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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs in Mecklenburg. Clarkevills, April 2, 1861. The secession fever here is high, and is getting higher. A subscription list was in circulation last week for the purpose of purchasing a tremendous secession flag. The requisite amount of the "ready" was raised in a trice. Capt. R. Y. Overbey, a wealthy and cordial State-Rights man, giving a V when called on. The order has been sent to Richmond, and we hope to raise the largest and finest flag, on next Saturday, that the State has yet seen. The military will turn out on the occasion, and brave men and pretty women will cheer and salute the banner of freedom. The Messrs. Moss, the largest tobacconists in the State, intend hoisting the Palmetto over their mammoth factory in a few days. We appointed delegates, last Saturday, to the State-Rights Convention, which meets in Richmond on the 16th April. Judge Gholson's Court commences at Boydton to-day. He has a very full do
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession in Court. (search)
rly every place of business is closed, and an organized body of "Regulators" is at this time on duty throughout the town and its surroundings. They have already arrested a number of persons, and are in search of several other suspicious characters. The Secession Convention, which was held not long since in Goldsboro', adjourned to meet in this place on the 20th of May, the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. This, no doubt, is intended as a compliment to old Mecklenburg, as she is still peopled with brave hearts; all of whom are for immediate secession, and dislike the idea of being compelled to submit to Abolition rule. We have two flourishing institutions of learning in this place — the "Female Seminary" and the "North Carolina Military Institute." The latter is one of the finest institutions of the kind at the South, and is free from all sectarian influence. Its Superintendent, Major D. H. Hill, (an extract of whose "eloquent Essay on Education