New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-09
Senator Anthony,s Views.

The New Yoyk Graphic has interviewed
Senator Anthony since his return from the
| South, with the following result:
United States Senator Henry b. Anthony
was at the Gilsey House last evening He
had Just arrived from New Orleans and the
South, where he accompanied Colonel
Thomas Scott and the senatorial party for
Mexico, visiting on the way back from
Washington to New York the venerable
Senator Cameron, at his Riverdale farm OF
Lochiel
"How did you find Cameron :" asked the
Daily Graphic representative.
quite hale and full of spirit. He is .
noble old fellow, as hospitable at home as a
baron, and be travels with the equal
spirits of very young man"
Did Major Ben Perley Poore go on to
Mexicop
Eyes; Poore said that if he started out
and stopped short of the end of the voyage
he would be called The Mexican Tourist
by everybody on Newspaper Row. So he
went on with Scottl'
"But you and the Senators generally re-
turned to Florida by the inland South?'
"Yes. When We arrived at New Orleans
Mrs. Morton was taken very ill. We also
heard that yellow fever had broken out at
Vera Cruz, and that it might be dangerous
or subject US to auarantining. l suppose"
continued Senator Anthony, that in reality
we could have been transferred at Vera
Cruz from the steamer to the cars without
delay, and all proceeded safely. But we
had set out too late. The unity Of our
. 'mpany was broken mp, and we returned
through the Southern States"
ibid you find any repose or good result
of the long peace after the war therev'
"Not very much. We mingled with the
old native people, and they assured us that
everything was joyful except for the carpet
baggers. Northern people resident there
they had no security of life or property.
Wecould not reconcile such opposite state
ments, and went to the officers of the gar
risons of the regular army, who were
neither carpet baggers nor natives. These
we inquired CT at Charleston, Atlanta and
other points. They told us, without pas
zion or complaint, that their wives and
families were never visited socially by
the Southern ladies, nor did they receive
any OF the courtesies OF intercourse
common to civliz alton and always made
the especial boast of Southerners. l there
fore made up my mind that the feeling of
the people of the South, at bottom, was
resentful and their professions unsound.
We heard at Charleston of man who
wanted to carry the United States flag in
some procession through the city. He re-
sided on the Battery. among the aristocratic
residences there. My Informant, an army
officer, said: "None Of those dwellings are
ever opened to the officers, and the man
who wanted to carry the flag said his object
was to have it said in the North that a
native gentleman paraded with the national
cOlers in Charleston, and that capital might
therefore come to the place. l can't say
concluded Senator Anthony, "that I was
convinced the Southern grievance was
ended
The Daily Graphic representative told
the Senator that IN Columbia, South Car
DINA, the cold attitude OF the people toward
the fact that the wives Of the carpetbag-
gers, who were not recognized by the Car
oiinians. visited the houses of the officers.
IT the native ladies went there they fell In
with the enriched families OF the people who
plundered them. Senator Anthony said
that the idea that an officer could make the
price of his company the rejection Of some
body else from his house. was a novelty. He
said, also, that the Southern debts were
manipulated by natives, and that North
Carolina-the representatively great debt
was made next to insolvent by Democrats.
The Senator from Rhode Island enjoyed
himself chiefly in Savannah, where he had
visited when young man, and was well
coined after the lapse of years by old
friends. He appeared to think more of
Georgia than OF any State he had visited.
As to New Orleans. he said:
THAT city seemed to to have ffered
more by the war than any place Ut the
South. Its levees, delta and trade with the
West and the tributaries of the Mississippi
are all seriously affected. They are try ing
now to give New Orleans deep and re-
liable sea channel. l doubt if it will be a
success. What can you think of river
where an island appears i'll night an! a
ship runs aground upon it, and then is tJat'
ed off by the gases of decomposition at the
bOttom!'
Gases of WHAT" We inquired.
'Of the animal matter brought down and
buried there. New Orleans, also, by the
suicidal folly of the war, cut herself If from
the West, of which she had been the mart,
and the railroads built through the North
ern States, from East to West, have fianked
New Orleans, so that we can bring cotton
from Memphis to Providence by rail
cheaper than we can carry it from Memphis
by water via New Orleans. We consume in
Providence 100000 bales year, worth, in
round numbers, $l0,000,000 suppose that
New Orleans no longer has anything to do
with any material quantity of that cotton.
Besides, ST. Louis, which appears to be the
growing giant Of the West, is drawing Off
the trade even of the Red river and the
Ouachita, within the te rritories Of Louisi-
ana, by more enterprising steamboat sys-
TEN. New Orleans would never have been
settled where it stands but for the mouth
of the Mississippi. The river is now
menaced with high pilotage and towage
and precarious outlets, while the railroad
system of the North and Southwest TANKS
New Orleans all around, and supercedes
the necessity of the river"
"What did you think of Florida!'
"Well, you know Senator Dennis, the
Democrat, from the Eastern Shore of Mary
land-a lovely man. He said he wouldn't
give his farm on the Chesapeake tor the
whole State of Florida"
"Then your impressions were not very
sanguine of the regeneration of the South
ern country
THE general view had a depressing in
fuence," said Senator Anthony. 1.-The peo-
pie who ought to lead in public spirit were
sore ON small points The humble people
were doing something, but the whole po
litical economy appeared to be disjointed.
There was little OF the equal dispersion of
advantages and mental activity on things
pertinent and practical we possess in the
North"
(Which city did you find most active!"
81 thought Charleston had tle b st chan"e
In the South. 1t is a handsome place, with
4 goodsport and some spirit. Chamberlain
is doing well there as Governor"
With these hasty views our representa-
tive took his leave, regretting not to have
had opportunity to speak more at length
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