The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-25 00:00:00

A CONSTITUTION FOR ILLINOIS.

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Illinois is repeating the often tried and seldom success-
ful experiment of forming an entirely new constituti:
After unusually careful provisions for securing
convention a non-partisan character, with a satisfactory,.
result in that respect so far as the balance of parties I 9
concerned; we find the members in a constant state of
division and with views so diverse that it is already 'Us.
covered to be practically impossible to draw up an insin
'tent that can commend itself to the convention asio"°,.„,
or-to the people of the State. In a Commc ni,vealth where
one party is very stroll-. and can control the elections.'
the convention and be responsible for the constitution
that is framed by it, there might be some expectation tr.
the results of its labours would be accepted by thePe°l3!
But in closely divided States where there is no part teas
become sponsor for the new form of government, it 11":
been again and again proved that the !people pref,
the
old cOnstitution, bad as it may be, to the new with the
inevitable defects that the examination
speakers and the public press reveals—Boston, Adrer
tiser. by pub lc.

A CRUEL PREJUDICE.
The medical gentlemen in Washington made.. 11P the
minds lately that a physician who attends
to whidh coloured people are admitted is thereby render"
unfit to attend any other sort of meeting. We beg !cant
to lay before the Committee on Ethics°a few pertill%
points. A negro physician in the estimation of th.ent
gentlemen is such a horribly objectionable person
he contaminates any association to which he or anY e. 1.0
associates may be admitted. Not because he is a physicin
we suppese, but because he is a negro. Well, tbe_ny
why not rule out any physician who accepts neq,
patients ? If a sound darky is so bad, a sick one must ut
a great deal worse. If white doctors must only trey
f
white patients, the coloured people will want doctors Pt.
a ineetie3
their own race. But those doctors, being refused acb:nl
tance to the American Medical Association will, of COarse'
.de s°
have to throw up their diplomas and comm' it suici • 4
the coloured people will not have medical attendance "1.,
all, and whenever they fell seriously ill it would be llef
ciful and politic to poison them out of hand for the relief
of their misery and the preservation of the public. health
That would settle everything comfortably.—New
Tribune.

THE OPPORTUNITY OF VIRGINIA.
A great effort is being made at this time by a powerful
railroad and land company, backed by English capitalistsi
to settle the cheap and partly-unoccupied lands °f
Virginia. Hundreds of thousands of acres have been
bought up, on a line of road from Norfolk right across
the State, and the plan is formed of turning in 11l °n
them, on a grand scale, a number of English farmers
German peasants, who have saved some capital.
corresponding British Emigration Company has bev
formed in London, and there seems really at length 0131,e,,
chance that a tide of wealth is about to be directed re
Virginia, in comparison with the value of which th
discovery of a gold-mine would be insignificant. ocl,
Virginia is a State remarkably well known in Eng?'
her natural advantages being perhaps better appreciated
there than here. Novels have pictured it, travellers a_e,
scribed it, and possibly the traditions of its attrac%
have come down from ante-revolutionary times.
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main associations in the North with the " Old DomillV,Tip,
are with tobacco, Chickahominy fever, and General IV'sll
Few of our farmers are drawn toward it. But in Eirglnnt
it is known, as possessing in all its uplands the finest
climate east of the Rocky Mountains, with large pleas
ere
openings, and almost the only region in America A1,41,.4
hunting men can " ride to howls," and for farineV,
proximity to market, and cheapness of cultivated lan
almost unknown in combination elsewhere in the seelThi.
The most ignorant have only to look at the map t° 1
how close it is both to a large river, a good harbour,
our greatest Northern cities. It is well known to rens_en
tills,
its mineral wealth, and good judges believe that eve,
its exhausted lands can be renewed by fertilising, so s:
if the greater proximity to market be estimated, theaj.
may produce as abundantly as most of the Central
West.

Cotton, the great desolator of its soil, will now pr019513,1,3'.
be mainly given up, and the present most profitei;
growth of the Union, tobacco, will take its place.
English fully understand that its former evil reputatioo,
as a " breeder of slaves "is entirely departed, and th,
even the negroes are leaving it, not for t. 7.
North, as used to be dreaded, but for a 111'9-re
tropical climate, and for districts where their
is more concentrated. The great charm however, of thl'
region to English settlers, over the West is its vicinite
to large cities and the ocean, and its 111°I,rA
genial climate. A British farmer likes to
where he can occasionally " un up" to Washiva
ton, or Baltimore, or some miniature London
America. He wants now and then to see the sights of
large town, and he does not like to live where it takes 7
journey of two or three hundred miles to come in coat he
with civilisation. He cannot bear "to pioneer ; ,e
wants his stumps cleared, and fences built, and a 11°11e
shingled and clap-boarded, and fields that at least ha
been been broken by the plough and the harrow. He disloceo
the intense cold and the intense heat of the West, an,di,„°r.
the breezy uplands of Virginia he hopes to feel neither'
He fancies, too, that in an old country he will be lei
liable to the attacks of his dreaded enemy in America
fever and ague.
The Swiss and Germans who are expected soon fa
State undoubtedly count with reason on planting 1),,r°1,,y
able vineyards on the slopes of the Blue Ridge.
know from good authorities that the only grape w—he
makes a good light-red wine of the Burgundy stamp—lki
Norton's Seedling "—is aimost a native variety in the the
Dominion
thed they can ofduge from the cheapness a
er
soil, and accessibility markets, how profitable either
grapes or wine must be in the hill country of Western
Virginia,
If these English and Swiss settlers do in truth ,enter
and buy up farms, it will begin a new era for the
old State which once led the Union. All the forrae':
dreams of the Virginia rebel leaders of binding the eool'r.
merce of the Potomac and the Thames, and making 11.1.4
folk a second New York, will be realised, but in a health
form. The first State on the Atlantic will then lea
agriculture, vine-culture, and mining, as she used le
of
in politics and slave-breeding. The healthy physique
the population will give them the sway in production,
she
Virginia will become a thousand times wealthier than„
ever was under the curse of slavery. Wealth wiA'„ue
distributed much more evenly than it is here, for the bOO
basis of general prosperity is the division of the s°
into moderate farms which must follow such am e

VI
gration. _
f this
The great obstacle, however, to the attainment 0 isid,
golden future is in the Virginians themselves. The 3
ing curse of a slave community, even after emancipateai
is the tradition that labour is degrading. If these salter
foreigners, on settling on their new farms, discover, s'tbr
a time, that they are looked down upon and secr,e-er
despised by the natives, and classed with the ~
slaves, because they work with their hands, theY, ~to
become discontented, and either never be absorbed I;;
the population, or emigrate to regions where " societYthat
open to them, and all are on an equality. It may 138 will
a Virginian cannot change his nature, and always new
despise a man who doss his own work. If so—if the the
democracy has not yet persuaded the landholders
old State, even after their terrible experienoe—then
well to immigration, development, wealth, and all Pr°r)
in that region.
The tide of European labour and wealth will SW tied
where. The emigrant will go where he is respected—v'o
the world is all open to him. Modern progress will P
by the State. She will remain with an effte slave eroliL
tocracy, an ignorant and lazy democracy, a worn-out_.fils
undeveloped mines, untilled fields, and exhausted ,he
Her position and wealth in the future depend 1:),11,iot
manner in which she receives the first detachments to.
army of labour which is marching with eager footsteps
wards her borders.—. New York Times.

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*IRM%
On the 2251 inst., at g, Taviton-street, the wife of Aleianed r
14rley, Esq., of a son. n Of
On the 23d iust., at 30, Westbourue-park, the wife 0., --Us
Evers, Esq., of a sou.

MARRIAGES,
On the 23d inst., at St. aeorge's,. Hanover-square, Me rLtoi.
Atkinson, of Penrith to t:lizabetti, daughter of th
Mr. Jones, At rentrearon, Shropshire.
On the 21st inst., at Llandiugad Church, Llandoveryi2;
tain Corry R. Smith, R a Royal Marine Artillery, to „root
Angharad Rees, daughter of William Rees, Esq., °`
near Llandovery.

DEATHS.
On the 21st inst., at 13 ', Albany. street, Regent''"'"
Captain John Cook, aged 73. Collier/
On the 22d inst., at Stapleford, Cambridge, Henry
Esq., aged 77.

Landon; Printed and Published by WILLIAM AT 112,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, J-"t.,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COO
Middlesex.—Wednesday, May 25, 1820. '

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