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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
Fourth day.--[Second Session.] Richmond, June 17, 1861. To the reporters for the city press, who are not regularly sworn officers of the Convention, this was a day of penance and fasting. For four mortal hours we were consigned to "outer darkness," deprived of the bright flashes of intellectual reencounter which, while grave questions of State were under consideration, doubtless irradiated the inner hall. We did not complain, however, though the institution of secret sessions, whatever may be its political necessity, is aggravated in its penal effects upon the meritorious and patriotic class of citizens to which we have the honor to belong, by the provoking uncertainty of its duration. How much good, for instance, might we not have been able to accomplish for our common country; how many little personal comforts might we not have enjoyed during four long hours, had we only known beforehand that our services would not be required in spreading fight and knowledge before the
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Correct statement of the tragedy in Greene Co. Gordonsville, Va., June 17, 1861. Thinking that a rumor of a greatly exaggerated character might reach you of what purported to be a negro insurrection in Greene county, some six or seven miles above Barboursville, I have determined to write you a short account of it, on the perfect accuracy of which you may rely. The facts are these: A widow lady owning some three or four servants, who were allowed to do pretty much as they pleased, had a son who volunteered and entered the army. On leaving home the young man requested a Mr. Farney, overseer for Wm. Eddins, to look after his mother's business occasionally, and see that the Negroes did their duty. This the overseer did. On one occasion, finding the Negroes asleep when they ought to have been at work, he properly threatened to punish them if so found again. This offended the Negroes, and they resolved on revenge. Accordingly, o