The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-05-20
n u Nj B L II ii.
THE COLONIZATION SCHEME.

The foolish scheme of Eli Thayer, the
member Of Congress, from the Worcester
District Of Massachusetts, for colonizing
Virginia with an annual army of 100000
free emigrants, after exciting the indig-
nant comnents of the Southern Journals,
has received full exposure at the hands
0f those Of his OWE party. The to!!ow-
ing extract iom the New York Times,
characterlzes it as a bold scheme to rob
weak people at the North, being entirely
visionary and impracticable. The Wash
ngton Star well remarks, that the elec-
ton OF such man to Congress, affords
the best comment upon the result Of pop.
ular education 10 Massachusetts, and the
social moral and intelligent degeneracy
OF the people. Their reckless disregard
OF true principle and sound patriotism,
finds fit embodiment in the person Of
this unscrupuous charlatan
as there anything better than this ia
the entire catalogue Of puifs Of Parker
Vein which VIC recently copied from the
files Of its "historian 2" Is it possible to
connect more magnificent programme
OF promises, whereby TO eutice eager aud
sanguine avarice into a surrender of its
cash; What farmer, struggling to OBJ
tain bare living for a large family from
the sterile soil of New England, who will!
not jump at the chance Of joining this
annual army of 100000 neigh5orS" and
making in solid cash one hundred million
Of dollars overy year ! We do not know
what have been Mr.. Eli Thayers antece-
dents,-but he has certainly studied, if
not practIced, to good purpose, in the
school Of fancy-stock jobbing and moon
shine speculation.
THAT Virginia, Kentucky, and Mis-
souri, offer marked inducements TO labor
when accompanied by capital, we have
no doubt. Bnt any attempt to force up
on either OF those States, or upon any
other, supply Of labor beyond its imme.
/ date demands must end in ruin, which
will fall the heaviest upon the laborers
who yield to its alurements. There are
lands in these States which have been ex.
hausted by bad culture, and which may
be bought cheaply and possibly be re-
claimed. But money to be expended in
manure, in extra labor, and in various inn
provements Of every sort, is the main
B N''hS ludI can cApSUueu
to tive times AS good advantage in the fer
tile and unexhausted West. There may
be opportunities Of making money by
buying farms in Virginia: but who ever
proposes to try tho experiment would do
well not to rely with any great degree OF
confidence upon the absurd assurances
and palpab!e exaggerations of Eli Thayer.
a movement Of this kind to command
confidence and success, should be man
aged with discretion and prudence. The
business men whose names have been
mentioned in this connection with it, must
know that nothing more certain to bring
1t into distrust and contempt, and them
as its hackers into discredit, than the abb
surd overstatements and the delusive pro-
misses which form the staple Of Mr.. Thay.
er's appeals. They sound much more
like the rigmarole of the mock auctoneer,
or the Herald's bald pufs of Potosi and
Parker Men, that the sober realities and
simple facts upon which a business ope.
ration should rest for its basis."-Inde.
pendent Press.