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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Harper's Ferry to be Occupied. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.glorious demonstration in Princes Edward. Hampden Sidney College, Va., April 16, 1861. Secession is triumphant at last. Speeches were made yesterday, (Court day,) at the Court-House, by Col. Bouldon, in favor of rebellion in Eastern Virginia, if necessary; by Messrs. Asa Dickenson, Booker, (member of the House of Delegates from the county,) T. T. Tredway and others, all right out and out Secessionists; and every word in regard to the glorious attitude of the Southern Confederacy was greeted with tremendous applause, and the cheers for the Southern Confederacy fairly rent the air. At night about 80 or 100 of the students turned out to serenade the prominent men on the hill. At the U. T. Seminary, Prof. T. E. Peck was called out, and paid a high tribute to South Carolina, the land of his birth; then we next serenaded Dr. F. B. Watkins, who has heretofore been the strongest Union man in our midst. In his speech he declared that it would