New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-27

prevailed, and possibly arrested the visit
OF some Of our most eminent statesmen
on their way tdvisit the capital of Mexico,
these rumors did not prevent that ex-
petition, nor did they deter Messrs, Es-
tandon and Barron, two of the most emil
nent merchants and capitalists in Mexico,
from passing through the whole length Of
our republic from New Orleans to New
York, on their way to Europe.
We were offered an additional and most
| responsible testimonial of the safety of
our political relations in the impressions
derived by Hon. Joseph E. Brown, of
Georgia, from his visit to Mexico. These
he hos kindly communicated, and we give
them as OF no common authority. We say
this from no purpose of personal fattery,
but because Governor Brown is a repre-
sentive man of a representative American
people. He has been always prominent
IN every measure of moral and material
improvement in that Empire State of the
South, to whose service he has been so
long devoted. We perceive that Georgia is
deeply interested in the expectation of man
ufactured fabrics, of which she annually
creates large values, from her ports of
Savannah, Brunswick and the Gulf ports
adjacent to her territory. She is also
interested in receiving direct and by short
lines the sugar, coffee and other tropical
products which Mexico can produce in
unlimited abundance and in our imme-
date vicinity. But Georgia is deeply in
terested in other respects in closer in
tercourse with Mexico. It will be seen
that theresare four or five lines of rail
now competing for the travel and mail
between this city and New York. We as
sumo that the time between these cities
has been reduced to less than seventy
hours One of these competing routes
lies through Atlanta, and so through
a large extent of Georgia rail-
roads, either for direct transit
or for distribution of travel. To turn a
European and American travel move
ment of some four or five thousand, with
specie shipment from Mexico to New
York and Liverpool, with scarcely less, one
year with another, than twenty millions
OF dollars, is no common price for any
State or railroad interest. Visiting Mex
leo, therefore, as the representative, in an
individual sense, Of a powerful Southern
State, whose voice, in peace or war, is
most potential-in no sense connected
with sectional or party politics i'm
pressions Of Governor Brown in regard
to the stability Of the Mexican govern
ment, and the kindly feeling of her peo-
pie, is reliable evidence that our re- |
lations with our sister republic are not to |
be at the mercy of the cattle thieves
on the one side, or of filibusters
on the other. Governor Brown had ample |
opportunities of conference with the gov
eminent and people of Mexico. He found
the Liberal party sound upon the great
republican principles of defining and
limiting the public powers confded to
the federal or State governments: the
exact administration of justice, popular
suffrage and education; the separation of
the Church from any share in the adj
of the government, or the
taxation of the people The administra-
ton having thus planted itself upon the
civil and religious freedom of the people,
necessarily requires cordial intercourse
With the intelligence and enterprises Of
other peoples. Hence its fearless grant
Of railroad and other franchises to
foreigners. Hence its open invitation to
bring foreign capital and to protect
foreign enterprise in the develop
nent of the farms and mines of
Mexico. These professions Governor
Brown deems sincere, because Mexico will
'equire the sympathy and cooperation of
he United States to carry them out
against the anti-progressive and reaction
Try sentiment of the country and the in
erve2tion of foreign intrigue. He does
lot think that this radical change of
oreign policy can produce instantaneous
esults. The prohibitory tariffs of the
ederal government and the States, with
he want of facilities for intercourse with
he United States, will postpone the more
fruitful results. But the cordial welcome ,
# Americans by the President, the
Jabinet, the merchants and people of
Iexico, with the obvious advantages of
commercial and industrial develop
nent, will, he is of opinion, produce
Ultimate consequences of great advantage
0 both countries. We have no doubt some
lore steam lines, railroads and conven-
ion of reciprocity will promote these great
bjects We have, then, little fear of war
etween the two powers. Our own gov
is sufficiently strong to be Just. 1t
ill demand the protection of every Amer
AN citizen and of every American inter-
st. The Mexican government is prepared
} do and to expect exact justice This can ]
e effected by compromise between these
NO principal republican powers without !
ny unseemly aggressions on the one side ]
r any unworthy concessions on the other !
Te are confident such will be the result
compromise between the representa- {
We authorities Of the two countries. We
IN not omit this occasion to refer and
TX thp attention cf our roo Ja,r =, NTov;oo
the relations between the United States j