The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-08-04
EXTRAORDINARY .ruNlFYcENcE.


A paragraph has lately gone the round
of the papers, announcing that IA gentleman
of Virginia had emancipated upt0ards Of
etghiy SiaueS, and chartered Il vessel to
srud Them al has otea expense to IIayt :;
bat without giving the name OF the author
of So distinguished an act of muniticence.
We think il due to Justice TO supply this
deficiency, and TO add the following facts
which have been communicated To us by
gentlemen familiar with them, as well AS BY
Captain Russell, one of the owners of the
brig Hannah 81 Elizabeth, of Baltimore,
the vessel chartered.
The gentleman WHO has thus distin-
Gushcd himself is Mr.. DAVID MINGE, of
Charles City Caunty, living near Sandy
Point, GA James River. Capt. Russall in
| forms, that there were put on board the
Hannah & Elizabeth, eighty seven coiored
! people OF different ages from months 10
| 40 years, being all the slaves which Nh VI.
owned except two old men, whom he had
| likewise mannmiitrd, but who being past
service he retains aud supports Them. The
value of these negroes, at the prices now
/ going, might be estimated 1t about ticeRiIj-
SIR thousand doilarSi and Mr.. Minge ex-
pended previous to their embarkaiou, IL
hout goo dollars in purchasing plonshs,
! hoes, iron aud other itices Of hasbindry
for them, besides providing them with Sc
| veral suits of clothes to each, provisions,
groceries, cooking utensils and every other
thing which he supposed they might re-
guire for their comfort during the passage,
and for their use after their arrival out
| He also paid 81 600 foi the charter of the
vessel.
But Mr.. Minge's Munfcence does not
end here--On the bank of the river, as
! they were about to go on board, he had n
peck Of dollars brought down, and called
| them all around him, under tree. distrib.
utcd the hoard among them in such sums
and under such regulations that each ndi.
viGual did, or would, receive seUen doliars.
| by this provision MrM. calculated that his
emigrants would be enabled to com mence
the cultivation ofthe soil immediately after
their arrival, Without being dependent on
President Bower for any favor whatever,
unless the permission to improve the gov
eminent lands might be so uosdcred.
MIR Alpge is about "a or % years Of age
unmarried, and unincumbered in every res
pect possesses an ample fortune, and has
received The benefits of collegiate edoca-
ton at Harvard University. He assigned
| no other motive for having freed his slaves
and for his subsequent acts of generosity
towards them, than that he conceived it
would be doing n service 10 his country to
send them out of it; that they had all been
good servants, but that he was rich enodg h
! without them.
We have heard of splendid sacrifices at
the shrine of philanthropy aged men on
! quitting the stage of mortal existence have
hequealhed large endnwments to public
charities, and princeiy legacies to religious
and moral Institutions. Bat where shah
we find an instance of the kind attributable
to man of Mr.. Minge's age? The case
we believe is without parallel,
I.Noyoik Herald.
Two instances ofthe triumph of philan-
thropy and patriotism, over the sordid
selfshaess of our nature, can be recited. e.
cua!iV "a rr,t,ritnri0pa and MIN diJ =, IT,.