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all kinds, they will be honestly dealt with and put in
the way of purchasing advantageously and settling
comfortably. The Virginians earnestly desire
such English emigration, if only to keep out the
Northern emigrants that they hate the more
bitterly when they find them buying estates the
war has cheapened, and thus fattening upon the
ruin of the South. Among the other advantages
he specified are good society, and old English habits
and customs. The Virginians especially respect
the old country, and make it a matter of pride
that they continue to be English and are free
from Yankeeisms of all sorts.
He laid especial stress on the necessity of paying
no attention whatever to anything that may be
told to English emigrants at New York, concerning
the South. The Northerners there who have
lived in the South commonly describe it as very
dangerous and disagreeable to strangers. General
G—— gave them credit for speaking the truth,
according to their own experience. It is
dangerous and disagreeable to them, but quite the
contrary to English visitors or English emigrants.
All conspire to drive Northern settlers away, and
all emulate in their welcome to the English
settler, and in efforts to make him comfortable in
his new home.
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