Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-09-22
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The illusions made to q war Of races
lin Virginia, blythe French and English.
Journals, and occasional notices of thd
eccentric movements 9f q Mi Thayerb bit
some few ofthe Journals here. may arolsq
some curiosity ~amdnglour readers, nd
doubt, as they noticed the joy of ou4
friends over the water, they must have
wondered as to what causedtheir eestadyt
Now we happen 10 know ALL about Tho
matter, from As to q. We can explain
what aIl this fuss about s.the war ofTaces
in Virginia means. Our puzzled read
ters, and the wandering people of Virginia,
fully al puzzled as, Anybody else, have
EonIy to listen Is us, as Ne blow our trump
1t on the hduse-top,5 te hearHthe words Of
wisdom. Our trumpet may not sound sd
loud as that ofsome ofoar coteT1 porariess
ID may be more family blown. from lack
ofwind on u part, III il may not have A
s sufficient quantity Of brass III It but we
pledge our word that it win sound nd
false note. n
Mr.. Thayer is I Yankee off ent$rprisT
ING habits, and i foshGldness Tor buying
cheap and selling deaf. NH. 'ThageI has
discovered numerous old aind worn out
Virginia land1patents VI be id the market
where they haze been kicked about fol-
years, because they conferred nothing on
holders. He has beer. offered landIat one
dollar, fifty, thirty, t4n, or two cents per
acre, orat what price Ne chooses, Start
hing with the postplats that allland4-even
that covered with rocks or water-tmust
be worth something, Mr.. Thayer has
gathered toGSesa nImberHof youths as
enterprising aadseonfaent as himself who
have gone into. tile buying by wholesale!
and sAlling IL retaif=to peddlifg out
small farms AID town lots-and inducing
gullible and mafal Yankees to settle
among the remote hhathens and publiTT
cans Of the7old Dominion. In order to
Get advertised eheaply, these land -pedE
dlers, having enlisted the Herqld as gent
eral advocate, are trying to excite the AM
ger .of the Richmond jErdmiher, on the
zone side, and Che sympathy Of tho Neg
York T1ri6uae, on the other; while ths
foreign journals, seeing the fight, are led
into the belief that i war of races is being
saaed in this quarter, betweenthe whites
led By Pryor, Of the South, aiid the blacks
under Greeley.
So far the dodge has succeeded very
well. The RICHMOND papers have fallen
into tie trap The 4faaunsr, usually
shrewd enough, has bken completely did,
Hdled; and has pi1esr1petr$ted quite q severe
paragraph on the people whoIdwel about
tie mouth Of Sandy and Twelve Pole,
for letting the interlopers into the Yirt
ginia Canaan. He dbnounces them all
Yankees, and Hearenknows what dlse-+
Ea1t Of which Is mere bpsh. They areEthe
Yankees Of Virginia, so far as IsharptFat
ding is concerned, as Mr.. Thayer andhiB
colleagues will learn BBomedags but they
are quite as devoted tdthe peculiar insH-
tuition as any Of their eastern hrethreh.
A corporal guard of abolitipnists could
not be found in the whole Guyandotte
country. From its dontiguity to Ohio
the few slaves there cannot Be restrained
to remain against their will. They ale
@I#&EE All .lNys a &E@.19#EG Ft E.#I@Lm IH ~ L,.lJ
slaves 10 name, but owners iii fact. The
whites, back from the Ohio river. are \
race of hunters and small farmers, each
mostly the owner of his own plantation,
and sole lord Of the lighthouse, with ids
single room. ii which dwell his wife,
children and himself. and where he gives
lodging. corn bread ana fried bacon ~
the occasional traveller. Yet SO fat from
being Yankees they ate more fsto the ma
nor born than in any eastern county f
Virginia. AS for their aversion to slla-
very, assumed BIZ Tile 7rii5uRe-t II
fudge. The subject Il one they bother
their brains no further about, than to feH
sent the interference .of outsiders with
an institution Of thesEate.
The foreign jgnrnals waste IDEAL d
pity dngthe HoTIslavaholding portion Of
Firginians. The nontslayebolder them
~(selygsare not conscious Of any d grada-
tIea They occupy politically aahtd 81 ssoot-
~ciallYthe sametposition as in any other
state. Rey rank in lsodiety ii proper
ton to theifintelieet, education and re-
fneanent as hiighas inlany northern state,
and In proportion TO their wealth higher.
In New York wealth goes a great WAYS
to make society endure aeboorish man
lit does not 90 quite so far at the south.
The whites being oil a dominspt cast,
stand more upon d social level. The ait
tizan who is qualified BY mind and msn-
ners, is not excluded from good spcietss
because Of his occupation His excla-
sion, when it occurs IS from the fact that
he IS not congehial. With us at the
north, no elegance and refinement, no in-
tellect OF accomplishments can prove the
sopen sesame to the door Of good sol
ciety for the artizan-unless gilded BIZ
wealth. The white race have a social, as
wen as peeuIniiary interest south, in keep
inc the Black in its present position. which
they have not at the north.
It \ impossible to call that d war. when
one side remains ~obstinately still. The
blacks DO not rise-tfiere Is no prospect
of rising-or as the Tribune would per-
haps put it-there iseho hope Of their Ell.
4 d~eayoring to rise. Instead Of q war u
races, it is a war BY 4 knot Of northern
spectators on the pockets Of Northern
Iaborers. 1t will succeed for d while
and then 90 down with thu usual crash
or izzle out. and given no sign. The fol-
eign journals may bottle up their super.
/ fous ioy for another lime. 1t will keeI