AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 287 



time recover from her desolation, and that these 

 damages will be repaired. But to place her where 

 she stood before the rebellion, will require enormous 

 drafts on Northern industry, not only on that which 

 may remain at home in the workshop, but on that 

 which, to be effective, must migrate to the spot 

 where the ruin exists. In addition to the huge 

 effort of repairing this waste, there will be even 

 more urgent demands for labor. Food must be 

 grown with which to support life, and exportable 

 products from the proceeds of which to purchase 

 clothing, hardware, horses, tools, machinery, and 

 the vast variety of comforts and necessaries which 

 a blockade by sea and land had long excluded. 



Those who may be seeking for a farm, will be 

 able in this region to find a hundred. It is doubt 

 ful if much capital will be required to secure one. 

 The abandoned properties will be numerous, while 

 of the owners who remain in possession, thousands 

 will be found so impoverished and disheartened as 

 to hail with joy the advent of a Northern coadjutor. 

 It is help that they will need, not land. Of the 

 former they will have too little, of the latter they 

 have always had too much. Such, then, as think 

 that they know how to get a farm, and who have no 

 preference for remaining where they were born, will 

 have little difficulty in finding one somewhere in 

 the South. 



On this branch of the subject it will be in point 

 to give the following letter from a prominent officer, 

 dated at Goodrich s Landing, in the northeast dis 

 trict of Louisiana, under date of October, 1863, 



