New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-24
OF anything like repentance or refo,ma
ton from tina: side of the house.
POST MORTEM.

Senator Morton is said to have remarked
to reliable interviewer that New Orlean
looked like "a dead city, and immediatel.
our friends Of the New York Herald ant
the New Orleans Bulletin begin to testify
at the inquest. The Herald assigns two
causes, one OF which comprekends all thu
consequences:
!, 1. The railroads have diverted much of the
mississippi trade. The Western produce
mat IN past times was tioated down to New
orleans 10 rude fatboats, now seeks New
YORK and Baltimore. Therefore the growth
OF the great railway systems Of the Yves,
and partly OF the South have injured New
Orleans.
=. The federal government has not only
"taken millions from the Southern States
II the process Of war but has Thrown
Its influence against the South and largely
against New Orleans by subsidies granted
to the Pacific railroad and others in the
Northwest. Therefore:
Dying New Orleans represents the ignor-
ance. the cupidity, the folly and the crimes
OF Mr.. Morton's party.
The New Orleans Bulletin attributes the
sta9natlon OF New Orleans to the fact that
the Democracy have nc. held contro! of
| the State since the war. We by no means
except to either paper for having pointed
out some effects Of party violence which.
held men in terror of their lives. which
objected to Immigrant enterprise or CAPT.
tai unless the importer proposed to vote
the Democratic ticket and which estab-
lished q reign Of intolerance and social
prescription. This Incorporate and
ln:olerant policy has resulted in riots,
nassacres and a military occupation.
which, whoever was to blame has re-
pressed the progress of New Orleans If
this refusal to tolerate or accept the CO.
operation OF & majority Of the political
people Of tie State has deprived New Or
leans OF that cooperation at home and
abroad which builds up cities, we are
content to assume for the political party
which We represent such share of this re-
sponslolllty as an impartial world NAV
assign US. Whatever may be this YER
dict, however, it will not affect the fact
OF stagnation and depression rs it exists
Inc testimony at tie inquest, however it |
may explain the causes Of death. can by
no means restore tie defunct to life.
Before commenting upon what we deem
TIE sufficient cause Of common calam-
ity, we Will establish error on the part
OF the Herald by proving that its cause
assigned can not be sufficient. because
the same facts existing with respect to
other cities than New Orleans have not
pfoduced the same effects. The general
government has taken millions from the
States in the process of war."
LIEN these millions must have been taken
from the South, and
should have effected equally all the South.
such has not been the case. New Orleans
escaped bomba rdment Hey port was
open TO commerce with the North and
With Europe as far as the federal flag
could protect it. Charleston, South
~aroilna, was blocl1aded bombarded for
more than a hundred days. Richmond
vas beieagEered and blockaded for more
han two Years, and at the close OF the
var was burned the whole length of her
principal streets. Mobile was occupied
y federal troops, and with New Orleans |
ut Oil from interior trade .Atlant;. was ,
destroyed. IL some OF the Southern
'tates the loss OF slave property was {
.reater than that OF Louisiana. We may +
do that South Carolina has suffered 3
1orc il credit, and has been even more =
1cluslvely under the government of that E
lass OF legislators to which the New Or 6
cans Bulletin objects than Louisiana. /
AL these States and cities OF the South p
l'lst have suffered as much from the =
obstruction OF the Western railroads as =
oulsiana. Net Charleston is nota dead \
ty. It lad gained last year some fifty d
lousand bales Of cotton. Its workshops y
ere active and new buildings going up. G.
spite @. the dismemberment OF half the | f
rrltory and third of the population of l.
e State, Notwithstanding the fact that | f;
more than three years she was the 8.
mp OF the hostile armies Richmond has | y
en rebuilt, al her interests prosper, and ! L
e has. with the aid of Northern CAPITAL. ;e
en- connected with tpe West by q com J.
eted railroad, costing, first and last, h.
rhaps thirty or forty millions. atlanta Il
s more than regained Ler former posi- y,
N, and, il addition to being the prin- =.
pal railroad centre in the South, has bv q.
new Piedmont railroad placed herself q,
'on what she claims to be the most rapid \,
!e OF connection between New Orleans q.
d New York ",
Now our reasoning is this: If tie woes to
that war, which the HsllM did its best 81
urge and wage, have had the effect to \,
stroy Southern cities, why have those nc
les which have suffered most from liz
mbs and blockade recovered their step he
progress, and Why is that city which =;
tered less from the same causes "a $
ID city, We would like to see the
y tippant Il@rald and its partisan dis or
les explain this contradiction. va
The Her4!d, however, las comprehend cit
the true cause Of the stagnation Of Pr
" Orleans in saying the railroads have
erteo much Of Ike Mississippi trade.
he Western produce, that in past .
es was tioated down to New Orleans ;Dc