New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-22
VERY TENDER,

in and around the Governors Office have
assumed a brighter aspect" Obviously,
just the difference there is between black
and white, and, Intentionally, a reflection
on the eolored element.
None but the most Jealous and deter
mined friend of the colored race could
have solved the riddle. We shall en-
deavor to be more circumspect in the
future, and avoid any subject calculated
to irritate the new proselyte in the cause
of equal rights. Such tender suscepti-
bilities should not be wantonly wounded
One important feature in the CONNER
cial affairs of New Orleans since the close
of the war has been the attempts made by
various corporations concerned in the
business of freight transportation to pro-
cure exclusive use of portion of the river
front for the purposes of their BUSINESS.
In every case, we believe, these attempts
have excited opposition, but for the most
part they succeed, Notwithstanding
Those who oppose granting the exclu-
sive use of any portion of the wharves
to any freight transportation company
contend that the general commercial
facilities of the city will be altogether too
cramped by continued grants of wharfage
front to steamship lines and railroad COM
panies; for, although such companies pay
4 IL,
the wharves they obtain, yet the terms
upon which they obtain them amounts to
a possession in fee simple, as far as the
present generation is concerned. On the
other hand, the important results to the
commercial prosperity of New Orleans
which must necessarily arise from the
establishment of transportation enter
prises of every description, form abun-
dant reasons for granting the utmost
facilities to insure their success. There
appears, then, to be reason and Justice on
both sides.
Long as our city front is under the
present limits, it will be longer eventu-
ally; for no one can doubt that Carroll
ton will be at length included within the
corporate boundaries of New Orleans
And this suggests the question, would
not New Orleans be greatly benefited by
having portion of her commercial bust
ness transferred to the right bank of the
river? There is ample room there; the
levee front extending from the dividing
line of Orleans and Jefferson parishes to
the government coal-yard, being to q
great extent unoccupied by the occasions
of commerce.
There is no reason in the world why
the right bank Of the Mississippi should
not be made the scene of a portion of the
commercial business of New Orleans
That it will be SO is only question of
time; for it is preposterous to suppose
that mighty city, like what New Orleans
is destined to become, will continue to
have on the opposite bank of her great
river an unsightly barrenness, which
could, with little exertion and expense,
be made as an important relation to her
as Brooklyn is to New York.
a 1t must be obvious to every observing
man that the trouble which our citizens
experience at intervals from overfows in
the rear Of the city is due to want of
foresight and precaution in those who
governed the city forty years ago. Let
our present rulers look ahead, then, to
what will be the wants and necessities of
New Orleans half century hence.