The pamphlet grew out of a debate that Ruffner had before Lexington's Franklin Society over slavery with Lexington Law School Professor John White Brockenbrough and Virginia Military Institute Professor Francis Henney Smith.
Francis Henney Smith (1812-1890): First superintendent of VMI, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia militia major general
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