The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-10-03
REnEL D1sA sAppoIyrMENr.-It is useless to


REBEL DIsApPoINTNENT-It is useless to close
our eyes to the fact that considerable dsaffection
prevails among the people Of the Confederacy in
habiting the banks of the Mississippi. 1t was con-
fdently expected that after the fall of Vicksburg
the enemy's navigation of the river would have
been held in check by movable batteries and by
parties of sharp-Shooters. But instead of these
exhibitions of riparian patriotism and adventure,
we learn that commercial transports OF the enemy
which single shore battery might destroy, ride
wholly unharmed in the waters of the Mississippi,
or float in idle security along its banks. Again it
was expected, since the country had taken solemn
resolution to burn the cotton on the approach of
the enemy that the fail of Vicksburg and the PEN
etration of the enemy into the Red River region
would be the signals for the planters to fire their
cotton and testify their devotion to the suggestions
of patriotism and the commands of the Govern
ment.
But instead of these patriotic iluminations, we
see the Memphis markets packed with cotton we
hear the boast of the Yankees that with the South
ern staple they are effecting their European ex
changes and sustaining theil currency; and we are
constantly regaled with the news in Northern
prints of Yankee plantations established on the
banks of the Mississippi by Massachusetts shoe
makers, who propose to re-people these regions Of
the South with half. breed bastards.
HIS OlSdueCtfOH III u pOrtlon vi tue NOHleueTaCy
is at once painful and serious. But we must avoid
mistaking the timidity or Selfshness of certain
classes for what is much more serious-poitical
estrangement. There is no such estrangement in
the country of the Mississippi; there is nothing
whatever political in the disposition the planters
evinced toward the enemy it isnothing more than
the exhibition which all revolutions make Of the
cowardce and aelfshness Of property. AS such it
is shameful enough; but it is some consolation to
know that it does not infect the whole system of
society, or penetrate to the heart of the masses
In this war property has been a stumbling -blocks
For the few instances where it has been devoted to
the country there are hundreds where it has been
lukewarm OF selfish; where it hasSopenly traded
with d:shonor. We owe one confession to truth in
this war. There may have been someaiminution of
spirit in the South since the commencement Of this
struggle but it has been on the pt on those pre-
tentious classes Of the wealthy, who peao were at
once the most jealous Secessionistss and ha best
customers of the Yankees, and who, now in war,
naturally the snealls and tools of the enemy.
This description may suit some numbers of the
peo. lie of Mississippi. 1t will fit those vociferous
patriots who screamed for Secession before the
war, and, at the same time, bought in New York
markets, and cherished an ambition of shining in
Northern hotels, and stunning society of Yankee
watering-places 1t is not strange that such men
have found congenial occupation in the war IN
planting in copartnership with the enemy, or in
smuggling cotton into h lines.-Rebel Paper.