New Orleans Republican., 1873-01-04
An ARGUMENT TO TIE EYE

hdlg DIE 1JOuI% I(tHtOCI " aAfVS iIALssoSSS
the ssasstics Ot population and pro3uc"
ton of the great region which susrouAds
that great and growing citys St is accom-
panied with an engraving which displays
the geographical relations Of the city
to the whole Union, and especially 10
those States on and west OF the
Mississippi, numbering, with Wisconsin,
ataut as many as the original Union, and
most of which it should not be fergotten
were carved out of the dowry which ac-
companied the admission of Louisiana into
the family of the States These States
are all within the drainage Of the Missis-
sippi, or ere connected with its naviga-
BILE waters by rail. Having thus displayed
this vast area, it is combined with a view
of ''the great water route for the products
| Of the Mississippi valley to the Liverpool
market" This is Illustrated by process
sion of steamers from the mouth Of the
| Mississippi to that Of the Mersey. It is
| wholly useless to lay before our readers
| the products Of this vast interior, or to
argue the propriety Of employing our own
waterways and wharves to conduct the
export trade and It's returns. It rejoices
us to see that the political fogs which OBJ
scure our horizon do not obstruct the
keen perception Of our up-river friends.
They see that the empire of the West can
have but one outlet worthy jts use.
They will demand tha9 sais
river shall be relieved as al
impediments, natural and artificial, from
its source to its Aouth. 1t is great en-
| enlargement at this time to find that pa
per SO able, so influential and so con-
si5tently connected with the commerce of
the Mississippi and the welfare OF New
Orleans, should have taken such bold and
unqualified ground in our favor This
delineation, so palpable 80 Che eye
and understanding, Will be displayed il
Europe, as well as in the lJnited States
) The effect must be &c convince oil who
see it that the interest % the interior sa&
outlet are identical ar@ indisssEgbleg
There are however, swo segpects gn
Wlich the map is Sefecsiys. l. It does
not show the great rival Of che Mississippi,
the St. Lawrence. This great wSerwas
Of the Northwest when opeS, wisl carry
vast commerce 2otweea tie appeS ssa:es
! Of the Northwess as5 liverpool 9he
| city g Montreal claims 10 :eye shipped
to Europe last yeaS sacSe chan evenly
seven millioS bushels os grain, 81 more
than half the quantity sz2ostesi from Sow
| YorEa The government o: GSeat Britain
| has indorsed the enlargement cS Che Wei-
| land and other canals cor9ecting the lakes
! and the lower St Lawrence, SO thas any
water which can be carried oyee Che ct
Clair flats or other inter-lake abstruc-
! lions, can go 10 sea by cay OF None
treal and Quebec The st. Lawrence is
very formidable summer competitor of the
Mississippi. 1t is very palpable that Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Toledo, which want
| outlet for their grain, with New England,
which needs relief from railroad charges
upon her food supply, will unite, not only
in deepening these outlets, but in secur-
! ing the admission of the Dominion Of
the Canadas into the American Union.
| The st. Louis Democrat must see these
tendencies in the sedulous attendance Of
the Canadian delegates at the meeting OF
National Board of Trade at st. Louis and
New York, and in a more recent confer
| ence called on this same subject at OF
! tawa. We warn our friends Of the Demo-
crdt that they should secure the imme-
date construction of an outlet canal, and
any other measures necessary to carry out
| its policy before the tide Of immigration
and this policy of annexation shall estab-
| hsh the line of power north of the central
! West. The members of Congress should
be impressed with the necessity Of inIme-
! date action. Let the dredge approplia-
ton be laid on the table for one year, and
the mouth of the Mississippi will De're-
duced to its normal depth of fourteen feet
on the bar. That vast and fruitful field
will perish or be compelled to give three
pounds out of every four produced to the
railroads O. canals of the East.
The Democrat will De a5tonishcd some
years hence to have left out of its map the
mouth Of the st Lawrence the Anticosti
island and the IntercoloniaI railroad.
Their combined effect viii be to shorten
the ocean crossing to six or seven days.
and that is no small matter to shipper or
passenger.
> The map, Ike most others, is def
cient in omitting that which must soon be
| an American lake-the Gulf Of Mexico
1t is impossible to make diagrammatie
view Of our valley commerce Sithout
taking in the continent and islands of the
Antilles, at least as far south as Panama,
/ the coast of Venezuela and Guiana to the
mouth of the Amazon. Sgch a region as
the Democrat has dehneated such vast
| capacities for agricultural and manufac-
curing productions demand q sar 5arger
gnarlet shan Che Southern Sta5es Of 9he
S-aion. oy a9en the adjacent 5nlass5 States
Of S2exico cas 5ur15shs % is no esa
talking.
The valley of the Iississipr6 and the
millions Who do and are to inhabit Il, de-
maId o coatiaerj5 s5mmer6iSl ScS .