The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-29
People Coming to Virginia,

Eastern Virg inia engages the minds OF
the people more than anything else. 4 good
many of our farmers are Offering for sale
witha view Of emigrating thithcr.'- 1nscd-
rauas co. allocate.
The above paragraph is from a paper pub
iShcd in the town Of TuSclrawas. Ohio, Of
the county OF The same name. looted upon
the principal railroad line from Philadelphia
to Cincinnati, one hundred and eight miles
cast of Columbus.
For some years the attention of the people
of the Northwest has been directed to this
State as one highly eligible for farming, and
pos ;cS>ing comforts and advantages which
the Northwest does not. There the winters
are too long and too severe for industry or
for human comfort, and the difficulties and
cXpcn:c of sending staple products 10 mar
ket are a great drawback to the thrift of the
farmer.
Here in Virginia we havea mild climate
outdoor labor ceases ut no time during the
ycar-and tie great Atlantic markets are
near and cr-iIy accessible at low rates Of
transportation. Here. then, Our advantages
over the Northwest are very great. and the
farmers OF that section are becoming well
acquainted with them.
There is therefore a smart current of i'm
migration setting in upon Virginia from
| that quarter. The only drawback TO its
rapid incre,:>" in volume is The n""'o. Such
indeed are til" attractions oil Virginia that
but for the existence Of African SLAYER;
within her borders she would now he tie
most dcn>cly populated and thrifty OF the
States. The abolition OF slavery lett
What effect he cXclts upon the pros
perly and physical development Of Nir-
ginia is seen as clearly as the noon-1ay sun
in the prices of land in the districts where
Africans are in large numbers, compared
with the prices Of no better lands in those
districts where the whites are in the asccn-
dant. General ScnoFlELp mapped the State
to show the aSccndancy Of race in the differ
cnt sections. He painted in dark color the
negro counties and left those where the
white min prevailed imprinted. Take that
MAJ, and YOU may mark down the lands Of
TIC dark counties IL worth III the market
not more than Il Eali and o:tencr not more
than fourth lis much rs the lands in the
bright potion or the State.
But even with this great drawback Tir.
gina is getting Il wide fame for her many adj
vantages, and every day brings visitors TO this
city from the Northwest and from the Cana
d., lookin. for homes IN Virginia. Many of
them are making purchases and settling in
the state. They are valuable citizens, and
very luuch resemble in their economy and
industry the new corners from England and
Scotland, of which there are now enough 10
form settlements, and thus greatly TO
strengthen their enterprises. The immi-
grant wants something OF the social life of the
home which he leaves, and this he may en-
joy if he has as neighbors some of the ma
tiveS of his fatherand.
The inflowing current will increase in geo.
metrical proportion, and will in few years
grow so large us to add immensely to the
wealth and population of Virginia-thc in
crease OF population, however, being some
what kept in Restraint by the emigration Of
blacks southwardly to the attitudes better
suited to their natures. But this restraint
OF population will be no bar TO increase of
wealth. The negro carries no money away.