New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-03
LOUISIANA AT CINCINNATI.

ness, feels natural sense OF MS personal
importance The obedience of children
and servants, and the afectionate defer
ence with which his wishes and admo-
nitions are received create q pardonable
feeling Of independent authority. This
pleasant conviction of having it all his
own way may be somewhat shaken by an
alteration with the Car driver about
ragged change note, a swing upon the
straps for square or two, or basket OF
fish or fresh meat exhaling its fragrance
at his feet. Arrived on the exchange,
confronting and conflicting with other
men equally confident Of their own
rights, the conviction of extreme
personal consequence diminishes and
disappears. The respectable head of an
affectionate family which obeys his wishes
and respects his notions, finds himself
contradicted, and pc rhaps controlled, by
other gentlemen having the same sense OF
personal consequence with himself, with
equal or perhaps superior powers Of self
representation.
Each Of the several States of the Union
have the same convictions of domestic
supremacy with the example given. We
might even remark that there are locali-
ties and individuals in the States i'm
pressed with the same delusion OF public
importance. It is only when the States
meet in conventional conclave, where
the weight of each is determined
BY the number of equal people
residing within its limits, that the relative
political influence of each can be deter
mined. Among these States so assembled
a few stand at the head Of authority.
New York has thirty-fve representatives,
or nearly one.tenth Of the aggregate vote.
Pennsylvania, standing at her side, has
twenty-nine votes, or about one-twelfth OF
the aggregate. The two united has nearly
one.sixth of the whole vote. We turn to
the Western States, and we find in
Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, an
individual and aggregate vote homogene-
GUS in interest equaling the vote of the
great States just mentioned. 1t will be
found, moreover, that there ore two
great-perhaps new - federal sections.
The great States of the Northwest exceed
in electoral strength the great States OF
the East. The vote Of the States resting
on and west Of the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers would, if united, hold majority
of the electoral vote.
The interests of these two great sections
are in many respects opposite and antag-
onistic The East holds the national OBJ
legations, and desires that they shall be
maintained and redeemed at par. 1t de-
sires a currency equivalent to specie in
payment for its manufactures, its divi-
dends, its interest, and its commissions.
It requires protection for its mechanical
productions, and the stock value of its rail-
roads can best be kept up by paying rates
of transportation. The Western Demo-
cratic demand for the diffusive process Of
rag money, the movement Of the Changers
limiting the powers and reducing the
charges Of railroad corporations, prove
that a sectional conflict must come off
which will supersede that closed by the
late war between the old sections Of
North and South.
Into this convention of interests so
Jealous, SO astute, so powerful and SO con-
ficting comes Louisiana. She stands in
the nineteenth class of the States ranked
according to their electoral vote. She
has vote of eight out of 369, represent
ing an electoral power equal to two and
one-sixth per cent. She will be repre-
sented by delegates as able, with party
record as faithful and with consequences
Of that fidelity far more grave than that
of all the Republican States put together.
It is plain Louisiana can take no COM
manding position in such body. It can
not be affirmed that she can propose any
ultimatum to the action Of others. Her
representatives must stand fast, watch
vigilantly the effect of the proposed
choice of nominees upon her political
interests, and SO cast their votes and in
cline to the one or another competitor, as
may attain the object stated.
As to the conflict between the two Sec
tons, Louisiana is with the West. Her
alliance with the South has terminated,
and there is not another Southern State
which is not now her commercial antago-
MIST
Should we, therefore, express any opin-
ion as to the comparative claims of the
probable presidential nominees, we should
state the position of Louisiana thus: She
is indebted to the East for almost her en-
tire banking and commercial capital, for
her freights and shipping. She is allied
to the same interest in the necessity of
protection for her rice and sugar interests,
and may at no distant day avail herself Of
the duties protecting all her mechanical
interests. With the West, however, the
commercial destinies of New Orleans are
more inseparably united. The United
States is compelled to change its CONNER
cial front. The European demand for
American provisions is inadequate to fur
nish market for their immense increase.
American manufactures can find in Eu-
rope but limited demand. The future
commerce of America must be with