New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-27
EASTERN TA-LMNIGRATTON
To nc Editor Of TIE n. y. Tyibybs.


doubt but tia. he il right To fiji State with Anti
Slavery men Is, beyond question, sure way to drive
Slavery out Of it. Would il not be well TO apply the
sau INT ans to the abolition of Savey in other South
ern Ststes Fey for instance, Virginia Can it be
doubted that il would be az successful there IN
Missouri
] am informed, and believe correctly that in Fair
fax County across the Potomac River from Washing
ton more than one half the inhabitants are, at the
prefent time Northern people. And Slavery is giving
way before them as steadily and rapidly there az in
Missouri. They make Of none but fee labor; they
employ it with the ,kll and energy common to North
ern farmers the ViTginans see il and the effect pro-
duces, ard they need nothing else to convince them
that slave labor is Improbable and that to be prosper
ous they must lid themselves Of IT, Lsnds that were
entirely worn out by slave labor ard which aban.
doned to grow up with " old-fed pines, are bought
by eDnsyvsnians and New-Yorkers with intelligent
free labor in about three years. to produce most abun-
daut crops. That is about the average time that s
required by Northern farmer to renovste the Old
fields IL at have been given up by the Vrgnians as no
LONGER fit 10 be worked and the renovation is complete
in that time, il they managed with reasonable
skill.
In the last>two or three years. the country around
Petersburg about forty miles south OF RichmOnd has
begun TO fill up with Northern people, principally
New.Yorbers aud Penns lvanisDs and the same bene-
Fairfax. Old lands that had become utterly worth
ets in the hands of Shareholders and which had been
aba1 doned have been rendered fertile by free labor
al are producing bountiiul crops.
Missouri has very fine climate but 1t does not, IN
ally psIt of the State excel that Of Taste n Virginia
for mldness and it lie rot anything like equal to 1t for
saubrity. Indeed, l doubt whether the climate OF
any country in the world suipasses that OF Eastern
Virginia for evenness and heslthtu meas.
In Penpsy lvana, farmers are prevented by the Sc
verify Of the weather, for great part of the year,
from doing ont door work their farms; ard this is
still more the case in New-York and New England.
IN Eastern Virginia they can work the whole Win
ter as general thing. few daye OF BAD weather
will it lie true, and then intervene 20 stop thsm
but the time ost that account, in average years.
amounts to almost nothing. This Itself, if there were
no other inducements ought to be sufficient to turn the
attention Of Northern people to Eastern Virginia But
there others; one, and very great one 10, itS
nesrpess TO market. There is scarcely one Of It's
neshbOrboOds that is not within Convenient distance
of shipping port on some arm OF the Chesapeake
Bay Atlantic Ocean, or some rlver running into
them There is nothing that the country can produce
that there not reaoy market for within few miles
Of every farmer door, Wheat Is the great CROP ana
I believe / would not be stating the matter too
etropey if 10 say that the bushel OF wheat, on
the average nets the farmer twice as much in Eastern
Nire ina it does in Missouri or Iowa.
Another great uducement to remove from the East
e,I and Middle States into Eastern Virginia, rather
than into the country west Of the Mississippi, s that
il can be doLe in much less time and with 80 much
less expense, AZ fatigue, and danger This is mat
ter Of much Importance, especially to psrsons OF
small means and large families, as TO be worthy OF the
most serious consideration.
But ii may be said tina. labor is disrepu:abe in Viz
gins that the workngman is not respected by the
STAKEHOLDER This is tue TO some extent, and it is an
evil; but Virginia is not worse in this respect now
than Miss our was very few years ago, and 1t !. not
nearly 70 bad now as 1t was itself few years ago.
Ire Nrginans themselves admit that in the lsst fiji.
teen years a remarkable change has taken place
amor them in regard to the social stsDdiog of work
iDgmen and they attribute 1t to the fact that, under
vote whereas under their old none but property
ht l0ers cd. While he had vote, the woi kngman
WIS without pc xer, was no better of than negro,
ard was treated just in the same way. But, so soon
as he got vote, tie whole thing was changed. He
then be came power in the State ar one that coui
al did exert Itself with terrible effect upon suPercl
cus Office hunters. This bore with peculiar force
upon the fret families. They all, from top to
bottom il every Of their branches Office huners;
and if laborirg man iltr, ated by of them,
he to pay him for it next election day. Il
the STAKEHOLDER paesed the laboriDg man by with con-
tempt, his richly dressed children turned up their
noses ct the meany elsd daughter Of the poor
man. all the latter had to do to bde his time for
few months The very next election was sure to
bring out the STAKEHOLDER of his relatives for
Office, and to afford the poor nan an opportunity OF
reverge by defeating his election As soon as the Ia
boring got this advancement in their position po
tcaly, they began Of necessity to take higher po-
sition socially. Things have gone go far already III
this direction in Virginia, that mans respec,aolty
depends there, al the present time, very little more
the question whether or not he works for his living
than il does in the North. And il will be but short
time till labor and abOriBg will he Just as re-
spectacle in Virginia as in any Northern Stats.
1t will perhaps, be asked if a Northern man who
gees to Virginia will not be apt to get into quarrels
with the Virgilans about Slavery. Tni' will depend
very much, If not entirely, upon himself II is gen
erai rule Throughout the world that, if man wsaes
TO get into quarrel, he will no. have 70 wait long to
have biz wish srstied; aud if he wishes to keep out
OF quarrels he will be able, except in very exraor
binary cases to carry cut his wishes without auy diff
fcuty. TIE Northern man will lind that Virginia
does LOT differ from the rest of the world IN this
spec; and that he get along there, ss he any
where else, either with or without quarreng just az
be chooses. Viewing Slavery az an evil, IT occupies
in Virginia just the place that the evils tina, pre-
vail in the Moth occupy there and il il TO bs dealt
with Just in the way. A Nan may oppose gam
bling lquor.selliUg in New York or Philadelphia al
bis life with, az getting toto personal qusr-
rel It'll the gambler liquor. seller and he msy get
INTO quarre with them every day if he chooses.
II ls just so with Slavery In Virginia. man may OF
pose II all his fe without getting into personal quar-.
refs with the Shareholders about IT, and ne may get n-
~ personal quarTels with them every day about It 1t
ne wslts to do TIE Northern people that 20 into
nrtlhia VIII have to act in regard 20 Slavery Just
iiose thai have gore INTO Missouri have acted
gsrd 10 H. There have been no personal qusrrcls
WORN ,peaking Of between the Shareholders and the
AtttolaN.fy men from the North in ssour: and yet
me iaii'f lave opposed Slavery efectuay tnere
that they are literally crushing il out Nouhsrn men
gong Into Nngips must follow the example of their
brethren in missouri.
There s plenty Of land for sale and ina. ~ .vsrv ia
soIptop, ard oil OF II very Cheap in nom,arson viii
lie actual value and advantages The nrw.,.na,s -,
Richmond and Petersburgh are ful, of adveri.am
Of farms for sale and the advertisers will y.ry Ger
tsinly not ak the msn that 20 buy vhethsr he
il 10 favor Of OF opposed % Slavery TIE hiyhss, ma
der will be the buyer be has the 10 pey ard ne ;
10 s,hed 10 questions about Slavery any more tosp