Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-31
10000 voters. When full, it will show, as est.
mated, total population of 80 600.

THE FREE LABOR MOVEMENT IN VIRGINIA.
The Guyandotte (va.) UliOnist of July 25 says
that large and respectable meeting Of the citi-
gems Of that place and vicinity was held in the
Town Hall on the 2Ist inst, at which Hon. Eli
Thayer of Massachusetts explained the design
and operations of the Homestead Aid Society, Of
which he is the President The Union,st prints
sketch of the speech of Mr.. Thayer, which was
practical and sensible address, the key note to
which will be found in the following paragraph;
you therefore see that the object Of the COM
pany is not as has been represented by some, but
purely business association, having business
object in view, and calculated to promote your in
terest as well our own. 1t is absurd 10 sup.
pose that we would come here, aud bring our
wives and children. to get into quarrels and diff
fculties-steal your slaves-or violate your laws
in any respect. We do not want your saves-we
can do better without them; we like engine pow
er better than negro power, because that kind OF
servants don't. run off, don't sulk nor tiIe-it
will woIk night and day without muTmuring, le-
qufres no food, and costs less-yet, If you should
prefer negro power, we have no right to and new
CT will interfere with your right to employ it.
After listening to Mr.. Thayer's speech, the
meeting appointed committee to draft resolu-
tions, expressing the sense of the audience the
subject, and that committee subsequently sub
mitted series, which were unanimously adopted,
inviting and welcoming emigration INTO that
State, under the auspices of Mr.. Thayer;
Whereas, The legislature of New York has
chartered company that design, we have been
informed by Hon. Eli Thayer, the president Of
that company. purchasing land in Virginia, and
settling the same with intelligent, industrious,
and enterprising agriculturists, mechanics, and
miners and whereas few leading men, lnhu-
enced, as we believe, by wrong conception of
the object of the enterprise have sought to array
the citizens of the State against Mr.. Thayer and
this company, which we, as at present advised,
believe to be act of injustice towards them cal
culated to initiate against the interest of West
ern Virginia, and give TO the citizens Of other
States an incorrect impression of the opinions Of
the people of this State on that subject. There.
fore
ResolUed, That we are in favor Of and will en-
courage every we.founded enterprise that has for
its object the cultivation of the wild and uncuti-
waited portions of Western Virginia, the develop
ment of our mineral resources, the establishment
of manufactures, or anything else that tends in
any manner to make us an independent, self
reliant people.
ReSolUed, That we will welcome to our State
the good, law-abiding citizens of any and all the
other States of the Union, or the world, who may
choose to cast IN their lot with us, to aid in max
ing Western Virginia one of the wealthiest sec.
lions of the Union, and raising the Old Domin.
ion, the mother of States and statesmen, to the
dignified and commanding commercial position
which she once occupied among the States of the
Union.
ResolUed, That we will defend in the possession
Of equal rights with ourselves the peaceable, law
abiding citizens of other States, who may settle
in our midst, and conform to the laws of the
State.