The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-06

a Rich Letter from ~ Boston YANKEE
HUB OF THE UNIVERSE,
I'd December, 1867.
Editors Richmond Dispatch:
Being upon my boyhood's stamping
ground" / have decided to let you kho"
how bitterly my northern brethren are re-
GREETING their folly for having disemoo"el-
ed the southern goose that has heretofore
supplied them with golden eggs
II Connecticut the buggy and carnage
makers have on hand several millions OF
dollars worth of ready made vehicles when
they had hoped and expected would have
been wanted ere this by their former Gus
toners in the Inflated South!
They now discover, when IL IS TOO late,
that dead men need no carria.|eS $, not even
hcarses, when they are shot d. VIII III pdt-
tie lesson tried in vain to he arm theii'
while they were raising troops by i unuIeas
of thousands to shoot down, as theJ ana IN
the late war, their best patrons III the
southern States.
These brother Yankees Of mine tlnd tncy
have calculated enormously in Nnpposlle
the southerners would, so soon as inc war
was over, become as eager as ever 20 put :
chase Yankee notions!
Every department of manuiactu, ing
here is more or less ovcrstocked, ana co IT, T.,
sequently depressed. Dry goods and al'
other goods are daily falling iG value, ahd
as O natural consequence the WORKING
classes are obliged TO have their wages re-
duced TO degree that causes them 10 ask
the unestion, "Is this the effect OF our
having set the negroes free and dcvastatc4
the South 2"
The prevalent opinion here at the close
Of the war was, that in short tiine t,lc
people of the southern States would DC
recuperated and rush North to purchase
all manner Of neccSSaries and iuNnFleS.
They lost sight of the fact that by waging
an inhuman war of four years upon inc
hitherto extravagant South they mac
taught southern people TO appreciate
study, and practice economy, and SO far az
in their power to supply their wants with
their own hands.
They call me ga regular Jobs COM
lorter'" when prophecy that the late war
is destined in a few brief years to remove
the commercial centre from the "lupe-
rial city of New York" to the most clgi-
Bile locality for a great city at the head OF
York river or some adjacent point upon
the Chesapeake. The depth Of water
adapted to the largest ships that can be
built, the mildness of southern winters,
the near proximity to the soil which pro-
duces the great staples-tohacco, cotton,
rice, naval stores, etc.-ail exert an IRE
sistible influence destined to attract men
Of enterprise and capital, an Influence mat
must soon act upon the same principle that
causes the SNOWFALL to increase not only
in size, but resiStleSS power as 1t rolls down
a hillside with an accelerated velocity
until it brushes all obstacles in its way.
The superior ship timber of our country
all lies South, where our most valuable
minerals lie in veins upon the Atlantic
slope, intersected by numheress rivers
and water courses offering the best cites
in the known world for machinery to be
driven by water power.
The southern States are blessed with a
soil and climate adapted. as experience
has fully demonstrated, 10 produce the
best qualities Of China tea, the finest and
strongest silk, and coffee equal to the best
Java and Mocha, in any quantity that may
be required by our rapidly growing coun-
try. These and other great natural al
vantagcs possessed by the southern over
the northern States cannot full to move
our commercial centre from its present.
locality in New York to the most eligible
point upon the Chesapeake for founding
vast city destined to become the largest IN
the world.
AS northern man, was in former
years quite envious OF the Government
patronage which the Navy Department be-
slowed upon the Gosport maynard. but
after visiting that great naval dep0tduring
Il severe winter, when Boston and New
York harbors were closed with ice, my
jealousy ceased, and / was forced 10 ad-
init the propriety Of our ships Of war being
ordered TO that point for repairs, not only
on account Of the mildnesS Of the climate
and the greater length OF the winter days,
but for the all-important reason there
were no strikes among the Virginia me-
chanics for higher wages! The ample
depth Of water at all times Of the tide in
Hampton Roads and in York river, and at
other points il the Chesapeake for the
largest ships that have been or will be
constructed, together with the fact that
such isthe nature Of the bottom of those
waters, known by the name of holding
ground, that ship never drags her an
chors, render that locality the most sulta-
BILE upon our Atlantic coast for founding
the requisite great commercial emporium
Energy and enterprise will leave the
North and take up their abode IN the
South in compliance with q law OF trade
far more imperative than the mandate of
gravitation, which compels water to seek
its level and the atmosphere to maintain
its equilibrium. These great natural facts
are becoming selfevident to the moneyed
men and to the masses here at the North,
and it is now plainly seen By my brother
Yanks that in prosecuting the late war to
the abolishiug of slavery, they have bit
ten off their noses and spited their own
faces, insuring the speedy ruin of the
North aud the everlasting prosperity OF
the South. ASk.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.