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North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 13
cate with unerring certainty this as the great trade centre of the South. To the exporter this port presents a most favorable point for successful operations. Having the use of free shipping, unencumbered by navigation laws; all nations competing for the carrying trade, flue warehouses and wharves to facilitate such operations, and light port charges and expenses, the advantage of purchasing cotton and other produce in Memphis, or at any intermediate point, and also the products of North Carolina and States beyond, with certain and cheap transportation either by water or rail, with dispatch; to complete cargoes where wanted, the exporter will have to his hand every element of complete success. The position of the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth is, if possible, still more favorable for a successful import trade While the ports further South may to the exporter present equal attractions to ours, to the importer ours has decided advantage over all others. Owing to causes over
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 13
rld when such independence shall have been established. As soon as cause follows effect, so soon, as you very properly remark, the inevitable destiny of Norfolk is to be the great commercial emporium of the South and the great centre of an export and import trade. The thraldom which has bound ours, like every port South, to the North being broken, its position, unrivalled harbor, the various lines of railroad leading to it from the interior, the rivers emptying into the Chesapeake, and Hampton Roads in its vicinity, its proximity to the sea, and finally, the certainty of the completion, at no distant day, of the canal to the Ohio--one terminus of which will be our harbor-- all seem to indicate with unerring certainty this as the great trade centre of the South. To the exporter this port presents a most favorable point for successful operations. Having the use of free shipping, unencumbered by navigation laws; all nations competing for the carrying trade, flue warehouses and wh
August 19th, 1861 AD (search for this): article 13
The Virginia seaboard. Norfolk, Aug. 19, 1861. To the Editor of the Dispatch: --Your recent editorial in reference to the future course of trade in its relation to Norfolk and Ports-mouth is strictly true, and to the point and we have to thank you cordially for the catholic sentiments which distinguish it. There is not, and should not be, any antagonism between certain cities in the South in view of the probable result of her future independence and the relation they will sustain to each other and to the world when such independence shall have been established. As soon as cause follows effect, so soon, as you very properly remark, the inevitable destiny of Norfolk is to be the great commercial emporium of the South and the great centre of an export and import trade. The thraldom which has bound ours, like every port South, to the North being broken, its position, unrivalled harbor, the various lines of railroad leading to it from the interior, the rivers emptying into t