The Shasta courier., 1861-10-12
Notice..
The Non-slave Holders and the Rebellion,

agement of Hon. John NJ Daniels Buchan-
ans minister to Sardinia, and now as strong
asecessionist as will ever stretch hemp. The
article in question continues as follows:
This state of things occasioncd great dis
!. eontent-the camp was always grumbling,
but no member of the company ever took up
on himself to obtain, or even demand redress
for grievances. A few deserted-more would,
had they dared. Disaffection with the ser
vice was general. Treated worse than any
negro slaves, they said among themselves,
'sWhat if the South whips, we die, the non-
slaveholding whites will get nothing by it. y
They said worse than this, for they were vir-
t,raIiy abolitionized by their position ,and they
had ret culture or reason enough to under
stand the comparative advantages which
even the poorest white man in the South en-
joys in consequence of system which
checks foreign emigration, and keeps arabic
land open to his industry
That is salty enough in all conscience, but
the editor concluded thus: Z" The experience
cfthis company IS still rery .farorobie, on the
'chole, as compared riM a great many others
ace could name
We have waited and listened for this kind
of talk long time. 1t foreshadows coming
tempest in the darkness of which the mystery
Of this great revolt will be evolved, and made
manifest We are speaking now of matter
We thoroughly understand. There are no
two classes of people on this earth so far
asnnder as the slave holders and slave
holders of the once peaceful and contented
Southern States. There are no two classes
having less of sympathy, one for the other.
The one class. the rich slave holder, is edu-
Gated and polished, in too many instances
arrogant and domineering and always proud
and aristocratic beyond any safe comparison
and freqwently the habit obtains among them
to fiaant their pride and arrogance in the
faces of those they deem their interiors,
merely for the purpose Of showing it. The
other class-we speak of the very poor
which is very numerous one, are in too
great degree the reverse OF aA Of this. 1t
is from the first named class Of people. that
these last named have selected shsir Sena-
tors, congressmsp and Governors, and it fW
nlshes ,sssT every SOLITARY co1mlss'sased off
Ger from CommanI der in Chief, down to bre-
vet second LieuteIl ant 8. Behind every VIC
tory or defeat,n saS rs leading Virginia jour
mai, "stalks the Ehost Of acommissary, y
and every Commiss,.ry is of this class. There
is not a man in California familiar with
Southern society who does not know of a YER
ity that all these things are true. Now the
lessons Of history arcslies if the meeting and
attrition of these two classes so widely apart,
SO dissimilar in intcrcAt tastes and pursuits,
does not array the one against the other
Woe the day when the issue is made! The
Gle of that army battling for myth wM ask
itself, swhat if the South whips, we die, the
slave holding whites will get nothing by
it.n
Human nature is the same the world over.
Mems ideas and prejudices follow the same
general current and follow parallel grooves,
and what-we put it to any unprejudiced
mind-more natural than that this class, con-
stituting something that might be termed a
majority, should ask itself. sin what way
are We interested in this conflict? The
United States have done us no harm, on the
contrary, they have done us great deal of
good. This is war about negroes, and We
do not own any and never will. Then where
tore do we fight battles. the honor and profits
of which enuret to those- who desrise-us y
The paper quoted from in the above para
graph, says that this class have net reason
rcuiture enough to understand the comr1r-
ative advantage which eren the poorest white
man in the South enjoys u in consequence
of a system which checks foreign migration
and keeps arabic lands open to his industry. .
The writer of that portion of the above para
graph, if sincere in this statement, does not
know what he is talking about. We wonder
If he knows that the poorest whites never
own or cultivate good "arable lands How
many of them cultivate ''arable lands be-
longing to them and worth fencing, in his
own State? How many live in homes OF
their own ON the Potomac, Shenandoah, or
Roanoakc. or farther South on the Pedee, Al
tamaha, St. Johns, Chattahoochie, Alabama,
the coast of the Mississippi or Red River ?
Why all the earthly possessions IN esse or
expectancy of this class would be insufficient
to purchase one square acre in the localities
named, and everybody who knows anything
about the matter, knows it to be true The
moneyed men very naturally purchase all the
GOOD lands. 1t would not be human nature
if they did not. Take the instance of Maids
on county, Alabama, which is body of as
productive land as can be found in the State.
A fewes Years ago it was in the possession of a
good many small planters, and cast nearly
as large vote as any county in that State.
These men have been bought out and have
left. till now in the matter Of white popula-
ton. it is at most, third or fourth rate
county. Take in the same State, the coun-
ties of Csffee, Dade, or Conecuh. The lands
in these counties are so miscrably poor that
a crow would scarcely attempt to fl over