Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “The Harper’s Ferry Insurgents,” March 15, 1860

Source citation
“The Harper’s Ferry Insurgents,” Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, March 15, 1860, p. 2: 7.
Newspaper: Publication
Carlisle American Volunteer
Newspaper: Headline
The Harper's Ferry Insurgents
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
7
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Joanne Williams, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Ohio Refuses to Surrender Brown and Merriam- Pardon Refused to Stevens and Hazlett.


Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, March 9.

Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, has made a requisition on Governor Dennison, of this State, for the arrest of Owen Brown and Francis Merriam, two of the Harper’s Ferry insurgents, who are now or have been in Ashtabula County. Indictments were found against them in Jefferson County, Virginia. United States Marshal Johnson, on the 5th inst., delivered the paper to Gov. Dennison, who, in a letter dated the 8th inst., declines issuing warrants, and states that his reasons for this conclusion have been communicated to Gov. Letcher.

Richmond, Va., Friday, March 9.

The Committee of the Virginia Legislature on Courts and Justices, have reported it inexpedient to take any action in regard to the commutation of sentence or reprieve of either Stephens [Stevens] or Hazlett, the doomed Harper’s Ferry conspirators.

Virginia executes Harpers Ferry raiders Albert Hazlett and Aaron Dwight Stevens
Harpers Ferry Raid
Ashtabula County, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Jefferson County, VA
Richmond, VA
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