Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-23
THE DAY BOOK.
FRIDAY MORNING. July %, 1869

IMMIGRATroN.-All we want now to
make old Virginia blossom as the rose
once more is sturdy immigration-hon-
est, industrious and active Yankees,
Irishmen and Germans. The idle ne
gro, carpet-bagger and scalawag are
politically dead, never to be resurrected'
and the pernicious evil they have lett
behind may soon be eradicated by a
touch of good government and just
respect for the rights and privileges of
all men. Capital and immigration have
already set in upon us, and the channel
is widening every day. Shortly our
eyes will behold with rapture the good
old Ship Of State gliding smoothly over
the waters upon which the coll has
been poured in the election of the gal
liant Walker. With such a skillful
commander as he, and the helm In the
hands of those brave pilots, General
Amnesty and Universal Suffrage, we
may look for cruise more successful
than was ever made before by the re-
deemed old Ship. God grant it and
he will-doubtless Already the joy
GUS intelligence comes to US across the
waters that there is more interest mani
tested in Germany, Sweden and Nor"
way in American Southern immigration
than at any former period. The States
to which they are turning their atten-
ton are Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama
and North and South Carolina-princl-
pally Virginia. And why? Because
Virginia is the garden spot of the
Western NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., since
the election of Walker, and the death
blow to Bourbonism, Radicalism, and No
nothingism, and all other isms in this
State, she offers greater inducements
than any of the sisterhood of States
North or South.
Her climate is as genial az that Of
Palestine; her people are generous and
chivalrous, and her resources unlimited.
She, too, has passed into new hands
hands that will build her up, develop
her productiveness, instead of para
lying it as done in time agone by old
fossils, political tricksters, and pension
ers on the public pap. But the world
move, and thank God, so does Virginia,
and she is moving, at last, IN the right
way.
Let the Irishman, the German, the
Swede and the 'Yankee'-good men and
true--come among us to live with us
and help to build us up, and we will
help them, join hands with them, and
forever smoke the pipe of peace, Give
us practical immigration and our for"
tunes made The negro already las
become little short of nonentity-po-
litically anyhow. a few thousand white
men in our State will consign him 10
utter and eternal insignidcance. The
Irishman, Swede and German will vote
the white mans ticket every time, es-
pecially the latter, as has been pretty
well demonstrated in the recent guber-
Material election in this State. Out of
11,O7o votes polled by them, only SO
were for Wells and the proscriptive
clause and they were Americanized
carpet-baggers.
The vile hypocrisy of scoundrels who
have heretofore succeeded in making
foreigners afraid OF us by innuendo and
SANDER is fast dying out, and we may
now look forward to stream of immi-
grafton that will make our hearts glad.
Virginia's redeemed, and the carpet-
Dagger, scalawager and cuffee are de-
funct--that's sure.