The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-05-31
The ,Jere,niahs Virginia.

The eremiahs-Virginia-
With all kind feeling and sincerity we
s,,-sest that there are a few JEEEMrAus In the
Virginia press who are drawing me'ancho'y
pictures OF this State that we are sure arc
extrayacant. and that we know are doing
vast dea, OF harm. We do not question their
motives. but we know the effects OF their
mournful representations to be disastrous.
Respectable papers are speaking with great
posi.iveness about the utter inability OF tue
people to do this and that, or to do more than
This or that, Now, we cannot see how any
body can speak very positively on the sub
icct of the capacity Of the people to meet
any trial and triumph over any difficulty.
But what would be the use OF 1t If they
could:
We see some of these same wellmeaning
gentlemen exertiug all their Influence in favor
OF immigration. They were FOR liberal aid TO
the cause from the Slate Treasury, and for a
system of boards and agencies that was to
Law before the world the bright attractions o.
Virginia. What! of an impoverished Statei
with q PROSTATE industry: feeble com
mercer respondent people: Is such Inc
State these enthusiastic advocates Of immi-
grafton are inviting people TO come to:
We trust the painters Of gloomy pictures
,viI, see that these are not the best for the
market. We hope they will see that there
is no use In painting such pictures at all
they can find no sale.
We do trust that the people Of Virginia
will desire their and our good friends not TO
continue their attempts to explain the con-
di,iou of the State Their views do no
good 10 the State and none TO the people;
for the State and the people are one ana the
same. If these gentlemen think they are
taking one single step towards relieving tpe
people by representing them as poor ana
heavily weighted they are egresiouSiy MIS-
taker. That is not the way 10 invite new
corners. People with money aud energy
don't want to move to the home of beg.
cars-they would rather live with energetic,
lively, hopeful, and rising people. Can we
cxpect them to covct lands that can't pay
taxes? On no, never.
We know that the extremely dcSpondent
storics-ra ray, even the moderately dcspoDd-
cnt ones are not true. They do those con-
carued injury, and retard the recovery OF the
Safe. Better maintain "a straight s5irt-tall
and a stiff upper lip" These ale the things
which arouse the vgor and inclte the aid Of
men!
Virginia has had more means and more
energy the ten years since our war than she
had during the ten years after the close OF
the war of 1912. We have had ways to mar
lie, which we had not then; and we have had
slinulanis to activity and production that
were not known then. Indeed, Danyille
" as then as far from Richmond in time as
London is, and farther than San Francisco
is now. The means for enterprise and for
the rapid conversion of all Eecessares of life
into cash are all the world TO nothing com.
pared with the almost utter want OF means
that then restrained the industry Of the PEG.
pie.
Where is the ground for lamentation now:
II we be true 10 ourselves, persevering and
nUDtiUI, NC " III ali tuS SStoe'
of our difficulties; but mopiug, and COM
planning, and deprecia.ing our own power
and energies, can only result in our own in
jury.
We say that many sincere but mistaken
persons are too much given TO drawing these
dolorous pictures. Demagogues and office.
hunters who want TO get office by appearing
as,he "peoplo's" friends Use those pictures
for their own selfish purposes, and the peo-
PIE are the sufferers.
Let us be stout and hopeful. Virginia is
the State of greatest resources. Her people
CAME of glorious ancestry, and should oe
unsurpassed for energy and determination,
while their character should be altogether
uaimpearhable for integrity and honor.
Virginia can do anything!