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hardware, and nearly all other useful merchandise suitable 

 to the wants of a new country, are in great demand among 

 all classes at good prices for cash.&quot; 



As regards that portion of Virginia east of the 

 mountains, the whole region has been made a des 

 olation. Politics and slavery have combined to 

 precipitate rebellion, and rebellion has made it the 

 tramping ground of armies which have eaten out 

 everything but the soil. Every gift of nature 

 seemed to have been lavished on this favorite re 

 gion it has an unequalled climate, rivers, coal, 

 and every valuable mineral. But these advantages 

 were thrown away. Virginia employed herself in 

 making Presidents, while New York employed her 

 self in making canals. Virginia was engaged every 

 year in reaffirming the resolutions of 98 and 99, 

 while New York was passing resolutions to build 

 the Erie Canal not only passing them, but carry 

 ing them out. Virginia was employed in setting 

 the machinery of the Federal government in motion, 

 while New York was taxing her colossal energies 

 to start the wheels of commerce. This tells the 

 whole story, and illustrates the superior utility of 

 industrial enterprise over a too long continued de 

 votion to mere political abstractions. 



Separated now, the new State of West Virginia, 

 begotten by loyalty from disloyalty, is thus far, in 

 its most prominent features, singularly unlike that 

 of the righteously desolated Old Dominion. The 

 new State is founded upon free labor as opposed to 

 slavery. In that fact alone, she places enterprise, 

 intelligence, skill and forethought, in opposition to 



