Cañon City record., 1910-08-25
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
When Mrs Robert B. Rudolph and
Virginia, were in Canon
City recently visiting in the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. H C. Webster, Virginia
received the following letter from
her grandfather, Judge H. C. Nc Dou-
gal, OF Kansas City. Mo. The Judge
has many friends here who will be
pleased to have this opportunity to
read something from his pen.
Judge McDougal's book, "Recollec-
tions," is now in the hands of the
publisher. The volume includes his
personal recollections of prominent
people-a chapter each being devoted
TO the presidents, statesmen, Journal
lists, lawyers, soldiers, poets. actors.
and others whom he has known in the
last forty-ive years.
EMANCIPATION DAY.
August 4, 1910.
Miss Virginia Rudolph.
Canon City, Colorado.
Ny Dear Granddaughter:
Now that you are away from home
on your summer vacation, it is not to
be expected that you will get and keep
in your little head very much of the
many useful items of the fast fading
history of your country; but now that
l think OF ii and have the time, l here
jot down for future reference few
facts not generally recognized, as
TO one important question with which
yon ought TO be perfectly familiar in
the years that yet shall be-negro
slavery.
The first permanent European set
tlement on American soil was estab-
lished at jamestown. Virginia, in 1907.
At and prior to that date the English
law had made over 100 offenses cap
ital crimes. the punishment for which
was either death or banishment Soon
after this settlement at jamestown.
the British crown banished to the
Virginia colony three ship-loads of
these convicts and those who came
over on the FIRST ship were then styled
the First Families of Virginia. So
today we still speak OF the F. F. VS.
in a proud sort of way. without con-
sidering the fact that originally those
who styled themselves F. F. V's were
not exactly the best people on earth.
In the latter part OF 1919 Dutch
~bFr r,1daa ~ TamaU.nwp a rarpo NJ
20 African slaves and that was the
beginning of negro slavery on Amer
lean soil. From jamestown this pc
euliar institution spread throughout
the colonies 20 such an extent that
when our federal constitution was
adopted in 1883. nego slavery was law
fully recognized in every state in
The union. Indeed the only part Of
this country where such slavery was
rot lawful. was in the far south col
ony o. Georgia. That colony was or
lginally settled by convicts and male
factors. but under the wise and hu-
name laws there enacted under the
direction OF Governor oglethorpe
was one which absolutely prohibited
slavery in Georgia. and from the be-
ginning up to 1752 the sweet sunshine
OF heaven rested on no Georgia slave.
Then the Law was repealed and the
people OF that colony. and later state,
owned negro slaves thence,orth to
the taking effect Of Lincoln's great
emancipation proclamation Of Janu-
AIRY !. 1868.
Meantime the people OF the south
grew weary OF the burden OF slavery
and the colony Of Virginia, through
its house Of Burgesses, protested %
different times against the British
crown permitting the Importation Of
ether and further negro slavery into
that colony. These repeated protests
were UNDECIDED; the profits OF the
slave trade were enormous and de-
spite the passage Of the fugitive slave
laws and other acts Of our congress