New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-11
WHAT THE QUARREL HAS COST L0U1sl'
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: in capital and numbers, how far the com
merce might have been extended by
steamer and rail. what might have beer
, the result if the trade values swept away
by our rivals had been replaced by more
3 active system of development on our part
would be purely speculative and conjec-
= tural. We confne ourselves to the actual
disappointment of the last session Of
Congress:
l. The outlet canal, which every inter
est of New Orleans has deemed the most
eligible mode of improvement, has been
set aside for work advocated by an indi-
vidual. The appropriation of eight mil :
lion dollars given for canal by the
House Of Representatives last year has
been substituted by an allowance of
something over five million dollars for the
jetties, and the Missouri Democrat informs
us that it is doubtful whether the con-
troller of this work will commence it this
year at all. In the meantime the bridge
over the Mississippi, belonging to the
same control, may be tested, SO that it
will be known whether there will be any
need for deeper outlet at all.
2. An item appropriating some million
and half for the reparation of he levees
was lost from the absence of two Senators,
and the refusal Of others to move a recon.
sideration.
3. The Texas Pacific railroad failed to
receive any aid at the hands of Congress.
| 4. No ASST stance has been extended to
any steamship plying between the
port of New Orleans and the various
countries whose commerce is so essential
to our prosperity. Without enumerating
more items Of misfortune, We think these
are sufficient to teach the cost of party
! conflict which has been only prevented
from becoming chronic civil war by the
armed interv ention of the federal govern
| ment. For this Intervention the admins
ration has been greatly blamed and the
further additi on to the powers of the gov
ernment to prevent tloodshed and assure
the protection of personal rights has been
denounced as ''force bill' and heralded
as tyranny all over the world.
The chief element of this cost has been
the utter hostility toward all who bear
the name of Republicans, or who may
even retire into neutrality. 1t is impossi-
BILE for city to advance unless its inhab-
itants unite cordially in promoting every
interest. The Republican party and press
have access to the Republican govern
ment and to the capitalists Of the North
and West. 1t is alone through these
agencies that Louisiana can have her
share of the benefits of the government or
the cooperation of capital. What have
been the relations between Louisiana and |
Congress at its last session? There has
been strong Democratic lobby. Has it
received the support Of the Demo-
cratic members Of Congress? Those
representatives dread the infection
Of secession and instruction SO
much that they would not be seen
speaking to Louisiana lobbyist at all.
In the meantime. they represent the
antagonist interests of rival cities.
The vote of these cities has been cast
against the interests of New Orleans.
Have the Democratic lobbyists united
with the Republican representatives from
Louisiana? Their mission has been to
defame and degrade these members. They
have had no more intercourse than any
other hostile camps. For want of this
union and cooperation here and at Wash
lngton, Louisiana has lain helpless while
her com mercial rivals have despoiled her
Of her commerce, and assumed the d;rec-
ton of her public interests
The theory of the Democratic attorneys ]
has failed. They said that if Louisiana {
could be made spectacle "for men and 6
gods to gaze at" her miseries would COM
Del Intervention. But the Northern De-
nocracy do not take stock in this specta-
lie, and rather advise that the miseries of q
people are not an object of political a
omity. 1t is remembered that the Abc-
ltionists could not get an audience upon
he alleged sufferings of ell the Toms and r
Iopsys OF the South. People, somehow,
'ill give more to the strong and pros 4
erous than to the weak and miserable. Fl
1t is to be hoped that intolerance and e
unity will give place to Something more il
lst aud practical. Hon. Mr.: Moncure Il
aid in his testimony that there was no d
pposition to the principles of the Repub- il
can party. Then, if Republicans advo- a
ate measures just and advantageous in G
lemselves, what sense can there be in o.
'pelling their services in restoring the | p
rosperity of State in which they are W
) much interested as others. Of
There IS compromise. Not among CT
he partisans who wish special opportu- Je
lty to revive the political conflicts of the nj
ate, but among the thousands who want til
'ead and wages. 1t may suit the cam ~
ign papers to insist that the wrongs of al
ouisiana will be redressed by the cleo va
IN of a Democratic President, bat many tn
'rsons can not go without food or raj Sc
ent during so long period. Many very M
,rthy aliens never expected to have been LIZ
pit out of France so long by the political Oh
nfict Of the United States. All these to
ople who now walk the streets WI
idleness and want, all the land is