Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-21

ture of these folks little of late, but if the
bird deposits of the Pacific should fall off, the
Lord help them they would be worse off
than ever. But for guano, and the green
peas and strawberries round about Norfolk
for the early New York markets, and the soft
crabs and oysters of the Chesapeake, which
the pestilent Yankees go after and buy, even
the Governments patronage of that naval
station, could hardly save its people from
starvation These are the men who get up
Southern Commercial Conventions, and es-
tablish steamships. manufactures, and home
consumption-bv proclamation-and who
now propose to reproduce in hanzas the same
curse which has destroyed their native State.
In Washington time, even after he had re-
tired from the Presidency, his estate of 5000
acres on the Potomac produced thousands of
bushels of wheat and corn, tons of tobacco,
and hay, and had its hundreds OF cattle, hors-
es. mules, sheep, and swine. Forty years ago,
when the late Judge Bushrod lived there. the
farm had all run down, and aside from his pay
as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States the estate would not yield him
living and noe what is it A dilapidated
show place, where the people, far and near, of
our broad land, go on a pilgrimage, and for
peeping through the grated doors of an alb
surd red brick tomb to gaze upon the marble
sarcophagus OF the +" Father of his Country"
paw the mendicant niger in attendance
shilling sight The house itself is in ruins;
its wings are torn away, its offices burnt down,
its once beautiful grounds and gardens laid
waste, and even the charred remains unre-
moved, while the impoverished owner, still
bearing the honored name of Washington, not
long since put up the place to be ratified for by
showmen, in case Congress, whom he has for
the hundred acres embracing the homestead
for two hundred thousand dollars While all
this is potent to the eye, the grand old estates
of the great Virginians of the Revolution and
our early government are rarely known or in d.
habited. or if known, have passed into utter
desertion, and the very sites of their graves
obliterated.
Can the like of this be found anywhere
north of Mason and Dixon's line? We know
of nothing of the sort. Contrasted with the
condition of things in the free States, is not
old Virginia pleasant spectacle for the con-
sideration of northern men, as an inducement
to consent to the establishment Of slavery in
Kanzas No public highways worthy of the
name, not single district and but
one or TWO Sunday schools or parish churches
in a county, with country all blackened over
with slavery and slave laws, where it is felony
to teach poor African the way to heaven
from book of his own reading! That is the
feast to which our " northern fanatics " are
invited.
1t is an interesting inquiry what number OF
men in that great State give laws to the " hole,
ard force the people into such degradation oil
thought and action. Suppose there are 900,
900 white population in the State. Of these,
one in seven may be men over twenty-one
years of age and entitled to VOTE and of seven
probably only one has a direct interest, or
thinks he has, in perpetuating the present
state of things. Here, then, are less than
20, 900 men holding in thraldom great State
comprising $4,000, 900 of acres capable of
maintaining $1,000 900 of free people in wealth
and abundance-a State, the Oldest of all, and
with the full development of all its resources,
agricultural, manufacturing, and comm ercial,
richer than any other in the American Union
Its capital town, Richmond, the largest, and
richest, only containing at most 80 600 peo-
people-less by 10000 than the manufactur.
ing town of Lowell, in Massachusetts, while
the water power of Richmond is double that
OF Lowell A proud people these Virginians
are entitled to be and their right to make
our Presidents and to furnish the model for
the institutions of the new territories is I'M
questionable. Let us convert Kanzas into a
slave breeding and slave trading State, by the
election of Mr.. Buchanan-the candidate of
those who want to sell slaves at $4,000 and
$500 apieoe-and no doubt in time she will
rival the present splendor of the Ancient Do
minion.