Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-11-03
ifrom the Cleveland pemocrst, Oct sii
The Confession Of The Negro In-
suEgemt Copeland.


renamed until tuesday evening, the day .
the annual election, at the house Of Mr.
Isaac Siurtevaut, and then depertcd to j9ir
the army Of Brown. II will bo soen tha
Copeland implicates the brothers Plumb
Ralph Plumb, also one of the indicted, civ.
ing him the money 70 30 TO larpers FerrJ
70 Join The army of Brown, and Wishing blu
good luck in his undertaking.
The confession was voluntarily made C
Mr. Johnson Of this city, United st,tel
Marsbal for the Northern District Of Ohio
aud to Mr.. Martin, United States Marshal
for the Western District Of Virginia. Cope.
land was informed by both these gentlemen,
previous 10 his confession, that there was no
possible chance to save his life; that the
proof was overwhelming against him, and
the prisoner seemed fully to realza his sit
uation. lie wished, standing, Ms he was, on
the verge Of the grave, to toll all he knew
about The conspiracy, and he complained
bitterly that he should be made 10 suffer
death, having teen pushed into the matter
by others, who should have known better,
aud who used him as a tool Tor their wicked
designs Until aoer he was fully implicated
he denies knowledge Of the insurrectionhry
character OF the expedition aud AYERS that
his only thought was that Of stealing Mig
gers 70 send them 10 Canada and there free
them The confession thus voluntarily made
has not before been published, aud we give
it below to the end that those implicated
may, while the poor dupe Of their treason
and his own folly still lives defend them
selves, if they can, Of the grave charges
Copeland confession makes against them;
QuestiOn--Are you John Copeland Of Oh,
eli ii l,. hoe stN 4
ed last year at Cleveland, for rescuing the
slave "John2'
Answer--l am
@. DO your parents reside in 0berlin2
A. They do
@ Who induced you to enter into the
Ilarper's Ferry movement
A. J II. Kagi and John Brown, ir, wrote
letters to Leary at Oberlin, which | saw, and
was thus induced to go into it.
q Who furnished you the means to come
10 Nirginia2
a Ralph and Samuel Plumb gave me the
money, Sl5, to bear my expenses.
q What other Oberlin persons were at
Earper's Rerry2
A None but Leary aud myself
q Where is Leary2
A. He was killed in the river near the Ri,
ileworks
Q Did you come through Cleveland?
A. Yes
q. On what day did you leave there2
A. TIE day of the October election.
q. Where did you stop at in Clevelan12
A, ! stopped at Isaac Sturtevant S on Wal
nut street Was there from Monday noon
until Tuesday evening at nine o'clock.
2 Did Mr.. and Mrs Sturseyant know
what you we're going 10 Virginia for?
A. Mrs. Sturteyant did. She was tho
person who talked with me aboutit. Isup.
pose Mr. 5. knew it.
q Where did Plumb give you the money,
anu who was present?
A. Ralph Plumb gave it to me. Samuel
Plumb and Leary were present 1t was in
Plumb's Office at Oberlin.
q. Did the Plumbs know where YOU were
going2
A. Yes, and wished US good luck, and
gave me the money just before leaving Mon,
day morning.
q Did Charles II. Langston see you in
A. lie did, and knew was coming on to
Join Browns company.
z. Who directed you to 90 to Sturtevant's
at Cleveland2
A. Leary. lie was directed by John Brown
jr, to 20 there.
q Did you hear Ralph Plumb, on the day
the slave John" was rescued urge persons
to go to Wellington, and if so, where?
A. did. lie was on the pavement, in
front of Walson's grocery.
z Have you any knowledge ofan ATTEMPT
to raise an insurrection in any other State
or region of our country
A, | understood that there was an inten,
tion to attempt n movement of that kind in
Kentucky about the same time.
q Did you know from Brown or any 9th.
er person that he p was expected from the
slaves in the neighborhood?
A. did from Brown, that help wonld
come from the slaves; but did not under.
stand at any time, until Monday morning
after the Fight had commenced, that any-
thing else than running off slaves was IN.
tended, | being at the Rifle works, half n
mile from the engine house
q Did you learn from Brown or any OF
the company that persons at Harpers Ferry
sympathized with them, or were in any way
injected with the movement
A. From Brown | understood that there
we're laboring men at Harper's Ferry who
wished to get rid of the slaves and would aid
in running them off
Mr.. Isaac Sturteyant, in card in this pa.-
per Of Tuesday, denies oil knowledge of the
facts elected by the letters found with Brown
or Of his box No. 1850, at the Post Office in
this city; being used as the receptacle of the
reasonable letters. Mrs Sturtevant, in a
card in the Plain Dealer of Saturday eve,
ming, somewhat contradiets her husbands
story, but promises full story of the mat
ter The Sturtevants man and wife and the
Plumbs Ralph and Samuel, will havs a
chance to do battle against distinct charges
the former, Of having their house made the
meeting place Of the insurgents, and the lat.
ter of giving money to the poor dupe Cones
land to go to Harper's Ferry to Join the army
of Brown to murder the citizens ofthat place,
and to aid in melting insurrection among
the slaves, and to subvert the Government
Copeland is not yet tried, aud it may be days
before he suffers the penalty of the law, and
Of his own folly and the crime of others, and
il possible to clear their skirts of the great
crime, those persons implicated had better
do it before he is sent to his God to give an
account Of the things done upon earth. As
the case now stands, bis blood must be upon
their hands.
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CITY DYE HOUSE.