Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06

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fFrom the n. 7. Herald, 18th inst
Worcester, Mass. April u, 1857.
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DEAR Sal take the liberty 70 send yod Z
few extracts from The numerous and interesting /
communications recently receive d from the ma
tives and citizens Of the State of Virginia, earn
estly soliciting for their 'dilapidated State the
surplus money and popu alton Of the Free States
and of Europe !
We may hereafter submit to the public the
views of citizens of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri.
The politicians of Eastern Virginia win pro-
badly now have time to res. and mediate upon
their policy. Better news have come from other
and more inviting scenes.
In national and patriotic view OF this ques
ton, it is obvious that proper balance OF pow
er between the East and the West requires our
strength at present on the Atlantic seaboard.
Eastern Virginia, 10 this end, should have our
surplus money and population for the next three
years. But we shall not force our favors upon
her at sacrifice to ourselves. Profit, not pa
triotism, is the duty of business corporations. U
Western Virginia has profered friendly well
come fit to be considered, perhaps accepted.
Kentucky has presented the strongestinduce-
ments yet offered from any quarter-pledges Of
good will and cordial reception-cheap lands
in abundance, full OF mineral wealth, fertile,
well timbered, healthy and accessible.
Missouri has not yet presented many claims
We wait for more full display of her numerous
attractions. Her undeveloped resources are
without limit. ,.A a@5 = y - S. 5s1tif''.h 49,
We continue to hear from the progressive
sons of North Carolina and Tennessee. They
speak hopefully and well. ~.
Applications to go art as numerous rs invita-
tons 70 come. 7' 10 9'zs 81. a#~ 47s@S
Nearly two thousand men, women and chill
dren have applied for SO ne position in the front
ranks of the contemplated invasion. Every day
swells the great army OF industry.
To give individuality 20 this class of citizen
heroes as well as to INDICATE their friendly and
peaceful purposes. they will hereafter be called
The Neishbors. With subsoil ploughs they will
commence their attach: somewhere next Sep
TENDER. $3.50 ~a sI5s3.'@ FL 5'-t-f psq' s5f='*T
Where shall we 60 with our annual army of
one hundred thousand 'neighbors?" They will
average in property at least 5000 each, and will
be worth to the State OF their adoption not less
than 81, 900 each, making in all one hundred
and twenty millions OF dollars every year. &. ,,
=. Where shall we 'str!ke in next September
with our subsoil ploughs? Truly yours,
$50 o. @5 Ta@@ -As i ELI TuAYER.
Letters received from Virginia.
s ara EXTRACT FRoil LETTER NO. 4. -z,f .as
MR.. ELI THAYER,-SIn:-I should be glad to
throw out some ideas bearing upon your plans
for the renovation OF our shamclully abused and
dilapidated State. .n@ t.-s a5 .. - ,e-
The two great curses Of Virginia are slavery
and party democracy, or negro and party slave
no totn 10 ,va cot IF mod
iders as fatal to all pre- sress the walls of the
Chinese empire ever were to all intercourse be-
tween the Celestials and "outsidc barbarians :"
These idlers sustained by party press for
party purposes, with Nirulence ana pertinncity
only equalled by the i.norance ana prejudices
of their blind and intat lated devotces. Where
is there State with such exhaustless resources
as Virginia. Look at her soil, her climate and
her water power and bier mineral wealth. .-.
Her mountain water courses and her valleys
want nothing but Norti.er enterprise and intel
ligence to make them i hundred fold more pro.
life in all the elements of material wealth and
the highest Christian civilization. The school
house and the church i'll follow the loom and
the anvil-la5or will become associated then
not as now, with color and caste, and mental
and mortal degradaton-but with intelligence
refinement and moral progress, as in the New
England States, compared with which; Virginia,
with all her natural al vantages of climate and
soil, is a moral and Intellectual waste-a talent
buried, fit only to be taken and transferred to
another-a nursery of white drones content to
feed upon the reluctant and Improbable, yea,
worse than Improbable labor of involuntary
servitude. When gain, on the part of the labor
ing class devoid OF the stimulus Of progressive
accumulation, is estimated, not by the amount
of work accomplished, but by the amount of
dad NJ
ton with the carelessness, waste and evasive
sloth which are the necessary attendants of slave
labor? 1t is impossible.
have had a fair opportunity Of seeing the
working of the system from my childhood, and
believe that all its ten tencies, whether we view
them in moral or political light, are evil, evil
only, and that continually; and | say this with
more reference to its influences upon the whites
than upon the blacks. think the masters are
more to be compensated than their slaves, and
that the worst influence of slavery is its reflex
influence upon those holding slaves.
am, &C., &c.
EXTRACT FROM LETTER NO. CA.
Mr.. THAYER, EsQ.:-l am much pleased with
the project of which l c steem YOU the lead viz
coloniziug "old Virginia" and hope you will
go on with your good work, and reap a rich re-
ward, both in pocket aai conscience.
There is one part of your article from which
you must allow me to dissent, and that is, your
avoiding the western counties for the eastern.
There are hundreds OF thousands of acres, of
the very best timbered land in the following
western counties-Pc' SAINT, Wood, jackson,
Mason, Putnam Cabell, Wayne, Kanawha, Mich
olas, Randolph, Fayettr, Boone and Logan that
can be had. .
The climate in westc, n Virginia is one of the
finest in the world, equal to Italy, and the grape
thrive as we'll as in any part of Ohio, and is
most profitable crop, AZ you no doubt are well
aware. $1,000 per acre has been cleared this
season. $500 to $500 ;,er acre is considered
very poor yield. All i wants is Yankee enter
prise and little capital and western Virginia
will become one of the ihost prosperous parts of
the Union. Climate, soil and everything is in its
favor far ahead of the EASTERN or southern coun-
ties. as .1 r'- ,a...+ #Fa..~~@s ~-5..
You may, perhaps think me land specua-
tor, and that am writing this with selfish mo-
tives. Such is not the case. i own small farm
OF about $50 acres, amt no more, for want of
means. | am spendin: what money have to
spare in planting the era DC vines and an orchard
and look forward very ..,nguinely to enjoy some
years of comfort on The place. r.. .7
am but a poor hand at wiring a place up,
but earnestly request you to invest some of your
money in the parts ha re named. " ~
Hoping you wlllprogr IS with your good work,
/ am, &c. & ee sgsl. .=asa3 -. &.
g.. EXTRACT FROM LETTER no. 81. ssa.-.. f..
Mr.. ELI THAYER-!Niy The mountainous
portions of Virginia are, prospectively, the most
valuable, possessing ASIDE from their agreeable
climate, inexhaustiblc beds of anthracite, camel
and bitumnous coal. These lands are fine for
the Catawba grape, from which, by cultivation,
the finest wines now Known are successfully
made. For wool growing it is clear that no
country can excel those regions. ~'.s
E EXTRACT FROM LETTER NO. 3d. 81
Mr.. ELI THAYER-Sir:-Ihavei lust read. with
a good deal OF interest, your letter of the 10Th |
OF March, addressed to air. Bennett, of N. York,
on the subject of the Homestead Company.
think | can say that only very inconsiderable |
portion of the people of Virginia can have any
objection to un enterprise from the North of SO |
peaceful character as the one you represent.
Indeed, SO far as have viewed it, think many |
reasons can be adducc,i why we should Jealous. |
y advocate it. "a T." 81 ~ .F-' -z.sr* rs! s-.
Our State contains large and most valua BILE
domain OF country. 1t is sparsely settled, owing
mainly, perhaps, to the absence heretofore Of
WORKS OF internal improvement. Now we are