Whereas it appears by the annexed document, which is hereby
certified as authentic, that Barclay Coppoc is a fugitive from justice from
this State, charged with the crime of treason, conspiring with and advising
slaves to rebel and make insurrection, and with murder perpetrated at the town
of Harper's Ferry, in this Commonwealth, on the sixteenth and seventeenth days
of October, in the year 1859: Now therefore I. John Letcher, Governor of the
State of Virginia, have thought proper, by virtue of the provisions of the
Constitution of the United States, in such cases made and provided, and of the
laws of Congress in pursuance thereof, to demand of the Executive authority of
Iowa, the arrest and surrender of Barclay Coppoc, and that he be delivered to
C. Camp, who is hereby appointed the agent to receive him on the part of this
Commonwealth.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Great Seal of
the State, at Richmond, this 10th day of January, 1860, and in the
eighty-fourth year of the Commonwealth.
{L. S.}
JOHN LETCHER.
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p.
96-7
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