Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-16

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Special Message from Gov. Kirk
wood.
Gov. Kirkwood sent to the House, on the
Sd inst, in response to the resolutions in
troducsd by Mr.. Gurley, message which
completely vindioates him from the false
constructions and unjust charges made cou.
eerning his refusal to grant requisition for
the arrest of Barclay Coppock. He reviews
the recent message of Gov. Letcher to the
Legislature of Virginia, completely refutins
its logic and exposing its unjust sspsrsions.
Gov. Kirkwood sums up his reasons for
refusing the order of arrest as follows:
A paper was presented to me purPorting
to be an affidavit made under law Of Con-
gress, but not made before an officer recog.
nixed BY that law-or if the law OF 1850
applies to this class of cases, lacking to lis
authenticity an essential requisite prescribed
by that Law. That paper was made the
basis of demand that should arrest and
surrender fer trial for crime, in q distant
State, citizen of this State, while it con-
tainsd only the statement of person
wholly unknown to me, that he believed the
citizen was guilty Of q crime; which crime,
if committed at all, might for aught
appearing in that paper, have been commit
ted in any other State as we'll as Virginia.
refused the demand made upon me, and
now, after q more full and careful consider
alton of the matter than l then gave it,
ain content with the decision then made.
lie sustains his position by the law and
evidence. His reasoning cannot fail to be
convincing to every unprejudiced mind. We
are sorry we have not room for the message
entire. The following is tue concluding
portion:
The fact that an agent of Virginia was
here, with q requisition for Coppoc, teeame
publicly known in this place, solely through
the acts of that agent himself. l denied
myself what greatly desired, the privilege
of consultation with gentlemen in whose
opinions I had confidence, touching the
legality of the papers submitted to me, lest
the matter might thereby, through inadvert-
ence, become known. After had commu-
nieatsd to him my determination not to
grant the warrant demanded, he sat in my
Office conversing freely with me on the
subject. During our conversation, other
persons came in on business with me, and to
nv surprise he continued the conversation
in their presence. / said to him, that had
supposed he did not wish his business to be
made public; to which he replied, that as
tho warrant had been refused, he did not
care who knew his business, ana continued
tho conversation. In this manner the fact
9 that requisition had been made for Cop
poo became known in this place and am
crsdibly informed that it was well known
in Iowa City to many persons there that the
agent of Virginia was on his way to this
place with such requisition, before he
reached here.
The insinuation that I had anything to
do, directly or indirectly, with sending infor
nation to Coppoc, that requisition had
been made for him, is simply and unquali
fedly untrue; nor have any means of
knowing whether such information was sent
BY others; or if 50, by whom sent, other
than that common to all persons then at the
Oapital-common rumor.
Were l disposed to follow the course
pursued by the Governor of Virginia. l
might perhaps fad in this matter sufficient
to Justify the conclusion that he has been
throughout more anxious to lay foundation
for complaint against Iowa, for the purpose
Of inAamisg sectional prejudice, than to
procure the return of Coppoc to Virginia.
The facts that the papers transmitted are so
grossly defective; that the agent sent with
them was 80 careless to keep secret his mis-
sion, that when bis demand for q warrant
was refused ON the ground that his papers
were insufficient, he failed to make use of
the law pointed out to him for the provis-
ional arrest of the alleged fugitive until new
papers could be procured; and that the Gov
ernor Of Virginia, without answering my
letters or asking any explanations, has seen
fit to pfomulgate his extraordinary special
message, might Justify that conclusion to
those VI no are sstute to discover, and deem
1t consistent with fair dealing to impute
bad motives for all acts done by others
and tho same process Of reasoning might
lead me to conclude that his declarations of
attachment to the Union are but a cover to
conceal on his part the design openly pro-
claimed by many with whom he fraternizes
politically to destroy that Union if they
cannot control it. a5t sa E5
The people of Iowa need nodefense at my
hands They love the Union and are deter,
mined it shall be preserved. Their fealty
to it is not determined by the fact whether
or not they control its policy and enjoy its
honor asd emoluments, and although they
may believe at times that that policy is con-
trolled for improper purposes, and those
honors and emoluments placed in unworthy
hands, they will still quietly wait until q
change shall be made, in a legitimate and
constitutional way !; and when that time
shall have come they will see to it that the
Union shall still be preserved. nelE.'- .'
Permit me to say in conclusion, that in
my judgement, one of the most important
duties Of the official position L hold, is to
see that no citizen Of Iowa is carried beyond
her border, and subjected to the ignominy
Of imprisonment and the perils of trial for
crimes in another State, otherwise than by
due process Of law. That duty | shall per-
form. Whenever the Governor of Virginia,
or of any other State, shall transmit to. me
papers properly executed, and containing
proper proof, demanding the surrender of
any one Of our people, shall promptly issue
warrant for his rendi 'ion-and not till
Hhen. -a a5OANOHh - hAhA WIZ
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GREAT DESTRUCTION OF NUTMBGs. AT the
fire in New York city, on Front street,
on Wednesday evening of last week, $S5, ,ooo
worth of nutmegs were destroyed in the
establishment of Nottembohn. 10 ..se- 2'.'
CLlPPINGs FROM VANITY FAIR." Gene
raj Stagsation-The nation, presided ove1
by old Buck. ~}Hs .t 'so''l.-- ''-.-
APropheey for James Buchanan--M Marcel
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