New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
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~, toro of distrus If said TO exist to much greater
-, .;,ce the John Brown raid than before AL
.Iossos of tie people along the road live very plainly
co,bread pork and coffee beng the principal, and N
nv cases the only artic,s Of food on the tables o.
,cb and boot tried on several occasions to procure
bread and milk lunch but unless called at house
precjsely at moal-time, / always found "ro bread
baked" This was invariably the case and if tclfgl'-
,b;c communication could be established with every
bouse on the route would not like 10 stake ny he"d
,hs, a, 10 O'Clock, am, and 81, pm, an ounce Oh
l,ea6 conld be found baked between kicnoohu '"'
Nasiiunton. distance Of 10 miles
SLAVERY IN OLD VIRGINIA.
ho3 hoard of E" fat and sleek cOru-fed blggeis, IN
Id v;,o,nis that lived better than their masters
)od ais, heard much about an old darke that always
,,auted to be carried back to old Virginia 80 oid
yiroipias shore" | have lately wondered Whaj nc
wanted 10 come back for. ] have an idea that ihng'
have changed very much since he was III these paris
and If his desire Of being brought bach has MOI YET
beeu rratifed | would respectfully advise hin 20 re-
msin where he is for the present. NO doubt d So,l
nauv por darkies have been carried back here WI"
would gladly be carried back to where they 4s' came
FROM But about the iai and slicL coin-eN i-AE''S
IN Old Virginia who live better than Their masters
have kcut sharp lookout for these chaps ever since
crossed the Potomac.
made diiqent inquiry for them at ahnosI every
piantstion. But have been unable 10 get any m"r-
nation OF .her immediate whereabouts and have al
mos, come TO the conclusion that they are alOcryphAi
ebaracters. The slaves along my route almost n'ar-
ably complain OF too little to eat and too much 70 no.
They do not live as well as eir masters by great
deaf and know that many Of their masters 90 not i've
as well ss the poorest white people at The North. but
was informed by slaves who bad experience N bo'h
attitudes that they had much better times south oil
" Jeemcs River than north of it. i may be able To
find my lat and sleek colored friends down hat way
but whoever SAYS that Slavery exists III mld loru III
Nortb- Eastern Virginia is lar and the Truth Is moi IN
him.
p,,,cp, yTSoS FROM TIE NORTH To VIRGINIA.
Within the last few years, as you are TO do"Ot
sware there has been considerable emigration from the
Northern States TO the northern and western parts OF
Virginia EnterprisiDg Yankees have bought up cheap
the WORKOUT fields Of the Old Dominion, no longer
available By slave labor, and in many eases Though
they sometimes had an uphill business Of it, have made
,be desert 70 blossom as the To such now de-
ire N socede from the Union of fathers and cult
yate Virginia SOIL would say that improved farms can
he bourhi on the road from Washington to Richmond,
near railroad communication for from $40 to 80 per
acre including original timber land, and the best OF
rsins timber land for about the Worn out and
thrown out" fields generally grown up IN pines, can
be bought for considerably lcss-as low down perhaps
Ms 81 or 81 per acre. Being now acquainted win
both countries have simply to suggest that the ouly
advantage in settling in Virginia, over and above
seectinr farm on the virgin and fertile prfes Of The
West ia the abundance of wood aud timber and forest
shelter here in contradsiinction to the lnconvenem
spd uncomfortable scarcity of these blessings there
Whether this is overbalanced by the great fertility and
ease OF cultivation in the West il question for the
tmigrant to decide.
THE SECESSION SPIRIT IN EASTERN VIRGINIA
There is no DENYING that the Secession sentiment
largely predominant in Eastern Virginia In the cou-
try, along the route came after getting ont OF the
vicinity of the Federal metropolis, could hardly hear
of a Union man while, nearing tins city, secession
flags proclaimed aloft the sentiment OF tie people Inc
siayeholding cass really afraid OF ultimate Moth
ern aggression, while the poor white folks, he1de
having no definite sentiments OF their own, are geneI
ally tie vassas Of their slayeocrahc neghbors and
'bndly follow their lead. In this city there were
good many intelligent loyal, Union meD, INT they are
fas; being swallowed up in the hre OF Secession bow
raging here Eastern Virginia is iTevocsbly lost to
the Union unless powerful antidote If applied
TUE ''IRREPGEsSIBLE CONFLICT"
hope that the Administration at Washington and
the Northern people will keep cool, for the folks aro
dieadfully excited down this way. Secession banner
wave from almost every balcony, nearly every third
white man is in uniform and under knaFsaca, drays
have substituted cannon for tobacco hogheads, and tue
united voice Of men, women and children scems 10 be,
Nv voice Is still Tor OF wiles
More inexpert boast not them,
Let those rive ~ no care 10; h2ht-'
Tue torchigh procession last night, IN honor oi the
accession Of Virginia and the accession victory al
Charleston was {" right smart affair but is said 70
have not been so large as that took place here
last Fall in honor of Bell and Everett. There &
considerable boy and rowdy element in it, but it was
nevertheless countenanced and participated in by many
of the principal citizens. Many houses were brilliantly
illuminated, and the sidewalks and other eligible
standing POINTS on the streets through which the pro-
cession passed were alive with interested spectators.
I hope that Uncle Abe will be successul in settling
our national difficulties by sort of internal dipo-
macy; tle devil is in the Southern people, and ii
not be done ip military way without One
result Of such war, however, would be the abolition
OF American Slavery, and permanent settlement of
that question. FRANK FEETBEYNr.