The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-04-11

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Chsyer and the Old Dominson-AM the
Border Slave States Calling for En-Come
and Welcome!
Our recent publications concerning the grand
project of Hon. Eli Thayer and his associates for
the free white re-colonzation, resusctation and
regeneration of Old Virginia, and especially the
late practical and brilliant manifesto of Mr.
Thayer, have created most remarkable sensa-
ton among our Virginia newspaper cotempora.
ries. Those belonging to the ultra niger driving
school can hardly find explosives strong enough
for the expression Of their wrath. "The South"
tie new fre-eatDg organ of Master Pryor, at
Richmond, is particularly savage. 1t looks upon
this contemplated introduction into the poor old
State of more white settlers with uumixed hor-
ror. Master Pryor will have nothing OF the sort.
He calls upon the Governor-the terrible Cover
Thsyer to show himself in Old Virginia; he
threatens his colonists with hempen ropes and
grapevines. and various other implements of tor
ture; and right and left the stupid niger organs
and ninconpoops of the State repeat the same
silly and pitful threatenings
At this stage of the controversy-whent this
crazy excitement and these dreadful apprehen-
sions Of the Virginia newspapers are provoking
the mockery, the ridicule, the jeers aud laughter
and the contempt of the North and the rest Of the
country-out comes Eli Thayer with another ma
nisesto, which we spread before our readers on the
first page of the paper. 1t Brief but it is full of
solid matter as an egg Is of meat The facts
which he communicates are really astounding.
They indicate with peculiar force that in this
movement Of these Homestead emigration COM
panies, new epoch commences in the political,
speculative and social history of this country.
Mr. Thayer tells us that since the publication of
his scheme in the HERALD he has received letters
from North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Gin great numbers from Southern and Western
Virginia, all heartily approving the scheme, and
all earnestly entreating us to send our colonies
to their respective localities He says that I'VE
have been offered over i've millions of acres of
Virginia lands, at prices varying from fifty cents
to one dollar an acre.
Now, what do these facts signify? They show,
as plain as daylight, that the real estate owners
OF Virginia better understand their interests
than any Of those crack Drained nigger-orgau
blowers who believe in nothing but niggers
THE people" Of Virginia, Mr. Thayer tells us,
'are waiting for the friendly invasion" Itisthe
Virginia niger driving politicians who own
neither lands nor niggers, that the noisest in
their threats against this free white emigration
scheme. Follow the teachings of these wretched
philosophers Of the Virginia party press, and
she will stick to their policy of isolation, depop-
ulation and decay. She will stick to her beggarly
towns and more beggarly villages, to her leaky,
dlapidated and deserted old mansions, to her
"was'ed fields Of broom sedge' and those "stump
tailed steers" 30 graphically described by Gov.
Wise. She will still glorify her rags aed her
poverty, and wrapping herself up In her resolu-
tons Of '9s and 80, and gathering into her en-
brace her improvident aud lazy niggers, she will
issue Chinese edict Of exclusion against all free
white outside barbarians- She will thus have
half finished railroads through uninhabted dis
ticts in due time brought TO the hammer on &C
count of unpaid debts. till bankruptcy and repu-
diation shall have worked out her ruin and die
grace Then, perhaps, she win discover the full
extent Of her stupidity aud her folly.
But we would now ask in her behalf. why this
folly Of obstinate, voluntary starvation Would
IL not be better to invite bona Jfde industrious
free white immigrants from all quarters to come
in, and welcome? Come Income settle our
waste lands, rebuild our decayed towns and beg
carly villages open our mines establish factories
finish our railroads. enlarge our cities, increase
our commerce, and strengthen us and enrich Us,
on the land and on the sea, by your
willing hands! You are welcome among
u.s. IL yc viii but enhance our real
estate, our houses, lands, mines mill seats, &c,
fifty, seventy-fve, a hundred, two, three and four
hundred per cent, as this business is done 10 Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, through those
great western free State cru sades of emigration.
DO this, and while our cons and daughters are
making the tour Of Europe, or enjoying the sum
mer at New York, Saratoga, Niagara and the
great lakes, we at home will be settling up our
debts, extending our railroads and ornamentng
our estates
And such will be the practical results from the
free white RECONCILIATION Of Virginia, sooner or
later. She may postpone or she may hasten the
day Of her deliversnce. In the meantime the bill
incorporating Messrs Erastus Corning. Rolln
Sanford, Charles A. Stetson, John A. G. Gray,
John T. Williams Truman Smith, r. M. Blatch-
ford James Mckay, William A. Hall, Edward
W. Fiske, Henry Morgan, Palmer V. Kellogg,
John L. Schoolcraft, Alex B. Williams, d. Ran
dolph Martin, aud all those who may thereafter
bo ascoo;atod with ham under The ,i.le of the