New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-24
SELP-SLANDERED,

political office-seekers, in order to invoke !
outside assistance, furnish representations
of our social condition injurious to the |
true commercial welfare of New Orleans.
Of course these admissions are repub-
lished by our commercial rivals as we'll as
by all who, like ourselves, seek to attract
immigrant numbers and capital. Already
has this rivalry inflicted great damage.
An immense proportion Of our former
territory has been wrested from US by
railroads, and persistent effort is made
to turn the customer who purchases goods
here to other markets.
The Couriey-.Journal Of Louisville, very
much bent on making fight any where
out of the neutral State. performs the
pleasing task of fomenting our political
troubles, and combines business there
/ with. Those who deal in shipping to-
bacco in New Orleans know that Louisville
has succeeded to large share of the
crops formerly handled here. Those who
once received hog products from Louis
vile, to be distributed among our planters,
know the same goods are now sent from
Louisville ly rail directly to the cotton
planting country. 1t is plain, then, that If
| Louisville can produce the impression
that the yellow fever reigns here half the
year, and is then relieved by mobs and
massacres for the other half; if it be shown
| that our debt and taxation amount to
confiscation of property, purchasers
! will seek some other market, and immi-
grants give New Orleans a very wide
| berth in seeking location. 1t is to be
regretted that our our own press has
| blazoned our troubles abroad for the
avowed purpose Of having them adjusted
| by outside interference, as indeed threat
| ems to be the case. This furnishes our
rivals with authentic evidence in our own
confessions, and New Orleans is set down
by their merchants, hotel-keepers and
drummers as a city in which it is no:
healthy to stay all night if the visitor has
dollar in his pocket. Here is specimen
of how correspondent of the Courier
Jornn', under the head line Unhappy
Louisiana" does New Orleans:
New Orleans. notwithstanding it's many
| attractions is at the present time one Ofthe
finest and most desirable cities in the Union
to emigrate from. The State government
il an incubus of the worst kind and the
city government is an incubus multiplied by
several other incubuses of like character.
making total of incubuses not dreamed OF
| in your philosophy. The city is certainly
far from being good place to live in, yet by
many it must be regarded as splendid
place to die IN.
Our Fusion friends will see that they
have overshot the mark in their testimony
against the State The correspondent in
clrdes the city government IN the objec-
tionable qualities which make New Or
!, leans a desirable city to ''emigrate
from" and "a splendid place to die in. :
This. then, is a comprehensive denuncia-
, ton of all parties and SANDER Of the
commercial capacities of New Orleans.
1t is followed by an equally unfOunded
and inconsistent story about the agricul
ture of Louisiana. Writing Of sugar
estate seen from the deck of the Havana
, steamer, the correspondent thus pro
nounces on this great industry:
, Everything here seems to be in good con
= dtion. The land appears well worked, the
house and outbuildings in good repair, ana
= all the superficial indications of prosperity
manifest Notwithstanding all this. it Is
but the fruit of the Dead sea, and Only
= ashes in the hands of it's present owner
| This and many other estates like 1t would
a few wears ago, have commanded prices o
/ from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars
, and now il would be difficult 70 dispose g
them a. one fourth or one-tifth OF thei
i former value. There must be something
f wrong about the political economy OF tai
country, or these things could not be: ant
q remedy must soon be found. or ruin AM
4 desolation will reign supreme over thest
: | fertile lands.
= Add to this some well garnished notice
of the Colfax massacre and the mob o
Jackson square and what peaceful immi
: grant would no, prefer the order and neu
$ trality bt Kentucky to the violence which
r is believed to DE the constant atmospheG
: of LOU siana One then of our commercla
e antagonists publishes that New Orleans !
5 no place for a mechanic. a merchant, nor 70
: the customers Of either. Il also affirm
e that the products Of our agriculture ar
/ but fruits Of the Dead sea-" These re
:, ports. confirmed by the disclosures Of Oh;
e own press and public meetings will tend t
, promote tie transfer Of our trade to othe
II cities. When. therefore. 4 public Dime