Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-02-02
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1855.


virginia
Virginia has alwsys been considered the
representative State OF the South She boasts
Of the s.best blood" in the Union-of being
the mother Of Presidents snd Ststenen-of
being the s' Old Dominion in which chival-
~, honor and the true pride of manhood were
most fondIy eherished-of being in fact. the
land where outward nature and general So
eiety, were in the noblest condition OF syn
patty. and where they marched along towards
the future arm IN arm, Ike Sunshine aud sun.
ue
Henry A. Wise, Who is now stripping the
State of Virginia. gives a very different pie
ture Of It. from which We hare been accas-
toned to see through the medium Of Yirgia-
ian eulogy. He gives the following view Of
the g Old Dominion which We believe, any
one. except native Of the State aoaid have
been lynched for repeating.
The four great cardinal sources q wealth
are agriculture. mining. misunderstanding and
commerce Virginia has fresh aud -zit sster,
river heads and ocean front; the best soil,
rich loan and limestone, and inexhsussible
mines Of mineral wealth. The bowels Of her
earth are 1ch IN iron, il gypsa-n e8d SAIL
which can set her rivers n flames; sHd yet
nothing has been done with tins wealth. Size
has an iron chain Of mountains ruRuiug
through her centre, which the crest Cod has
placed there to milk the clouds, saal e be the
source Of her silver rivers. Every river has
water power which would tarI spindes
enough to ei0the the world. and vet T9u
hardly manufacture cotton enough to eiothe
your own negroes. Il niniHs she has
done nothing; and cornmercs has long a-o
spread her wings and flown freza us. We
have all these four sources Of wealth, and vet
the State has afsEsys relied upon agriculture.
and agriculture alone. We have thrown arav
three ont Of the four great cardinal powers Of
production and what have you done with
the fourth V hat can 1 say OF the agricul-
ture OF Virginia: It he's oHly scared the bo-
som Of mother earth. Its science Is all known
and practise1 by the old negroes On her plan
tations. Going through some of your coun.
ties you over1ake 0 man, and ask him.
" Who e hUuse Is that y THAT y nine
4" Well, whose IS that - pointing in another
direction. " That is mine. also" We'll,
whose is that over Wonder :" s'Tha. Is mine.
too. stranger" "And do YOU own that Bsy
OF there also - Whv. YES. stranger. / dc;
but Scratching his head,1 don't suppose 1 am
so damned poor az to own all the land about
here. You ali own plenty of land. but It :
poverty added 70 poverty. Poor land added
to poor land, and nothing more, and nothing
added TO nothing gives nothing. While the
owner IS talking politics At Richmond, OF in
Congress, or spending the summer at the
White Springs, the land grows f.oorer aud
poorer, and this soon brings land, negroes aud
all, under the hammer. You have the own
G<Fuv1r1C he No sd
skinning the land, until al grow poor to-
gether.
Of course, the Honorable Hsary A. Wise
attributes this deeadence. Of tie Old Dornin-
ion, TO other than tie true cause. He GOES
abroad to find reasons for The want OF enter.
prise and progress which is everywhere visible
in Virginia, and pertinaciousiy refuses TO ac-
knowledge that Slavcryis the root Of the evil.
The curse that covers soiIaf7, iT ..lla with
stagnstion and sterility, is brought OH because
man is there degraisd, and Labor il despoile,i,
BY the Anglo Norman tyrants. who uphold
the aristocraey Of force, and keep down and
rob the representative Of labor u freedom
prevailed in Virginia, to morrow, Sir. Wiss
would soon hare no cause to regret the de-
crease Of population. He would soon see
hardy. enterPiising, laboz.ols mea, settling
on the plains and uplands Of his native State,
aud causing it, with Gods blessing, to bios
som Ike the rose. Bat 50 long as slavery ex-
lists there. 50 long shall the nerest apology for
agriculture exist there's shall seni-baE-
barous morality exist there, and merely nor
NAL state Of general civilization Virginia,
with slavery, will always be source Of re-
proach to America. and source Of chagrin
and disgrace 10 her own sons without it. she
would soon rival any State IN the Union in
wealth AMI enterprise.