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[1] Leslie J. Perry, ``Appeals to Lincoln's Clemency,'' The Century Magazine, December, 1895, p. 253. According to Perry ``A prisoner in Camp Morton . . . whose name need not be written, made a feeling personal appeal to the President for release, the opening paragraph of which was as follows: `Mr. President, I never was, am not, and never can be, a secessionist. I have been of a highly nervous temperament, with weak lungs, and easily excited. I was shamefully deceived by a supposed friend, who made me believe that I would be killed unless I fled my home and native State to seek safety in the South,' etc. . . .''