The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-03-22
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! Centiemcn of tie ijonSe ~ Representatives,;
| have received your resolution OF
yesterday, requesting me to communicate
TO you all the facts and correspondence
connected with or in any way growing
/ out of tc demand made upon me for the
arrest of Barclay Coppoc, and his sur
/ render to the State of Virginia, as a
! fugitive from Justice and my reasons for
! refusing that demand.
The Special message Of the Governor
of Virginia referred to ia the preamble TO
your resolution, is Of such extraordinary
/ character as in my jud gnlcnt to render
proper the publicity of the information
asked for b. your resolution. All the
papers and correspondence connected
with, or in any way growing out of this
matter, arc the rcqu'sltion of the Gov.
crnor Of Virginia, Il copy o; which |
transmit. marked \ ; the affidavit upon
which said re1ui~ition is based, which |
copy in the body of this communication;
my letter to the Governor of Virginia.
dated Jauuary 23d, 1860, acopy of which
/ transmit marked B.; and my letter to
him dated January Goth, 1860, copy
of which | transmit marked G. l have
! not received from the Governor of Nlr,
ginia reply to either of my letters to
| him, and | have not had cores spondcnce
upon this subject with any other person.
The fac touching that rcquiSition
were these: On the the 23d day of Jan
uary last, an agent of Virginia called up,
I on me and presented his commission from
! the Governor of that State, as such
agent to receive Coppoc, who was de-
lnandcd in the same commission rs a
j fugitive from justice, as appeared by
an annexed document, of which the
following is an exact cory:
"Ci;y of Richmond, and State Of Eir-
cinia to wit
" Andrew Hunter makcth an oath and
saith, that from information received
! from several of the prisoners recently
condemned anl executed at Charleston,
jefferson county, Virginia, and from
other facts which have come to his
knowledge, he verify believes t'lat a Ger.
tain Barclay 'orpoc was aiding and ;bet
ting cort,in john Brown, ,aul others, who
on the sixteenth and seventeenth days OF
, October, ia the year 1850, did tclonious
" and trea>"aahy rebel and comm,
treason against the commonwealth oi\ ir
ginia, at il certain place called llarper's
Ferry. in said cou tv Of jefferson, and
VINO ala theh ana tAcre lvloh'ous'y con
Sp'f' win ana ad'''c CERTAIN slaves IN th'
county aforesaid 20 reOe' "''' '''"He 'haor
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aud wi,hou, any preliminary elimination
and without confronting him with sin
ole witness. to 4 distant State for trial -
1t is a nerrcativc 50 h,,h thu, the l.v
tolerate, IT'S exercise ouly on certain tix.,
conditions, and certainly SHAH not cx,r
else tha, power to the peril Of anv ci,i
zen Of Iowa, upon the demand Of tn,
State of Virginia, or any other State
unless conditions are comn:ir,. with.
The ac. of Congress- provides that be
sides the Executive dcmand for the tuei
tive, there shall be produced .thc COP,
of an indictment found, or an affidavit
made before a magistrate Of any State o.
Territory. as aforesaid, char.inr the nrr
son 50 demanded with having c,n.mittc,
treason, felony or other crime, ccrtlic.
as authentic by the Governor" &c., &c.
on the presentation of which it become
my duty to cause the arrest to be made
There was not any "con- of an indict
mcut found" presented to me. and q
course the case rested unon the affidavit
refused the order of arrest in thi