Show BANISHED TO NEW ENGLAND Negro Pardoned Front Arkansas Pen Conditionally LIttle Rock Ark May GGO Jefferson Jef-ferson Davis today pardoned Andrew Thompson a negro on condition that Thompson go to Massachusetts within the next thirty days with the Intention of becoming a citizen of that Stale Thompson Was convicted of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to iHTee years in the penitentiary The Governor issued the pardon because he says he has Just returned from the North and has heard many expressIon expres-sion of sympathy by the citizens of Massachusetts 1 for what they wore leased to call he I poor oppressed negro of the South and desires that they shall have an opportunity to reform a portion of the negro population of OUt State |