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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The possession of the Mississippi river--Vicksburg and Port Hudson (search)
the people have been bankrupted by the robberies of their soldiers, and those who would buy cannot. Their plantations have been made desolate and the consumers carried away.--Their commerce will be fickle and precarious, for their boats and cargoes will be continually captured and destroyed; and to crown all, New England has a capacious month, extended "wide open" to swallow up whatever may successfully run the gauntlet to New Orleans to supply a local market, some little shipment in the West Indies, Mexico and South America. In ordinary times the trade of Vicksburg alone was worth more to the West than will be all the trade of the Mississippi and its tributaries with Vicksburg and Port Hudson in their possession. Let the West have the Mississippi and still remain in arms against the South, and what will her trade be worth?--The question can be answered in a word — nothing. Then suppose the war continued, the West is paid in greenbacks and the coin husbanded in the North, whil