New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-04
TIE JACKSON RAILROAD SALE.

: IL : a. & sun hllIhCaD Sail.
1t affords H. IN infinitessirnal degree Of
satisfaction tn lea. tlat the Be Ia, at
last reached in it, editorial notices that
interesting period IN our local history
where the jackson railroad was sold to
Brigade General McComb, of the State
of Delaware At this rate we may
hope 10 lie long enough to read and ap-
preciate what the b. will say 1T some
future DAY about the interesting develop
ments OF the present mOnopolistic era.
Like walters AT the postothce subjects OF
editorial criticism take their position in
regular order. and are nethodically and
didactively applauded or condemned III
the column, Of the B. III the precise
order of their rotation. notwithstanding,
perhaps that the subject matter and the
occasion winch called for criticism have
been forgotten by the generation that was
affected bv them. Importance and merit
have nothin. t. do with tie serving up
Of these matters-eti4uette and priority
settle that the first to come must be the
first to meet attention.
According 70 this Persian and Medean
law, which We have applied but which
we must be exeini'vi from explaining in
its historical inetaphorism. the Bee has
reached the incident mentioned in
the first sentence of this able and e9uit-
able expostulation. and has proceeded to
heap upon the Governor and upon sun
dry other parties the usual verbal accom-
paniments Of an intense indignation. In
fact, if the records of that prehistoric
period when this trade was first mooted.
to the utter establishment and dire disgust
of the P;cqyOte and General Beauregard,
could be revived, it is altogether probable.
if not absolutely certain, that certain in
tense signs of dissatisfaction which were
then heard and read, would be recognized
and reclaimed by living patriots and
authors as rhodomontad, uttered and
printed by their unthoughted connivance
in the dim and dusty ages when it WI,
proclaimed that Delaware had sent her
ablest warrior down into the everglades
of Louisiana to engross and appropriate
the franchises liberties. railroads and
rolling stock that belonged 10 TIL, newly
reconstructed people.
Yesterday the Be- devoted one of its
three hundred and odd annual edito-
rial coiumliads at the cid trade BIZ
which the aforesaid Brigadier General
McComb was enabled to transfer to an
able management the suffering interest,
which the State of Louisiana and the city
o: New Orleans held in the then close
personal corporation known 4, the Jack
son railroad And il elevating its artil-
lerv at this defunct and almost forgotten
subject, the poorest reader of good Eng
hsh that pores over the Bee in the Third
District can not fail to conclude that the
publication was made more with the de-
sign TO hurt Governor WarmotL than to
serve any useful purpose. The transfer
is made, the road has passed into hand,
that bought it, and the public Ia, been
benefited Who is interested, then in
the question a., to the mode of its trans
fer? The courts are the custodians of
that question. And while all parties look
to the judiciary to correct the abuses of
the sale, if there were any, the people.
whose money built the road, are fully
satisfied that they have been largely bene
flied by what was done
For the instruction of the Bee, however,
we may be permitted to relate that, at the
time the sale of the interests of the city
and State in the jackson road was made,
the public understood the whole matter,
discussed it for weeks. and accepted of it
as the best thing that could be done. The
stock of the road was selling at lower
figure in the market than McComb paid
for what he got, the adjudication was pub
lic and the transfer solemn, deliberate,
and we'll considered It TOOK a live ma
chine out of dead hands, and gave US a
road in sympathy with the spirit OF the
age. Governor Warmoth. nor, indeed.
any of the gentlemen connected with the
trade, have ausht to censure themselves
with. They did their duty openly, aud
before the public scrutiny. And if there
was money paid perhaps McComb had
to use little with men who never do
their duty until they are paid There are
men of this class, and they do not vote
the Republican ticket nor support Cover
nor WarmOth either.