New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-09

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way to market. It will carry passengers
and merchandise on the most direct and
rapid line to their destinations. More
over, when this Philadelphia railroad
through Texas will bring cotton to the
Mississippi for export by New Orleans,
the same rail will carry back the manQ1ac-
lures and merchandise OF Philadelphia for
consumption, not merely by the cotton
planter Of Louisiana and Texas, but by
the ranchero and miner Of Durango, Sina-
loa or Michoacan. 1t is this market for Phil
adelphia manufactures now opening under
the agency Of Scott which viii accomplish
50 much. 1T is market in which competi
ton is barred out by the sierras and
llanos of Durango and Qleretaro and
Guanajuata. There is no water way
across these barriers. Philadelphia Sc
cures d peculiar access to this popClous
and productive country, and she viii there
find such protective tariff in the iron
hand Of nature as will enrich her toiling
thousands.
There are perhaps few Philadelphians
who have ever read a book written by
Davis, one Of their enterprising citizens,
who participated in the war Of Spanish
independence, spent nine years il the
prisons of San Juan del UlIoa and Of
Cadiz and presented claim for indem-
nifty without success at the date when his
book was written. Davis proposed com
merce between Philadelphia and China
by way Of Tehauntepec and California,
and actually predicted ocean steamers
upon the route, with time Of some
twenty days between Philadelphia and
California. Of course he was adjudged
crazy at flat day. Yet Philadelphia is
now, by new and heretofore unknown
process, placing herself in direct and
almost exclusive communication with the
rich interior Of Mexico, which Cortes, and
Aaron Burr, and Houston, and Rosecrans
have each in turn styi7en to reach and to
develop.
This time it is no rpfian hand, no am
bilious spirit that beralds the opening
wealth Of this secluded region. Science
comes with her wand. Industry follows
with its labors. The treasures are IN
locked and thrown open to honest enter
prise. All who participate will be er.
riched, and a cordial union Of both the
producers Of one country and the con-
sumers Of the other viii follow the COM
pletion Of this great work. May we not
point to another result as justifying in
itself the whole expenditure? This in
tercourse will pass throughout the whole
Southwest. Il viii bring the operative
and the employer to see the value OF
Southern comrerce and will tend to teach
each section the worth Of the other Well
might Torney, when like Moses or
Balboa, he overlooked an eZpanse
SO vast and 50 suggestive, pro
claim his delight at the new resources
offered to the industries and enterprises Of
his country. 1t will be for New Orleans
to appreciate the expansion Of policy thus
indicated BY Philadelphia and expand her
commercial relations by sea and land into
all the vast regions that spread beyond
the tropics. yerily, j: may be sail % her,
that :: the heart Of The Andes The "ales
Of Bolivia ana The treasures Of the Amazon
and La Plata are as much il the future Of
New. Orleans as the borders Of MEXICO are
nov within tba control Of Philadelphia.
Let our merchants and statesmen, Like
those Of Philadelphia, develop tie result.