New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-07

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more worthy to be iutrusted with tina
confidence than yourselvess Such ar
your sincere convictions, that the blacl
man is the best friend Of the white, 70
without him there would be destitutio1
and desolation, at least for che present
The REPUBLICAN has made the phras.
industrial unifcation." It now adds &
demonstration that when society, in the
discharge Of its duty, educates and en-
ploys every one according 10 the measure
of his or her several abilities, it executes
the great axiom that 'all men are created
equal, by comforting an equal ability or
all to preserve through life the birthright
of their creator. 1t is this reciprocal
utility of all which constitutes powerful
and patriotic unity.
THE MISSISSIPPI AND ST. LAWRENCE.
It becomes obvious that these two great
rivers, once in the possession of the same
power, are now the only rivals for the
commerce of the interior Union. New
| York herself even feels that her slow and
shallow canal and multiplied tracks are
wholly inadequate to vent the millions of
heavy trade required by the boundless
productive capacity Of the West. New
York sees that her exports of Western
produce have ceased to increase relatively
that her power of distribution along the
coast has been superseded by direct rail,
and that the st. Lawrence is loomin. up
as her successor in cereal export
Why should not The St. Lawrence sur
pass the Hudson as a commercial con.
duita It is more eapacious, shorter and
cheaper. These elements determine She
course Of trade. Transportation is now
but an incident Of financial exchanges
The reported speeches Of the Canadian
delegates to the recent meeting Of the
National Board Of Trade, at Chicago dis
closes these facts I. The claim tina: the
Canadians hold the "key" to the corn
product exported foreign from the West.
2. That the treaty Of Washington con-
cedes the free navigation of the st. Law
renee, as an equivalent for that Of our
lake coast; but while the lake navigation
is open to British vessels, we can not
practically use the st. Lawrence, because
we have NO acknowledged right 20 use
the canals which connect j. with
our own Qavigable waters. 3. That
these advantages Of position enable
Canada to demand the still furthey con.
cession that the United States should
throw open the Eastern Atlantic coast
trade, so that American corn can be car
ried in British bottoms from the lake ports
around to the whole American coast on
the Atlantic. Such was the position of
Canada, and it is to be observed that the
lake cities do not controvert it, That the
navigation of the st. Lawrence has now
become an American question is still fur
Their shown by other testimony. The re-
port of Mr.. E. Dorr, a delegate from
Buffalo to the National Board of Trade at
Chicago, publishes the fact of this great
conflict between the Mississippi and the
St Lawrence:
The transportation discussion took wide
range. and included consideration of routes
from the st. Lawrence, on the north, to New
Orleans and the Mississippi in the South,
with many intermediate lines.
Our Canadian brethren set forth the ex-
cellepce of the st. Lawrence routes, and
our Southern brethren argued for the supe-
riOrity of that of the Mississippi. The dele
gates from Georgia and the other Gulf
States argued for their States respectively
as containing more practicable routes,
while Virginia, Pennsylvania and New
York modestly asked that their own States
might be considered as containing feasible
routes to the seaboard.
In the midst of this competition of inter-
ests your representative took the ground
and advocated that all the routes were
needed and should be encouraged, and that
all the routes, if opened and fully support
ed to the seaboard, could not keep pace
with the demands of the great country be-
yOnd that is settling so rapidly, with the
natural increase of the population of the
country and the vast volume Of emigration
from the Old World.
While your representative did not pre-
sent any special claims for the Erie canal
he took occasion to state that Buffalo, the
Queen City of the Lakes, standing at the
head of the Erie canal, was largely in ex-
cess as to receipts from the West this sea
son over the previous year, having received
of grain the present year, up to October |,
instant, over forty-nine and half millions
bushels, an increase of seven million
bushels of grain alone, and -four reduced to
grain.
Your delegate thus allowed the Erie
canal, which primarily settled all the early |
settled Northwestern States, and which has
done its share to contribute to the material |
wealth of the Eastern and seaboard States |
BY Transporting thither the products of the |
West, to speak for itself on that occasion.
From this may be inferred the opposi-
ton to the Mississippi improvement which |
the REPUBLICAN tabulated some weeks |
ago. From Milwaukee around to Georgia |
each city presents route which it deems
feasible" These are all competitors.
The St Lawrence possesses natural adj
vantages second only to those of the Mis-
sissippi. 1t is sustained by the govern I
ments and capitalists Of England and Of !