Ceredo crescent. [volume] (Ceredo, Va.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-15

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viII kSd that the advantages d yaffisd sgficuis
tufe and of markets are in favor Of Virginia,
while an emigration that would open her rivers
and establish the manufactures to which hcr re-
sources are suited, would supply the needed
home market, and the dense little communities
which become the basis and support of schools,
churches, and whatever make up Christian
society.
By this immigration the price lands would be
rapidly increased, aud what has occurred in the
West so often, might;be repeated in Virginia,
and will be, if the experiment just commenced
is successful. Not that it would be at all desi-
rable that this country should become the scene
and the victims of such speculations in land as
those which, like pestilence, have visited the
West but steady immigration of farmers, me-
chanics, or any other description Of men who
would be co-workers in any branch of industry
professional or mechanical would build towns
and enhance the value of property just as rap
idly as there should be any solid basis for it
created, and thus safe and constant growth is
provided for 1t tmay be difficult even if twere
desirable to cause what is very expressively cal
led rush into Virginia or any other part of the
South There must needs be somewhat grad
uaI adjustment Of things not exactly suited to
each other now-but large and steady inflow
of good material would find room welcome
and support. When once the idea of a posi-
| liliiy of movement of our population. from
the North to the South has fairly possessed both
the northern and the southern mind when the
novelty of the thing has passed away, and a
colony for Virginia or Kentucky, or even North
Carolina and Tennessee has ceased to excite re-
mark, then broad and sure basis for southern
.:rowth aud prosperity will have been laid, and
the two great sections will have been fused into
one. Then every true commercial and manu-
featuring centre will be occupied, and the natu-
raj healthy growth Of all associated interests be
sufficient and far better than that fictitious val
ue Impaired for brief period by speculative
movement Western Virginia is capable Of sus.
t4siAi1s g. ss.se md tisis
and support many small fourishing interior
towns, even as similar causes have produced
them in New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York. The country must come up IN val
ue to the general average Of districts having
similar advantages and this vast increase must
Of necessity make thousands rich, and give com
potency to many thousands more.
| \ new town or city has been already eStab-
lished, which is designed to be the manuiactur.
ur and commercial centre of Western Virginia
and the hope is to make this the mother of the
towns to be established hereafter along the riv-
ers in the interior, aud at all points where cen
| tire of business can be created lie who rcmem
beis what scenes the free states present in all
her borders, will not be faithlcss in regard to
the birth and growth of many prosperous towns
in this inviting field, now that new spirit is
awakened in the ancient and honorable com
monweal,h-a spirit which will not only unite
her with the North In the bonds Of new aifec.
ton, but which will give her in the end, more
than her old rcnown. In this enterprise in Eir
ginia, the North and South are laboring harmo
niously together for a common end, the earnest
and guaranty let us hope of what will ere long
DC seen on broader scale. 1t is not as in Kan
sas, bitter contest for possession, but peace
ful union of strength, aud just sharing of la
bors aud benefits.
If any one will take map Of the Unitet
States and follow upon it the course of the Ohio
River above Cincinnati, with the purpose. o
discovering some point where new commercial
aud manufacturing town mi ght be located &c
would take into consideration class of facts
which had no existence when our present large
cities were founded. Then there were no rail
ways creating artificial channels of trade and
travel, rivaling or superseding the uavigablt
streams, nor was there a country occupied by
millions demanding all the products of the shop
and the loom. The Lake commerce had no ex
istence then, aud lines of communication be-
tween the great valley and the South were of ne
consequence. Now all this is changed, and if
town is to be established on the Ohio above Gin
cinnati, respect must first lie had to the exist
ence of raw materials for the production of sucl
manufactures as the surrounding country, and
especially the South requires, and next to thu
facilities for fabricating these materials, and fol
their transportation to market. The influence
Of railways must also be carefully considered
because we'll located line cau create for itself
an avenue of trade, and build up a line of towns
of its own. One searching thus for the site o
a town, would be very likely to have his eye ar
rested by the point of the southern extremity
of the "Great Bend" in the Ohio River, nea
the mouth of Bis Sandy, where the river reach
es line about fifty miles south of Cincinnati
bending southwark thus far into the region q
timber, iron and coal in Kentucky and Virgin
ia. He would see that the peculiar form of th