1853 JOHN C. RUTHERFOORD. Address on Ridding Virginia of the Evil, Mischievous Free Negroes. Presbyterian Benjamin not only would have

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1853 JOHN C. RUTHERFOORD. Address on Ridding Virginia of the Evil, Mischievous Free Negroes. Presbyterian Benjamin not only would haveVery rare address by John Rutherfoord in the House of Virginia on the question of banning "free negroes" from the State. "It will hardly be denied by any one that this population [free negroes] is an evil in the state. But the full magnitude of the evil is not generally understood. . . . The free negroes have been generally found so mischievous a class everywhere that even nonslaveholding laws have passed laws to exclude them . . . as a class, they