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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
the difficulty of disposing of the emancipated negroes. Jefferson himself thought the two races ought not to live together. That great, but eccentric genius, John Randolph of Roanoke, though one among the largest slaveholders in the State, and though wont to resent any interference In 1803 he was chairman of a committee upon a nion, far excelling Virginia, a part of whose territory she originally was, and by one of whose sons it was won from the Crown of Great Britain. At his death, Mr. Randolph emancipated all his negroes by will, and provided for their future support. The apparent inconsistency of holding slaves and being opposed to slavery was, in his case, as it was in that of many other Virginians, apparent only. Mr. Randolph knew not what to do with his slaves if he should emancipate them, and all his contemporaries were a similar quandary. It cannot be denied that a great change took place in the mind of Virginia during the last years of slavery. This arose, in a