The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25
Stewards Rochester sp.ech.

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Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th Oct. occurs the
following passage:
-, ohaii tell you what this collision means p
They who think that it is accidental unneces-
sary, the work of interest or fanatical agitators
ana, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case al
'osether II IS an srrepressi5le conflict 5etreen op-
POSING ana enduring forces, and ii means that the
CHted States must and triH sooner or later become
etther entirely slarehoidng nation or entirely a
Jree labor nation. Either the cotton and rice
helds OF South Carolina and the sugar planta-
tions OF Louisiana will ultimately be titled by
iree labor, and legitimate merchandise alone. or
eise the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachu-
setts and New York must again be surrendered
oy her farmers to slave culture and to the pro-
ductlon of slaves, and Boston and New York be-
come once more markets for trade in the bodies
ana souls of men. 1t is the failure to appre-
hend TINS great truth that induces so many un-
successful attempts at final compromise between
the slave and free States, and it is the existence
OF this great fact that renders all such pretended
compromises, when made, vain and ephemeral
Thus, it will be seen, that Mr.. Seward lays
down the doctrine that the present politico-ne-
gro agitation is an irreconcilable war between
the free labor" and slavery" systems of the
Union, which must continue until the over
throw of either one or the other is consummatcd
He holds that, in order to secure the perpetuity
Of the Union, all the States must become free or
slave Ststes-that slavery must cease in the cot
ton and rice hslds of South Carolina, or be in
troduced into the rye and wheat fields of Massa-
chusetts And, as it is deemed impossible that
slavery shall ever exist in Massachusetts,, he an
nounces that the war against its existence in
South Carolina is irreprcssible," and must
eventually succeed
Mr.. Seward is undoubtedly great mana
man of giant intellect. Nevertheless the propo-
sition here laid down-that if slavery continues
TO exist in the cotton and rice fields of South
Carolina, it must of necessity go into the wheat
aud rye fields of Massachusetts,, or if free-labor
remains in Massachusetts, it must of necessity
take the place ofslave-labor in the rice fields of
Carolina-is almost childishly preposterous and
untenable. As well lay down the proposition
that, if gold digging is profitable in the hills of
California, it must be profitable in those of Mas
sachusetts; or, if it is not profitable in the hills
of Massachusetts. it cannot be profitable in those
of California
Slave labor would not " pay" in the rye and
wheat fields of Massachusetts,. Hence slavery
will never be taken there. Every man of sense
knows that. Men, especially cute" Yankees,
will never invest capital where they know it will
prove certain loss. On the other hand in the
cotton and rice fields of Carolina slave labor
does pay" enormously. Hence, slave labor al
ready being in those fields will remain there so
long as it proves proGtable-and only SO loug-
and all the warfare which may be waged against
its existence there, by the agtators of the free
States, will affect it no more than does the
dashing of the waves against the rock bound
coast of New England disturb the rocky cliffs
which frown down upon California's "Golden
Gate"
As long as free-laborcrs will have cotton, and
rice, anc sdsar, and tobacco-and as long as all
these articles can be furnished them by slave
labor at cheaper rate than by free -labor-so
long will slave labor continue in the world at
least, during that period of the worlds history
yetto elapsc before the coming of the Millennium.
a WONDER" Little Ella, three years of age
is giving % Readings in New York. The Home
Journal says of her:
Without ever having been taught spelling or
the alphabet, but having herself picked up a
knowledge of words by intutive quickness of
eye, she takes any book of poetry presented to
her and reads verses she has never before seen.
with a cadence and pronunciation which do
the fullest justice to the sense and rhyth. She
recrtes, also, humorous passages from comedies,
acting the fdn most astonshingly. l have not
time to describe to you the half hour that af-
terwards passed in listening to her. Brady pre-
sented me to her mother, Mrs Burns) and gave
MS room where the little prodigy could be
called upon for her recitations. Poetry could
scarce be better read delivered by an ciocu-
zionist than what she there recited to us; ard
the beauty OF it is, that the moment it is over
she frolicS oil as unembarrassed as bird, or
runs to give you the expected kiss, or scampers
away to play, AS absolute IL child again as If she
had never been wonderl How either parents
or. children could be more delighted than by
witnessing one of the performances of this gifted
little beauty, cannot conceive. STILL it is DIFF
hcuit TO look on her without tears She is a
flower of heaven that has CHANGED to blossom
too soon-opening the sweet petals of angelic
wisdom amid the SHOWS of this cold world
and, may God watch over and shelter her. till
the safe Summer, beyond Deaths tardy Spring,
when such bloom is in season for eternty
Loss OF CAIRO The town of Cairo. at the
junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers is a
sweet place, notwithstanding what Dickens said
about it. According to the Philadelphia Com
n'erciat List the whole loss by the flood at Cairo,
1t Is said, will be inside of S60,O00 The Illinois
Central Railroad can make all repairs for $1,000.
The loss to the citizens, in furniture, buildings
and stock, viii not exceed $4,000. The water
rose above low water mark fortv-seyen feet