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CHAPTER XII. 



Land in the South Effect of civil war on titles Progress and 

 results of Pacification Openings in Louisiana, South Carolina, 

 and Virginia Great demand for Labor Cotton Growing 

 Society after the War. 



WHILE the eyes of thousands have for years been 

 directed westward, in search of homes, the slave 

 holders rebellion has opened up in that region a 

 new field for enterprising and adventurous spirits 

 from the North and West. 



It is a peculiarity of civil war to unsettle or de 

 stroy the titles to real estate. A foreign war, even 

 when attended by invasion, produces no such result. 

 When &quot;the British overran our northwestern frontier, 

 destroyed Buffalo and other settlements on the 

 Lakes, though personal property was carried off, and 

 houses burned, yet the title to real estate was unim 

 paired. When they landed on the Chesapeake, 

 sacking Washington and Havre de Grace, holding 

 a possession that was but feebly disputed except at 

 Baltimore, it was personal property alone that 

 changed owners. If the people abandoned their 

 domicils as the enemy approached, they returned to 

 them as he retired. No interlopers having occupied 

 them during their absence, there were none to set 

 up claim to title by possession. The flight of loyal 



