The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-10
LET US HAVE FAIR PLAY.

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aid Of the general government and the favor
of capitalists has ever been asked or given
It is intended to follow the thirty-second
parallel substantially, and to extend from the
magnificent harbor of San Diego, on the
Pacific, to point on the Atlantic not fai
from the mouth OF the Savannah River, neal
the city OF Savannah, in Georgia, extending
thirty-six degrees of longitude, or about
seventeen hundred miles, and traversing the
Southern tier of counties in Cali
forniaz to Fort Youma, on the Colo
RADIO, thence through the Southern part Of
of Ariz ona and New Mexico to Ell Paso on the
Rio Grande, through rich mineral regions,
through Northern Texas to Shreveport
through North Louisiana, through Central
Mississippi via Jackson, Central Alabama via
Montgomery, and through Central Georgia to
q point on the Atlantic, near the southern
corner of South Carolina. Its termini are not
great cities, and it passes through or near
none. 1t will benefit, when completed.
twelve or fifteen States and Territories in
about the same manner. 1t will form great
Southern trunk lire, from which Southern
roads will extend to the North and to the
South. It will afford to Asiatic trans. CONT
mental trade land carriage never interrupted
by ice and snow, eight hundred miles shorter
and forty per cent cheaper than carriage by
the more northern roads. 1t will furnish to
the government valuable mail route, and in
the aciiies which it will give in carrying
troops and munitions it will prove a chap
and effec ual means of protecting our people
against insarrec.ion1ry savages and maraud-
ing Mexicans. It will opens 10 the rich
regions of Northern Mexico to settlement
and will pave the way for an early union of
Coahuils, Sonora and Lower California with
our Republic. 1t will be the forerunner Of
road tina. shall connec. Mazatlan on the
Pacific with Brownsville and New Orleans
1t will send curreot of whole oms white
route from oc ian to ocelu, which will benefit
a continental zone Of six hundred miles in
width. It will open amounted millions OF
acres of lands, now was Q, to settlement and
cultivation.
Politically it will be connecting chain be-
tween the E ,st and the West and powerful
agent of concord between the South and the
North.
Viewed in every light the Texas Pacific
Trans Continental Railway is seen to be an
enterprise truly national, and being SO it must
be fostered and supported in thoroughly
national, catholic anti-partisan, and anti
sectional spirit. Cities must not be suffered
to divert and monopolize its benefits. II will
belong to the nation at large and will add
greatly to the defensive strength Of the nation,
to its unity and to its vitality. In its benefi-
sence it will be like broad, deep, level, navi-
gable channel extending from ocean to ocean
Intended thus as great public bensfaction
and blessing, its advantages should bs free to
Ill and without favor to any. In this view we
,all the attention of our representatives il
Congress, and of all Southern men who have
influence with Congress, to the threatened
PRACTICAL diversion of the Texas Pacific Rail
Dad as established by Congress from the route
md destination as set forth in the act approved
March 3, 1871, 50 that it shall terminate at
IT. Louis instead OF Savannah, Ga. The |
Atlantic and Pacific Railway Compa domi-
or road extending in southwesterly direc-
ion from that city through Kansas and the |
indian Territory, to point on the Texas
Pacific Railroad about midway between Dali
as and Ell Paso, where the road crosses the
,alt Fork of the Texls Colorado. The Gov
of the United States has granted no
ands to this divergent road, but it has guar
nteed the interest of the bonds of the COM
ANY to the extent of $4,000 per mile.
here is no reason to fear the loss to New Or
cans of Texas trade by this road other than
THAT is lost already by the completed Nilsson.
i, Kansas and Texas road, which taps the
'exas Pacific at Dallas. What we complain
f is the special favor shown by Radical
nd purchaseable Congress to the capitalists
t St. Louis and to the railroad interests there
epresented. We insist that the Texas
'acifc road was not intended for
ne promotion of any city or interest to
ae detriment and PREJUDICE of any other.
We would urge all who are interested in fair
ealing and national honesty to unite in the
fort to secure to roads which branch from
,e Texas Pacific to the Soush the same
.vors that are extended to those which branch
.om it to St Louis, or elsewhere, to the
orthward. If it were at all equitable to
hange the destination of the road, New Or
,ans, as terminus, is twenty-fold more suit
BILE than st. Louis, and her equitable claims
ould be greater in the same proportion.
his is the nearest suitable point where the
immigrant from Europe may find his way to
he Pacific States by rail, or go in search Of a
ONE in the valley of the Mississippi.
By means of road from New Orleans to
I,rshali by way of Opelousas and Alexandria,
less than half the length of the st. Louis,
tlantic aud Pacific Road above described, we
ould have a connection with the great trans
ontinental trunk line profitable to Texas, to
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