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James Roosevelt, DA under
the Southern-leaning Pa. Democrat President James Buchanan, offered a plea
deal. Gordon in Eldridge St. Jail (with walk-around outside privileges)
rejected it. Lincoln’s DA E. D. Smith withdrew offer, locked up Gordon in the
Tombs, sought death penalty to signal strong will to end NY port ties to the
slave trade. Note that the hand-written death sentence specified City Prison
as the place.
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