Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-03-31

est, faw-sbidiug-wa emigtate and
dwell among us, bringing with them their
labor, skill, wealth and capital.
We have shown thai So, 700, 900 goes
from the pockets Of the people of Virgin
ia every year to the pockets Of the North
ern importers and merchants. In addi-
| ton to this, the people of Virginia con-
sumo at least 81 0, o00, ooe per annum Of
the Northern manufactures, on which the
North realise profit Of SO per cent, or
So, DOC, 900 per annum. See census re-
turns and estimates. Hence there is a
net sum of s7,7oo. 600. at the least. go-
ing out of Virginia every year TO (buifd
up and enrich the North. there any
way to prevent it? Certainly, and we
have pointed it out. But, some one will
say the North purchases from Virginia.
True, but we propose to bring the con-
.sumeFs and the capital, the merchants and
-laborers who purchase from Virginia into
our own State. iii .. = :
The amount ofsyestea capital. the num-
Der of ships, cities, towns, and operatives
requisite TO import this Sis, SOC, OGe per
annum, and to manufacture this S 900
600 per annum, we leave to the political
arithmeticians. ri ~ H.. ...'.-.
We have shown be- ond question that
the net sum of 81, zoo, 900 is lost to Wy
ginia aud give n to the North every year,
Retain the 1900, 900 per annum in the
Commonwealth. and secure to her the
IS, 900, 900, and the completion of her
railroads and canals, the building of her
cities, the. increase Of her commercial
marine would be certain and speedy. And
we have proposed means entirely con-
stitu.ional and altogether feasible. A lit
tie nerve and manhood in our Legislature
will do the york. r. ,-'...-.
\ Let us take back from the North, BY
State Legislation, that which the North
has plundered from us by unholy and an
constitutional National Legislation. If we
falterfand fail TO do this, then We deserve
to remain as poor and thriftless as we
have been made by Federal legislation.
Virginia will deserve her continual sink
ing in political power and in wealth, un-
til she lose what little political power she
now has in the confederacy. We have
thrown out these suggestions. :. or course
if our Legislature! should dare adopt this,
or any other means to give back to Virgin
ia her relative power and relieve her from
debt and bankruptcy, we will hear hue
and cry about disunion, the glory Of the
Union, and such stuff from the opponents
TofSouthern progress--men ready any day
to sell the honor Of Yirginia--the- whole
South, for the sake of a temporary party
triumph. As long as such fogies,' time
servers, and bastard politicians are allow
ed to rule or to eramp Virginia, and par
alize5the will and the policy of her poIit-
ical youths. as the imbecitities, the mfr
motives, the fears and idle fore5odings Of
dwelling age is pleased to term the RI
sing generation with. its trembling, SCI
pulchral voice, SO long will the people OF
Virginia continue poor and .burdened with
debt, so long viii lie people Of Virginia
continue 10 pay>a yearly tribute of ST.
TOO, go to the North :. SO long will d
fragment. corrupt" degraded. edisgus-
ting Know Nothing fragment Of her peo-
pie, be found. ready to beg from the Gen.
7eral Government, with the whine of loaths
some aged mendacity, little public
land. If Virginia will adopt the policy
we have suggested, there will be some
hope ofpurging this loathsome fragment
of moral. deformity ont of deluded frag-
ment of men, who, freed from the tram,
mels of their leader; are really gallant,
true and great. The Commonwealth
will have to fear no longer, least in an
unguarded moment she fall at the foot
stool of the Federal Government, shorn
Of the locks of her honor, stripped of the
robes of her past glory, begging for pub
lie lands, ready to receive the boon of
treachery to her honor and fair fame
the reward Of violated chastity, herself
seducing the invited rayishers of the pu-
rity Of that Constitution-the daughters
of her own womb, nurtured at her own
breast ;; for. the preservation of which
Virginia has battled from the beginning,
against all odds, all seduction, all offered
brides, every caress of courtier, every
example of courtesan. --. -
Shall the people of Virginia now sell
themselves to this seductiYe,7 but deceit
full bride Of proffered public lands? Shall
this mother Of States and Statesmen give
away in heEeld age that chastity and
honor which her youth and passions
guarded from every seducing wooer, and
strut forth cladin the rich habiliments
Of prostitution. gew-gaw show, con-
temptible in the eye Of manhood, though
mimicing with withered smiles the fresh
ness and the glee of virginity, acceptable
to those alone, from whom yirginity and
beauty shrink back with chilled horror
Shall the mother become prostitute be-
cause her great sons are deads No, let
her preserve her honor, and the same
God that gave her her Washington, her
Jefferson, her Madison, her Henry, will
give her others as great as they. Shall
Virginia, by her example, invite the vio-
lation of that Constitution, the purity of
which is the only remaining bond of our
Union? We trust mott.
i Let Virginia, in her old age, preserve
the reputation and fair fame of her youth.
Lether reject. with scorn and contempt
the publicland bride offered her, in yio-
lation and utter disregard of the Consti-
tutian- I at bar raya1 fhagS offarad hr;ba