The Governor’s communication to Linn Banks, Speaker of the House of Delegates, was labeled “confidential” and no mention is made of it in the House Journals, however, the communication’s endorsement indicates that it was laid on the table on 7 January 1830. Governor Giles presented Walker’s letter and one of these pamphlets to the Executive Council who advised him to transmit the literature to the Legislature to obtain a law to prevent the further circulation of insurrectionary materials. The Mayor of Richmond managed to reacquire twenty of the thirty copies of Walker’s pamphlet. Instead, the letter made it to the hands of another freedman who began to circulate the literature. Mayo informed the Governor that Walker’s letter never reached the intended recipient on account of the death of Lewis.
In Virginia, Walker’s letter to Thomas Lewis was discovered by Joseph Mayo, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, and promptly delivered to Governor William B.
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