The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-24

nov Who would willingly sell you large Po!sons Of
tbcir psstaaioDs which ars either exnA1see on GOV
cred with Q vslueless growth OF nmocs! ano =. On
obliees them 70 sell their slaves 70 pay A.d u
Wi copceded iact, that g general ruie, Tho farm.
srs Of Virginia could not hive but for the increase Of
Their s:n on TS ne ssos:s ss or shsi
wesh i no. sbsr snds and hss proved ths
sr,x srcaus 70 richer lands in other 6sases Bat
ihis CIV Of "Cheap lands" Cheap lands swell,
Jet us examine III come ss.r ssntS to ss,S Us
Ssrs ysnoSe &c ashes of the Father Of his County
Ter us nav the homage due to the Ilustr1ous dead,
and a. you proceed along The road marked hero and
lands Here 10 an opening II is now summer; around
that sbaniy IL patch Of corn, forcing Its slcxly,
yellow growth by means Of the heavy 6sh offhl ms
nure with which II was planted and without which II
never would have even lived. But as you travel on,
90 you see blade Of grassy The few starved cattle
are now luxuatng on the buds and tender leaves In
tho woods; oats are perhaps ten or twelve
inches high, and seems as II Il would pus-
through Prince Willisn, Stafford, aud along
till you reach the waters of the RappahanDOck
river and from Fredericksburg 10 Richmond, another
sterile barren country; and from Richmond to CD
del svi)le; from Richmond to Dansville, through
Cumberland. Powbatan, Buckingha and many
other counties, any Northern emigrant or working
man would starve on such poor cheap lands No.
thing need be said In this connection further about
the cheap laDds but there are other considerations
to guide the emigrant. Society Is formed Of three
CARS s: First the planters and their fathes. sons
and connections; this class includes doctors, OF
which there are an abundance, and often ten 10
village Of one or two tnonssnd persons, and all get
enough to do some way win fevefs, &C., lawyers, Of
which class there are plenty; they TOO, owing 60
want of q land system as established by the
general government, find plenty 70 DO IN
the open sesame to the Legislature; merchants
and traders. Secondly, we have q class of
mechanics who pine away sickiy existence, pres
SEQ on one side by Northern msnufactu es-from
the planters carriage to the baby sshoe-and on the
other bv slave competing laoor,or every extensive
plantation has its mechanics. This class incl des
overseers teamsters and those resident about the
towns and villages supplying them with small neces-
ssries; and lastly class who perhaps are che mOst
degraded specimens of native Americans on this Con.
tipent They are to be found In log made, mud
stuffed shsnties in the woods ekeing out Q living BY
cutting and iriDg barrel timber, shingles aud
hoop poles, but chiefly In aiding to plumber the
planters through their slaves and bayterng with I'M
prncpled traders at the nearest village or to vn for
whiskey. They are born In ignorance, they grow no
in ignorance and they die in the same; they will per
form such acts decent slave w0uldnos willingly do
In the avorite county of the State and in which s
the pride Of Virginia, and within view Of its
founders dwelling q alude to the University, in
which are yearly gathered over 500 students),
and in county claiming more F. F. VS. than, per-
hsps, any other, there we're found, some few years
ago, several thousand male ami female adults, under
twenty-one and over fifteen, who could neither read
or write, and in this very county common school
system was rejected by an overwhelming vote.
"'What do poor white people want with education
any more than negroesY' was the response. Then
this is your chance for educating your children, emi
grant TO the cheap lands Of Virginia. No, You are
only required by purchasing these cheap lands 10 I'LL
and enrich the pockets Of speculato, who care not
for your future fare and be made tool for party
purposes and unhoy Vaccinations Go seek your
future in the fertile lands Of the West instead of the
deserted worn out lands of the Old Dominican.
XIRGNIAN.