New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-24
"KAr1oHAI.1zIHa" OUR Ruin.

"NATI0NALIZING" DUB BUN.
A few determined men have sworn tt
rule Louisiana or ruin her. Having LITTLE
at stake except the success Of their OWE
ambition, they are deaf to the wants o.
the people. Poverty Expresses our peo'
pie; trade is diverted from our wharves
immigration avoids and emigration de-
populates; capital is withdrawn or di'
verted. These determined men SEIZE
upon all these circumstances, and, auda'
ciously attributing them to Republican
abuses, make of our social miseries par.
tisan argument. For some years past these
determined men have occupied the time
to which Louisiana affairs are entitled in a
personal conflict over the Offices of Louis.
lana. Republican representatives have
been impaired in their influence and as.
sailed in their actions and discouraged by
the fact that whatever they may effect OF
good for their constituents will be received
with sullen feeling, while the hostility to
themselves will be stimulated and strength
ened by the aid, rather than abated by the
gratitude of those who receive it.
1t has happened, therefore, that ques-
| tions of the most imminent importance to
New Orleans have been in effect aban-
doned to any who might feel an interest
in directing them.
1t is not disputed that the commercial
prosperity of New Orleans depends greatly
upon improving the outlet depth of her
harbor to the capacity of modern vessels.
Deeming the election and patronage of q
Fusion Governor of more importance
than the sordid affairs of merchants and
mechanics, the Fusion lobby Of Louisiana
has left this question to "whom it may
concern" St. Louis has come forward
and constituting herself the directress of
this work; she has put aside mode of i'm
provement which New Orleans has sup
ported for years without wavering. Our
merchants, mariners and engineers have
preferred and still prefer canal, because
a canal will never be taken away or sus-
pended by the acts of nature or politi-
clans. st. Louis has many ways of COM
munication with the East, and with the
Southwest. She scarcely now employs
the Mississippi outlet for her exports or
imports eastward. She can live and
thrive without the Mississippi outlet. It
is the only mode of access to the sea which
New Orleans can have. The new improve
ment is, then, one of the many outlets of
st. Louis. 1t is all and all to New Or
leans, yet St. Louis has taken exclusive
control of this work, and has given its
control to one of its citizens. If the Jet
ties be o success, it will accrue to the |
benefit of st. Louis, as also to the benefit |
and glory of her favored citizen. If it |
fails, st. Louis will still have her bridge |
across the Mississippi, while the favored |
citizen will have the bridge obstruction Of |
river navigation and the perpetual mon
opoly Of crossing all the st. Louis trade |
and travel which moves between the East |
and the West. This is one act that will |
''nationalize' our ruin. Another will be |
found in the fact that nothing has
been done for the levees at this
session. We may anticipate then a food,
and the suferings Of the submerged coun-
try will be carefully treasured and charged
to the Republican administration. There
is great need that New Orleans should be
aided by postal subvention to Brazil and
elsewhere as New York has been Yet
she has received little consideration on
his subject. Thus our ruin is ''nation-
alized" as impressed by the chairman of a
committee. This stagnation in
commerce sufferings from starva-
exclusion from regular postal
Intercourse with other countries, will
igure splendidly in the campaign Of 1876.
Louisiana, as the pauper of the Union,
will excite sympathy from other States.
Her misery and misfortunes will elevate
he determined men who have national
zed them. 1t has always been so. What
we're the bare pyramids Of Genghis Khan
= Napoleon to the glory Of these con-
uerers? So when, by the results of a
Democratic victory the few determined
gitators in Louisiana shall be rewarded
q addition to the city patronage which
hey now hold, with that of the State and
sderal offices, what Care will be given to
he miserable people deprived Of work,
bread, and of business, by the ambi-
GUS and selfish policy Of these imperial
,aders?
The ruin of Louisiana will have been !
and the ambition of few
eterlnined agitators gratifed. We ask
IT. fellow-citizens of all parties and Of no
arty whether their State in this great
'ntest is not greater than the reward Of
~ man or set of men?