New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-16

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In TIE madnsss pf perty W ihould no
expest suv- Dsmossst - reason spon tn
rsal vellns a this shts and city. W.
have lsAd rsproachs to the nerchant'
Who Savorsd the wheeler eompFomise OF
the funding bill; We have even seen one
Il our most respectable merchants g.
sailed because he took sest in the
Funding Board The abelliesrent in.
trsnoher Of Mason and Dnon'a line has
said expressly that crops and eommeroe
are as nothing in comparison with the
election of q New England sttorney q
| President.
II has been the theory OF most thinkera
for the future Of New Orleans that hez
commercial alliance u with the West. II
has been shown that so far from the
former slave States being the friends Of
Louisiana, she is taking from them their
labor by the superior fertility of her
lands, and in place Of Baltimore, Nor
folk, Richmond, Charleston and Savan-
nah uniting with New Orleans in a COM
mon Hanseatic league for common COM
merce, each Of these cities Ia an active
rival of New Orleans. taking from her
far the largest proportions of Western
and Southern commerce once her ex.
elusive property.
It has been shown without dispute that
the foreign trade on the meridian of the
Mississippi must be conducted through
New Orleans. It has been shown that
while New Orleans last year lost part of
the coffee and other trade 10 which she is
geographically entitled, Baltimore, Phila-
dslphia and New York have become the
recipients of that trade. 1t be- been
shown that the diversion of trade from
New Orleans Las been occasioned. by the
competition of railroads and canals which
now conduct an export and import trade
between the East and West which could
once have been only conducted by way Of
New Orleans.
Hon. Rutherford B. Hayesi il . native
Of the West He has represented the
agricultural and manufastufing interests
of Ohio. His constituents need an outlet
to the ocean, and the factlities which win
enable them to reach hegreat continental
m rkets without paying direct tribute to
the capital. enterprise and agencies Of
the East Cincinnati alone has furnisAe,t
ten million dollars for the construction az
railroads leading 70 the ports Of the Gull
of Mexico. Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has
vast fortune during The
war. chiefly g the attorney and adviser
Of the railroads sonnsctins tho East and
West. and carrying away this very trads
Of which New Orleans has been dspdvsd.
Would Any, ezsspt-a partisan blinded
With social hatred Or utterly indepsndsnt
If business resources, adviss Tho property
holders Of New Orleans 70 throw the
vhole foreign policy Of The government
INTO the hands Of . New Yorker, himself |
by the most Jealous express
non Of opiaiea in behalf Of the leading |
which have cut the neck veins |
# our commerce? a- II
Would any, sDcept such partisans, |
,ass over Western man whose personal |
md representative interests are With
hose Of New Orleans, and throw our
ritical and vital interests into tho hands
# candidate who can not have any
hing more than general relations Of
'olitical interest in common with our
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New Orleans has not one steamship sus-
aimed by q government subvention. New
FORK has several. New Orleans is the
MY port through which the West can
onduct it's trade with BRAZIL Cuba Of
CENTRAL America. Should Mr. .Tilden, Of
lev York; be elected President, could We
zpect that he would adopt 8 policy tend
'g to give New Orleans har fair share Of
MS commerce and her just access 10 thess
'reign ports? Would he give up this
eavy trade over the railroads and canals
+ New York to put any part Of it ON tho
Mississippi boats, barges, OF the railroads
hich run along its broad valley?
It has occurred to Us as q strange fact
lat those who would draw anew the line
Mason and Dixon would go to New
ork for New England attorney to de-
nd it. It seems far more incredible
at speakers and newspapers which pro-
IS the most abject and indeed exclusive
,votion to the commercial interests of
sw Orleans should abandon Western
ndidate, and dedicate their efforts to
omote the supremacy of the most dan
rous and deadly rival of New Orleans.
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