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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], Whence comes all this cotton? (search)
ailed with satisfaction by those who know how to appreciate the productive energies, the sterling qualities and the attractive traits of German character. We can assure these Germans that they can no where in the Western world find a more congenial home than in Virginia. In fertility of soil, in richness and variety of resources, in salubrity of climate, it is the garden-spot of the American continent. It has lofty mountains teeming with mineral treasures, plains rivaling the richness of Lombardy, noble rivers intersecting a large portion of the territory, and harbors unsurpassed on the North American continent. It presents to the emigrant the advantage of being within a day's sail or ride of all the great cities of American trade, and of an easy communication with his own native country. It has the additional inducement of an old society, with churches, schools, and regular, simple habits of life, like those of his own fatherland. But, in our solicitude for the introduction of