New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-02-01

1t is about time that the Northwest begins to
take q leading part in the concert of States For
some time the Northwest has been playing second
fiddle, while New England has handled the leading
violin We have had practice enough in showing
the bow to begin to shove it on our own account.
The following item, which will serve as text, is
taken from an Ohio paper:
1.-The New York Independent notices the re-
arkable dividends that are being declared by
banks, manufacturing companies and railroads.
In referring t the New England manutac turing
associations the lnpendent says 'One of these
corporations, the Androscroggin mills with capi
tai of a million dollars, pays forty per cent; the
Nashua, with the same capital pays thrty-fre
the Appleton, twenty-five; the Pacific, capital
two miions and a half, twenty four the Merri-
mac twenty three, and so on.''
Who pays all these little dividends that are now
being received by banks manufacturing compa-
| MES and railroads? The people-consumers and
among those who are prominent in assisting to
swell the dividends of these corporations, are the
people of the Northwest. Being, as it were, in
land, and depending on the East and eastern routes
for transportation and supplies, the Northwest
is comparatively isolated from The benefits of com
| petition. The South has the Mississippi, the gulf
and the scaboard, and it can land European cargoes
ship its products for other countries at its very
| doors.
What the Northwest needs at the present mo-
ment is party popular movement devoted to the
| interests of the Northwest We want State legis-
| lators who will labor for the advancement of the
Northwest, and men for the national legislature
who will hold the interests of the Northwest ine-
ror to none other save those of the Union. We
need repr sentation both at Washington and our
State capitals that will legislate first, for the
Northwest and lastly if at all, for the negro
We need State representation that will eXtricate
the people from the grasp OF local monoposts OF
all sorts, and national representatives who will
take us from the tolls of New England manufac
!, lures and high tariff, and who will secure al
outlet to the ocean sufficient to answer the de
mands Of our immense productive ability.
| V,4n, ,ht,l p1it t1n p,l,l
and i'll fine, all the prominent men from Illinois
Iowa, Wisconsin and the other States of the north
west, devote their entire time to the African. No
one of them thinks. acts, or speaks for the grea
section which elected him. We are bed by rail
roads, taxed by government and New England
and are suf1UCatcd in the excess of our own pre-
= duction like obese victim in his own fat, and ou
|, representatives, have not a thought towards ou
relief.
There never was a better time than the preser
is for a great popular movement 1t should be
northwest movement 1t should be ant
| monopoly, anlNew England, and anti everythin
| movement save the union and the thwest.
| ought to be a movement which should retire
private lie the Washburns. D olittl-s, Wilson's an
others who gave their entire valuable time to tt
Southern negro 1t is a movement which shoul
represent mainly the interests OF the White peOp
of the northwest.
We think we see spontaneous purpose amor
the peop c OF this State to organize such a NOV
lrent It may be seen in the frequent and c
thusiaetiy gatherings of farmers and merchants
co cert measures O. d.fense against the intoe
able operations OF railroads and other corp0r
tons. 1t may be seen in the organization OF
free trade league in this city, whose object is
concert measures of defense against the exactio
of New England. 1t may be seen in the resol
tons of citizens of Chicago, in requiring fro
railroad managers an account OF ulelr steWar
ship. 1t may be seen in the columns of the cou
try press in the constantly occurring dennnclatio
of a condition of things by whose action t
many of the northwest are becoming pauperiz
for the benefit of the few. 1t is seen in the tevt
. ish restlessness of the entire northwest; and
the eager looking for and nnmbereSs proposs;;
eminating from all directions for relief Tor u
over burdened, overtaxed section.
es Legislators and corporations that are wise "
ed mark all these signs of the time. The northwes
on the eve of revolution, not of arms. but agar
monopolists, old fogyism in legislation, and depe
be pence upon New England Those who float W
the rising tide will consult their own and the g
eral welfare Those who attempt to oppose itV
surely be overwhelmed with destruction.
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