Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-08-15
JOHN RANDOLPH.
From the .\er York Commercial tdrethn'.
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.

JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.
/ We give. as our leading article for this eve
ming, the auto biographical letter of tho late John
! Randolph, of Rosnohe--o emitting some few expires
slons OF harshness which might, perhaps, wound
the feelings of surviving relations IN Virginia, II
was written IN 1919, 10 his nephew, who AFTER
wards d,cd-wc believe, IN England. itnever was
Intended for the puba eye by the ~,'te', bat with
the very few omissions we have made, We cannot
perceive the least objection 10 It's publication The
| ding al DIR. Witherspoon will IN no wise affect
| that great and good mans memory. IL was oh
| slonsly the malignant petulance OF dlssoutc
school boy, thwarled in his purposes by beng re
strained IN his pocket money, II isn Haunt daily re
peated ia the case OF every similar guardian Pro-
buby The charges against Mr. Tucker and Ed.
mund Randolph are 40 better founded
! DECEMBER Ii, 1919.
You shall "know something of my life" nay,
every thing my dear son, that can be desirable or
profitable for you TO know. Il is n tnc not devoid
of interest or events and might be wrought up in
To more engaging narrative. than ninety nine cut
ola hundred of the husy volumes which minister
to the mental sickness of our misses and mas
| tels. Like yourself WAS left by my father an
orphan, when too young To be sensible my loss.
The first thing that can remember, IL, finding
myself III my mothers family, the pm bahet Oft the
whole house. | think that | can rooolleet some
circumstances that must have happened IN l116
but distinctly remember events TINT took place IN
the year following. ] shared my mother widow
cd be aud wns the nesting OF her bosom. E.-
! cry night after was unJressed and III the nor
ming before | rose kneeIod down IN my bed, aud
putting up my ulc hunds, repeated after my mo
ther the Lords prayer and the Il belief - and to
this circumstance attribute some ofmy present o
pinions | say present. because they lay long dor
mant, and as If exi,nguished within me-
In the autumn oflhc year 1888 my mother mar
RED 81 George Fucker, From TINT dny there was
II change IN my situation The inst blow that !
ever received, wns from The hand of this man, and
not IA week after his uninn with my mother AT
his instance, was sent at the ne Of nine to the
school OF Walker Murray, VII" had been ms tel
low student NJ College IN the county oil orange !
then, aud pcrh"ps yet, wild "nd savage country,
inhabited 10y INC coarsest, ths most 's"olhn'r "hd
vicious OF tho humans ne" world was o
Pentd To me Our school fellows, yoof l"'her
"no Uncle hc'dofck were oil the sumo soho''
were, with the exception Of one or Two gentlemen s
sons, adopts in every species OF p'op's"ey
gar, brutal, savage. oh' schoolhles'of was the
most pcin'ent and malignant "re eh III ffcH,""
we ma scarcely The neeess"fes oil NE w''""o'
an opportunity to acquire any u'ng more ,h"" as
much Latin. as s"'heed to 'nln'sh oo' eao "o"s'
lhUoh 81 Tue oro'"afy seh"ol ooohs' i"o's"o"' ~
nus u'e'mchh y"ot 'hloef, hafoly 'h''','" y'"''
o'o ur''''"neu u uose'l anu 20 NUM-. '''''' o'''
''f '""'''' W. '''h'' W. '''"'"s IN y "P'
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approximations uol" e'ec'''"s IN l''p''e' "''
my 'rans'encu MS seh'o' 10 " io'"t,s'"'s', anu
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passage III ~te'che" '''pP' "
"'d NE foundation oI ''a' o.''"'' E
me- TWO years Afterwards o' '"' o''' ''''"'' WV
eve, man hou' ...-,..;.,
Wy SoJourh IN nef'nuuo was q '''''.'', ~
u me IN many respects II was 'esP''c ''o' wv
austore rule OF my step ialhcr, hhd inc tyranny
hnio'y toIerabis, OF Murray ana quieo 'c'"'
per nos 10 o'ooh 'omeiy 'heif uh'c"sohep,' enc
tons there was sooo fy-eeh',e"'o"
library III "iu WI ucset hou'r "",o s,"''
mud here 'eao many sterling EhBh'h ""'"of'
f"ut ld'hcr aho myse' were AWAY p''A "',"'o
It was sort al h'ou 10 Tue 'i'ee''on 'n'' o"'ou u'
'"f hfst question: ~ ,het'lnS ""'' s'"',"'y
Wfh nave YOU feau iIaNe you az" ''''' y.
mat WON ny S"nnG 10 hefnip'', "o"'''''
l"Si nay Trek h'aJua master" ,'' s,"'"'"''
lPrfcctg. when ieH lliihmsbHtSh' "hns
round Inc base w WINS circular non '.',"s '""'
protector I" on hofo po'e'o'f' s'''''' "'' eo"'
ln"''u inc "cs''''"''a' s''''''a' " MY ~
us 10 he able to repeat fseiY WORD Of IL ne pen
dunn OF the great CLOCK winch V'p'a'oo over NY
head, seemed TO concentrate my a''eh'o" va my
book. MY bennud'an tutor f'"ing nav no VII cen
class and would not take the trouble Oh 'eac"'ng
single boy. ,,,.,,.
h,''' WI 49,, ,...d u,;,h MIR.
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"y' o'' %l''e .,;,' .i.a saaa as,.rw,rds h,
u.s., "1u , r'."'' w. w.,a =, The a,.mmar school
e''e' Io'e '',I ..tirh haa hsoa .nco pnllcd
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