The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-23
THE DAILY DISPATCH:



Nsrth asd South.
n. Free SCH presses are industriously awaiting
.h.m selves of the comments Of the Virginia press
upou ELI Thayer's emigration scheme, 70 pfop.-
rate the notion that deep and rreconcilao'e ao.
t,lity exists in virginia to al Northern men @"'
Oh Nsrthsm Immigration. mi.
No men bester know the utter fAin'y ol 'Al'
charge than those who make IT, AZ
members the splrit and the terms 10 "a,0n -.
nro,ected eo,ony Of Thayer was heeaided ~ enA'
individual and BY the original aovoca'es u WIG
~. NJ. "a ,hs ,ournals IN his interest," ooioiy
"..-.ss !. :. ,hs outset as . scheme fer over
.Ss~~ - s.,,..,;c institutions Of Virginia, for
..,,.,on,-,,s the State At the ballot box, and TO
=. .,r,o,,.d. II necessary, by such means a. were
49, ~ Tho Free Sellers of Kansas In maintaining
.h.,, ,c.pnsncy of that territory. The articles.
..,.,,.rlv of the New York Herald, upon this
80, .hounded with sneers At the poverty OF
v,rein;s. At the character Of Its people, and at
,heir iucompetency to take care OF their own In
,erests. We were even threatened with an irrup-
ton from the Five Points. and it was imptuden,ly
and ususiagly declared that the most imbecile and
thrfless Of the Northern population were abundant
" able to compete with the indolent inhabitants ana
We should like to know what would have neen
the feeling In any Northern State If 1t had oeen
threatened with . similar demonstration from ~
South, and IL the Legislature of Virginia. of any
Southern State had incorporated company WHOSE
ayowed objsc: was to settle in the Nof'n anu
make war upon Northern institutions, to TOD
Northern me, of their property, to excite their
laborefs TO revolt and to elbow out the ianoeo pro-
prietors from their possessions. /: is no answer
70 ssy that sueh threats would have only excited
dersion and contempt for, If these had been the
only emotions aroused 1t would have been because
of the comparative weakness Of the South for ag-
sressive purposes We must suppose the South to
be IS numerically superior to the North as the
North confessedly Is to the South, in order to re-
alize the just and indignant response which an
organized Southern crusade against the property
and peace of the North would have ELECTED.
Is 1t wonderful then, that the proposition of Eli
Thayer, as 1t was originally explainedh by that per-
son and his presses, excited universal resentment
In the Southern commusisy 1t was only when
tlAt resentment was manifested, that Thayer
changed his programme, and appeared in the new
guise of peaceful colonist. If that be his rial
character then all that he said at first was false
professions
The people of the South do not regard Thayer
Is . representative of the principles and purposes
Of the North. They are not opposed to Northern
immigration, or to the immigration from any coun-
try of loyal and industrious citizens. Because
they do not desire such Eruption Of abolition,
whiskey drinking vagabonds as they were threats
ened with by the New York Herald, 1t does rot
follow that they will refuse to receive loyal sober
industrious conservative, Northern men, There
is scarcely county in the South which does. not
already contain such men. and which does not
reckon them among the most useful and respected
citizens 1t is as well known here as at the North
that large, inf lential, powerful portion of the
population of the Free States are sound to the
In their allegiance to the Constitution and to the
Rights of the Independent sovereignties under it,
and all such will be welcomed to Southern soil, as
they have ever been, with open arms and fra.ernal
hearts,