Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-30

TO smother every appeal to The reason aud inter-
esis of the people affected by it, That con-
dtiOn Of the public mind is abou, 10 disappeay,
and henceforth The subject will be investioated
and disposed Of as problem in political econ
omy. This will be the unpleasant to poliiic-
ians, because it viii compel many of them to
change their pursuits, which will be difficult,
and their principles which will he easier
VI the railroads SET down in Virginia in
1851, l.ls0 miles we're represented to he rn-
der construction. Tie most Of these remain
unfinished. But to the 500 miles which are
finished do not yield any returns adequate 10
To their cost The last published accounts. Of
The Norfolk and Roanoke Railroad. show an
actual deficit of revenue, as compared with ex-
pendiiures, Of $4,000 during the year.. which
was one Of unusual activity upon those works.
Thus not only has the whole capital been sunk,
but the ownership of it innlcts an actual tax
upon the anioriunaie holders. The debt rs
The State. wisely and justly incurred in aaf 81
her canals aud railroads, is 800 900 400. Tho
taxes require 10 provide Tor The interests are
complained of as oppressive, and the omnous
and criminal word repudaion' has been
whispered on the hus,ines. Now Of course
the public men Of Virginia are not so ill-in-
formed as not to know that the reasop ~by
their railroads angush for want of business
IS the pauciiy Of population. The railroads Of
New York have Gust. we presume, len times
the amount that has been expended on these of
Virginia Yet they are suod property. Their
revenues are derived mainly from loesg 'tyaver
aud freight, which dense population and pros
MOI han al i,I
TO State debt, the State government of Penn
sylvanla derives very inadequate revenue
from her public works, but the people pay the
interest on $40 900 900 cheerfully, because is
is distributed among numerous population.
The railroad Of Virginia will be a burthen up
on her people unless the exodus of her native
inhabitants be stopped and the ingress of i'm
migrants be encouraged. What drove out Of
Virginia 10 ind homes in other States, 36S. 600
natives Of her soil, shown BY the census of
1850, while but sixteen TO the square mile re-
main at homel Why was il that only %, 600
foreigners could find homes in Virginia, when
they swarmed by hundreds of thousands in
other less favored Saies Everybody knows;
and yet, he who should speak the one word in
which lies the whole truth, would be entered
in the register of fanatcism a malignant
libeler of the old commonwealth, which is SO
rich memories Of the past, so poor IN the ele-
ments of present prosperity and happiness
But that word will be spoken by Virginia lips,
and the delusion and the blight must pass away.
The whole process IS plain enough.
Immigration ltom The North and from
Europe will accomplish the inevitable change
Mr.. PRYoR, the editor of the South" whose
nltraism on Slavery was too extreme for even
such journals as the Washington Laioa and
'---------- --'-f~."e', s"s up
organ for the defence Of the institution, admits
that Virginia must have more men, and must
be resuscitaied by immigration, but he repeTs
New Englanders, and declares: "We prefer,
p" instead, an importation Of vigorous mu sole,
" generous blood and brilliant intellect from
the Emerald Isle, which has already supplied
rs with so large and precious proporiiea Of
our population"
The proportion of Emerald Islands spoken
of must be precious indeed, when the whole
number of foreign born residents in the State,
at the date of the last Census, was only 2s,
900, Of whom 5000 were from Germany,
England and Scotland. This cry for help TO
ireland, however will not hell the matter at all.
The Irish will make the most inpe,,ops aboi-
ZIONIST when settled as labors in any of the
Slave States. Here, we know, they are on the
other side, but the very reason which induces
them TO take tina, position in the Free States
VIII lead them into opposition elsewhere. The
same natural combailve disposition which has
kept them at war with the government Of their
naive country for three centuries, seis them
in hostile array against the ruling opinions of
any community in which they may happen TO
be. Here, too, they oppose negro equality.
as to the right to labor, becaus they fear com
petition Of that race in their own pursuits in
The South they will show their hostility 80 the
very existence of negroes fof he same reason.
The Norihen herdes which are nnqHes,ionably
reparng 10 bTeak into Virginia will proceed
from the same hives that swarmed out upon
The Roman Empire sixteen centuries ago, and
abolished Slavery there. They will come froro
liermany, llelvetia, the Rhine, the Ebe, and
from the various islands and regiors in Europe
and America conquered by the defendants, Of
those Teutunic barbsrians-ihe same race, it
most singularly happens, that by the aid Of
Emigronl Aid Societies originally seized and
settled Virginia. If The work is left to them
'Hcy VIII uo ~ dUn ltdce-
fully. If the Cells are called in to do it, it
may be accompanied by violence aud civil
But in any event il will be done.
Black men will receds toward the topics Sla-
very will vanish before the march of white
men.
And the change will be OF inestimable aS-
vantage 10 Virginia. II will suspend her down
ward tendency; restore her to the system ofihe
worlds civilization, from which. we give 10 say,
she seems desirons to isolate herself make
her lands fertile and valuable build up her
mines give her cities reveal ihe riches of
her mines give her steamships and commerce,
Ind place in the lands of those " old families"
,ow subsisiing upont the scanty and melancholy
revenues of a tariff which We will not de-
scribe, prncely incomes derived room the in
iustry of crowded and happy population.
COMEDIAN AND LAwYER.--A few years
lgo, when Billy Burton was in his troubles.
Young lawyer was examining him as 10 how