Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-10-13


everything in its proper place. As it is
on farms, so it is in the houses. Their
women are the most neat and tidy house.
keepers imaginable. They know how tc
do, ,0here to do, and When TO do, simply
because they have been educated and
brought up to do it. They all work, men,
r women and children; they dignity labor
and labor dignifies them. Labor, edu-
cation, and intelligence, accomplishments,
wealth, honor, prosperity and happiness
are all linked together and go hand in
hand in New England. In word, New
England is a store.house of wealth and in.
tellect All the results of free labor and
free institutions.
Such universal peace and quietness
we have never witnessed, as we did
through all the New England States
The power and influence of Christianity,
education, and civilization are seen and
felt everywhere and moro hospitable,
kind, liberal and sympsthizing people we
never visited. Hungry, they gave us
meat thirsty. they gave US drink (; a
stranger, and they took US in. May God,
who is the Friend and Deliverer of the
poor and oppressed, ever and forever bless
the good people of New England. Our
ignorance Of them, and our prejudice
against them, thank God, are gone for
ever!
Prior TO the Inauguration of the Re-
bellion, the great masses of the Southern
people had no ill-will towards the peo-
pie of the North, and had it not been for
the political and ecclesiastical leaders who
"fred up the Southern heart" by basely
misrepresenting and nsiciously SANDER.
ing the people of the North, they could
never have dragooned the people of the
South into rebellion. And notwithstand.
ing all the bitter feeling that has been
engendered 10 the hearts of the people
of the South by their wicked leaders dur.
ing the war, if they could only know the
true spirit and feeling ofthe people of the
North towards them, and the incalculable
amount of good they could and would do
them if kindly invited to emigrate and
settle among them, we know the South>
ern people would say to them, come
Thousands of enterprising men in the
North, with abundance OF capital, would
emigrate to Virginia at once, if the peo>
pie would evince friendly feelings and
bid them welcome by holding out proper
inducements for them TO come. These
Northern men have thousands of al kinds
of machines, agricultural implements, con.
veniences for lessening the labor of house
hold work, merchandise of all kinds, &c,
&c.
Now is the time for Virginia to invite
them to come, and bid them Welcome
The Yankees are live people, wide
awake, they can't nor won't stand still
they must be ever moving and doing, and,
if they can't 60 to one place, they will go
to another. If they are repulsed by Vir-
ginisns, the great West lies open TO them,
and there they will 60, or to other South.
ern States that will gladly receive them.
When it is too late, Virgnians will wake
up from their wicked reverie and find
themselves ingloriously reclining on their
dignifed poverty, should they continue to
pursue this ruinous course ofpolicy.
No State in the Union holds out greater
inducements for emigration than Virgin
ia, if the people would only encourage
it. The climate is the first great induce.
ment, neither too hot nor too cold mild
winters and early springs, pleasant sum
mers and late falls; her water power is
superior; her minerals abundant her
soil we'll adapted to the cultivation otto
bacco, corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley,
buckwheat, sweet and white potatoes,
melons, fruits of various kinds, such as
peaches, apples, pears, plums, ounces,
grapes, and vegetables of all kinds in
abundance, while cotton can be raised in
the greater part of Eastern Virginia in
sufficient quantities for home consump.
ton, her railroads and water navigation
bring a market almost to the very doors
of her citizens.
Virginians have thousands Of surplus
lands, which they can never cultivate to
advantage, now that they have lost their
servants; and, in fact, they always have
had three times more land than they
ever cultivated with profit. Let them
now dispose of all their surplus lands at
fair prices, turn them into money and
merchandise, that will be accommodating
all the time and if Virginians will now,
while they have the opportunity, only
pursue wise course of policy, it we'll