Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-28
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a few individuals IN the Stats Of Rev York. 81
communications which have appeared recently from
time to time in the leading baek-rspublean journals
Of the country, seem to be DESTROYS Of attracting
public attention to a foolish scheme they have on
hand to buy up and cOloni1e the poor lands Of East
Virginia with Free white Iaborers from the Free
white north. Under the enlightened and judiciOus
culture Of the enterprising Yankees of New England
the waste places be reclaimed and the land is
once more to smile with plenteouS harvest, while
the present population, by contact with the freedom
loving psalm singing, witch burning, descendants
Of the pilgrim sires to have love of free insti-
tutions gradually infused them and by witnessing
the superiority of white labor and the beauties of
eial equality the scheme finally result in driving
out the negro race from the Old Dominion completely
and forever. And all this is to be accomplished by
such men as JOHN C. UEDERwooD, ELI THAYER,
and the like, despite the opposition Of the present
proprietOs of those lands the united voice Of the
entire South, and even the laws Of nature Live
yankee enterprise has already done, and may still
accomplish greater wonders.
We do not know if these men be fools or knaves
The former would be the charitable solution of
the question but we rather incline to the opinion
that they are liable to both charges. 1t cannot be-
that men of even ordinary intelligence can suppose
for moment that any thing short of complete fail
urs viii be the result Of scheme so silly as this,
We cannot regard the matter in any other light than
as one of the many lodges common in the North, to
draw money from the pockets Of the ignorant, but
honest opponents of slavery who have bled so freely
in the cause Of Kansas to fill the pockets of these
Abolition Jeremy bidders. The stream which once
flowed freely under Dr. GREELY's lancet has grown
very feeble, and new vein must be opened. This
THAYER and his confederates trying to do-with
what success we shall soon see. We are led TO be-
lieve however that the Kansas excitement has near
ly exhausted the sympathies of the Jealous paying
members Of the republican party, and that the
Virginia Colonizationsts will encounter an insur-
mountabe obstacle TO the success of their scheme in
the fact that it will require money to carry it
into effect than it is in the yankee nature to will
ingly part with unless upon the certainty Of an am
| pie return. The "lve yankee, as he delights to
call himself, is a self-sacrifcng creature under GER
tain crcumstances-that is when it will pay. He is
willing TO forsake the amenities and refnements Of
free society--tO foregO the enjOyments of hOme-to
leave a thriving pOpulOus, entsrprising and happy
land where every body reads newspapers and rides
upon railroads, and to enigrate to the far regions Of
the wild West or the tangled everglades of the "be-
nighted South "-proUidsd he can secure good
paying place either in the pulpit the press the
schoolroOm the factory or the counting house.
Butitis to no such entertainment as this that THAY
Err invites the " enterprisng New Highlander" He
invites him fields always poor now still farther
impoverished by long and bad tiIlage; for these
lands the sOuthrOA demands price above that would
| purchase him home in the rich prairies of the
West The new proprietor must begin his task Of
Regeneration with only aremote prospect of ever
entering upon the full frution of his labors as al
adventurer and innovaor he will be subjected tC
the watchful jealousy population who dis
trust the honesty of his motives; in a word he vii
be the victim Of thousand annOyanees to which
nothing short of the certainty of making money vii
ever induce him to suject himself. Does any sensi
BILE man then believe that a wilder scheme or one les
likely to ever be realized has yet entered the min,
of MANI To suppose its realization possible argue
as we think, great ignorance Of the real yankee
character It is therefore, the project either Of vi
sionary fools or selfish schemers looking to their owl
aggrandizement and as such does not deserve to b.
digned by the serious notice of the Southern press