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Charleston Savannah.I here .seems to I e unite a spirit of rivalry between Charleston and Savannah, at this lime, and an attempt upon the part of the first named city to perpetuate her monopoly of the upper Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama trade. Well, so long as this i.s done hv fair I• o ^and legitimate means, no body lias a right {« eomplain. Hut when appeals arc made to vulgar prejudices and sectional feelings, and that too at the expense of truth and delicacy, we must beg leave os Georgians, to demu:*.A correspondent of the Marietta J//rrcr//c uses the following singular language :u Charleston is, I believe, the onlv South-* •vrn city on the entire coast. Savannah and New Orleans are offshoots Jnm Yuukccthm ; \ l|ioir associations are Northern, their opinions ;»rc Northern, their merchants, lawyers and politicians aie Northern or controMed hv | Northern inlliwnce and the hope of Northern patronage and support; and, with very few exceptions, 1 do not believe there is a prominent man in Savannah who is not piepared to lav the interest of Georgia and her honor — -if she had attf/ left— at the footstool of Northern power for the sake of the protits of Northern trade, or the hope of political advancement bv Northern votes.5’ ;*su,'|)ri,ed th!»t any respectable (.tiortjui pr mt have jntb'isli-cdsuch an unmitigated ealunmjTTf)*^ ihe •State, and its principal, and justly clierisheir* cilv. We are somewhat familiar with the I *character of the citizens ol Savannah, and ; whilst with few exceptions, they are free from that narrow and grovelling bigotry which would proscribe a man because he happened to he .born North ot Mason and Dixon's Line, thov are also true as steel to the rights and honor of the South. With a liberality unexampled, her enterprising citizens have expended and are still expending millions to improve and devolope the vast resources ot’ ilie State and make them tri-butarv to its we tllh and renown: and in coin-• * ing yeais, .'d.e is destined to garner a rich and abundant harvest as the fruits of her labors and investments.IS'of have we any desire that she should prosper at the expense of others. Charleston contains much that should command our‘ DtintT«e.- • \ '• '• j j*rrespectA8^1ipnsv ,merchants proriOQ*
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Rome Courier
Rome, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1851
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