New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-04
HOW TO OBTAIN AN APPROPRIATION
PROM REPUBLICAN CONGRESS-,

| here from Virginia, Kentucky or Carolina
is generally accepted as respectable with.
out proof. A man in like circumstances
from Connecticut, New York, or Pennsyl-
vania is not SO regarded. The burden Of
proof as to his responsibility is upon aim.
If he votes the Democratic ticket and be-
comes subservient to the dncien reqime, he
is accepted On probation and finally Is
velops into very high-toned Southerner
indeed. Why this distinction between
American citizens should be made in q
city purporting to be American, is ques-
ton inexplicable to any one who believes
in the common right Of immigration
daily exercised by the people OF the
United States. Why one citizen of the
Southern States who accepts Office by col
ored votes is a scalawag, while another
who solicits this vote unsuccessfully IS
heightened patriot, is another puzzle.
The REPUBLICAN has shown that the
New canal lease, the Slaughterhouse char
ter, the levee tax, the attempt to charge
| Confederate debt on the State Of Louisiana,
with the infinite brood Of taxes, funded
warrants, and loans of State and city credit
have been negotiated by citizen brokers
and bankers, and the published record has
proven that the Democratic legislators of
Louisiana have stained their palms with
the same dishonest brides that have bought
the oolored or other members We have
shown that gypsy journalists have run
Fusion and independent papers, without
opposing one of these acts; and, in fact,
with State warrants issued for printing
election blanks, and that these same
partakers Of the crime by the sin of silence
have assumed to be the protectors Of the
public treasury-after it was no longer
worth robbing. What has been the object Of
the REPUBLICAN The condemnation Of
wrong without regard to the party affilia-
tons Of the wrougdoer. 1t wished to
prove, as it has proved. that no great
wrong could have been achieved without
the participation Of the money changers
and the political tricksters, who are Flu
sion, Or Conservative, or Reform, or
Democratic, as the one or the other name
may appear for the moment to be the
sesame of Office.
The object Of the Republican party is
genuine reform, because, if you will, it is
to its interest to administer the govern
ment well and to continue its administra-
ton. There was another object. 1t was to
present basis for the adjustment here,
as elsewhere, Of all political difference
which must stand in the way Of federal
favor, or even Of federal justice. Louis
iana is an applicant for many millions Of
money. She is preparing to ask an ex-
pensive canal to the sea. She asks that
the government should nationalize the
river defenses and take the levee tax off
her hands. How does she advocate these
demands? Read the Picaytne and it will
be seen that the government is denounced
as tyrannical, tina. Congress is corrupt,
that the Northern capitalists and manufac-
turers subsist 10y robbing what is typicalV
called ''the South. And through whom
is this aid asked? Through representa-
tives denounced as "carpet-baggers,
''scalawags" and the scape gallows Of
other sections.
If those who really wish to bring back
or replace the trade of New Orleans will |
examine they will find that she has many
and formidable opponents Of her canal
application. Chicago is pledged to the
lakes, the st. Lawrence and the Hudson, |
all her railroads converge upon those
lines. The city Of New York has recently
indicated her wish to enlarge her present
canals and quadruple her rail to the West.
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, the
Virginia canal and the Ohio and
railroad, owned by New
York, all oppose the Mississippi out
LET. The congressional committee on
conference last winter discussed the
St. Lawrence. the New York, the Virginia
and Georgia canals, but did no! mention
he Mississippi at al. The same fact is
obvious in recent letter of a member
Of the Senate transportation committee.
ALI the Northern and Middle State out
let's have their advocates, the Mississippi
outlet is not mentioned. Here we see
he zone of political power included with
n the parallels from Savannah, Georgia,
% Portland, Maine, and with all the
,o-op erative influence Of the Canadas and
IF England. 1t is all arrayed against
New Orleans. What advocate has the
The valley Of the river alone
rom New Orleans to Dubuque. Who
IAN doubt how this contest OF union, of
capital, Of interest will result in a
of all these interests first
named against our own. VIII our
Southern friends, Of whom we hear so
much, vote for our proposition? Will
virginia, the Carolinas or Georgia sup
port an outlet which is directly in antag-
'nism to their own? Call the legislative
oil, and you will see.
To strengthen these applications comes
be recent speech Of Mr. Davis. We who
NOW the facts are aware that Mr.. Davis
S dethroned despot, who had never
he confidence of the Southern people.
Viii not the opponents OF the Mississippi
'arade that speech as proof that the
pirit Of disafection has not been extin-
uisbed in the Southern people. and that ,