Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-21
From the Fincastle Patriot.l
VIRGINIA

In looking Virginia, what wide field il pre .
'en'eu 10 enlist the feelings and labours OF every
terpsising patriotic citizen. We look over State of
old renown, capable by her great natural resources
attaining an heh distinction in all that desabe fast
recedng rom her ancient glory, and like the piiable
wretch who has disspated his patrimony vanly ex-
ulting in the reputation OF her ancestry as sa faction
Tor her present deep mcrfcat We here nd everv
natural advantage, and every material necessary to
produce, by good management, that state of things
which would ensure the prosperity aud happiness of an
industrious people. happy climate, and with Judi
cous cultivation soil kindly productive and well. wa
tered, our outlets to market capable of beny
SAFE and fictitious by little iabour and enternrse
with every facility to the establishment and
prosecution oil MANUFACTURED one would suppose that
nothing was necessary, to our collective good and pros
pery put some masterly genius to draw out and i'm
prove these natural resources, and to give n direction
TO the industry OF our citizens. Yet rotwhsa
we possess these great natural advantages il is fact OF
geheta notoriey that our State il the
Our population is fast emig grating. A great nropor,on
oil ho'e remaining IL not sunk in the depths of able
poverty are so straitened in their circumstances that
hey can scarcely make both ends meet at the close of
the year, Ito use provincial expresson This state of
things instead OF anmatng population 10 industry
anu acuVe enterprise, seems to rest upon ncu.
BUS, and TO be sinking il lower and vet lower i'm ana
thy and slohful despondency We seem To have os al,
emulation TO excel in industry and ENTERPRISE and
Just hed to submit 10 the shameful intrusion Of an
hated arstocracy. Those who have vet .pjrit of ON
erprse, and are somewhat emuous OF distinction de-
sparing oil encouragement, and disguised with the
row prospect oil success, shrink from the task and fall
oa'A "'o some western retreat, where they be-
come shining uminaries 10 the country of their adop-
ton; and bright ornaments to their age, and TO the
world As general thing, the d. II, and unepterprs
ing are iett here to wade their way through mire and
The opposing current TO the fountain of fame and pre-
ierment when they are not swept down by the strong
tide OF opposition; and forced to die unknowpg and
unknown" $3.50
This is the state OF things in virgina:-n the O, n
DOMINION, where every, laudable enterprise would
once have met with prompt encouragement, when men
were estimated by their intrinsic WORTH and virtue re-
eel ed har Ittat
name OF "Vrgnia"-this is the lamentable state of d.
iapdation into which country has fallen, that by a
ltue exerhon Is capable of holding proud distinction
among her sister States and an enyabIe elevation II;
the world Then, is not there here presented hieb
sumuant to men of genius, enterprise, and patriotism,
10 seek out that occult disease which is preyng upon
the vals of body polite and TO discover remsdv
capable oil arres'ng her consumptive decline and TO
revive the natural vigeur OF her constitution and give
me whoe system an impulse in that direction which
would conduce TO its heahful operation and in lin a
even'uate in its perfection and happiness