The present Governor of Arkansas, who bears the notable name of Jefferson. Davis, cultivates a particularly grim type of humour. He has pardoned a negro, convicted of assault with intent to kill, on condition that he goes to Massachusetts within 30 days witli the purpose of becoming a citizen of that State. The Governor endorses on the application for pardon his reason for this strange condition. He has just returned from the north, where he has heard from the citizens of Massachusetts many expressions of sympathy for what they “are pleased to call the poor, oppressed negro of the South.” He desires. therefore, to give them “an opportunity to reform a certain portion of the negro, population of our State.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4740, 23 August 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)
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