The Shasta courier., 1863-10-10

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1The Silent but Inevitable Revolution in the
y South.
The new correspondent of the London Times,
IA letter dated Washington, August 8, tells
some trnths which may be new to English
|lristocratic ears, but which we, even upon
this coast, have become quite familiar with.
Ne make few extracts
!. The whole face of this continent is rap
nIy changing. The Northern invasion of the
Southern States partakes in a great measure
Of the movement of the Gothic and Vandal
hordes into the exhausted provinces of the
bid Roman Empire. The conqueror settles
"a the PROSTATE land The Federal armies
spread disorder and desolation wherever they
appear. They rouse the negroes to freedom,
md profit by thehelplessness into which sud-
zen emancipation throws the improvident
iced men. The lords of the soil in large
facts of Tennessee or Mississippi are all
4kay in Lees or his llow-combatant's ar.
LES. Their families fly before their inya-
brers wander about, their property lies
waste, unclaimed. The Northern soldier
skizes on the land he has conquered. He is
rpt unfrequently squatter by nature an
aEyenturer by the force of circumstances.
Many a volunteer enlisted for three months
os three years, but as he left his New Eng
land or his Western home, he, in many in.
stances, bade a lasting farewell. He left
Vsthing worth having, nothing to be regret
ted behind him. The American is always for
a,fitting; always willing to begin new life !;
always on the look out-for a new home.
Hitherto the pioneering tide was always west
ward because, in the South, slavery shut the
way against free labor. But now the South
is to be free, and its lands are cheaper than
any lot in Wisconsin or Oregon. They are
to be had for the taking. Many a man who
enlisted for fixed term would be at loss
what to do with himself on its expiration.
Some of them, most of them, enter on new
engagement. They will abide under the
standards till the war is over; but whether
fg var or peace, of one thing they are sure,
that they will never go back to their country
This is the case with many of the native
Americans, but is more generally SO with
- myriads of Germans, Irish and other ad-
tnrcrs who constitute the main strength
4orthern army. OF these great
ay 4ad barely landed in New York or Bos.
"a on the first outbreak of hostilities. They
had no definite plan as to their future pro.
gress; they had not made up their minds as
to their ultimate destination. As they were
hesitating between Canada or California, the
Republican bountes came to tempt them,
and they turned their hatchets or reaping
hooks into sabers and bayonets. The would
be-settlers hired themselves out as soldiers;
but when soldiers work is ssdone, they will
naturally look back TO their original purpose
as settlers. A Journey back to the North
and East is the last thing they would think
of; civilized life has no prize to tempt them
with it h4s crowded them, pushed them from
its bosom. The far West is very far; Cana
da is cold and gloomy California is lawless
and wasteful why should they go further
and fare worse? The South is all before them
where to choose; there are houses and plan
Sations, cleared forests, titled fields, ready
made settlements, stray cattle, masterless
victorious legion will be quartered on the van
system. the South will be re- colonized, and
the invasions will lead to an agrarian settle
ment.
change is contemplated in the social economy
of Southern life. The present war is to end
in universal emancipation and upon the
ruin of slavery and of the slave owner an at
tempt will be made to organize negro labor
under white supervision, leaving it for the
future to decide whether the black race can
be thus utilized, or whether it must be utter.
ly superseded, trampled out and eztingpish-
ed. There is something certainly appalling
in the idea of this wholesale spoilation of
whole race and the sudden emancipation of
another race, SO universally deemed unfit to
take care of itself; but the North is drunk
with the overwhelming consciousness of its
power, and as success opens its way for the
accomplishment of its will it meditates and
actually acts upon policy it has as yet hard
ly the assurance to ayow.
There is no apprehension meanwhile that
this occupation of the South may, in any per-
ceptible degree, affect or wear out the North.
Should every one of the million of combat
ants now in tke field, cast his lot in the South
as permanent settler, the gaps left by them
in Northern society would be Immediately
filled up by the incessant tide of immigration
from the Old World. The phe
nomena of the darkest Middle Ages are re-
producing themselves under our very eyes.
The North American hive of nations is swarm
ing down southwards, and the European tide
is rushing in, pressing on, allowing no slack
or stagnation, giving the willfulness of man
all the impulse irresistible fate. 1t was not
SO much as recruits for the Northern armies
now in the field that these new corners were
SO rapturously hailed at their landing in the
country Of their adoption; but they were
welcomed as combatants in that great war of
colonization and civilization which enlists its
pioneers out of all the European tribes, but
IN which the Anglo Saxon deems himself en-
titled to take the lead.'' .
SHERIDAN once succeeded admirably In
entrappin noisy member, who was in
tho habit of intarrrrnfiy,r, :, oxar,, s,o.l.- :xl