New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-05

the Rocky Mountains are poured down
through the delta of the Mississippi,
just as it is easier and cheaper to float
produce down stream than to carry it
up hill by rail, so are we justly entitled
to the commerce of this great Missis-
sippi valley. a-r co., s s r.
New Orleans has a rightful mortgage
not only upon the gold of Colorado,
but also upon the wheat of Nebraska
and Wisconsin, the corn of Illinois,
the iron of Missouri, the coal of Penn
sylvania, upon all the grain and other
products of the West that
seek an outside market. Our
sceptered queen should stand ready
with one hand to purchase what these
fifteen millions of thrifty people in
habiting the Mississippi valley have
to SELL and with the other to pay them
in the products of other people and
other chimes.
But to secure all this requires wise
legislation at Washington. We need
revision of the commercial treaties
with all the countries bordering on the
Gulf of Mexico, with the South Amer
lean States, and the West Indies. We
need vast system of internal i'm
provements, the main object of which
should be to construct railroa ads so as
to control the trade with Texas, and
first of all to restrain the floods of the
Mississippi, and cause her currents to
flow in equal and regular volume. To
make our State what Louisiana should
be we ought to attract to her within
the next two''years one hundred thou
sand thrifty farmers from the North
with their capital, their experience,
their energy, their love of law and
order, During the same time we
ought to induce a hundred thousand
sturdy immigrants from Europe to
settle within our borders.
Now what can contribute so much to
these most desirable ends as the pres
enee in Congress Of two able Senators
from louisiana Considering the
splendid opportunities in the imme-
date future, considering what we have
at stake, would it not be throwing
away our chances, would it not be a
sacrifice of the best interests of the
people to fill those high places with
incompetent men? with men who
would fail to appreciate the situation
1t seems to us that we need for our
United States Senators the very best
talent in Louisiana.
Our Senators to Congress should
also be men of spotless reputation
and of unquestioned loyalty. Their
character should be above reproach.
Without the possession of good
character no man in this country
can attain to commanding or to
lasting influence over his fellow
mon. Brilliant intellectual qualities
may attract wealth, and often con-
fers certain degree of strength, but
in the end these have to yield to the
secret and mighty power of charac-
ter. Its possession is a moral force
which nothing on earth can resist.
In the world of ideas character land
by character we mean the powers of
human intellect devoted to high and
noble purposes) is the same as mo-
mentum in the physical world. And
nowhere else is it SO desira-
BILE as to the legislator and
statesman. Who does not know that
the man who condescends to buy vote
to elect himself to office will, if sue
cessful, himself be in the market for
sale.
We hare entire confidence in the in
telligence and patriotism of the honora-
bic members of the General Assem-
bly, and we shall expect to
see them elect two men 70 the
high Office Of United States Senators
to whom we can refer with honest
pride.--New Orleans Advocate.