New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-10
COLONIZfS6 VIRGINIA.


a a v,,oipi. AZ exneese5 through it's ne"spHpe'e-
d tbex are Enthusiastically the oIponen's u inc urge
m ;o,;,y f ia yo,ers-ehoud dream oil tfk"S up, o''
Il on,z,ng and cult,vatpg their worn "u' M" "'
hroi on lands We care MT even II '"eo'd p'N'ee'eu
,o,l rich OHIO or Illinois, there - an "'97'"'n W
Ia P,ocpnn migrating tn ther "o'cn suo" " CIV 'eg'
al ,le advantages OF sni climate ana Pr r'oh' no
matter how desirable. Virginia IL save SHe-ths
v.rv Oid S.un Of Sasef more oes"te' ana de-
srad,a IN the syi,a Of hv"h"d'og than +aN aud all
nm, together N,r,h C4r,ina per APPS, ex-
ccp.d from the very f4 r, rhv II essenl ly neither
Il an sor,cnl,ura CONNER is or msnufactI Tag, bu'
,impi, elsve-hrtedns, md slave-seltng StAe. Eo-
,erer,e sud plogres. have ""e,istebce there Slave
bre. DING and saveIearr. il their business, aud what
little agriculture they nav is chiefly excepting the
tobacco CROP of the monet kind, and in;iden 10
/ the aAc-produeing Gt,r-t in SIMPLY furnishing IT
Il with IT,. lowest grade ,f od such rs lo'hn co.o
4 ard sE,d potatoes, ano the sea coast ana ''de
waters ieniDs-the equivalent TO wnat ne isoa'
holding opprt ssors o, Irl4ud deal out TO their OWE
wretched population, the common po'a'oe % 'o"s
AZ cLcop edible will n,.ke slave booze, neSh auo
anew Sd long III tbo.. -nicee matter b"S low In
the so.le of bumap nec. the only ones Itivaed
for its support
TINE. Virginia msny rs ago co nmeLced heller
EXETER plan Of canal I'D Say imPIovem- nt$. she
had seen the success Of ~-iofk, woos- Enc Canal
,eretra,ed tbrouga tn s' If her fertile se-t-rn an
Ties snG tapped the c''rin' roe OF me gtef Lakes
She saw the wise force of oar Western riilways,
inviting the population 81 oe vast interior brrd-riog
the Like and far beyond them, to the tcsde Of our
city; and the Virgin4ns nntly supposed tht they
had only TO imtste Newl TX ia the magntu 1e of her
public works 10 draw lk' 'r@vel aAo a Ike Jmmerce
into Their own borders H. this supposton they only
played Hamlet with Hrirl-' hinl.el left DOT Trade,
especially, il bat another name f freedom and trade,
10 be free, must be controlled and managed by free
men. Whist il Virginia ooes possess canals and raul
uavs bas abe 10 inye the Western ta king world 10
use them7 Where are her commercial mara her sea-
ports her shipping her capital her men of business
merchants and manufacturers Her canals and rail-
WAYS might as well have oeen left unmade as withou;
these the incentives their use. Consequently they
are voitblees. "Nigaers" are her ssaole product.
They can be transported on foot Chaln-gangs OF
humanity travel in the wretched high OF that
ooup.r, until they find stream large enough to float
down TO a Slave market where the cotton OF the
sugar planter meet them, and as the nggers have
consumed all the domestic prOvender at hoTne thore Is
none of that to carry away
No wonder u en- that the public works do not pay.
The VirpiDans have run themselves soundy into debt,
emf s stem of domestic economy, will be, any shrewd
man may guess. Repatriation, of course. II we held
Vr.ipia bonds, we would sel them at the frat fair
offer. They will becun'e no better unless radical
change shall be made in tue slave system. Thst is
certain; for q people who will steal and hold 10 per-
petusl bondage human flesh and blood will equally
steal the money Of their neghbOrs and creditors when
1.rsosai liability and private honor absoved from
-. t.Ik oar1n nul1 huf new
theess true as time will probably determine.
Now, with knowledge of all these facts where is
there body of earnest Northern men who will VEN
uie into this old rotten ough State and take their
lands even at gilt, with the accumulated osd of pub
lie debt upon them, and under the damnsble code of
ssye laws in practice there, for the purpose Of first
repeneIating the country, and fterxard-for the
lands will be worthless until the State is regenerated-
making comfortable homes to themselves and fair
heritage for their children These emigrants would
be marked people TO start with. We care not into
what part of the State they 60. The eyes, and the
hands and the legislation of the slave drivers is
upon them. What are their laws, their privileges,
their institutions, down there ? The experiment
has onse been tired. Years ago, hun1reds
No,tbem men, with their families, migrated int =
the Upper Counties OF Fairfax and Fadquer
bought up their worthless lands at merely nominal
prices and got them into fair state Of cult 'stion-
induced thereto by the promising markets o: Alexau
dIia and Washington. Some OF these people may have
beered their fortunes thereby but to great extent
The came capital and the same industry, expended IN
the Western Free STATES, would, in the same time,
have returned them double They are but coOnsts,
and degraded colonists at that They have no voice
in the legislation of the Sste. They are unknown in
The body polite, and their homes locally known SIMPLY
Is the Yankee Settlement !" degraded, of course in
Virginia eyes, Yet millions of of worn out lsnds
and mountain ranges of fertile forests, capable of be-
coming the finest sheep.walks in the void, where
sheep will live out the pastures the year round and
produce wool at half the price it is at the North,
are advertised in our Notnen papers at nominal
pices-a few cents an acre-and nobody WILL take
them. VIII
The ban of Slavery lie upon them. There is not 90
eligible so healthful woo[gowing district in the
world as the mountain ranges of vrgini. and the
States below her, now al abandoned to wolves, csta-
mounts aud "poor white folks" as the better psnts-
ton ringers" call those who in truth more de-
graded than themselves. The other efete lands they
offer are equally worthless, and for the same reasons
,lave laws and slave institutions No; trust our
free ,rtben people will let Virginia alone. Let their
evils grow until they eliminate in reputation, or
whatever else may come. If those who have money
will be fools enough to tust il to the keeping of mss
whs violate every principle Of humanity-in not only
keeping them posten'y, kith and kin in bondage
but in railing at those who choose to let the whole race
Of humanity be fres-let them work ont their own
salvaton, If they The time may come when
depopulated and debt.rdden land may invite us to
ito occupation on our own terms.
am, Sir your ob-deot servant
April 4, 1851. ONE WHO KNOWS VIRGINIA.
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