New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-19

ate, that tney may ever point 70 II VIII
pride, not only as defenders of the po-
itical rights of all races and all men, but
as model Of parliamentary dignity, ca
pacity and virtue.
When, therefore, an honorable Senator
announced ga cat in the meal of this
grave argument imputing rebellious mo-
tives as the source of the five feet gauge
it at least administered sort of compen-
satory justice. It was, too, more re-
putable device, inasmuch as it leveled its
lance at Senators there present and ade-
quate to their own defense, not against
men in the dead past, chiefly defensible in
such assaults through the inherent chival-
ry Of every mind. It charged that after Con-
gress had voted subsidies of unparalleled
munifcence in bestowing upon the North
its two Pacific roads, it now sought, in the
fashion of the sswooden horse, or of the
scat in the meal" to divert the benefits Of
the Texas Pacific to Northern profit by
establishing the Northern gauge as
means Of forcing Northern connections
and making Southern ones improbable.
The argument was significant, and if it
contained no germ of truth was, at least,
plausible in It's conception and did poetic
Jystsce1 in the premises; and, however
weak poetic justice may seem in so exalted
school, it put to shame the total alb
sence of all justice on the other side.
While on the subject of this great road,
we would add word of graver import.
When the South shall have got its Texas
Pacific, with its terminus at San Diego,
she will speedily prepare herself to build,
with even less subsidy from the govern
mont, the true Southern road, with it's
western terminus at Mazlatan, in north
latitude twenty-three degrees below the
cape-a shorter line by about 800 miles,
through better region of country, be-
cause almost free from mountains, which
abound for hundreds of miles in the APP
proach toward San Diego, it being, in
bee line, six hundred miles further north,
and at the head of the gulf, which will
therefore compel the doubling Of the
Southern Cape in the voyage to and from
all the three great empires of the East
China, Japan and India. The saving
alone of outlay to be incurred in this avoid
able navigation would, in few years, pay
the entire cost of building the second
great road terminating at the mouth of
the Gulf of California. Any reasonable
estimate of the enormous carrying
to be done upon these roads
would now appear fabulous. Any
calculation of the wealth
that will pour itself into our Southen CEN
tres, of the enormous city that our
will then rapidly become, of
the universal prosperity and matchless
growth of the whole South, consequent
on these two great channels of trade and
opening to the far East, no cred
uGty is at this time adequate to receive
Let US have two roads to the Pacific, as
the North has two, and in quarter of a
century we will outcount all other sec
tons in great cities, in wealth, activity,
and power, in the splendor of our COM
mercial marts, and the magnifcence of all
our developments-in schools, in arts, in
the multiplicity and glory ofour scientific
inventions. Let our Senators and Repre-
,entatives bear all this in mind, and when |
hey again are called to bestow upon the |
South, for the glory and permanence of |
me indivisible people the necessary fran
,hises for this second great road, let them |
lever mind any scat in the meal"