New Orleans Republican., 1873-04-09
THE MISSISSIPPI NEGLECTED AND FOR.
GOTTEN.

will have peace.
| THE MISSISSIPPI NEGLECTED AND FOR
GOTTEN
The seizure Of our city. its offices and
expenditures as a political fund has
| thrown its commercial men and interests
into oblivion. The honors and expendi-
lures are regarded as the birthright of
class who have no other resource and no
other conception. This exclusive dedica-
ton of the revenues of the city to party
purposes has another very unfayorable
effect. The New Orleans press to comply
with the public demand, must be purely
controversial. Its articles must contain
a violent assault upon some political op.
ponent or a fippant essay upon imma-
terial and distant subjects. One Of our
contemporaries. under a former admins
tration, was renowned for caution which
brought it alternately patronage from the
one or other political section, as each in
turn became offended with some other
journal. There was, on one occasion,
political crisis which demanded that
the press should take position and
arouse the people. Our contemporary
at that period took refuge in the
calm and unruffled abstraction Of neu-
tral, and its leader on the occasion was
headed The Shah of Persia" So be-
tween violence and insignifcance the
world abroad is under the impression that
New Orleans is a city somewhere north
Of Panama, where the people divide their
time and attention between street riots
and yellow fever, supporting themselves
upon warrants of State and city indebted
ness utterly unstable elsewhere and
passing from hand to hand at depth Of
discount scarcely realized by any other
community. From these causes Congress
has forgotten us. A revenue of certainly
ten millions of duties and internal reve-
nue. is collected annually by the govern
ment from Louisiana. But her alluvial
ltLItlo ItlC ltIl W tlIiA lAC
let Of her mighty river has got a bone in
its throat in the shape OF steamer
aground across its channel. Louisiana
has secured no advantages from the ma
tional domain, and it's shortest communi-
cation with its nearest foreign neighbor.
Mexico. is by way Of New York. In the
mean time government aid is bestowed
upon every commercial rival. The gov
ernment builds up st. Louis and Chicago
by grants of public land or money. 1t
gives to New York, Philadelphia and Bal
timo1e postal and other contracts of val
liable character. recommends the COM
pletion Of canals by which the trade Of the
Mississippi valley may be carried to sea
without passing the Balize. The govern
ment makes commercial treaties by which
the river st. Lawrence is adopted as a na.
tional highway, the navigation Of our
lakes opened to English vessels, and the
dutiable goods of the Canadas passed
without delay through the customhouses
of the United States. One OF the last evil
denca, Of foroetfnlness is vber. the
corr, orovers of +ha ,.Il.r MOO, o.
srrina+;sld to cor,,,lo;, tbot H.,
railroad, charge three-fourths of their
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