The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-11
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pannsylyania wagon, drawn ny six ane
srnnestoca horses, in admirable conastioNla, j
hsrnesssd IA Inc most pproyed lyle. The
whole team wss excellent. The equipments
a,i besoksned practical experience and q
s means. The out hanging articles showed
the owaer 70 be proyident and capable g
securing "a. himself cemiorts OF q KIND on.y
lobe Won BY energy md irugssity. Even
che dog that attended the team was = coz
tented and WelEbehayed animal, ana COM m
Ynended by his civili,y the sabiishmene ne
followed.
This admirable outfit, Sc It appeared on
Grace street near the ST. Clair hotel, at
trsscsed 4 crowd oi observers, who could
mot be satisfied until they learned the l his
tory Of the establishment. Upon Inter
viewing the persons accompanying Y. :
was ascertained that the owner OF tue
wagon was Pennsylvania farmer, who
was moving With his family TO o farm IN
Virginia, and the wagon, with its supplies
and furniture, had been driven from Penn
sylyania all the, way TO Virginia. There
had been pause in the street on the march
to. the Virginia home TO ascertain the route
to the place where this iamily OF wellto-do
Immigrants was to dwell as adopted citizens
of}virginia. They were going where they
hoped to be contented, prosperous, a no
happy.
Hew sad we thought itmust be that such
immigrants should stop in sight OF Vir'
ginia's capitol, where originated the mea'
sures that threatened the home OF their
adoption with misfortune and degradation.
Almost 10 hearing OF these good people q
voice was lifted up, sounding like the howl
Of the wolf whose hauats are the regions OF
decay, predicting the calamity OF .crash :
as the doom OF Virginia. What should the
fine team, the elegant harness, the agricul-
tural, implements, that appeared in the
/. superb wagon-what should the industrious
and yirtuous family that came to give the
tribute OF their experience and frugal and
thrifty economy to the Commonwealth
what should aIl these be doing where
calamity impended and public dishonor and
private distress were gathering TO perplex
and aggrayate society
The time and the scenes made the advent
OF this family suggestive OF the most regret.
full reflections. Such people as these from
PENNSYLVANIA should be hailed with gratif.
cation by ylrginians. 1t would be, under
proper conditions, a great acquisition fol
Virginia to have such immigrants. But the
qualification felt ut their arrival was swal
lowed up in the pity which we could moi
but feel for them upon their arrival, to
hear, as they approached their new home,
the raYen-croakings OF the prophet Of evil
and the reckless threats OF those prodigal
sons of Virginia whose strategies tend only
to her ruin and disgrace.
These good Immigrants, within thesound
2of these voices of desperation, must baye
deplored the fate that led them from the
land of peace and comfort and thrift TO the
home Of wrangling and strife and the land
where the children OF the once noblest OF
Commonwealths have put daggers at their
mothers throat and are dragging her down
to degradation, il not iniamy.
The lesson. is one that should grieve every
heart and invoke from every soul prayer
that Virginia shall triumph over her faith.
less sons and still continue to be the proud
Commonwealth and the happy home of a
virtuous population that loves and adores
har II.