The Southern Magazine And Monthly Review. January, 1841. Volume I, Issue I. Ruffin, Edmund History,Political Science

Volume 1, number 1, January 1841. A Good- copy. 8vo., 96 pp., bound in publishers brown wraps. Covers are soiled and darkened with some spotting and signature on front cover. All edges chipped. Pages with lightly scattered foxing. Rear covers are the "Prospectus" for this new publication. Subjects of this issue: Relations of the Ancient World; Story of Mother Carey's Chicken; Remarks on the French Occupation of Algiers; Joan D'Arc; Beaux of Former Times; Revolution in Disguise; Unpublished Letters of Washington; The Bland Papers; Banking and Paper Money. SCARCE. OCLC locates no copies. It is quite possible that this magazine never came to fruition and that this "Prospectus" was the only issue ever printed. Edmund Ruffin III (January 5, 1794 - June 17, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia planter who served in the Virginia Senate from 1823 to 1827. In the last three decades before the American Civil War, his pro-slavery writings received more attention than his agricultural work. Ruffin, a slaveholder, staunchly advocated states' rights and slavery, arguing for secession years before the Civil War, and became a political activist with the so-called Fire-Eaters. Ruffin is given credit for "firing the first shot of the war" at the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 and fought as a Confederate soldier despite his advanced age. When the war ended in Southern defeat in 1865, he committed suicide rather than submit to "Yankee rule." - Wiki.