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[1] Leslie J. Perry, ``Appeals to Lincoln's Clemency,'' The Century Magazine, LI (December, 1895), 252. Perry describes Lincoln's endorsement as ``on the face of a large official envelop which probably originally contained all the papers relating to the case. . . . Inside in a single-paper the report of Henry Asbury and Abra[ha]m Jonas---from which it appears that Mr. Thoroughman
was duly paroled and permitted to go to his home.'' Thomas Thoroughman of St. Joseph, Missouri, was arrested for disloyalty in May, 1862, and afterwards sent to Quincy, Illinois.