The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-04
GOLD COMFORT FOB THE SOUTH.

Tn the matter of the Texas Pacific Railway
and its branches, we fear that the people OF
the South are about to experience no i''le
chagrin and vexation. In st. LOUIS IN I'LL
caoo in all sections north of the ONO RlVer
and the northern boundary of Virginia. in the
frozen regions of the Northwest, and Wnel-
ever else the roots and branches OF the exist
ing mammoth railway corporations extend
there is q concerted yelping OF jealous pro-
tes.ation against the grant OF aid by congress
to our Southern trans-continental railway.
Journalists and capitalists have all at once
received compunctious visitings as 70 the
constitutional power of Congress to concede
the requisite aid and encouragement. Is
useless to remind them that government ala
for Northern internal improvements mas
always been ten times greater than for the
South. 1t is waste of time to call their no.
tice to the long and costly lines OF railway
which now connect the Upper Mississippi
and the Pacific Ocean, built with the money
of the people of the South as well as with the
money of the people of the North, granted by
Congress in munifcent subsidies, ana SUN
supported in great part by government AID.
1t is idle to urge upon the foes OF the Iexas
Pacific Railway the enormous advantages
which this road, when finished, will afford to
the United ates in suppressing Indian and
Mexican raids and troubles, in the transporta-
ton of troops, munitions, supplies and
mails.
All argument relating to the development
of vast and now idle section Of territory In
order that it may accommodate greatly in
creased population, and by increased growth
of exportable products add to the national
revenues, falls upon the ears Of the mt nopo-
lists and their silaried representatives like
sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. They
favor wars of conquest, but they ignore the
silent, bloodless, humane and most amicable
commercial union, infinitely more valuable
than the fruits Of invasion, which would at
once open all Of Northern Mexico to American
enterprise and bind to us the better classes q
the people there with friendship like hooks
of steel. Those who pirate most of broad re-
publican liberality all at once become sordid,
stlngy, mean and misery when thequestion is
one not of generosity, but Of simple justice
to the Southwest and the South. Those who
have at times been eloquent in the support of
everything that can make the government
strong, compact, solid and firm, now whine
and whimper at the proposed annual ex-
penditure of $4,000 900 for assistance to
..on, ,oc+;rapto1 roilwov fhot will sava each
year five times that sum to the national
treasury.
1t is to be hoped that the Southern delega-
ton in Congress will at an early day come to
settled agreement, and entrench themselves
in firm and secure position upon the mat
ter Of the Pacific Railway, as we'll as upon the
matter of the levees of the Lower Mississippi.
Let these two subjects be urged at once upon
the House of Representatives, and then let
our able member concede no favor, and join
in no movement unless upon the express
condition that tardy justice shall be done to
the South in the distribution of aid from the
government.
There is little use in repeating the nauseat-
ing sophistries, the brazen fabrications, the
personal abuse, the partisan insinuations and
the hypocritical pleadings of the monopolists;
we shall hear enough of all these from their
agents, attorneys, servants and stipendiaries
in Washington. Our present purpose is only
to caution the friends of the Texas Pacific
Railway against indulging in too sanguine
expectations.