Executive Office, Iowa
Des Moines, January 24. 1860.
To His Excellency, the Governor of Virginia:
On yesterday, Mr. Camp, of your State, presented to me a
requisition for Barclay Coppoc, which I declined to grant, for reasons stated
in a letter to you, which I handed to him, (Mr. Camp).
I have since examined more carefully the body of the
affidavit of Andrew Hunter, and beg leave to call your attention to it. Mr.
Hunter states that from information received by him from certain persons
condemned and executed in your State and from other facts which have come to
his knowledge, he believes that Coppoc was aiding and abetting John Brown and
others, who on certain days, in Virginia, committed certain crimes, and that
from information recently received, he verily believes Coppoc is a fugitive
from justice, escaping in this State. It is not stated, unless it be
inferentially, that Coppoc committed the acts charged, in the State of
Virginia, nor are any of the facts upon which affiant bases his belief of
Coppoc's guilt stated.
It seems to me very desirable that in case you shall deem it
your duty again to demand Coppoc from the Executive authority of this State,
that no question may arise upon the sufficiency of the papers upon which the
demand shall be made, and I have therefore deemed it proper to make to you the
above suggestions.
Very respectfully,
SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD.
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p.
98
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