New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-24
The New Orleans Commission at the
Mexican Capital.

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| GallardO, and the committee appointed for
that purpose, The attendance of CONNER
| cial gentlemen, MeXicans and foreigners,
| was numerous: besides number of visitiD g
| and resident Americans, furnishing evidence
| of the great interest that was felt on the
| occasion. After the salutatiQns between
the respective presidents of the two bodies,
aud the company being seated in the large
| saloon, Mr.. w. NJ. Burwell, chairman of the
| New Orleans delegation, addressed the
committee and members of the LOnia, in a
| handsome and very appropriate speech,
which was received by applause from the
| numerous audience, to which Mr.. Rincon
Gsllardo replied in the most cordial man
ner; when the parties rose, and were
| respectively and individually introduced.
In an adjoining saloon was spread bOun.
| teous and recherche collation., to which the
| company adjourned, and after an hour of
| agreeable and festive Intercourse the meet
ing dissolved.
TIE ADDRESS OF MR.. BURwELL.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Lonja
| Mercantil-A deputation Of members of the
| New Orleans Chamber of Commerce have
| visited your city in accordance with your
| kind invitation. They tender to you their
| acknowledgment of the honor conferred, as
well as of the courtesy with which, it has
/ been accompanied.
| The deputation has traversed your beau
| lllul tOunLTN, Nbublu NbHl 4uASuIf ulbuil-
| tains, fertile valleys, and has mingled with
| your peaceful people. 1t has been every
| where treated as friends, and / assure YOU
| that this sentiment is reciprocal.
| We beg you to believe that we come as
| the uppretending pioneers of an interest
| purely mercantile. We pretend to no
| diplomatic authority and are imDelled by
no political or polemica purposes. Our
mission, apart from the acknO wledgment of
| your, graceful hospitality, is one of com
| mercial observation alone 1t is our object
| to learn what are the inducements or OBJ
stacles to a more intimate, a more enlarged
and a more profitable business intercourse
| between the two great sister republics of
| the American continent.
We shall employ the evidence furnished
| by our reception in Mexico to assure our
| constituents that this intercourse may be
| safely, cordially and advantageously con
Quoted In further exposition OF the nature
| and scope OF our mission, the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce has appointed the
| gentlemen who compose the deputation
| from the practical pursuits common 70 the
two republics. Permit me, then, Mr.. Presi
dent and gentlemen, to introduce my col.
leagues and myself.
present representatives of our general
and wholesale domestic and foreign mer-
chandise, Messrs. j. h. Beylle and Emile
Colon.
The representatives of trade in specie,
bulliOn and exchange, Mr.. Gideon Town
send.
The representative in our Western provis
ion trade Mr. Horace Hubs.
The representative ip our wine, liquor
and Mediterranean and tropical trade, Mr..
T. Bailey Blanchard.
The representative Of our trade in ma
chinery andimplements for the culture and
market preparation of sugar, cotton, rice
and flores, Mr.. Dudley II. Coleman.
The representative of the manufactured
products of Louisiana proper, for use and
expectation, Mr.. F. A. Haber
The representative of the railroad and
steamship connections between New Or
leans and the whole interior of the United
States, and of the special connections be
tween the Mexican Gulf ports, the United
States with Europe by way of New Orleans,
Mr.. A. w. Roundtree.
The representative of an inquiry into the
facilities and obstacles, commercial, reye-
nue. and municipal, to more intimate trade
and travel intercourse between the two re-
puhlics, he who addresses you.
We should not, however have fulfilled
our duty to those who sent US did we not
assure you that you will find your best
access to the commerce of the vast system
of States which lay upon the Mississippi, its
tributaries, and our great lakes. through
the port of New Orleans. This intercourse
must be conducted along the meridian of
the Mississippi rather than by the indirect
navigation of our Atlantic coast, and rail
delivery to the interior.
The population Of the Western interior is
more than II 100000. 1t is rapidly increas-
ing by immigration, domestic and foreign.
Its cereal and other provision products
have grown far beyond the consuming capa-
city of the United States, and it now sends
to foreign commerce about 100000 900 bush
els of grain annually IL is the granarY of
the world, far surprising in its present and
undevelOped ability, Sicily or Egypt in the
days of their most exuberant production.
This abundance of food, with the raw ma
terial for manufactures, has attracted the
skilled.labQT of Europe The workshops of
st. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit
and the smaller towns which have spruRg
up in the same region, produced in 1870 the
immense aggregate of 81 500, 900 900 in man.
utactures, most of which was the result of
European skill and process, imported into
America.
This vast aggregate of production finds
transportation and intercourse through the
agency of some 20, 900 miles of river naviga-
ton and 10000 miles OF railroad eoDnee-
tons. 1t is obvious that these supplies
must have a foreign market. Turning, then,
from the cost and competition of European
commerce, what so natural and what so
necessary as an open and untrammeled
trade with, her tropical and intertropieal
countries of this CONTINENT These artisans
must have raw material which can not be
SO well obtained elsewhere. These popu
latiens require the tropical luxuries which
have become the adopted necessities of
civilization. Here, then, an unlimited pro-
duction of food and fabrics on the one hand
and an equally unlimited capacity for sup.
ply and consumption on the other, all point
70 commercial continental policy as free
and reciprocal as the domestic policies of
States will permit. The liberal policy OF
your own government in its relations with
other nations, has received the cordial 90
operation of the people of the United
States. A large subvention of lands has
been given by our Congress to railroads
projected across the continent TO our Pa
cifc ports. They also comprehend direct
connection with vonR Pacific ports of Quay
mss and Mazatlan. They will also pene-
trate your States of the North, and thread
ing your rich mineral regions of Guanajua-
to, San Luis and Gnedalsjara, will termi
nate in connection with your internal sys-
TEN of roads, at your national capital, this
splendid city. This international connection
will defend your frontier and our own
against the sayages who have so long de.
vastated both. 1t will unite the two ma
tons in the fraternities of commerce. The
words Of the great Philanthropist, Hum.
boldt, will be realized in a sense not fore
seen by him. Coaches will one day run
between the cities Of Mexico and Washing
tons"
We need not, however, await the compile
ton Of these great works, now under con
straetion. The facilities for perfect inter-
course already exist. Your magnificent
railroad connects your capital city and