New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-13
eaders-as follows:

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Virginia obtains two and Pennsylvania no less than
76 Why is thisl Because the former obtains tts
iron by the indirect process of manufacturing its corn
into negroes and the other by the direct process Of
feeding its corn to men no mine ore and coaana con-
vert them into iron. Missouri with all her n tnrs
advantages obtains two and her neighbor. Illinois.
fftysix because Missouri still permits men, women
and children to be bought and sold, and Illinois doss
not
As member of Southern Union. Virginia could 20
longer claim the aid of any sort of Fugitive Slave Law
and her negroes would of course have the strongest
inducements to fly to the North. Her whites would
therefore seek to fly with heir property to the South,
where the, would be met by cargces of newly i'm
ported Africans, and the consequence would be de-
probation of price to extent far exceeding sU-
thing ever known in the history of commerce. Al
member of Southern Confederacy Virginia would be
abandoned, her people would be ruined and be
towns and cities would pass out of existence.
Within a Northern Union, on the contrary, che
might flourish for she would be then employing her
labor in developing her great mineral wealth. and tins
adding to the value of both labor aud land. Thea
would be realized the earnest wish Of Washing.
ton expressed in his letter to La Fayette in the FOL-
lowing words, referring to the emancipation Of the
slaves of the latter in Cayenne:
Woud to God like spirit might dfuso itself general
ly into the minds OF the people OF this country B ds
spair OF seeing II. TOSS
the slaves aOat at would really believe be produc
tive Of much mischief and Inconvenience but by degrees
might and assuredly ought to be cected and that too.
by legislative authority
The people of the North would then slsA'y -
operate with Virginia In her efforts at gradually freeing
n and M
gence and energy would then seek the State nsseae
of Aying from it as is now the case. Her exhausted
lands would then again be brought into cultivssioa
and then would Norfolk become a commercial city.
which now il is not, can 1t can it ever be- whils
the extension of the area of Slavery shall continue -
be regarded the true policy of the State. Hef pso
pie would then be educated, and The Richmond Hkt9
would cease to report such melancholy facts -
are given in the following passage taken from ifs
columns:
"The census of 1910 reported 81 732 as the number a
whites over 90 years age who were unable 10 read w
a white population of 779 The late census OF 1880
shows the number be $4,000 out Of population OF
53 that with increase OF only ils 25f whites
we have 81 26s who unable 10 read more than the in
census indicated"
Well may the writer speak Of this as presentipg
facts humiliating to our pride," and well my 70
dwell on the "deep modification" which, Virgin
ian he feels in rejecting that IT, in addition to those
who cannot read at all, there be added those who,
"although they read little yet do 1t so mperfecsIy
as to be but little If at all benefited by IT, the number
Twill be augmented to more than 100000" or one
fourth Of the whote she population orer f~eny yeors q
age. As Americans we are greyed TO reflect tbat|
such state of things should exist in any State OF theI
Union and can readily imagine how great must be ths|
grief Of Virgnian who studies the fact that great
is now the proportion of the absolutely ignorant IL Isl
likely at the to be far greater But in thoI
event of the menaced dissolution let Virginia Join the
North and all will be different Her coal and her irUa
ore would then be wrought, her water powers would
be put work. her land would become productive her
roads would improve until she might almost stand side
by side with the young Indiana, with her 1900 nilss
of railroad in operation, her l592 miles in course oil
construction, and her 7s2 miles projected and in pst
surveyed-and then her schools would Increase in|
nhinber and improve in quality and her people would
not only read but write.
The difference to Virginia between adhesion to fAs'
North the South il the difference between absots
ruin on one hand and high prosperity on the other.
such being the case, cannot but hope that eay
friends Of The Enquirer will feel themseves relieves
from all apprehension Of the occurrence Of anSehy
|" 'he Nofth ar consequence OF the want oi tDss
portion OF the conservative element that is now far
nished by the State they represent Their fean ara
groundess The State that gave to the nation Wsah-
ngton, Jefferson and Madison is not to be separated
from those which furnished Otis, Adams, Greene,
Hamilton and Franklin They destined to stand
fall together, truth Of which hope our southern
friends will be convinced. What States, then, will
constitute Southern Union, if Virginia remain with
the North Kentucky will not be in it, for she 10
noble and gallant State, whose feelings have always
accorded far with the North than with the Sonia.
Several Of the that az we have shown wonl1
influence Virginia, would be equally operative with
her; and are therefore entirely confident that wr-
ever the dreadful contingency Of disunion" SAD
occur, the land Of Henry Clay will be found stssy
side by side with those States with which, undes i
lead, it so long acted. Which, then, viii be the( a
tier Slave State North Carolina Tennes
Neither the one nor the other Both will keep com =
with Virginia and Kentucky, and Southern
can embrace no State north Of South Caroln
Alabama. Such a Union woAA be utter - +
lea, and well do many Of the leu1sst W.
| of teceasiOn in0vv that such In the fact.