The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-10
st. Besides New Orleans,

Northern coast. Besides New Orleans.
there is no port on the Gulf into which
vessel can enter, drawing more than elev-I
en- feet, but that OF Pensacola. There the |
largest ships Of war enter. and it has a |
capacity for commerce with the world.
The costof taking a>ship from the Balize
up to New Orleans and back, is greater
than the expense Of her outward and re-
turn voyage to Europe.
1t requires, therefore, no spirit oeproph
ecy to foretell the effects upon the COM
merce Of the gulf in opening am avenue
Of transportation from this noble harbor
to the rich and productive regions Of the
vast interior to the North of it. Will a
ship go upto New Orleans at an expense
Of $4,000, when she can be laid along
side Of the wharf Of Pensacola for
pilots fee? Will not the exports from
the interior meet the ship at point
where she can afford to take her freights
at twenty-five or thirty per cent. cheaper
than at other points? If produce can
reach Pensacola over road Of 500 miles
in length, will it go over another route
of 700 miles to get to New Orleans
where freights are one-third higher?--
/ Pensacola seems destined to become the
great seaport of the Gulf where the. trade
between the cereal regions Of the conti-
nent and the tropics will centre. And
to this destiny the Northern and South
ern railroads now under construction by
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, are
rapidly preparing the way for. this old
Spanish Fort. The Mobile and Ohio
road must be eventually extended to the
gulf at Pensacola.
The enterprises of the South are pro-
ducing greater relative improvements in
her condition than were ever achieved, in
the same period, by the energies of the
North. Sectional prejudice may be slow
, to perceive it, but the results will ere
long make the truth manifest to the
most prejudiced mind.
These great works are carried on SC
quietly, and with so little putting, tba,
their progress does not attract the at
tention Of the North to the extent theil
Importance would naturally excite. The
spirit of depreciation is so strong thai
the magnitude of the works is not ad
mitted and appreciated by Northern
journalists.
The high price OF cotton for the pas
five years has poured immense sums o
wealth into the rural districts of tn,
South through which these roads are To-
Gated. They are being constructed to Q
, far greater extent by home means, thar
Northern roads have ever been; and the
fact that their securities are not puffet
and hawked in every money market il
the world, is one reason why they have
attracted less general attention thar
Northern enterprises. They are, how
ever, no less important to the countr,
because less known.
The South, by her own works, is link
ing herself more and more to US BY
bands of iron and hooks Of steel, and
neither the corrupt Vaccinations of tht
l politicians, nor the madness of sectiona
factions will ever separate US. Our so
: cial ties and commercial interests, art
: more closely interviewer than our politi
cal relations, and form a bond Of unior
I that can never be severed. Our inter
ests are in common-one portion Of the
country cannot prosper without confer
ring benefits upon the other. To us, il
| this region, the progress Of the South i
: the prosperity Of our best customer
t We should rejoice in her newly awaken
h ed spirit OF enterprise, and be ready t.
e award her praise, and be foremost to chez
Il her in her prosperous labors.