It is not remarkable that conflict should ensue between races so dissimilar in a struggle to control the Government:  true to the instincts of race, each contended for that which best suited their genius and wants; and not at all remarkable that all the generous gallantry in such a conflict should be found with the Celt, and all the cruel rapacity and meanness with the Saxon.  Their triumph, through the force of numbers, was incomplete, until their enemies were tortured by every cruelty of oppression, and the fabric of the Government dashed to atoms.  This triumph can only be temporary.  The innate love of free institutions, universal in the heart of the Celtic Southerner, will yet unite all the races to retrieve the lost.  This done, victory is certain.

The descendants of these pioneers have gone out to people the extended domain reaching around the Gulf, and are growing into strength, without abatement of the spirit of their ancestors.  Very soon time and their energies will repair the disasters of the recent conflict; and reinvigorated, the shackles of the Puritan shall restrain no longer, when a fierce democracy shall restore the Constitution, and with it the liberty bequeathed by their ancestors.

With this race, fanaticism in religion has never known a place.  Rational and natural, they have ever worshipped with the heart and the attributes of their faith.  Truth, sincerity, love, and mercy have ever marked their characters.  Too honest to be superstitious, and too sincere to be hypocrites, the concentrated love of freedom unites the race, and the hatred of tyranny will stimulate the blood which shall retrieve it from the dominion of the baser blood now triumphant and rioting in the ruin they have wrought.

In the beginning of the settlements, and as soon as fears of the inroads from the savages had subsided, attention was given to the selection of separate and extended homes over the country, to the opening of farms, and their cultivation.  The first consideration was food and raiment.  All of this was to be the production of the farm and home industry:  grain enough was to be grown to serve the wants of the family for bread, and to feed the stock; for this was to furnish the meat, milk, and butter.  Cotton enough to serve the wants of families, together with the wool from the flock, and some flax, were of prime consideration.  All of this was prepared and manufactured into fabrics for clothing and bedding at home.  The seed from the cotton was picked by hand; for, as yet, Whitney had not given them the cotton-gin.  This work was imposed most generally upon the children of families, white and black, as a task at night, and which had to be completed before going to bed; an ounce was the usual task, which was weighed and spread before the fire; for it was most easily separated from the seed when warm and dry.  Usually some petty rewards stimulated the work.  In every family it was observed and commented upon, that these rewards excited the