The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Southern-rights meeting.

A meeting of the citizens of the fifth Magisterial District of Caroline county, and of the lower end of Spotsylvania, was held at Chilesburg to-day. Col. F. Wood was called to the chair, and Wm. J. Hancock appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting having been explained, it was moved and seconded that the Chairman appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. The following gentlemen, viz: John G. Dickinson, E. D. Eve. Capt. R. P. Smith, Dr. N. R. James, and Wm. J. Hancock, being selected, retired for a short time, and made the following report:

‘ Whereas, we have no confidence in a majority of the members of the Convention now assembled in Richmond, and as there are but two alternatives for the Old Dominion — the one to remain in her present degraded condition, a suppliant at a Black Republican footstool; and the other to assume her independence, and unite with the Confederate States: Therefore,

1st. be it resolved, that we are determined to submit to the former no longer, and will use all means within our power to unite the destiny of our State with her Southern sisters.

2d. That Virginia having given her voice against coercion, it is now time that she should vindicate her honor by the redemption of her pledge.

’ After addresses were delivered by Wm. J. Hancock and E. D. Eve, the report was adopted without a dissenting voice.

on motion, it was unanimously adopted--

1st. That the Chairman appoint twenty-five delegates to represent this meeting in the Southern- Rights Convention to assemble in Richmond on the 16th inst., and that the proceedings of this body be read in said Convention.

2d. That copies of the proceedings be forwarded to the Richmond Examiner, Enquirerand Dispatch for publication.

After the following gentlemen, viz: Dr. G. F. Swann, S. E. Swann, J. G. Dickinson, Wm. J. Hancock, Robt. T. Cobb, N. J. Hancock, Wm. W. Smith, Capt. Wm. D. Waller, Robt. S. Anderson, Jos. T. Colline, John K. Sizer, Wm. C. Gatewood, R. M. Sizer, Thos. A. Gatewood, E. D. Eve, Dr. John W. Davis, Dr. N. R. James, Dr. Jesse H. Winn, Col. T. B. Coghill, Philip Samuel, Thos. D. Smith, Jos. M. Hewlett, and Wm. Beazly, were appointed as delegates, and, on motion, the Chairman was added, the meeting adjourned sine die. W.