New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-28

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blood Of common parentsge cou:sing
Louisiana in her misfortunes, and rejoices
in her joys.
l stand before you tonight, my fellow
citizens of New Orleans, to say to yor that
the eastern, northern and the middle por-
tions Of that vast domain Of Texas is a
on, and with . soil of inexpressible richness
and fertility, filed and filling up rapidly
with thousands and multiplied thousands Of
thrifty, industrious, persevering, rich ard
happy people, whose graneries are full to
overf0wing, whose cattle are upon q thou
sand hills and whose surplus products
in few years will be sufficient to iced and
sentative of that glorious country come 10
you tonight with its messages of love
and Of sympathy, and to say to you, citi-
zens OF New Orleans, we are your brothers;
We are your brethren; we are the sOcs It
sires who stood side by side with your s,res
upon the immortal plain of Chalmet.e-
sires who stood side by side with your
over the bloody fields Of Palo Alto, Gle
pultepec, Monterey and Buena Vista, and
waved its silken folds in triumph above tho
halls of the Montezumas. We are here as
brothers who stood side by side with you
upon many blood-stained field of carnage,
where bristling steel and iron hail poured
out the patriots and fOeman's blood.
All, sons of Louisiana, noble patriots Of
noble sires, all Texas sends You greeting,
and Eastern, Northern and Middle Texas
send you message freighted with love and
sympathy, and business too. In addition
to the strong ties of brotherhood that have
bound us together, as it were, by links OF
steel, We were in former times united oy
ties of business. New Orleans, the great
metropolis and market for the South and
West, was also the market of Texas. 1t
was in fact the Mecca Of the Texans. Fer
days and seasons they looked forward with
ever increasing desires Of pleasure to the
time when their crops were gathered and
shipped, and they could with their families
make an annual visit to you.
Ah, my fell0w-citizene, we, of Texas, have
not forgOttOn the pleasant times OF Aud
Lang Syne; We have not forgotten tncse
glorious days when the merchants Of New
Orleans were the very princes of the earth;
when their money and their courage were
almost unlimited, and when with royal
hands they lsvished upon the Southern
the Southern planters and merchants OF
Eastern Texas. No, We have not forgotten
those glorious days when our surplus pro-
ducts were comparatively small. our people
|. were aided and assisted by the liberal hand
of New Orleans, and they remember it Until
TINS Oay.
No, fellow-cit;zens; but now, now, row,
that Texas is becoming rich and prosper
oue, now that teeming thousands upon null
| tiplied thousands Of enterprising, thirty
and industrious people are pouring in one
continuous food to the hills and valleys Of
our entire State; now that her vast prairies
are white with the great staple, yellow with
waving harvests that will feed one-hah a
continent; now that cities and towns are
l IN
| by the waving of the enchanter's
wand; now that our cattle cover q
thousand hills; now that our trade
is immensely valuable and profitable;
we are 10th to see it carried away to
those great cities of the North; we are 10th
to see the great staple in the South, grow
ing upon Southern soil, warmed and ma
tured by glorious Southern sun, carried
away to the cold and frozen regions of the
North to enrich . people who have never
Lived with US. We, Of Texas, are 10th to
deal with apeople who, however honest, just
and upright they may be, are nevertheless
aliens and strangers to our common interest
of brotherly love. Hence we desire, Texas
desires, Northern, Eastern and Middle
Texas desire, earnestly, lovingly desire,
to renew their business relations and have
their dealings with people who are linked
: to them by ties that are stronger than steel.
We desire our patronage to return to our
Mecca of old-t0 return to people who,
though battling with wrecks of broken for
hand of their friends and still bear the palm
of hospitality and princely iberality over
all other States in the Land.
Now, my fellow citizens of New Orleans
what say you to this greeting of Texass
What say YOU to this kindly greeting of
Texas! Do you desire the trade Of people
who love You and who have sympathized
with your sorrows' [Applause.l Do you
desire to regain an empire teeming with it's
assumed the most colossal proportions! Dc
; you desire to regain that which. will build
up your waste places, which will cover youl
wharves and fill your warehouses with
the great staple of the country
which will cover your noble river
with ships. your storehouses with goods,
your streets With purchasers, your hotels
} will tear down those emblems of distress
and decay which are placarded upon you1
walls: "This house to let" This room fol
, rent!" Do you wish for that which will
enhance four fold the price of your res
} estate, which will fill every vacant house
which will light up the countenances O
your people with sunny smiless II you de
| forth your liberal hand as in the days O
{ | yore, and all have pictured, and more
! even, far more, shall be yours.
New Orleans has the greatest natural ad
| vantages of any city upon this earth. Fifty
: thousand miles of navigable streams ter
/ inmate at her wharves, draining th'
+ grandest and richest country this earci
4 affords, with perhaps one single exception
and had it not been for the railroad sy stem
in the Northern and Eastern States New
y Orleans would this day have been tn
? greatest, the mightiest in population ant
I wealth of all the cities upon the continent
But railroads are the great revolution
: izers, as well as civilizers Of the age. The.
= have even perverted the very designs 0
. | nature: thew have diverted trade from it
% natnral channeIs, and in defiance of all tn
laws of commerce which have governed tn
n world in all the past ages, have built up th
. | most msgnifcient cities in the frozen tt
o oions of the North, and with an energy an
ls Perseverance unparalleled and truly sut
70 lime, have pushed their iron arms in al
., trated the great valley Of the MississipI
y and its tributaries, sucking drop by dro
y u and year by year the very life blood Of thi
y noble city. They have turned from her
% one-haf Of the trade east of the Mississippi
!. I now they have crossed the Father of Waters
y penetrated into Arkausas, swept down upo
- the vast plains of Texae, even to the sacre
> soil of Louisiana itself, and are guidin
10 from you trade which nature and nature
God intended you should have. And VII
], you permit it7 No! no! q thousand time
y no! Rather fall, sword in hand, upon th
:. fiery crest of the battle, like Marmion c
70 old. vet diving, above your head wave trae
v uents of broken fortunes in the face
these rival cities-wave them in the face
w your rivals, shouting the shout of defane
s. | in their faces, Do this rather than dWindi