The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . s. IT has been seen that for years after the war Dr. Dabneyseriously meditated emigration to some other country. Heseems to have given up this idea, in the main, about 1869. Heis heard still later expressing the hope that his sons mayemigrate, and that even he himself mav be buried in a foreigncountry; but the desire to move away ceased to have muchinfluence upon his conduct. He had found out that he couldstill enjov the liberty of free speech. He had made his volumeon Jackson, and that in defence of Virginia and the South,tests of this. In 1869 he
The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . s. IT has been seen that for years after the war Dr. Dabneyseriously meditated emigration to some other country. Heseems to have given up this idea, in the main, about 1869. Heis heard still later expressing the hope that his sons mayemigrate, and that even he himself mav be buried in a foreigncountry; but the desire to move away ceased to have muchinfluence upon his conduct. He had found out that he couldstill enjov the liberty of free speech. He had made his volumeon Jackson, and that in defence of Virginia and the South,tests of this. In 1869 he began the purchase of a property inAmherst county, Va., by buying Red Hill, a farm of twohundred acres, and having on it a good old mansion house. He was moved to the purchase of a home by two consid-erations: his health was imperfect, and he naturally desireda home for his wife and children in case of his death; and hewas on the hunt for a safe investment for his little particularly, he seemed to be threatened at the time with.
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