Besides, the Carolina sea-coast must have a seaport, and Charleston is so utterly ruined, they argue, and so odious to the nation that Northern trade and capital would discriminate against it, in favor of its younger rival.
Reid argues that Charleston's decline opens opportunities for a new seaport to thrive.
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No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
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A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.