Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-05
Emigration TO Virginia.

In the New York Tribune OF May 18th.
we fud letter which the editor says Is from
Virginia; but as the letter has neither sigma
tore nor post Office, We question very much 1t
il ever was in the State until it found It's way
here 10 the columns Of the Tribune" But
be that as it may, the letter, full as II it with
ridiculous nonsense about the degradation OF
working men in Virginia, is made the subject
of an editorial By the Tribune" There Is
not one statement contained IN the letter that
ia not coupled with fasehoOd and mlsrepre-
sentation The grossest injustice Is done to
the people Of Fairfax county, in the insinua-
ton that slavery is on the decline there, be-
cause of the immigration from Northern
States. Il is not true that the Northern
people" of Fairfax county make "use OF none
but free labor" The tenure of slavery 10
Fairfax has become precarious, not from the
Northern people" living in that county, but
from its proximity to Washington city. now
almost as vile 40 abolition den as Boston
itself.
/ The Northern people" Of Fairfax, we
have been informed, employ slave labor
Some Of them, we understand, are the Own-
ers of negroes: and all Of them, whatever
their opinions may be as to the subject OF
/ slavery, respect the laws of the State oil their
adoptian--never Interfering With the rights
IT their neighbors upon the subject OF sla-
very.
The people Of Virginia are Indifferent as
70 toe opinion Of any man, from any secuoo,
on the subject of slavery. Virginia AXIS no
/ man who may desire to make his future res
/ idence within her boundaries, to adopt the
prevalent affection Of the people Of the State
] for the institution Of slavery; but she de-
mands of every man who desires the protec-
ton Of her laws, that he render unyielding
/ obcGieace to those laws--that be shall respect
tho institutions OF the State. The tenure Of
/ slavery in Virginia is so fixed and unaltera-
/ bic, that her people are Indifferent to the
opinions of men upon the abstract question
of slavery; but she will severely punish any
attempt to tamper with her slaves. The
( Northern people" are then welcome among
us-let then come singly or in numbers-let
them obey the laws and respect the opinions
they may find in State, while they enjoy the
! blessings, and ask the protection of her laws,
and all will be we'll But should the pseudo
philanthropy Of philosopher Greeley tempt
! them TO interfere with the institution, they
may rest assured they will be quickly and
severely punished.
The wholesale and systematic manufacture
of falsehoOd and misrepresentation that is dali
ly worked up into marketable form by the
New York Tribune" has 80 poisoned the
Northern mind rs to Virginia and the whole
South that the dreams of many of its pious
old ladies' are disturbed by the raw head
and bloody bones" of slavery. We once
knew an old lady, an habitual reader of the
Tribune" who, while on a visit to some
lady friends in Virginia, mingled with her
nightly devotiOns a prayer for the family
with whom she was staying, 'for dancing
and owning negroes"-aud one seemed to
| her as heinous as the other; AID we sgree
with her. But we can add that the old lady
remained long enough in the State to see the
errors into which Greeley had led her; and
nov, perhaps, her prayers ask for deliVerance
from the Lying and slandering" as well as
picking and stealing" Of the New York
Tribune" We can say to all Northern
people" who may desire to immigrate to Vir-
ginia, to come on; they will fnd cheap lands,
fertile soils, delightful climate, an hospita-
bic reception end kind treatment, so long as
they behave themselves; but quick and severe
punishment, be they many or few, when they
transgress the laws Rich Eng.