to make out my fathers case into the hands of Messrs Rice Semple & Golthwaite of Montgomery, old lawyers you doubtless know. They dont give me much encouragement however, and as a last resort I appeal to you. If my father is not to get $100.00 per month have him paid what his services are worth.

If you will move in the mercy of your power as Executive and open the portals of justice and see the oppressed, relieved, you will share the prayers of a grateful people.

Respectfully &c.
A.O. Wright