hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Harper's Ferry to be Occupied. (search)
h 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 be madness and folly, disgrace and cowardice, to remain in the Union, and said that our destiny was with the South. His effort was a fine one, and showed that, though the grey hairs had covered his head, yet he still had the vigor and spirit of youth. We next found ourselves in front of the residence of Rev. Ro. L. Dabney, D. D., who came forward and made a speech; a speech which would make the abolition horde quake and fear. Our spirits burned within us. It was a grand speech and I wish that every man in Virginia could have heard it. Afterwards, Prof. Charles Martin, of H. S. C., spoke, declaring his intention to carry arms against the North, where he was born, and also from Mr. Smith, a Seminary student from Pennsylvania, to the same effect. Messrs. T. Walker Gilmer, W. Houston,--Lyell, Hugh A. White,