Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-31

sir" Can get somet anywhere else Il
guess not" 1t had beeifpny belief that man
with money in his pocke2 could not starve in
any country sol distant civilized. Exceptions
prove rules, but they arg dsagreeable things.
| chewed the cud Of fancy taate de mieur, and
became the centre of attraction TO citizens,
from whose conversation l learned that this
was "JEFF. DAVIS faSt-day." Observed one,
''it quite puts me in mind of Sunday all the
stores coseG." Said Another, "we'll soon have
Sunday every day, fot / 'speot it won't be
worth while tor most shops to keep open long
er." Natchez, place of much trade and cot.
ton export in the season, is now as dull-let
us say, as Harwich without a regatta. But 1t
is ultra secessionst nil obStante. My hunger
was assuaged by a friend who drove me up 10
his comfortable mansion through a country
not unlike the wooded parts of Sussex, abound
ing in fine trees, and the only lawns and park
like fields have yet seen in America. In the
evening after dinner, my host drove me over
to visit small encampment under wealthy
planter who has raised, equipped and armed his
company at his own expense.
CONFIDENCE OF THE COTTON GROWERS.
Our friend was full of fight, and said he
would give all he had in the world to the cause.
But the day before, and party Of horse, COM
posed of sixty gentlemen in the district, worth
from 100000 to f50,000 each, had started for
the wars in Virginia Everything to be seen
or heard testifies to the great zeal and resolu-
ton with which the south have entered upon
the quarrel. But they hold the power OF the
United States and the 10y atty OF the north at
far too cheap a rate. Next day was passed in
delightful drive through cotton fields, Indian
corn, and undulating woodlands, amid which
were some charming residences. crossed
The river at Natchez, and saw one line planta-
ton, in which the corn, however, was by no
means SO fine as have often seen. Tile cot
ton locks well, and some had already burst in
to fiower-bloom, as is called-which had
turned to fragrant pink, and seemed saucily
conscious that its bols would play an import
ant part in the world. In this part OF Misss
sippi the secessionist feeling was not SO over
towering at first aStit had been since the
majority declared itSelf, but the EXPIRES
sion Of feeling is now all one way. The
rage Of southern sentiment is to me inexplica-
BILE, making every allowance for southern ex-
aggeration. 1t is sudden, hot, and apparently
as causeless as summer lightning. From eve
ny place / touched at along the Mississippi, a
large portion Of the population has gone forth
to fight, or is preparing 10 do so. The whis'
pers which rise through the storm are few and
feeble. Some there are who sigh for the peace
and happiness they have seen in England.
But they cannot seek those things they must
look after their property. Each man maddens
his neighbor by desperate resolves, and threats
and views. Their faith is i'll Jefferson Davis
strength, and in the necessities and weaknesses
of France and England. The inhabitants OF
the tracts which lie on the banks OF the Mis-
sissippi, and on the inland regions hereabout,
ought TO be, in the natural order of things, a
people almost nomadic, living blythe chase
and by sparse agriculture, in the freedom
which tempted their ancestors to leave Eu-
rope.
VOICE OF THE AvENGER.
But the old world las been working for
them. All its trials have been theirs the
fruits of its experience, its labors, its research,
its discoveries, are theirs. Steam has enabled
them to turn their rivers into highways, to
open primeval forests to the light OF day and
to man. All these, however, would have
awaited them little had not the demands OF
manufacture abroad, and the increasing luxu
~ and population of the north and west at
home, enabled them to find in these swamps
and upands sources of Wealth richer and more
certain than all the gold mines in the world.
But their must be gnomes to work those mines.
Slavery was an institution ready TO their
hands. In its development their lay every
material means for securing the prosperity
which Manchester opened to them, and IN sup
plying their own countrymen with sugar. The
small, struggling, deeply mortgaged proprie-
tors OF swamp and forest set their negroes to
work to raise levees, TO cut down trees, to plant
and sow. AS the negro became valuable by his
produce, the Irish emigtant took his place i'll
the severer labors OF the plantation, and ditch.
ed and dug and cut intoltile waste land. Cot
ton at 10 cents pouIlH, gave a nugget in
every boil. Land could be had for few dol