Domestic Resources of Virginia.
--The
Yankees have been so long in the habit of applying as with certain necessary articles, and many of them believe we cannot produce them ourselves, and have even succeeded in impressing numbers of our own people with the belief.
In their estimate of the value of our own productive industry, as contrasted with that of the
South, they habitually enu numbers of articles for which they have hitherto found a market only in the
Southern States.
There is not one of these which we cannot produce as well as the
Yankees, and but very few that we cannot produce a great deal better.
Let us enu few of them.
--Why should we be dependent on the
Yankees for shoes?
We have all the materials for making them here, and we have a of workmen.
The
Yankees have driven our shoemakers out of the trade, for the simple reason that they had to pay no duties and the market was free to them.
It will be managed differently hereafter, we hope amounting to a prohibition will be not only on Yankee shoes, but on everything Yankee.
Ready Made Clothing.--By means of the trade which they have heretofore en the
Yankees have almost entirely supplied our tailors.
A very useful portion of has thus been materially damaged, if not entirely topped off. It was a very easy for the
Yankees to do this.
Immense establishments, with immense capital in New York, had nothing to do but to their surplus production here.
Our merchant tailors, of course, could not stand it.-- Yankees paid no duties, and had the market to themselves.
This business, is pretty effectually broken up for so far as the
Yankees are concerned.
Heavy duties will soon teach them that their day is over.
--Strange to say, our people have almost forgotten that the rivers and ponds in
Virginia ever freeze over.
It was not so in This city was supplied by
ice-cream from the neighborhood, and there was always plenty of it. Country ice, from Pa and a cry familiar to the ears of many But "Paradise" was not place from which "country ice" could ed. There were a plenty of
ice-cream all around the town, in every direction.
the
Yankee deluge buried them, as it buried everything else.
Let warning be taken . Let every man who has a farm dig house, and fill it to the top.-- Yankees will not send any more ice here we hope, if there is any virtue in pre
--It has always been, a subject wonder and secret to us that our allowed the
Yankees, to monopolize for this important article the existence of the first as a re to the whole farming interests of the Where upon earth is there a finer for the production of bay, than that around us, from the ocean to the
Allegheny?
Surely not in Yankeedom, on the of
New Hampshire, or the stony
Massachusetts.
If the
Yankees cannot have as bales, and make a large profit farmers on the lower part of on the
York, and on the
Rappahannock the same?
Ship transportation is of all, and they have it as much as the
Yankees.
The dis atively so short that we think the country accessible to the ca even that on oads could come into competition.
But now, to this war, one producers will have to with one another.
The Yankees the track, and we hope they will to come back upon it. Let forth their whole strength in The article can be made a source profit.
This may the known from the quantifies the
Yankees have been of seeding here.
It costs less la other crops, and it can be grown the
State.
Gentlemen farmers, wipe
--Here is another article for which dependent upon the
Yankees, that along the while extent, in
Richmond, thousands upon acres, every-one of which could into an orchard.
It is notori the
Virginia grown apple excels the apple in flavor so greatly, that there between They have nothing that approaches
Albemarle pippin, though apple when
Albemarle was at the forest, our
Prior's red, our apple, our limber ig, and a dozen It is well known that the apple trans to this climate, ac which it never has on its na The finest specimen of apples ever our fair, came, we believe, from where there are thousands of or are all through that country.
own apples, and do not fear that the
Yankees will compete with producers.
--We have the finest soil and in the world for the growth of potatoes, and we have allowed the
Yankees to Let it be so no longer.
but a few articles, we have extended the list indefinitely.
that the
Yankees supply us with ourselves, and let us fall to it like men who accept their position, not afraid to look it in the face.
We were favor of a trade as free as possible with let us, if we can, put an all future intercourse with Yankees.
say we, discriminate against load down their commerce until it the burthen.
They deserve this war they are waging against
