The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-13
GLORIOUS NEWS FROM BOSTON.
Virginia to be the Commercial Centre
of the American Continent.


n The Richmond Dispatch publishes
the following letter, which is we'll cal
culated to inspire our people with hope.
1t may be many years before the cheer
full prophecies of "Yank" come to pass,
but that they will eventually lee veri-
fled, admits of hardly doubt. The
Old Dominion as we have before as
serted, is destined yet to be the New
Empire.
Hub OF THE UNIVERSE,
2 December, 1867.
Editors Richmond Dispatch:
Being upon my boyhood' stamping
ground" have decided to letyou know
how bitterly my northern brethren are
regretting their folly for having disem-
boWeled the southern goose that has
heretofore supplied them with golden
eggs
In Connecticut the buggy and car
rage makers have Oh hand several mill
lions of dollars worth of ready-made
vehicles which they had hoped and ex-
pected would have been wanted ere
this by their former customers in the
ill-fated South!
They now discover, when it is too
late, that dead men need no carriage, not
even hearses. when they are shot down
in battle; lesson l tried in vain to
learn them while they were raising
troops by hundreds Of thoulands to
shoot down, as they did in the late war,
their best patrons in the Southern
States!
These brother Yankees of mine find
they have calculated enormously in
supposing the southerners would, SO
soon rs the war was over, become as
| eager as ever to purchase Yankee no.
| tions!
Every department of manufacturing
here is more or less oyerstocked, and
consequently depressed, Dry goods
and all other goods are daily falling in
| value, and as natural consequence
the working classes are obliged to have
their wages reduced to q degree that
causes them to ask the question. ''ls
this the effect of our having set the ne
groes free and devastated the South?'
The prevalent opinion here at the
| close of the war was, that in shott
time the people of the Southern States
would be recuperated and rush North
to purchase all manner of necessaries
and luxuries. They lost sight OF the
fact that by waging an inhuman wal
of four years upon the hitherto eXtrava.
! CANT South they had taught southern
| people to appreciate, study, and prac'
! tice economy, and so far as in theil
power to supply their wants with theil
own hands.
They call me 'a regular Jobs com
forter" when | prophecy that the late
war is destined in a few brief years tt
remove the commercial centre from the
.sImperial city of New York" to thu
most eligible locality for great city a
the head of York river or some adjacent
point upon the Chesapeake. The depti
of water adapted to the largest ship
that can be built, the mildness ofsouth
ern winters, the near proximity to the
soil which produces the great staples
tobacco, cotton, rice, naval stores, etc
all exert an irresistible influence DIES
; tined to attract men of enterprise ant
capital, an influence that must soon &C
upon the same principle that causes tn
SNOWFALL to increase not only in size
but resistless power as it rolls down
hillside with an accelerated veloclt,
until it brushes all obstacles in its way
The superior ship timber OF our coun
| IfY all lies OOuJIll WutIt Cul ll-Oob fbi
liable minersls lie in veins upon tn
Atlantic slope, intersected by number
less rivers and water courses Offering
the best cites in the known world TO
machinery to be driven by waite
power.
The southern States are blessed wit
soil and climate adapted, as expert
ence has fully demonstrated, to pro
duce the best qualities OF China tea, tn
finest and strongest silk, and collie
equal to the best Java and Mocha, i
any quantity that may be required b,
our rapidly-growing country. Thes
and other great natural advantage
, possessed by the southern over tn
northern States cannot fail to move on
commercial centre from IT'S present Il
eality in New York to the most eligibl
J point upon the Chesapeake for fount
, inc vast city destined to become tt
largest in the world.
northern man, [ was in fOrmt
wears quite envious OF the Governmer
patronage which the Navy Departmel
bestowed upon the Gosport navy-yart
But after visiting that great naval dep'
during a severe winter, when Bosto
and New York harbors were close
with ice, my jealously ceased, and WI
v forced to admit the proprietv OF OIL
ships of war being ordered to that poil
+ tor repairs, not only on account OF Il
mildness of the climate and the gr Eat
5 length of the winter days, but for ii
S all-fmportant reason there were l
!. strikes among the Virginia mechani
y for higher wages! The ample depth
y water at all times of the tide in Ham
a ton Roads and in York river, and
8 other points in the Chesapeake for Il
: largest ships that have been or Will
:, constructed, together with the fact til
II such is the nature of the bottom oftho
IS waters, known by the name of holdil
e ground, that ship never drags her
: chors, render that locality the me
:, suitable upon our Atlantic coast
u founding the requisite great CONNIE
3, cial emporium
d Energy and enterprise will leave t
SC North and take up their abode in t
" South in compliance with law oftra
II far more imperative than the manda
g of gravitation, which compels water
If seek its level and the atmosphere
. maintain its equilibrium. These gre
~ natural facts are becoming self-evide
l. to the moneyed men and to the mass
here at the North, and it is now plal
ly seen by my brother Yanks that
r. prosecuting the late war to the abolis
IL ing of slavery, they have bitten of thu
II noses and spited their own faces, ms
l. ring the speedy ruin of the North a
d the everlasting prosperity of the Sout
y YANK