Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], November 17, 1860
A meeting was held at Academy Hall, in Baton Rouge on Wednesday night last for the purpose of forming a company of Minute Men for the protection of Southern Rights should they be assailed. The Hall was filled, but the enthusiasm, such as it was, was confined to the first three or four rows of benches. By far the larger portion of the audience did not participate in the proceedings. Although the object of the meeting was fairly set forth in a Baton Rouge paper, it afforded an excellent opportunity to our friends Judge Robertson, P. D. Hardy, Major Dunn, and others to let the ‘dear peeps’ know they were in favor of secession right off—without waiting any longer. We have been informed that names enough have been secured to form one company— which we hope soon to see increased to a regiment.—That parish out of her voting population could easily raise five hundred men, it can be done if a little energy is only thrown into the movement.