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Scarborough, William Kauffman, ed. The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Vol. 1. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972, p. 78.
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
[May 26, 1857]
The Judge, as always, hard at work-& now busily attending to the planting of some seeds, & preparing for leaving here to attend the Episcopal Convention, now in session in Salisbury. I learned this intention from Bishop Atkinson, whom I traveled with yesterday from Charlotte to Salisbury. The bishop & I had much interesting conversation-part of it concerning the colonization of Liberia , & the alleged success of the emancipation of slaves, there colonized-about which, as might be expected, the bishop and I were of entirely different opinions. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman.
The Judge, as always, hard at work-& now busily attending to the planting of some seeds, & preparing for leaving here to attend the Episcopal Convention, now in session in Salisbury. I learned this intention from Bishop Atkinson, whom I traveled with yesterday from Charlotte to Salisbury. The bishop & I had much interesting conversation-part of it concerning the colonization of Liberia , & the alleged success of the emancipation of slaves, there colonized-about which, as might be expected, the bishop and I were of entirely different opinions. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman.