The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-05-13
WHAT THE SOUTH NEEDS MORE THAN
NORTHERN SYMPATHY
Mobile Regiater [

i"f tuo OF tl6 IreaeuL
made an official report To Congress of a
Congressional appropriations f"r works ,
internal improvement, from 1859 to tn
date of the report. bv which it appeaI
that of $l04 COZ 745, $97 OPS, ,762 were fc
the benz tit of the Northern s. fates, and bu
So 99l ,So2 tcr the Southern States. Thi
In. quality still flrther increase ses, since tn
date OF that report, by the annual pay mebt
of interest on the bonds donated to tn
Union aud Central Pacific roads, amount
| Ing In the aggregate to more than thirt
| milliOns of dollars. So that the whole an
preparations to those companies and thei
| branches alone, have been over ninety on,
millions Of dollars in bonds and cash, an.
nearly sixty millions of acres of the publ,
| lands.
These enormous donations are not simply
for the exclusive benefit of the North, bu
| it is easy to see that they are tending to the
greater impoverishment of the South, by
adding to our taxation, and by divertine
into Northern channels trads and com
merce, which with fair distribution of the
favors of the Government, would inure to
our benefit. While the North and North
west have grown prosperous and rich by
the expenditure of vast sums for the con-
struction of the present railroad to the
Pacific, and through the monopoly of the
California and China trade, which it's con-
struction has given them, we have grown
poorer year by year by it's DETERMINATIONS O
against our commerce. Not a loaded train
and scarcely loaded car has ever passed
between Southern city and the Pacific
shores, and never will until we get an out
let of our own, by the completion of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad. Southern
Congressnen, in our jud sment, will make
fatal mistake If they do not insist on such
aid to this enterprise as will ensure it's
early completion. Such is the sefishness
of human nature that we cannot expect
help from the Chicago and New York in
teTest, for as matters now stand these two
cities enjoy the exclusive benefits of tte
present trans continental trade, and they
Will bitterly oppose the construction of a
road that woald beyond doubt divert much
of this trade into Southern channels. Under
the stimulating influence of a railway to
the Pacific on the thirty second parallel.
our Gulf and Southern Atlantic cities
would spring into Importance as points OF
entry and departure for this trade while
the interior cities along the route would
become the centres of large commercial aud
manufacturing interests.
1t is painful conclusion to reach, vet it
is more than justified by the course of
Northern Demscrats on this subject, that
the Southern States are regarded mainly as
useful to them in carrying Presidential
elections and helping them to office and
spolls. But when 1t comes to some evidence
of reciprocal good will to be manifested in
q substantial manner, the true nature and
anlmns of the alliance becomes painfully
In reference to Congressional
aid to the Texas and Pacific Roalroad, in
the face Of the facts that hundreds of mil
lions in money and lands, have been ap-
propriated for Northern enterprises of the |
same nature, bue of far less merit, we are
gravely told by Northern politicians that it |
70 opposed to the traditional policy of the |
Democratic party to grant Government aid |
% works of internal Improvement!
This did not prevent them from voting
or such aid for their own benefit, nor
would it at any time hereafter, but it is
'nly when it is for the benefit of the South
hat our Northern allies have no milder
plthet to bestow than svindle,' "iob,n
steal" etc. Out upon such hypocricy
The records of Congress are full it. A
cry g!arfng case of IL was shown last ses
ion, in regard to subsidy for g steam
1ail lice from New Orleans to Brazil.
cen i'll operation FROM Ne,C York for the
'st ten years, maintal ed by large gov
rnment subsidy, and no murmur Cf 0tiec ,
on was ever heard against it at the North; ,
ut when Southern city was substituted r
orthern Democrats found out that such :
ID was Opposed to Democratic doctrine"
nd by the aid of a Southern Democrat &
ON Georgia the appropriation was defea- :
d. e
We repeat that Southern Democrats in
ongress will, in oDr judgement, show Q
nentasle want of statesmanship and ap- =
eciation of the demands of their section \
they permit themselves to be deluded =
our Northern allies in opposing just r.
easure of Government aid for the great "
uthern trans continental railroad. y
In future number we shall call the atten {,
IN of our readers to the ad mirable report 81
the Hon. L. @. G. Lamar, made to the VI
ouse of Represen tatives at the last session
Congress-, on this subject, which in a tt
asterly manner exposes the fallacy of the p,
guments of the opposers of the measure b
to the want of constitutional power in t.
3 General Government to aid in great hi
'rks of national character, and sets Oh Oh
tn the great advantage the completion =,
the Texas and Pacific would be to South r.
! interests. re