Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-28
A RENOVATED oouNrRY,

The expression of the late President
Lincoln when he was a member Of Con.
gress, that this country would one day be
"all slave or oil Free" has been realized.
Napoleon made a prediction that Europe
would ultimately become tall Republican
or all Cossack," and the ful6llment of his
prophecy is not at all improbable. Here
we have opinions from the two leading
men Of their respective generations /; ono
relating to this country and the other to
Europe, both of which are founded, not
upon mere guess or supposition, but upon
a fundamental social principle. And this
is the principle: That there is in every
nation a p~redominating, a vitalizing pow
er, which sooner or later must infuse itself
into every channel, just as the heart in
fuses blood into every vein. The South
long and ~strenuously resisted the en-
c~roachment of Northern ideas, and
strove to stay the resistless tide by
counter attempts to infuse Southern
principles into the Northern people.
But the effort was futile, for the vitality OF
the nation was in the North, and the
steady flow of the vitalizing property at
length bore opposition, and Northern
principles have at last permeated the
whole South. The natural result of this
triumph will be to break down the dis
tinctive characteristics of the South, and
cause o singleness of ideas and principles
throughout the whole country. Thus the
system of labor is now being organized on
the same basis at the South that is pre-
yalent at the North. Following this will
come the introduction of free schools. the
distribution of books, and other means for
the requirement Of education. Then
manufactures will spring up where they
have never been known before, industrial
pursuits of all kinds will gradually grow
up after the manner of the North, and in
short the energy, industry and persever-
ancc of the Northern people will, ere
long. place the South on a social and BUSH
ness level with the North, and the only
distinction will be the natural products Of
the soil. What effect this transforms.
ton will have upon the negro race in
the South, it is difficult to determine.
They have never been tested in competi-
ton with Anglo-saxon energy, for they
have not until lately been obliged to pro-
vide for and take care Of themselves.
They will now be brought into direct
competition with q class of people who
are proverbial for their industry and en-
ergy, and if the negroes keep their heads
above the surface in such competition,
they must expect to do it by an equal
display of industry. But there Is room
for oil, and employment for all. The
negro, by virtue of his lower social posi-
ton, will, perhaps, be obliged to fill a
lower sphere than the white; but there is
no reason why he should not become i'm
~pregnated with the energetic and indus
trious characteristics of the North, and
eventually reach a much higher position
than he now occupies. The whole South
will now undergo a process of Yankee
ling" The slave oligarchs have disap.
peared, and their caste doctrines have
gone with them. It now only remains
for the North to fill the void thus left,
when the whole country will be animated
by the same impulse of progress and adj
vancement.