Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-09-19
YANKEE INVASION OF VIRGINIA.

YANKEE INVASION OF VIRGINIA.
The New York Erening Post informs Us that
company is forming 1--WE suppose in New York; on
the principle of the Boston Emgrant Aid Society, to
purchase and colonize large quantities Of land i'll
Tide Water Virginia, with the view of propagating
aboonism in this State.
Yankee impudence and imperinence are only
equailed by its want Of pluck and chivalryi and
yet it boasts Of intending TO perform feat quite as
daring Don Quixuts's challenge Of the Lions. The
gentlemen the Christians aud conservatives of the
North make such boasts, and nsver bully, bus
ter and, hack ont. The term Yankee is not applicable
to this class of men.
The Post we'll knows that such an enterprise as it
speaks Of is NOT contemplated by sane men, or 1t con-
;emplated will never be executed No respectable
people would, or should submit to an immigration
protesting reasonable and rogush purposes Intend.
ing to revolutionse our institutions and take away
our property The North has its hands quite full in
the attempt to colonze and aboionize Kansas, and,
with the warning in the ears of Smith of Wheeling,
and Underwood of the Rockingham district will not
be likely soon to make an open descent on Virginia
The Post is mistaken as to the price of lands in
dewaer Virginia, they average ten dollars in value.
They produce more from the labor expended on them
than lands worth thirty at the North, and sell 80
cheap because much of the product is given to the
aborers the slaves. Your lands at the North sell
high because you expend little of the products on
the laborers. You allow them third that allow
our slaves and Of course your lands three times
as valuable. In Europe, where they allow them no
meat and not half as much bread as we give to our
slaves, lands are still more valuable than at the
North. But you are coming on finely in New York
You starve them throughout the winter, whilst our
slaves have in the general, feast and holiday ut
tina. season. A meeting of New York laborers in
the Park, last spring, Resolved that fifty thousand
working men and women in that city alone, were
vaiuly seeking employment during the last incement
winter" Add the children, and you have ahundred
thousand lsborers laid by to starve. If we could
serve our negroes so lands would rise to forty dol
lars the acre.
The silly rhymester Of the Post bregs that labor is
cheaper and lands dearer at the North than ut the
South. This is double assertion, that yonr faGor
ess are less free MGG OR slarrs. We know there Is
not intellect enough in that writer to under
stand oar propositions, else he would never nave
! made his ridiculous boast But the readers OF TIT
Enquirer are practical and thinking men, not th'
whining perpetrators of doggrel rhyme. They VII
understand US and 30 will nll sensible persons at thu
North, among others the editors of the New Yorh
| ErtRimg Post.
We repeat. Lands rise in price lin the genera) 10
exact proportion as labor falls in price, and are worth
nothing when the whole products are given TO tht
lsborer. The high price of lands is evidence OF tht
large profits Of capital and low wages of labor. Ii
settled ana civilized countries the price OF land, al
mos. universally exhibits the true condition of th'
labcring class. They are best situated and frees
where lands arc cheapest, worst situated and leas
| free where lands are dearest.
You canno, take up Il Yankee or an English boo
or paper that is not unconscously Boosting that Ire
laborers are less free than negro slaves. In othe
words that free labor il cheapest" YeS it is cheaI
cruelty cheap, dog cheap nay there is not an amino
that works halt hard, fares half as bad, on a
! English farm. AZ the FREE lahorer.
The Post brags that it is following very handsome
in the wake of England, and wonders we don't fol
low its example.
All the lila OF Pandora's box, all the wars earth
quakes plaques and pestilencea, that have afflicted
humanity are trass light as air. compared to caCal
labor and tear lands. They have alternately devas
tated Western Europe with famine and revolution TO
seventy years They have produced an.i-renti,m
strikes, riots and Trades Union in New York, and
general spirit ofagreriansm. 1t is because lands ar
cheaper in the South, than in any other settled ant
civilized country, that our negroes are the treest, hap
pcs bra situated common LaborcrS IN Tie rOrld. Th
rcest, because they work more for themselves, an,
less for the land than any other laborers,
hence the profits Of slave labor less than those from
$50 caled) free labor. The hnppiest, because beside
having less work to do for their employers, they ar
taken care of, governed and provided for, by thos
enpoyers-their masters.
Your slaves to capital, at tho North, are ten time
more of slaves than our negroes. You boast of FIRE
society because il more enslaves, more cheats, NOR
defrauds labor than Southern slavery. We admit il
But say, "the laborer is worthy Of his hire, an
that that society ia not bost where the labor is cheap
| est, bR .rhcrc II IS dearest!
| We do not expect Yankee brains to comprehend
this or if they did, Yankee morality would neve
approve system that proposes to give laborers jus
! part Of iis own earnings. You have but one idea
one single idea, and that is, THAT the system Of soce
ty is most perfect which most robs honest labor t.
reward dishonest thrift, and cunning and bargain
mnkng.-fuu worship money and muInmon, and n
| other gods.
! The Post would teach the South farming. We ar
tar the best farmers in the World, or whom the worl
has ever seen We have much larger agriculture
surplus than any other people ever reared, on thlt
sandy and Indifferent soil. The Yankees truck it, br
don't farm at all. One farmer with US, makes NOR
wheat than all the State of Massachusetts, We furnis
the Yankees with half their food, all their cotto
clothing, much OF their sugar, &C., and get back
return counterfeit notions, that were better with
out.