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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Apprehension of trouble in New Kent. (search)
highly intelligent and respectable citizen of New Kent, whose name we are authorized to give if requested. It is, we learn, the wish of the people concerned that a company of United States soldiers shall be sent to Hopkins's mill, there to remain until after the Christmas holidays. Their presence will, it is hoped, prevent all trouble, and afford the whites that sense of the protecting care and power of the Government, which is so well calculated to awaken feelings of gratitude. Messrs. Editors,--I desire, through your paper, to call the attention of the authorities to certain facts and indications recently developed in New Kent county relative to the movements and designs of our negro population. The first point is the fact that all the negroes are in possession of arms. I have seen gangs of negroes summoned to work on the county roads, who, to a man, bring their arms and ammunition with them, and work by the side of white citizens are not to this the Sabbath is made a day