Named Entity Results, Edmund Ruffin

Edmund Ruffin. We know not a more impressive incident since the beginning of the present troubles, than that described by our Charleston correspondent, the aged and distinguished Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia, with musket and knapsack on, his long and venerable locks floating above his shoulders, marching with the Charleston volunteers to the defence their homes and firesides. And as he passed, there went up three thundering cheers for Old Virginia! Yea, the Virginians of the olden time aEdmund Ruffin, of Virginia, with musket and knapsack on, his long and venerable locks floating above his shoulders, marching with the Charleston volunteers to the defence their homes and firesides. And as he passed, there went up three thundering cheers for Old Virginia! Yea, the Virginians of the olden time are not yet all dead. There is one who deserves to have lived in a better era than this, one who would have been in the front rank at Yorktown, and whom Washington would have hugged to his heart as a brother and a true man. How rare such single minded, genuine, heroic characters in this degenerate age ! So rare that to those who have no capacity of elevation and generosity of character they appear incredible, and they cannot believe in them because they do not believe in themselves.