New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05

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the compact between the Federal
and State governments will be kept.
A SOLID SOUTH AGAINST PROTECTION.
The massive statue of the great
and successful advocate of protec-
ton to American industry against
the competition of foreign pauper
labor was placed by the wealthy, in
telligent and energetic merchants
who once directed the policy of New
Orleans in the midst of our greatest
thoroughfare. 1t there salutes the
eddying throng with the impassioned
and impressive gesture that once
enthralled the ear of listening
Senate. 1t is the attitude in which
he once implOred the South to aban-
don the narrow, restrictive and de-
structive construction of his great
and virtuOus opposite, Calhoun,
and to adopt the system that has
made the North all-powerful, the
want of which has reduced the South
to an abject industrial dependence.
No more apt illustration could have
been given of the Scriptural declara-
ton, Wisdom crieth aloud in the
streets and no man regardeth her."
Henry Clay was the Cassandra of
the South. To the neglect of his
counsels the South was left to a ter
rible war without the material of
modern warfare, for the South had
neither manufactures, transporta-
ton, shipping, funded and available
credit, nor influence in the councils
OF commerce of foreign countries.
Yet so far from profting by the
doctrines of that great man, that ma
tive of Virginia and lifelong repre-
sentative of Kentucky, we find the
whole representation of the South
committed to the doctrines of free
trade and anti-internal Improvement
aid from the Federal government
We have seen the South made solid
in the doctrines of John c. Calhoun
while those of Henry Clay have been
surrendered and ignored even here
in this city and State, which owe
to protection the growth of a sugar
and rice crop of immense value to
both. Is this doubted Turn to the
Democratic platform upon which
stood Mr.. Tilden. 1t will be found
to deny the constitutionality of pro.
lection to American manufactures
to denounce the present tariff as g
monument of fraud and injustice, anG
to pledge the Democratic party tt
adopt in its place tariff for reve-
nue.. Take the bill of the Hon. Fer.
nando Wood, which has been pend,
ing without passage during two ses.
sions, and there will be found al
abortive Democratic endeavOr tC
carry out the pledges of the platform
of 1876. Refer to the vote on the
modification of the tariff by the ad'
mission of Hawaiian sugar and rice
duty free; in almost all these cases
it will be found that the Southern
States have been solid by a majority
of representatives from each State al
against the doctrine of protection.
Perhaps no more striking proof o
the ascendancy which the solid SoutI
has given the Calhoun Democracy car
be offered than in the fact that Hon
James B. Beck now occupies a seat il
the United States Senate as a success
sor of Henry Clay. He has been, W,
think, ever since he came to tn,
United States, an advocate Of FIRE,
trade, and since his election to Con
gress has been q Democrat of tn
most intense opinions. In the cours
of speech commenced against tn
national subsidy to line of steam
ers from New Orleans and New Yorl
to Brazil, he says;
I am opposed to the subsidy propose
to be attached TO TIE present bill.
While Mr.. Beck proceeds to shoY
defects in the mode Of contract pro
posed in tie bill, he warns up int
an opposition t. the principle Of sub
sidy. He charges that saBveAtiol
aids one individual interest agairs
another and that ap lssss.
Il is DESTRUCTIVE 70 Af1enicans inaustsy
Sc u fuinto Anae1ican sAserpTise, Il is sul
ssfzlse 81 azI hif ana Zee com eti.lt
aneng' our owA peokle, and IL ID won
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