CHAPTER IX.

COMMERCIAL CITIES--SOUTHERN COMMERCE 331

Plea for a great Southern Commercial City--Importance of Cities in General--Letters from the Mayors of sundry American Cities, North and South--Wealth and Population of New-York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-Orleans, Boston, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Charleston, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Richmond, Providence, Norfolk, Buffalo, Savannah, New-Bedford, Wilmington--Wealth Concentrated at Commercial Points--Boston and its Business--Progressive Growth of Cities--A Fleet of Merchantmen--Commerce of Norfolk--Baltimore, Past, Present, and Future--Insignificance of Southern Commerce--Enslavement of Slaveholders to the Products of Northern Industry--Almost Utter Lack of Patriotism in Southern Merchants and Slaveholders.