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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Meeting of the people of Henrico. (search)
or hereafter contributions in food or money." the resolutions were sustained in appropriate remarks by Messrs. Robert A. Mayo, John N. Davis, John B. Young, Daniel Radcliffe and William F. G. Garnett, and, having been seconded by Captain Joseph J. English, were unanimously adopted. it was announced that the Bureau of Subsistence had already appointed Messrs. William F. D. Garnett, John A. Hutcheson and George D. Pleasants a committee for Henrico county, to call the attention of ever, the Justices of the Court then appointed the following committees under the first resolution offered by the Rev. Dr. Walker, to wit: First District: W. C. Knight, R. A. Mayo, Jackson F. Childrey. Second District: Miles Eggleston, Jos. J. English, P. H. Huffman. Third District: James M. Carter, D. S. Delaplaine, George W. Carter. Fourth District: B. W. Green, Jr., William C. Moncure, Henry Austin. On motion, the meeting then adjourned. John Nettles, Chairman. James T.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
show that dangerous elements were fermenting, and exigencies arising in the distance, that made it necessary that this constabulary force — this interior guard and domestic police — should be called into existence. Mr. Burr said the proposition for the formation of this extra armed police did not emanate from the authorities or citizens of Richmond; it came from high military authority of the Confederate Government, and was advocated on high grounds of public economy and safety. Mr. English gave some personal observations, made among the citizens of Henrico, as showing their preference for the volunteer system. Mr. Burwell would vote against the proposition to strike out the volunteer feature. People ought to be willing to defend their own private property. Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, denied that there was any occasion for the remark of the member from Bedford. The plan of this police was a local concession of the Municipal Government to the Confederate Governmen