New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-07-09

purely poIll.ca4'
There never was a commercial relation
among tn. Southern States. so there
! never was q sectional cement to replace
the political alliance. There is NJ con-
cord because there is no longer q common
danger, or paramount common Interest.
or even a political authority among the
States themselves 10 compel the adoption
of common policy. Zach Southern
State has made :: separate political peace
and each pursues its separate interests.
; If the claimants Of the right to govern
opinion in the South publish bull Of e.
| communication against the act Of State
or man # the South, it meets with the
same Indifference as if his Holiness Plus
should republish {. bull or allocution of
Leo. No: the dynasty which once ruled
the Southern States under a sentiment Of
common danger. now wanders abroad
with the last Of the StuartS or Bourbons
in search Of some ally who may embrace
its cause 20: sympathy. or from! o
desire to embarrass a government
whose principles they detest. But
| the ancient North and the ancient South
can never again be embroiled or embat-
| tied against each other. The North has
nothing to gain or 10 fear from such
I conflict. The people of the United States
have granted an amnesty, which, how
| ever wise and Just, has never before been
extended by any conqueror in civil war,
the nation even admiring the courage
| with which the men Of its race and sentl-
ment fought the war and the honorable
T, fidelity with which most Of those who
fought the wax have accepted the amnesty
awarded them. The Southern States are
no longer united in their interests or their
animosties. The West is not 1T all in
terested in these. to it. ante-diluvian
issues. 1t has 40 idea OF being called
from the grand enterprise of uniting con-
tinents in commerce and leveling all
obstacles to intercourse and development
to quell o quarrel between combatants Of
whose old ferds it knows and cares moth
ing. 1t will not be many years when, It
Carolina and Connecticut make a fuss in
the family, their separate ears vii! be
boxed soundly by the nation, and they
will be set in separate corners to- pcut at
each other. 1t is not given to some ceo-
pie to note tie progress Of the Caion.
The attempt to rekindle tha'hames OF Sec
tional luminosity between the North and
the South of 1861 is vain. But the at
tempt to rekindle these flames in Louis
lana is like undertaking to start corfa-
grafton by scraping match upon an ice.
berg. Louisiana is in the hands Of =
colored majority. The non-slaveholders
Of Louisiana can now lire labor which
they would have had to buy under the
slave system. Louisiana wishes slavery
abolished in Cuba and Brazil, because
with ulNlisciplined labor in those
countries there would be an advance Of
prices in the staples common to Louis.
lana and to those countries. The coiored
and Republican majority wishes the abo-
lition of slavery everywhere from motives
of humanity, interest and Of caution.
Blu: New Oyleans-is this Southern or 4
sectiona! city: Can any merchant be
fanatic in religion or politics: Il he can
not sell goods to man Of opposite faith,
color or opinion. can he be called mer-
chant: And SO Of I. city. It welcomes
al. and protects all and is civil to all.
Commerce can not say to new conner:
lyon are q NUssulman, or jew. or
Puritan" New Orleans is now seeking
Western consignments. She claims 10 !e
the outrort OF. Western empire. She
asks millions Cor the improvement OF the
river and for its defense against overflow.
She asks this Of Western representatives
and of a Western administration.
With the repeal Of slavery terminated
The only commercial Or political bond
which united Louisiana with the Atlantic
States OF the South. She has now abso-
iute!y 10 dealings with the Caro!inas.
Virginia or Georgia, once the most pow
erful members of the Confederacy which |
assembled in council at Atlanta. Proyin-
guilty Q. location gives New Orleans the
trade III good part Of Mississippi and
Alabama. but great deal CT their sales |
md supplies are made through Eastern
markets. Much of the labor OF those |,
Southern atlantic States is passing west
of New Orleans, and annually increasing |
the staple products and political power
of our market. It will probably surprise |
TIE deiusior:sts who fancy there can be
even Southern alliance in which Lou
isiana is partner to read the following
statement: New Orleans is the rival
and competitor OF Charleston. Savannah
and Baltimore. She is contending
for the cotton which they now send
TO market. She is rejoiced as labor
migrates from the region which employs
those Atlantic ports, and plants itself on
.le Mississippi, the Red or the Arkansas
rivers. New Orleans has already profted
20 greatly by tie migration Of labor IS