Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-08-09
the RAFTsmAn's JOURNAL,
Emmigration From and To the South.

Emml grafton from and 10 the South.
The evidence is apparent, in Southern
papers, that the leading families in many
localities of the South, are resolved to
'leave their country good. :" Having an
nounced to the world that they were the
superior class" in this country; having
vauntingly declared their purpose to rule
the entire Union or divide it to suit their
objects and their interests /; and having ut
erly failed, after tour years of bloody war,
backed by the tyrants of the world, in all
this work, the leading men of the rebellion
now announce their determination to leave
their several localities in the South, to seek
such homes In other lands as will best suit
their interests and meet their inclinations.
Brazil seems to be the locality most popular
as a home for the beaten and disgraced
traitors There is nothing strange that
Brazil should be selected as a refuge and a
home by the old aristocrats of the South
whose efforts to break up and destroy a free
Government have proven such woful fail
ure. The ruling classes of Brazil are per-
haps the most aristocratic and the most ig
norant and indolent in the world. Negro
slavery, III its worst brutalities, is maintain
ed by the Brazilians I; the slave trade flour
ishes along its coast, and in every respect,
the men who fought to become faithless to
freedom, and who are now preparing to leave
spirits and pleasant employment for their
whips in Brazil. Ofcourse this emigration
from the South will prove beneicialt to every
locality thus ridden of its idle material and
traitor inhabitants The Southern man who
after having been fairly defeated in fercely
contested battles, by the National authori-
ties-the man who, after having witnessed
the power and sublime energy of the Gov
ernment, is not inclined to swear allegiance
to it and accept its terms of peace, is better
out of than in the Union The emigration
from the Southern States impelled by feel
ings of hostility thus to leave the country,
cannot affect the prosperity, the future de-
velopment or the political glory of the
South. All this is established in the fact,
that better class of men are taking and
will take the places of those thus leaving, so
that in the end, the South will be benefited
and the States and National government
strengthened by the change of citizens,
The southern Journals which allude to
the emigration from the South, refer also
to the fact that Northern capital, capitu-
lists, artizans, artists, and laborers are ex-
hibiting their influence in the Southern
States, giving wide scope to improvement,
imparting great impetus to trade, and en-
couraging enterprise in manner not only
to astound, but actually to exasperate the
heretofore ruling and superior class of
the South. To the student of history there
is nothing strange in all this-it is merely
history repeating herself When, many
hundred years ago, the hardy Goth left the
cold and unproductive region of the Baltic,
and marched into Southern Europe, he e.
vinced no Opposition to abandon a country
he had conquered. The genial cline of It.
ally wooed the Goth, and he adopted it as
his home-unwilling to leave her fertile
fields orquit land of such beautiful promise
In our own day, the men of the far North,
the conquerors of the South, the. hardy, ro-
bust mechanics and laborers who went forth
to battle with and crush treason, are now I'M
willing to leave the South. 1t is the pres
ence of these men which is driving off the
rotton aristocrats of the lately revolted
States to seek refuge in such lands as Bra
zil 1t is the influence of Northern capital,
Northern genius, and the hardy stroke of
Northern laborers which viii give new life
to the South, new power and glory to the
whole country.