Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-05
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGT,E,
From the American freeman.
EMIGRATION TO VIRGINIA.

A friend has called upon us, saying, that evel
since we published the advertisements, some wcek
SINCE Of farms for sale in Virginia, his thought,
lave been upon tn, subject OF emigratng to tia
region. lie wishes to call attention to this mat
ttte again.
Emigration, whether 20 Illinois, or Kansas, Oh
Virginia, is question that has two sides. There
are advantages and Disadvantages connected with
such movement. We propose, very briefly, in
this article, to state TO friend and oil Others
who are thinking on the subject some of the ad
vantages and disadvantages of emigration to Vir
ginn.
The climate of Virginia is delightful, especially
east of the Blue Ridgethe soil naturally, is fertile
and productions abun bant. There is no scarcity o
timber for bnilding and fencing. 1t is accessible
from the sea, and av railroad and markets at Bal
tmore and Washington are excellent. Land is fal
cheaper there, than in Illinois or Kansas. The
mountains Of Virginia are full of meta and OF Goals
and her streams are numerous and navigaG!e The
winters are short and the summers long, thus con-
trasting favorably with our tedious winters of six
months and our cattle fed for half the year. Wheat
and Indian grow to perfection in that climate
and fruits Of all kinds abundant. These are
some of the advantages which lure an emgrant to
the old Dominion to find home.
But there are disadvantages. Virginia is cursed
by its +. +. VISA shabby, seedy, vain, declining
aristocra,y-the beggarly remains of the old Cav
aliers that originally settled the eastern part of the
State. These men to all intents and purposes have
controlled the State, although they are small mi
nority of the inhabitants They do not allow the
secret ballot which we use in Pennsylvania, but
all voters on the day of election, vote cira roce--
that s they bawl out at the polls at the top of their
voice, whom they wish elected to office.
Virginia has 10000 of her white people above
q years of age, who can neither read write,
and 10000 more who know neat to nothing. Yet,
these vast hordes of ignoramuses are so controlled
a. i. AZ. Il i -LtI
egaton from Virginia in Congress, is always above
the average in point of ability, of the Pennsyva-
nia delegation.
Henry A. Wise, the present Democratic candi-
date for Governor, when in Congress some years
since, boasted that there was not single ncwspa-
per in his Congressional District! The soil of Vr-
glnia has become reduced by slave culture, that
the State is no longer planting State, it was
fifty years ago, but has degenerated into slave
breeding State Slaves are kept for increase as an
Ohio farmer keeps his stock Cor increase. Even
protesting Christians advertise slaves for sale, and
ers, promising great increase. few years ago, a
large gang of little slave children, of from to 5
years Of age, were bought up and taken to large
tavern in town the Mississippi river to be fed
the ofals of the table till they should grow IL
to value. Hence it was, that Virginia politicians
were desrous of getting 1erds, and are so desi-
rsus ge. Cuba, und to make Kansas slave State
They want to open our markets for the sale of the
Slaves which they breed and rear. There are no
schools in Virginia every mile square of her ter
ritory, is the IN our State. All, except
the Shareholders and their trains of boot-licks who
make money out of their obsequiousness, must be
ignorant.
But notwithstanding all we have said, we think
fayorably of colony to Virginia. Let thirty or
forty families locate in the same neghborhood and
carry with them their laborious and thrifty habits
their schools and their churches and we have no
doubt of their success. The soil is poor indeed,
but it has been made by the curse of unpaid la
Dor. Put pair of good Pennsylvania horses to
an iron plow, and throw up the soil six inches at
first and nine inches afterwards then put on the
clover and the plaster and in three years you have
the cold fields" converted into new. Such things
have been and may be done again. A colony Of
Pennsyvanians with their church, school, mill,
store mechanics shops-thsir industry and thrift,
would do more to abolish Slavery in Virginia, than
a ship load of abolition tracts, or q hundred Lee
lures.
A few years ago n colony Of Yankees emigrated
to the valley of the Jordan in Paestine-th' took
their iron plows and all the other implements of
American agriculture, and got to work. The
Arabs like the Virginia slave holders, would plow
with forked stick, and reaped accordingly. But
the Yankees drove their metal plows up to the
beam in the gardens of Solomon, and their crops
were astonishing. The Arab sheiks came in num-
bers to see the phenomenon and after beholding
the facts, came to the conclusion that the God of
the Yankees, was q better God than theirs. We
have no doubt, that if N intelligent, thrifty colony
such as we have described, would settle in Virgin
ia pursue their quiet and unobtrusive policy,
showing the value of free labor over slave labor,
and the dignity of labor itself-the First Families
Of Virginia." like the Arab sheiks would visit
them and learn the lesson which such an example
would teach. There is a nobleness and large hear
tedness among the Virgnians after all, and the
prudent and judicous thrift of free labor colony
would soon bring up the star of emancipation in
the valley of the Shenandoah.
We are acquainted with farms on the waters of
Chesapeake Bay, aboundng in resources of fertili.
ty, near oyster beds and fishing grounds, that with
proper cultivation would in year or two bud and
blossom as the rose-no scarcity of timber or of
water for all agricultural purposes, and to be had
at much less price than farms in the West
But to succeed, no man ought to 90 single handed,
else he labors under disadvantages and discourage
ments, that to most persons are intoerable. A
colony of farmers, independent in their circumstan
ces, and Of the saveholding aristocracy, and caus
ing themselves to be respected by their thrift and
enterprise, is the only feasible method of emigra
tion to Virginia, Choose committee of two or
three wise discriminating men, to visit the Eastern
part of that State, and to fix upon location which
has natural advantages and then marshal your
forces and 60. We should be very happy to be
one of such a COLONY.