Edswick, Roeder, Connor, and Ruffin owned the field before it fell to my neighbor.

In the long suit at law ensuing, the field fell to Ruffin, that clever one-armed lawyer with the tongue to wile a bird out of the bush, Connor's counsel, and was sold by him to my neighbor, whom from envying his possession I call Naboth.

Arm O King, the City is in mutiny, Led by an old Gray Ruffin, who comes on In rescue of the Lord Philaster.

Edmund Ruffin, 1793-1863 156.

* =Edmund Ruffin, 1793-1863.= From "An Essay on Calcarcous Manures.

" Judge RUFFIN, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, in one of his judicial decisions, says"The slave, to remain a slave, must feel that there is NO APPEAL FROM HIS MASTER.

[Footnote 45: Edmund Ruffin, "The Effects of High Prices of Slaves," in DeBow's Review, XXVI, 647-657 (June, 1859).

Edmund Ruffin, the Virginian enthusiast for fertilizers, was employed by the authority of the South Carolina legislature to make an agricultural survey of that state with a view to recommending improvements.

The former was begun as early as 1808 by the Virginian John Taylor of Caroline in his "Arator" essays, and was furthered by the publications of Edmund Ruffin and many others.

Ruffin had great enthusiasm for the marl or phosphate rock of the Carolina coast; but until the introduction in much later decades of a treatment by sulphuric acid this was too little soluble to be really worth while as a plant food.

[Footnote 1 Edmund Ruffin, Address on the opposite results of exhausting and fertilizing systems of agriculture.

[Footnote 13: Edmund Ruffin, The Political Economy of Slavery ([Richmond, 1857]).

In an essay of 1859 Edmund Ruffin analyzed the effects in Virginia.

" [Footnote 78: Edmund Ruffin, "The Effects of High Prices of Slaves," in DeBow's Review, XXVI, 647-657 (June, 1859).

These accounts are colored by the pro-slavery views of Ruffin and Spratt and the opposite predilections of Brown.

The idea has been shadowed forth in the South by Mr. Ruffin; has been taken up and recommended in the "Advertiser" (published at Montgomery, Alabama), under the name of "League of United Southerners," who, keeping up their old party relations on all other questions, will hold the Southern issue paramount, and will influence parties, legislatures, and statesmen.

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According to Ruffin and Tuomey (the agricultural surveyors of the State), there are six varieties of soil: 1. Tide swamp, devoted to the culture of rice.