New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-12


another, and where that yrrsiDisn distinction at
persons into the two great classes of CO ghiders
and cowbided, is totally unknown. Neither the
negroes nor the Iri.h are particularly well informed
about the geography social condition Of foreign
parts but the idea of land Of promise, or city
CT refuge, is 20 congenial to suffering humanity
that its existence being once suggested the notion
Of it diiuies itself from heart to heart and mind
to mid in an almost miraculous manner Inc
slsve population throughout the entire South are
DOW perfectly aware Of the existence OF such
land; and it is the aspiration of every suffering
soul among them, of every enterprisiDg, coura'
geous noble spirited man, woman and child among
them to make their escape to that land Every
motive whichever operated upon the Irish to emi.
crate, operates upon the negroes with tenfoia
force.
Wha, has greatly tended of late years to give
Few energy to the current Of Irish immigration
has been the accounts sent back to Ireland by
these who had previously emigrste3, and the
m ears of coming TO ibis country, which they nave
furnished to their suffering friends at home. The
came impulse and it is very powerful one, is now
beginning to operate upon the negro population o.
the South Means are found Of keeping up o
communication between those who have already
emiprsted aud those who still remain in bonisge.
No sooner does Virginia emigrant begin to taste
the sweets of liberty than ne begins also to desire
to extend the same blessing to his wife and children
to bis brothers and sisters TO his friends and
acousiptance. If emigration from Virginia is
attended with many dangers and difficulties, to
which emigration from Ireland is not liable, il
also has it's peculiar facilities. 70 emigrate from
Virginia money is not indispensable. What is
chiefly needed is knowledge of the road This
knowledge those who have already travelled it
are more or less able to communicate and that not
merely to their particular friends, but by means
tf the rapid diffusion which interesting intell-
ge1ce ever obtains for itself, to the entire negro
community.
Add to this that the emigration from Virginia
has spice of beroism and romance about it ex-
ceedipgly fascinating TO the human mind. This
ingredient serves not merely TO ncite and sustain
those who personally undertake this perilous ad
venture, it secures for them sympathy and aid not
merely 10 the Northern but even in the Southern
States Stolen waters are sweet and so too is
clsndestne humanity To inhict punishments on
nets Of common charity, to make il criminal Of.
Tense to give shelter to the weary, food to the hun
pry and clothes to the naked, does but add in many
minds to the poignant relish of these good acts.
Under these circumstances the hope of putting
q stop to the Southern negro emigration from Vir-
einia seems to us to be forlOrn indeed. VIVA!
with sales to the South and escapes to the North,
Virginia seems destined 20 go on, as she has done,
losing the flower of her laboring people; and as
,he has already sunk from the first to the fourth
State in population, so she must be prepared at
the next census to have two or three more States
step in above her.