Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-17
Virginia.

Virginia.
We cannot do better than copy into our editorial
column the following iudicious remarks on the
slow Progression of Virginia, from the Richmond
Whg, to which paper the people Of the State are
oftenindebted for able and patriotic reflections on
the true policy of Virginia. If the press of the
State would keep constantly before the minds of
Virginians her own interests instead Of matters
with which We have no concern, we would oil
live to see new era in her history, the eraot pro-
erosion, OF and full and mature devei-
onement She has resources superior to every 9TH
eT State. she haswater power teyond comparison
even. ir mineral wealth her resources are unnvai-
led and as various as conception can suggest and
taking her all together no State in the Union has
the same facilities for wealth aud prosperity, As
yirginians we should look to Virginia, and when
we cease to waste and consume our energies and
time in vain specuIations, when we leave off alb
straciions and turn TO realities, when we ceaseeto
boast of Virginia as she tsts, ana contemplate her
as she j, vaHeh we come to feelas we should, her
comparative FetrogyeSsion certainly in wealth and
population, perhaps in Intelligence, and whenwe
act on our convictions, there will then be new
day fer Virginia. Then will she spring forth she
can, like Minerva full grown from the head of Ju+
piter, into the fulneSS of her powell and then will
she in fact and not an name, take and hold the
firstpiacgin wea1thS population, influence, andin
high Observation-Disclosures among the States of this
Confeiefacy.li s.,ai ]. r.1 .s.l = r., ~ .i =
ajT ia.e .asfils .--. .tr F." -hntG'f- q
ITFMr. Kennedy srIeport on the census exhibits
many curious and interesting facts. We shall pay
attention many Of them hereafter. For the pre-
sent, we note only One-the migration from one
State to another II appears that Of the 1876 1872
freq Inhabitants Of the Union, ,112,4 S3 have re
moved from the State of their nativity. OF this
number, Virginia has furnished $4,000, about 25
pei cent ofthe whole; South Carolina 10000,
whiohiS Sc per cent. OF her population; North
CanOhna Isl, 676, equal to 81 per cent. This, OF
couise, is mahe approximation, and We doubt not
falls far ljeI6wthe reality. IL the fact could be
aseeTinined we think it likely the emigrants from
Virginia would reach nearer hafa million than the
figure given above. 81 - ih'
Itisfhisdsainmpon Virginia and the South which
has contIbuted, more than any other one cause, to
retafd 1he growth of the Southern section OF the
UhinIu5 Surprising that only $4,000 have emf
grated and that the Eea ing oil each TO mans estate
ayeragea $1,000, there is clear loss to the Com
mont ealth of SS36, 0OO, 900. Besides, most OF
them who remove, take with them some property
and then again, large portion of those who remove
are nm6ng the most enterpnSing Of the population.
The ilr0neS remain at home, while acuVe splnts
seGlsfortune abroad. ~ .. 5At 49,
1t never can be well with Virginia until tins eS-
hausttne dTa 1t upon us life blood is stopped. We
beliVe the mann cause of it to be found IN the
pIe.i. five except few manufacturing cstabilSh-
ments, agriculture is the only productive vocation
IN the State. We have lawyers and idoctors IN
abundance; but they are what the political ecOno-
mistS call unnIOductiYe consumers, We have en-
leHpfising merchants; but they arc crushed by an
ini1uItOus legislation, which oilers a bounty TO
Northern merchants, to their ruin Agriculture, IN
a general sense, is then the sole industrial pursuit
of the State. That is oveTdone. Free trade, by
reducing the price of bTeadstufs abroad, has de-
priyed US of market there; and the languishing
condition of our manufactures at home' connected
With the vast production oil Wheab gives US aYely
poor market here. The C, nSequence IS that young
and enterprising men abandon the place of their
birth and seek subsistence in the fresh and fertile
regions Ofthe West 70 "a'.' '~
nhLs process has been going on more or less rap
idly for fifty yeaS; and it sufficiently explains, with
out reference 10 the cost OfSaVe labor or any other
circnmStRnce--the IetIograde movement OF OLD.
virginia.. 1t ishOPed, that the completion OF the
public works now in pr0gTeS will arrest emigration
aud stay our yfGIther decline. ltmay, to some ex-
tent, have that e6ect-by bringing great quantity
of land within reach of market and thereby render
ing ais cultivation profitable. But other avOca-;
tions besides thaboE Agriculture, must be created
OF encouraged before the evil can be eTadicated-
Our Legislature must learn to adopta more liberal
policy towards the commercial class-and not seek,
because they are few, TO OveIwhelm them with un.
iusta cd oppressive taxes. Manufactures must be
encouTaged-SO as to supply occupation Tor the re-
dundanL Agricultural population and at the same
time eEeate home maTketfor agricultural produce.
Georgia u the only southern SLaGeJ WLnCn mas n
doptet this poicyand she is reaping the fruits of
her ~ sdol1 and enterprise ,i'l1lsr-a -- ~ al!
ARl fm thereSult OF the last election, it SEEMS
that We ate not TO rely, upon the Federal Govern
ment topTUtoct US from the Pauper and convict la
Dor of Europe, we should 10 what we can to pro-
.tect ourselves. $751; .... .ll-t'.E -at
Intlis conne1ion, we commend the following to
the attentive consideration Of the reader ltcomes
frompne who was reckoned wise man IN his day
ami though wiser men in great numbers may now
crowd our Congressional halls, we doubt whether
any of them have uttered more true wisdom:
81 'na " a LONDON, April %, l77I.
+'T5I Ar. Humphrey Marshall. West Bradford,
[Per Capt. Osborne, with brown paper parcel.l
''ilR;-nl duly received your Payours of the 4th 7
OF October and the 18th of November. 1t gave
me Pleasure to hear, that tho the Merchants had
departed m5heir Agreement of Non ImpOItation,
the Spirit OF Industry and Rrugality WhS Rkery to-
combige among the People. am obliged to you
for your Concern on my Account. The Lettersy you
mention, gave great Offence here's but that was not
attended with the Immediate i'll Consequences to 4
my Interest that seem to have been hoped for byr
those that sent Copies of them lIither i.ei f. sad
''IfOur County People would Consider, that oil
they saSd in refusing to purchase foreign Gewgawss
II in making their own Apparel, being apply to
'he Improvement of their Plantations, would rem
der those more profitable. yielding greater Pro-
luce, should hope they would persist resolutelYin
their present comlnandable Industry and FTugalty.
And there is fal1 q farther Consideration. The
Colonies that produce Provisions grow very fast.
hut Of tho Colonies that take OF those provisions,
some do not increase at NIL, the EuEopeani Ma
lions; and Others, as the West India Colonies, not
IN the6alps proportion. So TINT tho tho Demand
at present may be sufficient il cannot long CON-
linue Every Manufacturer encouraged in our
Country, makes past of a Market for Provisions
within ourselves, and Sayesso much Money 10 the
County aSrntiyt otherwise be exported to pay the
iTanula tdres he supplies. Here in England it !
i; we'll Know and understood, that whenever q L
,Iann f1dtfe RI estAblished which emploYsa mum