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1Author:  Wingfield Marshall b. 1893Add
 Title:  A History of Caroline County, Virginia  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "To Colonel George Washington, "The Lodge, August 6th, 1775: "Patrick Coutts, Robert Gilchrist, John Cross, John Gray, James Miller, William Fox, Gideon Johnston, Alex Rose, Andrew Crawford, John Crawford, John Miller, Collin Riddick, and Thomas Landrum and John Douglass visiting brethren. "Two preachers from Kentucky, Hudgins and Warden by name, of the Society called Baptists, are preaching about here. They are extremely warm in their sermons, denouncing wickedness in very strong terms. Their preaching is having considerable effect on the people. Four of my negroes have applied to me for notes to go to the meetings and relate their experiences and be baptized, provided the Church will receive them. I should be pleased if this attention to religion among them should be well grounded in a proper faith in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and not be from over-persuasion, hurrying them, without proper consideration, into the arms of the earthly Church, relying on membership therein for salvation. This fear and doubt of mine arises from the short time many of them spend in meditation before beoming Church-members. I am afraid that when the enthusiasm of the moment passes they, not being grounded, will fall back slowly or violently into the old habits thereby bringing dishonour upon religion." "It was a grief to me to learn that you had made up your mind not to return to us. I shall miss you from your place in my class, and, as I had hoped, in my list of graduates. But I do not doubt that you have acted wisely: and your education is already ample for you to make of yourself whatever you wish to become. If, as you propose, you go into the Church, your excellent English style, accurate and simple, will be your best outfit: and your knowledge of Greek, and, as I believe, of Latin, will enable you to carry on your professional studies to any extent, and to become a distinct force in giving to our somewhat narrow and degraded forms of religion a wider, truer and nobler development. One man now who is capable of dealing with the sacred texts of Christianity and with the early records of the primitive Church, as an accurate and scholarly interpreter of what they mean, is worth an hundred who in their blind ignorance go on narrowing and degrading the faith into erroneous perversions. * * *  "To the Inhabitants of Frincess Anne and Norfolk Counties: "Under the Regal Government I was a Whig in principle, considering it as designed for the good of society, and not for the aggrandizement of its officers, and influenced in my legislative and judicial character by that principle, when the dispute with Britain began, a redress of grievances, and not a revolution of Government, was my wish; in this I was firm but temperate, and whilst I was endeavoring to raise the timid to a general united opposition by stating to the uninformed the real merits of the dispute, I opposed and endeavored to moderate the violent and fiery, who were plunging us into rash measures, and had the happiness to find a majority of all the public bodies confirming my sentiments, which, I believe, was the corner-stone of our success. Although I so long, and to so high a degree, experienced the favour of my county, I had always some enemies; few indeed, and I had the consolation to believe that their enmity was unprovoked, as I was ever unable to guess the cause, unless it was my refusing to go lengths with them as their partisan. I cannot note your passing from the high office of Adjutant-General of the State of Virginia, without feelings of the deepest regret. In one capacity or another, I have looked to you for military administration and guidance for upwards of twenty years. I gained my first ideas and ideals of military thoroughness and efficiency from you as inspector general when in the old days you inspected my company with eyes that seemed to search out every defect, but always with the spirit of kindliness and helpfulness.
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