The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-12

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, .-o,. -. /reson and Warrington nay
.,.h.rn s,r see States azrayed against the
Wv VT <s.hs Court party. "A few years
'' .Isxi, Kentucky. Virginia, Maryland
." w aware VIVA fellow; because, from the in
re' sx pressure Of the free whites for land labor
md bread, slaves and slave labor win In those
States cease to pay.
But, whatever the consequences to sections and
parties, these recent decisions of the Supreme
Court settle the slavery question for Mr.. Blu
chanan, and mark ont his course. He has only
to follow the path indicated, and in doing 30 he
will be fully and freely sustained by the country.
RESURRECTION OF OLD VIRGINIA. BLAST
FROM AN INDIGNANT EDIroR.-"Old Virginia
Debber tire" is the refrain of one of the gems of
Ethiopian minstrelsy, which called forth from
sarcastic traveller the rejoinder-"No wonder,
she never does the least thing in the world to tire
her" In addition to this chronic laziness, it ap-
pears from the rawlings Of our amable friend
of the South Side Demoerd-which we have pub
lished in another part of the paper-that GER
tain party of these never firing Old Virginians
are resolved not to allow any one else to do any
thing within their DO rders; but that their lands
are to Ne in waste, their mines to remain unwork-
ed, all their great natural advantages to continue
latent, and everything to 60 to ruin in the good
old Virginia style.
Our South Side friend "dissgrees with Ben
nett, which is unfortunate but admits that the
resources of the State are not being developed
with that rapidity which is desirable The chief
objection is to Mr.. Thayer and his title of Homo
rable, which our South Side contemporary will
find has been gained in the usual way-Mr
Thayer having been elected to a seat in the
Thirty fifth Congress Without doubt he will be
quite as honorable as Matteson or any of the
others, and perhaps more go. The chief point is
that Mr.. Thayer and his friends are to be hanged
Ia Haman-Governor Wise is to come down
upon them like the Assyrian of old-they are to
be cut off like Pharaoh and bis hosts; and finally
MIR. Thayer is to be met at Phllippi by the editor
of the Democrat. Our South Side contemporary
his rife At the same time he may as well keep
his eye open, and remember that Haman, who
had believed himself the favorite of the admins
tration of Ahasuerus, was himself hanged upon
the gal)ows which he had prepared for Mordecai
He may make up his mind that Mr.. Thayer and
those who are associated with him will buy lands
in Virginia in the regular way; that they will
settle upon them, improve them and that 1t will
be the duty of Gov. Wise to protect them in their
rights Of person and of property should they be
assailed. If Governor Wise is found remiss in
discharging his duties they will call upon the fe
deral government for that protection guaranteed
by the constitution. Our valiant friend, who
crows 80 Justify, need not be quite so impatient
for the fray"
The grand point is, however, reserved for the
last. Why, we are asked, do we not regenerate
the slums of the great cities at the North, where
poverty and crime 60 hand in hand? That is
precisely what this immigration movement is in
tended 70 effact The s-ost nitias OF tho North
have an overplus of population. and the price OF
manual labor is thereby reduced. Nearly all
crimes against property flow from this cause, and
we intend to open the rich lands Of Virginia to
the i'll paid laborers who suffer from 1.-The dismal,
damp want which infests the Northern cities"
1t is intended to make all these poor people re-
spectacle, Industrious, thriving, clean, well ven
tilated agriculturists- sitting under his
vine and fig tree, to which be will have as equal
a right and as indisputed title as any of the
first Virginia families to the first Virginia planta-
tons.
We must, however, have little charity for our
amiable contemporary, whose mighty soul frets
against the prison bars ofa little village when he
had expected to direct the destinies o. the repub
He is a rejected applicant for the Office OF organ
grinder to the new admiDistration-he il not
deemed worthy TO preside at that splendid in
strument, which has 30 many steps and plays 20
many airs; but he must still grind away at bis
little penny concern which can only play the same
tune over and over again. That sort of grinding
may answer for few small politicians but It,
will not grind the corn, the wheat, the tobacco
from some Of the richest lands on the face Of The
earth--it will not open the railways, navigate
the rivers, rake out the oysters, catch the fish.
dig the canals mine the veins Of coal aud iron
pay the debts of old Virginia, and pour the dol
lars into the laps Of her never firing sons. No!
we must have some other tunes for that practical
hard, every day work. II is purposed to intro
duce some variations into the old Virginia music
and all the small organ grinders will find Il vain
to attempt resistance They would do better to
receive Mr.. Thayer with the hospitality for which
the Old Dominion was so celebrated years ago.
and feed him on their latest oysters.
CLEAN THE STREETs.-Some few weeks ago,
after Broadway had been partially cleared of the
winter snow, we suggested the propriety Of re-