Very good reading, and has some facts that I will note. Thank you sir.
In case you did not see it, among the many sources I have provided to our friends on the great success of New York for the clarification of their errors is this piece from Harvard, address below.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2005papers/HIER2073.pdf
Can you imagine the uproar coming from these business owners, employers, politicians, and investor class people upon learning that the Gateway to the West, New Orleans, and the once leading port of the South, Charleston, with its newly dredged harbor that would now accommodate intercontinental shipping, would now be directly receiving European goods, and bypassing them? They must have burned up the telegraph lines to the office of the President.
In case you did not see it, among the many sources I have provided to our friends on the great success of New York for the clarification of their errors is this piece from Harvard, address below. Here is one of my favorite passages from the Harvard Address you referenced.
"Despite these advantages, the growth of New York during its first 130 years was relatively modest. Generally, New York was America’s third or fourth busiest port. In tonnage, it lagged behind Boston and Charleston in the early 18th century and behind Boston and Philadelphia in the late colonial period."
In 1786 Charleston alone shipped 1.5 million lbs. of cotton overseas. Those who claim the South didn't have an established shipping business when the First Congress of the United States enacted protective laws toward domestic shipping are either being sloppy or willfully deceptive.