H.M. Rector calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC07385.02
From Archive Folder	Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862
Title	H.M. Rector calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike
Date	20 February 1862
Author	Rector, H.M. (fl. 1862)
Document Type	Government document
Content Description	"Jack a negro man...charged with horse stealing...has fled". (Extradition request?)
Subjects	American West American Indian History Frontiers and Exploration Westward Expansion African American History Slavery Crime Runaway Slave Fugitive Slave Act Law Confederate General or Leader
Place written	Little Rock, Arkansas
Theme	The American Civil War; African Americans; Law; Slavery & Abolition; Westward Expansion
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Related documents	Albert Pike to John Ross re: requesting necessary papers to capture fugitive slave
Transcript	Show/hide TO THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF THE State of Cherokee Nation Whereas, It appears by the annexed documents, which is hereby certified to be authentic, that Jack a Negro slave stands charged with Horse stealing committed in the State of Arkansas, and information having been received that the said Jack a Negro Slave has fled from justice and taken refuge in the Cherokee Nation Wherefore, I, H.M. Rector, Governor of the State of Arkansas, have thought proper, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the [struck: United] [inserted: Confederate] States, to demand the surrender of the said Jack a Negro Slave as fugitive from justice and that he be delivered to Albert Pike who is hereby appointed agent on the part of the State to receive him, and remove him to this State. Given under my hand, and the Seal of the state affixed at Little Rock, this 20th day of February, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, [struck: and of the Independence of the United States of America, the year.] H.M. Rector BY THE GOVERNOR: John J. Sterman, Secretary of State.

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