The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-26
{. CiyEs" EIesscs New England end
Tclss How to Make all the Yankees
Migrate 10 virsinia--A Furious Arti-
For the Dispatch.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, February -, 1872.
Mr.. Edtor.-In noticing some extracts
from the last CELSIUS Of the United States tor
have not seen the whole report) was struck
with what appeared to be Il reason why the
cry Of ,rar in the South has been and still Is
kept up by the leaders of the Radical party,
and which alarm is strengthened with some
appearance of truth, by the action of Con-
srcss in passing the enforcement act: known
rs the kukluX bill, by which and the aid OF a
ycnal, corrupt, and time-scrving Judiciary,
bowling to the bchcsts of despctlc EXecu-
tive, into whose hands. by thcsproylslonS OF
said act, have been placed the lives, liberties,
and property, of the unhappy people OF the
South, who are now feeling all the horrors
which result from "enfranchised ignorance"
directed by the cniissaries of the party in
power, ruling and holding complete sway
over "dsfranchiScd khowledgc."
I believe there are good people at the
North; that they are many and powerful.
Why is it, then, they allow this oppression,
which taints the national honor Of America,
to 90 on. Iarswcr, because misrepresenta-
ton and faIsehood have aroused their prclu-
diccs and kept them from the truth, and that
they are ignorant of the condition and dispo-
sition Of the people Of the South. These
falsehoods have been industriously circulated
not only that the carpet-baggers might OBJ
tain Office, but because, if the truth were
known, there would be almost general and
immediate exodus Of the population OF the
North, and in one decade the tide of immigra-
ton from that direction would swell the
population and wealth Of the South to that
extent that the power of the nation would
be transferred to that section, and the I'M
kind and sterile fields and ice-locked climate
Of the northern and eastern States would be al
most entirely abandoned and become, as it
seems nature designed it to be, desert
waste. T. ...... f..s q +" g...
Look at the report Of the census in regard
to the increase OF population i'll the New
England States, and you observe not one OF
them lave increased in population except
from foreign migration-where the influx
of that tide has heretofore been greater than
in any other part Of the United States and
even with this foreign influx the State OF
New Hampshire has actually decreased.
This foreign immigration has been kept out
OF the South by reason OF the institution OF
slavery there existing previous to the war,
and which has, not ceased TO exist long
enough for "set in" Of that tide in this
direction and yet, at the very beginning Of
tfit VI TIC tlltts We Iilo ObC VI ptb ~ O
EaGldnd States at least on the wane as to
population. And does any fact in history
shadow forth the proXimate future more than
decrease Of population.
a: But let us suppose that the farmer of the
North, who is compelled for six or eight
months out of every twelve to endure CHI
mate of from 20 degrees to 40 degrees below
zero. GOh, no.-Utspatch] and at immense
cost IN buildings and forage, keep and feed
his farm.stock, and during the neXtfour'or
six months of the year swelter in tempcrl-
ture of about 100 degrees above zero on 4
soil unkind and rocky, and which, 10 yield
return sufficient to support the stock neccS-
sarv to work it and feed the family Of the
owner. has to be yearly fortified and Guilt
waited with scientific care and economy and
that land, only on account of population,
bringing In the market from $50 to 500 per
acre Suppose say that farmer kneao that
in oneaweek's trayel he could reach a climate
mild and balmy, where the winter is usually
about sixty days long, and the coolest weather
neSer being as low as degrees, and usually
about 40 degrees, above, and the other
three hundred and five days Of the
year such as man or beast could bear III
housed and thinly clad, and the temperature
never higher than 81 degrees, and usually IN
summer about IS degrees; that the lands
there are fertile and adapted to every variety
of crop and fruits necessary for the comfort
and luxury of man, and in the market at
from five 10 fifty dollars per acre; that the
people in that section are intelligent rehned,
brave, generous, and hospitabie; churches
and schools Abundant, and in the soundest
state of religious and educational perfection,
whit would that man do? Why, just as soon
ms possible sell out and come South, where
honest, thrifty, hardworkingg men are wanted ;
and when he bought land and settled. here
would be received and welcomed just as soon
as he showed his new neighbor that he ards
not a greedy, .tapsncipled carpe!-ba9ger,
bent on mischief and sposts. For an instance,
look how the native Virginiins regard Gil
bert G. Walker. ,.s,.s. r. q. iss
e. The stories of outrages and cruelty eircu.
lated through the press at the NORTH lllltl
their refi,tation i'm the nature of the southern
finnfIA who were not even harsh unQ CRUEL