New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-12
A DAMAGING SENSATION.


public should exercise great care in &C.
cepting its Statements a sensational re.
F.! port of the correspondent of the Chicago
Times in regard to the object of the sena.
torial excursion to Mexico. Our neighbo1
of the Picaytae, SO far from observing the
same caution, has accepted the letter as
authentic. It has gone further. It has
quoted from the Chicago Times" as il
the correspondence were editorial opinion,
and headlined the mischievous misrepre-
sentation as follows:
A Semioficial Scheme for the ACQUISITION
Of Territory-The Rich Mining Regions of
Sonora and Chihuahua Sought to be Alb
sorbed-A Score of Senators. including
Simon Cameron, and Several Railroads in
the Ring-Under the Guise of Pleasure
Excursion, the Statesmen will Visit the
Promised Land-A Mammoth Filibustering
Scheme.
1t is well known that a party of Amer
lean Senators will visit Mexico in vessel
Of the United States Immediately after
the adjournment Of the Senate. Among
those who have promised to go. are men
toned Messrs. Gordon, of Georgia; Ran
som, Of North Carolina; Dennis, of
Maryland, and Stevenson, of Kentucky.
Are these men knaves that they 20 to
Mexico to despoil her Of her territory
and enrich themselves Are they fools
who can be led without knowing it by
Messrs. Cameron and Conkling? The
correspondent says:
1t is said that the oldest OF the prime
movers in this project talk of the entire
acquisition of the provinces named. 1t is
very easy to stir up revolution and to
derive all Of the profit from it,
We shall subsequently suggest what
the object of the expedition really may
be, but is it wise in the Picayu,,e, at the
that the consent of Mexico to a
more liberal intercourse with the United |
States is hoped for by many interests in |
New Orleans, to circulate an unwarranted
charge that the persons engaged in this
intend the ''entire acquisition"
If several Mexican States, and to accom-
olish this by stirring up revolution? We
appeal to the Picayune whether anything
could be more unwise, as far as the inter-
,sts of New Orleans are concerned, than
% check the generous impulses of inter-
rational intercourse, to impress Mexico
With the idea that we are nation of fill
busters, and that party of our most emil
lent statesmen visit that republic on a
raid" against her integrity.
We will, without even the authority of
umor, sketch what We may suppose the
'bject of this significant visit:
l. The Senator from Pennsylvania may
Wish to open new market for Pennsyl-
ania railroad iron and Philadelphia
The Senator from New
,ork may have the motive of commercial
nd capital development. The represen-
atives Of the West may wish an extended
emand for their surplus provisions and
abrics, and the representatives from Ken
1cky, Georgia and Carolina may have the
bject of securing cheaper and more
bundant tropical produce, with q more
nlarged commerce between the Southern
orts and those of the continent, south of
s. The attack upon the railroads we
IN not understand. Here it is:
A party of Senators, led by Senator Cam,
on, semi-oficially backed by the admins.
alton; ring OF railroads, generated by {
hOmas Scott; and a party of SPECTATORS. :
it'll the officers of the Lower California
ompany at their head.
What the connection of Tom Scott with S
is senatorial "raid upon the northern |.
'ovinces of Mexico" can be we can not
lagine. Such connection, if it exists,
n not, we should suppose, prejudice the T
icayune against the enterprise since that
urnal has occasionally, in the intervals of
rty abuse, advocated the application of S
e same individual for aid to the Texas il
'ciic railroad. We will conjecture the t.
terests of the railroad company in this r
cursion. Some years since party of Il
nerican capitalists obtained from the Il
vernment of Mexico certain con- d
'sions for the construction of a rail- ii
I'd system to connect the City of g
'nco by rail, passing through its north tt
stern territory, to a connection with FL
'uf port in one direction, and with an 81
lerlcan railroad to terminate at the Rio rd
ande in another. This concession. to te
ich General Rosecranz was principal th