The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-25
DALLAS, TEXAS.
SATURDAY MORNING ;;';; SEPT. %
THE mIssIssIrrr Valley.
Organized May ~ 1873.


also WINS uppcrmost in the ,greav
speech Of John G. Calhoun ut The
first Southern Commercial Conven
ton at Memphis. 1t was tho decla.
ration that tho States ofthe great
Valley Of tho Mississippi arc one
and indivisible. 1t was II scnti
ment which had in it much political
as well rs material significance
Whom Mr.. Calhoun made his cele.
bratcd speech at Memphis, tho car.
dinal theory of the Democratic
party was opposition to internal
improvements by the General Gov
eminent, and IL was an artful an
nouncemont of that skillful polti.
clan, as we'll as consummato states
man, that the Mississippi river was
great inland sea, and rs such emit
tied to the fostering caro- ofthe Gov
ernmcnt. The Convention ut Mem.
phis was composed Of delegates from
all the Southern States, and especi.
ally from Missouri and Louisiana,
and tho political element which held
preponderancc was tho strict con
struction wing of the Democratic
party. The utterance Of the senti-
ment by Mr.. Calhoun was for n
twofold purpose; first, to prove to
the world tho consistency of the
Democracy on this subject Of inter
nal improvements, by showing that
appropriations by Congress Of tho
public money might well be made
for the Mississippi river as an IN
land sea; and, secondly, to announce
the fact that the people Of tho great
Valley Of the Mississippi, from the
lakes to the gulf, were one in inter
est, one in commerce, and one in
all the social relations, and should
be one and indivisiblo in all mat.
ters of political concern.
Jefferson Davis was always II dis
ciple Of the Calhoun school of poll
ties. The great South Carolinian
was always the inspiration of tho
Mississippi statesman. The utter
ances of Calhoun never failed to
find Judgment with Davis. The
"now departure" which the "inland
sea" idea of Calhoun inaugurated
upon the Democratic theory Of in.
ternal improvements rs n political
question, struck tho country with
surprise, pervading the land like
magnetism, and at once opened u
loop-hole through which tho Democ-
racy escaped from most unpopular
dogma. From that day to this, the
unity in interest and policy of the
Northwest and the South has been
conceded, and tho expression of Mr..
Davis in the presence Of the people
of the Northwest, in his speech in
Missouri The other day, that the
States of the Mississippi Valley arc
one and indivisible, was but the
repetition of n sentiment now grown
to DO rs familiar Us household words.
And ID it not but natural that all
these great States, washed by tho
waters of this mighty stream, and
bound together as by an indistruct-
able ligament, should be indivisiblo
in all the elements which 90 to
make up ono and tho same great
pooplo2 Now thatt tho single meas:
ure Of st'-that Of slavery-has
been forever removed, there is
scarcely any question that can ere.
ate o serious discord amongst the
people on allLthese limos of latitude.
The people high up on the Yellow
stone on the West, and where the
Alleghaney and yManongahelia como
together in the East have great in
terests in common with the inhabi. |
tants who border on the Rod river
and the Techo. The waters which
flow from the sources Of the great
river, in their passage TO the
sea, visit homogeneous PEG.
pie ip-. all tho length OIL
their current. Kansas City and
st. Paul, Pittsburg and Memphis,
81. Louis and New Orleans, and
stretching away from the river to
Mobile, connected, as they are, by |
iron bands, with the regions of tho
North, all are common people,
with mutual dependent relations,
and QUO in common destiny. The
vast interests which spring from
their commercial rotations, intcnsi-
fles their unity in all that pertains
to business. Thisiutimacy of COM
merca and trada Ia daily mora md