The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-09
From the San Francisco Buetln]
The south to Gain More than the North
- by the War. i.

country 10 enSaBeu Is WaBcu 10 ualn- |
tain unimpaired o substantial and
prosperous government, or to test the
stability Of Republican institutions, or,
as some profess to believe, to effect the
obliteraton from our midst of the sys-
tenn Of human slavery, or, as others
seem to have convinced themselves,
merely to put down rebellion, because
rebellion exists on account of sectional
animosities-whether the war is wag,
ed for any or all of these purposes,
there is one other result TO which in
cidentally it is inoyitably tending, and
that Is the elevation Of the Southern
States to an industrial standard that
will, in no long time, rival that of the
Northern portion of the country. In
this respeet the war is destined to in
ure to the positive and splendid advan-
tage of the South, and, so far as sue
cessful competition can produce effect,
to comparative weakening Of the
North. No longer within brief pc
riod after the declaration of peace, will
Manchester and Lowell and Provi-
dence be the chief seats of our cotton
manufactures. No longer will the
Northwest stride alone in its march to
prosperity. No longer will education
al systems, genial and strengthening
to material advancement, avoid the
| delightful land of the sun. No longer
will Wilmington and Savannah and
Mobile envy Philadelphia aud Boston
and Portland ia the possession ef thri-
wing and profitable foreign comm
The Gulf States will be born into q
new and more vigorous life, and those
along the Mississippi, from its source
to its mouth, will struggle through the
appliance. of free labor, in honorable
rivalry for the ascendcncy in industri-
al triumphs.
Not to personal advantage, except
10 receive pay and bountics and earn
laurels, have the enterprising Of North
ern cities and farm lands gone down
in armies to the valleys of the Cum
berland and Shenandoah, of the Red
River of the South and the St. Johns.
Not merely for present profit have
contractors, suffers, and paymasters
penetrated to the front Of our most ad-
vanced lines. The farmer OF Ohio and
Y Illinois has now seen, with lenging
! eyes, the waving stretches of waste or
partially cultivated and fertile lands
!, that lie invitingly under the warm
T sun Of Georgia and South Carolina
: The miner of Pennsylvania has not
! passed unnoticed the furnaces and the
a mineral veins exposed in Virginia and
Tennessee. Tho lumberman of Maine
e and Minnesota has in his mind meas,
ured the magnificent timber of Florida
: The manufacturer of Massachusetts
! and Rhode Island has well examined
;. the water power that springs abun-
0 dantly from the crest of the Blue
8 Ridge and Cumberland Mountains, has
If estimated the extent and value of the
e resources of the surrounding country
y and has thought earnestly concerning
IT the seaboard port that lies nearest and
e . most available. Many q blacksmith
: has already selected the future site OF
x his forge, and many carpenter al
l. ready knows where thriving towns are
hereafter to be built to flourish.
"Armies composed of freemcn con-
h qucr for themselves, not for their lead
y ors," says Robertson, describing the
IS reorganization Of society in Southern
Il Europe after the Northcrn invasions
!. had become successful. That, inciden.
n tally to their main object, is what oul
/ armies are doing to-day. After the
# declaration of peace they will return
N TO their Northern homes, hut only af
ter suitable preparation, to go back in
d, peaceful mutitudes with the greonback
savings Of their martial career. A new
..e country will be opened to them more
N delightful in climate, more fertile in
II soil, more available to market than
any that any new State or Territory
"a except California can present. Negro
g. labor will be cheap, and even improv
IN ed property can then, as recently and
y perhaps now in Missouri, be purchas
St cd for mere song. The war has con
: frmed the rowing pioneers of new
frontier settlements, some Of which
,e have now become old States, in theil
nomadic propensity, and melted ii
re thousands who, until the breaking ou
:. =. of hostilities, were but fixtures of the
h still older States, a longing to enter
5. into the feverish excitement through
y which enterprise builds up new com
be munities and commonwealths. The
vast field exposed in the country soutl
DE- Of the Potomac and the Ohio, and ives
x. of the Mississippi as far north as thu
ID Iowa border, has been seen and its fu
tn ture imagined by those who will nj
as longer be contented with an unevent
n. full life behind dry goods counter on
is Broadway, or on patch of ten acres
We of gravel at the foot of tho Greer
a. Mountains. The war has bred in Tho
- army feeling Of discomfort with al
" most all that appeared to previous life
N N and this feeling will be stronger after
III the close of hostilities Kansas as wei
n as Connecticut, Indiana as well as New
Jersey, will join in the new exodus
from the North. The Southern plant
=. er may look upon this energetic immi
90 grafton with mingled rage and fear a
first, but the "poor white trash" viii
is welcome the better times for them, anC
=, gradually, under the influence o
MS Northern vigor and prosperity, mergC
id their former indifference into keer