New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-11
The llecaN nf New 0rleans.

| II is not a new thing for the inhabitants
! OF q city, or OF a whole country. to attribute
its decadence to political causes and to
charge upon government all the ills that
befall it. But it is well TO keep in mind
that an active, energetic, virtuous people
1 seldom. If ever, permanently suffer to a
| great extent in their social or commercial
I relations solely in consequence of an OBJ
.iectionable political status. Without dis.
| cussing the details or merits of the present
political complications and dead lock in
Louisiana, it can not be ignored that large
portion of the evils complained Of in that
State would exist if Kellogg had never
been recognized as its Governor, OF if he
| were to resign to-day. In the first place
| there is an element in the population OF the
| city Of New Orleans that assumes that city
| to be the State, the same as it is said Paris
| is France.
The present is not the first time that the
Crescent City has embrOiled the whole
State by riots and revolutions by putting
on foot maraudiDg and filibustering expe-
ditiOns against foreign countries with
which the United States was at peace
by sacking the houses of foreign cOnsuls,
whose domicil by all civilized peoples is
entitled to sacred protection and safeguard.
1t is hardly necessary at this time to revert
to the violent revolutionary acts done in
this city that precipitated the State into
rebellion against the national government,
without consulting the wishes of the citi-
zens at large, and which, initiating the
bloody role Of the French people of the 1
erection of barricades, again has lately
improvised coup detat. The fact is, there |
il turbulent spirit Of unrest existing |
there. entirely foreign to American primer |
pie and practice and against the spirit aud !
geniu. Of our laws. The country wants |
no such element either to contro! the ad. |
ministration Of affairs in times of quiet, or |
to assert it's influence 70 redress griev. !
aaces, be they teal or imaginary. and the |
sooner the fact is we'll understood the I
better it will be for the people Of Louisiana
and the whole South.
1t is this unsettled belligerent portion Of
the Southern people that keeps alive much
of the apprehension that exists that the
federal government or the people at large
desire to Cypress any portion OF the coun-
try which prevents immigration, puts
stop to travel. stays the wheels of com |
merce, closes manufactures and work. I
shops. These are some of the effects of |
the discomfort that is fostered In New Or.
leans, and that has prevailed there ever
since the close Of the war. But there are
other circumstances which, however, are
only in part relatively connected with the
disturbed state OF society, and which are in !
measure the ground work of most Of the /
Of the business portion OF the
Of New Orleans. These cir.
,unstances are in turn sometimes the effect
md sometimes the cause Of the evils that
,xist.
New Orleans has lost great portion Of
Ter trade; her commercial standing hae
ietericrated partly BY natural, partly by
artificial causes The energy and enter.
rise OF other cities that build railroads
trough the heart of the country that was {
Itherto entirely tributary 10 the entrepOr |
i the Mississippi river have created I ,
evolution In trade: formt rly the streams :
nat flowed downward and emptied into
his great river aoated naturally all the !
foduets OF the vast area of country which | :
hey drained INTO the lap Of the principaI | T
commercial city Of the great South " Get. and ! +
became essentially depot built out Of thu. ! :.
lver trade. Railroads built in the last de- / :
AIDE have totally changed the course of com a
lerce, and practically the trade Of the States y
Al kansas, Texas, Missi.sippi, and parts Of ..
ouisiana now flows UP the great stream Of y
,e Mississippi 70 Memphis. louisville. :,
Evansville, Cincinnati. and notably 70 ST. |
Ouis. These cities have with railroads | :;
pped every available commercial point. h
c reed every valley that formerly fed the ! !,
'mmerce Of New Orleans, and naturally ! h
minished her trade. The establishment, q
internal ports of entry in what was i
therto called the inland cities of the great ! y
est has also largely contributed to this y
ate OF affairs; goods can now be imported i
d pass without breaking bulk to the Il
merOus Western cities Of the great Mis-. | "
'sippi and Ohio valleys- q,
Most, il not all, of this import trade but Ill
very few years back belonged to New ! to
leans. Added to this q not incOn- / to
cradle rival has fisen in the growing I th
TT OF Galveston, which city naturally | te
. every effort 10 control the foreign / hs
de OF the State Of Texas. 1t 10 impos. I is
lie 70 sts.e statistically 60 what extent M
commerce Of New Orleans has been v