The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-08

vc,c Ia..en January "a, ls'..
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r,,,,n the New York Commercial.
A.. r,,r,;.l,mmn i'm Virginia--What M
S,es aud What he Thinks.
An English gentleman who has resided IN
Charlotte county, Va, for several months
nos, writes to friend in this city free-and'
rasv account of the impression made upon
him bv the Old Dominion, Its people, ana IL
customs. lie says: ..,
Englishmcn just now. The Jollh huils nn'
have settled in the Old Dominion nave nun
crto been Of the better class, ana, rs iar Us
can learn. have conducted themselves SO a.
=" aorr, The resncct and esteem of the citizens.
An English settler has some advantages al
st,rtinr over q northern settler. lie come
hero Without any thought Of engaging IL!
,,cJt;cs and he therefore cannot be Suspected
If sinister designs on the public FUNDS. lie
Ia occented a. thoroughly antl-slayery iron!
tho f;rsf while his abolitionism, though mol
Lose pronounced. is less offensive than THAT OF
some northerncrs. The average Joiin Bun
hcIieves and will fight to the last to prove,
that all men are born free, but he is just as
strongly convinced that they are mol born
equa,. An English gentleman would DC COLI
sidered
A LUSATIC
If. at home, he asked his groom to Sit At his
t,hlc. md in Virginia he is not at all tempted
TO invite ignorant darkics into his drawing
room. To hold the negro in slavery ne
thinks diabolically wicked, but to ADMIT tlie
iIIitcratc and vulgar to social equality he re-
cards as wholly preposterous. From the
DAYS of Philip Egalite down TO the nao
freaks Of an Oneida community the prlnci-
plc of equality has been curse. 1t exists
only in claptrap and politics, and 1t has no
where less influence in SOCIAL ine IMAM III TIC
superfine circles ofyour "model Republic -
New York city par example.
The English settler, then, does not sisnalizc
his settlement by inviting negroes to his bed
and board, as the "carpet-haggcrs do; but
he is not less the Negroes friend than the
most blatant politician. He wishes TO ed,t-
cate and elerdtc the negro, and thinks it Will
hc time enough to ask him to dinner when
he is educated and elevated. At the late
Emigration Convention nobody spoke ont
more strongly in favor Of the Negroes good
Qualities than did the English speakers.
Every Englshman have met in this State
tastites to tho excellence of colorcd labor
when duly rcmuncrated. Sambo is no fool,
and he has decided objection to work hard
when he gets paid in ragged caSt-of clothes
and ..truck" orders on the stores. Pay blh'
in cash, and he works with Will.
met the other day with an account OF Il
visit to Virginia, written 10y al English tr-
weller in the early part of the last century.
He said the State was then 'chielly remark
able for the number of its colonies and gche-
rul,," and the same remark holds good now.
The lstr Emigration Convention was ens:-
neered by
COLONIES AND GENERALS
whose chief desire seemed TO be to he "put
OH active service" Patriotism is no6ic
enough, but there is Il little too much o.! it III
Virginia. One northern or English manu-
f,cturer--a lire man us you would say
would do more good to the State than all the
useless patriots who are seeking to "cmi-
crate" themselves into office. The injury
these men do il immense, as an incident OF
the late convention will show. was sitting
next to n sturdy English farmer, who has
invested $4,000 in Virginia lands, and
expects to bring $4,000 more into
the State. A Acknowledgements, general,
colonel, or something of that sort, got up
and delivered violent larangue on the vii
lanies Of "nisgcrs," and the necessity fer
importing white aborers. I saw that my
bucolic friend was having his "dander riz,'
and when the speaker had blown of oil his
steam was not surprised to hear him say in
whisper: of / had heard that fool speak
before l bought my land, would have gone
straight back and never bought" He said
he understood what laborers were, both III
Europe and America, and he hated to hear
such lies about the niggers."
To do the real southern chivalry justice,
they never join the "patriots" in vulgar
abuse of the negro. On the contrary, am
bound to say that the conduct of Virginia
gentlemen toward their eX-slaves has much
that Is truly noble about it. Aftectionate re-
-:lations are kept up everywhere between the
freedmen and their old masters; and, i'll
deed, ] may say that / have never heard any
body abuse the blacks except persons whom
it was not unfair to suspect of having cakes
to grind"
The idea advocated by Governor Walker
in his message, and supported by oil the en-
ergy Of all the colonies, that
''.'' WHITE LApoRERs
can be successfully brought to Virginia, is the
most absurd notion that ever entered into the
mind of man unconfined in Bedlam. The
negroes are polite and know their place -
the efree and independent" workmen from
the north of England would rudely shake
the nerves Of the Il. F. VS.. Only imagine
the wrath of a white workman if he Were
offered an old suit Of clothes in lieu of cash
when payday came! The negro quietly
submits, as I heard a citizen remark, to be
"bossed about anyway; but white labor
ers, when they get to America, believe in the
maxim of q every man his own boss" and
they would be bad to manage here.
Think, too, Of the unsophisticated and guile
less innocence of the Governor and the
colonies who thought, or had their own rca-
sons for seeming to think, that white work
men would be satisfied to live in Virginia at
ten dollars month, the average wages naid
to the few such persons who are here! This
is less, even, than the average wages paid to
agricultural aborers in England, and at but
one-sixth of what inferior hborers earn il!
the North and West, Sapient Governor
Wise colonely Carry out your admirable
scheme for the further impotcrish,nnt OF
Virginia, and there will be no moro northern
or English capitalists who will seek to int est
! in the Old Dominion. ,'.;:.,,,;;.''::; .. .., .
80 CHEAP AND COOP LABOR ALONE ...
ia likely to attract wealthy men to Eirginia.
Wherever the labor is wholly white, how
ever good, it cannot be cheap, for. reasons levi
dent to anybody who knows anything of the
United States. To tell Engfisllmen that pal-
per emigrants are needed, is simply to
Brighten away the very class who, possessing
nlo,.ey aS, we'll as energy, could benefit the