Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-28
From the Richmond Examiner.
The plain Truth abont the. Virginia
COLONIZATION Humbug.

:
ginia. where she corners geographically
in between Kentucky and Ohio, and where
politically she lies under the influence of
Ohio, very large purchases of land have
been made during late years. and very
extensive enterprises in coal mining and
land jobbing have been undertaken by
Yankees and bubble.blowers. 1t is
portion where the inhabitants, segregated
from their fellow Virginians by high
mountains and long distances, and HAYS
ing their trade and social intercourse ex-
clusiyely westward aud ohioward, with the
exception of few sterling men and wo-
men descended from the old Indian fight
ing stocks of our peple, have less politi>
cal. commercial and social communion
and sympathy with Virginia than with
Cincinnati and Ohio.
The western terminus of the Covington
and Ohio railroad was also fixed. few
years ago. precisely in this extreme COR
ner Of Virginia, and the keen-scented
Yankees, who were already in that re-
gion engaged in coal mining enterprises.
promptly formed joint stock companies
and purchased lands between Guy andotte
aud Big Sandy on speculation. Indeed.
t may be stated generally, that this ex-
treme western corner of Virginia, this
narrow peninsula of land. twelve miles
wide. lying between Guyandotte, the Big
Sandy and the Ohio. and the region
round about, is Yankee colony. having
scarcely any vestiges left of Virginia
population, sentiment or society. It is
here. in this Yankee back yard, or ex-
81 Srso
the notorious Thayer has lately appeared.
purchased lands by admitting the Yam
KEGS owning it as shareholders in his
joint stock company. anddressed the Yam
KEGS dwelling there. and got up, with
their aid, mock demonstration on paper,
intended to produce the impression on
other portions of the Union, ignorant OF
the facts of the case. that he has come
into our State to colonize it with aboli.
tionists at the solicitation and with the ops
proval of o Virginia sentiment.
Having made this demonstration at
Guyandotte. the capital of this little cor.
ner Of Ohio IN Vtrginia, he proceeded up
the river, and had himself dined and toast.
ed by the Abolitionists about Wheeling,
in that extreme tongue of Virginia which
lies between Pennsylvania and Ohio
where a {" State" Abolition Convention
met last year and nominated FREMONT
electoral ticket, which received about CSC
votes out of two>hundred thousand.
These are the proceedings which, her
aided with flourish Of trumpets in The
newspapers, have been received With SC
much exultation by the Aholitionists o
the North, and which the railers at Vir
GINA in the extreme South have seizec
upon and bla1oned with SO much avidity
with The hope of discyedising our Com
nonweahh with the people of the 'cottOz
States
II is to these proceedings that the Mis-
soari Democrat, the Abolition organ q
ST. Louis. allades to an article opened il
The following silly and exultaat stain
There IS still hope Of the old dominion
Signs Of returning sanity are increasing
Last year she drove out Underwood 70
voting for Fremont--sAis year she vel
comes Eli Fhayer. hstens 10 his free Ia
boz speeches and welcomes his Yankee
emigvsata There is potency in Kansa
free state moyements-in Missousr eman
cipasion- Yirginis feels the quickenins
Hapulse-Y Virginia moves and is resistless
ly drawn IN the right direction. 1hayc
is not hsog. as promised BY the are eat
ers. but is Toasted by hospitable and rea
F. F. VS.. When will maryels cease
1t matters very little to Virginia wha
fslsehOoas either the North or South ma,
believe to her disparagement. SANDER
ever command ready credence, and Sian
ders upon great State, it seems, are no
exceptions to the general rule. The We
~ fact that the mountebank TnAYEl
} chose the two extreme points of Virgins
most absolutely Ohioized and socially Sc
, gregated from her community, as the the
} atre Of his mock demonstrations, is proc
conclusive that he finds no sympathie
within the body of the State among he
genuine people. But be this as it may
we have this inconsistency for our extrem,
Southern planters to remark upon.
They are constantly bewailing III,
prospect of the speedy abolitionization o
the four frontier States of the South, Ma
ryland, Virginia. Kentucky and Missouri
and. yet, are as perpetual1y railing a
these very States for lukewarmress upo1
the question Of slavery in Kansas. Nov
il the movement of slaves southwark il
so e1hausting. and the pressure of North
ern free white labor on frontier sla7,
States SO irresistible, as to insure thc
prostration Of slavery in these froutie1
States in short time, why should ou,
cotton brethren insist upon our sending
slaves to Kansas from our exhausted
stocks. while they in their abundance re,
fuse to spare any of theirs for an objec
so desirable? With what consisenc y car
they insist that Kansas must be made 6
slave State fas aut nefas by US while they
are SO loud in their haunting prediction:
against the border States already slave Of
the impossibility of their remaininp so :