The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-12
THE OUTBREAK IN VIRGINIA
[Continued from last weeks paper.l
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CONTINUED from last weeks paper
EIGHTH DAY.
Coppic, who was found guilty yesterday,
has not yet received sentence
Shields Green, one of the negro pris.
oners, was put ON trial today. His de,
tense was entrusted to Mr.. George Sennot
of Boston. He attacked the indictment
on all points. He moved that the first
count, charging the prisoner with treason,
should be abandoned, on the strength Of
the bred Scott decision, which deprives
negroes of citizenship, and consequently
of their reasonable capabilities and this
count was abandoned He moved that
the entire Indictment should be quashed,
for variety of reasons, involving any
number Of legal technicalities. First, he
objected to it on account of its excessive
interlineation; but this, the Court ruled,
was not material point. Then he Ob-
jected on the ground that, as it comprised
three various charges, it confused the prs
oner's right of challenging jurymen-since
the law allowing him to challenge eight, he
might desire to set aside a juryman for
reasons connected with one charge, and to
retain him in reference to another. This
also, was overruled by the Court.
NINTH DAY.
Shields Green was found guilty this
morning. Sentence Yves deferred.
Copeland, the mulatto, is now upon trial,
Mr.. Sennot defending.
The following is his confession
QUEsroN-Are you John Copeland of
Oberlin, and the same person that was i'll,
dicted last year at Cleveland for rescuing
the slave John2 ANSWER am
@. Do your parents reside in Ohio2 A
They do
Q. Who induced you to enter into the
Harper's Ferry movements A. j, Ii. Ka-
gi and John Brown, Jr., wrote letters to
Leary, at Oberlin, which I saw, and was
thus induced to go into it.
Q. Who furnished you the means to
come to Virginia? A. Ralph and Samuel
Plumb gave the money ($l5) to bear my
expenses.
Q. What other Oberlin persons were at
Harper's Ferry? A. None but Leary and
myself.
Q. Where is Leary2 A. He was killed
in the river, near the riae-works.
A. Did you come through Cleveland
A. Yes.
Q. On what day did you leave there
A. The day of the OCTOBER election
G. Where did you stop in Cleveland
A. | stopped at Isaac Sturtevant's, on
Walnut street; was there from Monday
noon until Tuesday evening at Q o'clock.
@. Did Mr.. and Mrs. Sturtevant know
what you were going to Virginia for? A.
Mrs. Sturtevant did she was the person
who talked to me about it; | suppose DIR.
S. knew it.
@. Where did Plumb give the money
and who was present? A. Ralph Plumb
gave it to me; Samuel Plumb and Leary
were present; it was in Plumo's office at
Oberlin
@. Did the Plumbs know where you
were going2 A. Yes, and wished us good
luck, and gave me the money just before
leaving, Monday morning.
Q. Did Charles Ell. Langston see you in
Cleveland 7 A. He did, and knew was
coming on to join Browns company
@. Who directed you to 60 to Sturte-
wants at Cleveland? A. Leary he was
directed by John Brown, Jr., to go there
G. Did you hear Ralph Plumb, on the
day the slave John was rescued, urge per
sons to go to Wellington, and if SO, where
A. / did; he was on the pavement, L
front of Watson's grocery.
@. Have you any knowledge of an at
tempt to raise an instruction in any other
State or region of our country A. | IN
derstood that there was an intention to
attempt movement of that kind in Ken
lucky about the same time.
@. Did you know from Brown or AMI
other person that help was expected from
the slaves in the neighborhood A. did
from Brown, that help would come from
the slaves, but did not understand at any
time before Monday morning after the
fight had commenced, that anything else
than running off slaves was intended
being at the rifle works, half mile from
the engine-house. T.
@. Did you learn from Brown or any q
the company that persons at Harpers fel,
ry sympathised with them, or were IN any
way connected with the movement A
From Brown 1 understood that there were
laboring men at Harper's Ferry WIN