Browsing named entities in James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.. You can also browse the collection for Eli Thayer or search for Eli Thayer in all documents.

Your search returned 8 results in 1 document section:

James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
rice of Personal estate my room-talk with a slave girl Eli Thayer's scheme Virginia political Economy Alexandria county great, and verily it covereth a multitude of sins! Eli Thayer's scheme. May 15.--I have had a conversation with a prominent politician of the town, on the plan of Eli Thayer, to colonize Virginia by free white laborers. He launched out inrepublicans and abolitionists of the North. He regarded Mr. Thayer as a braggadocio — a fool — or a political trickster — wingfellow and Atchison had said that had it not been for Mr. Thayer, and his Emigrant Aid scheme, Kansas ere this would havehere. This farm was one of the run-out estates, which Eli Thayer & Co. propose to rejuvenate, regenerate and redeem. Thiad a talk with a Virginian at the hotel on politics, and Eli Thayer's scheme of colonization. He said that in Eastern Virgited whatever figures or opinions their leaders advanced--Mr. Thayer would probably meet with resistance at the outset; but, <