The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-29
The COFdOva COIonists.

With very little favor upon the various
schemes of emigration, which have been adj
vanced from time to time in the South since
and JOHNSTON. The effect of these wise adj
nonitions was undoubtedly very wholesome.
People who had turned towards Brazil or
Mexico, with vague ideas Of wealth and GER
tain wild independence, not altogether free
from tinge of romance, heard good deal of
sound truth upon the subject of emigration;
and were made to pause in their wild adven-
lures. There is but one class of our popua-
ton which can find sufficient apology for
acting on this idea Of expatriation; that class
is found among the ex-oficers of the army
and navy of the late Confederate States, to
whom pardons have been so cruelty and SO
persistently refused These only have right,
as yet, to shake the dust of their native land
from their feet, and turn their faces abroad in
search of new affairs These are not new
ideas with the present writer, and his was the
first pen to attack, with all possible respect,
but decided emphasis, the dangerous sugges-
tons underlying the splendid pictures which
Commodore MAuRY, then Mexican Chief of
Colonization, drew us Of the natural resources
OF that magnificent country, where, we may
say, in the language Of the good Bishop of In
dia every prospect pleases, and only man is
vile" That The great savan has recently been
made the mark of a special evidence of regard
by his friends in England; that General Ma
GRUpER has fallen into decayed fortunes; are
facts which come to us with the tongues of
trumpets, to tell us that orr homes are the
places for us, and to contradict Their bright
suggestions
Here are our supreme duties. and the va
rious States for which, as SUCH tbs men Of
the South made such great sacrifices,
have claim upon them greater to-day
than at any previous hour ia their his
tory The pomp and the excitement are
gone; but the serious duties, shorn Of every
thing save the approval of conscience, re-
main to us. In the discharge of these duties
soberly, thoughtfully, and .resolutely, there is
hope Of the future, But even if there are
those who are less buoyant, the failure of MAu-
RY and MAGRUpER must show this wild
vision Of a Mexican Ell Dorado to be a hope
less folly There is fact still sadder to be
added to these The colonists near Cordova
a IN the internal troubles
of Mexico. They could reasonably expect
nothing else. The two parties there must, Of
necessity, ingurgitate all others, as all active
factions do, sooner or later, in every country
You might as soon expect some great chem
ical change to pour all the rivers of this con-
tinent towards the sea as streams Of acid into
an alkaline ocean, and look for placid water
as to dream of exemption from cornrnotion in
that beautiful and unhappy land The truth
of this has been painfully shown by the fate
of our unhappy countrymen, who have been
swept off from the pleasant region of the Cor
dova settlement, into the arid and unwhole-
some wastes Of the Ie3Tea Calie,,te, there, per-
haps, to die in captivity, unless the brigands
and miscreants, who have thus rudely taught
them lesson in Mexican hospitality, gave
them also the comparative charity of the
bloody cuehillo ia
IN the meantime, what press at the North
will be generous enough to lift up voice III
behalf of these helpless captives Z? Can't some
tones, potential enough to reach Senior Ro-
NERO or JUAREz, be heard in the land We
pause for reply. "a #lHSEN 2