The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-03

courts, was established. Can Texas and
Alabama, under the name Of u quarantine
violate the clause oil the constitution we have
quoted. and for the nefarious purpose OF de-
stroyinR tho trade Of this great city tn behalf
OF Galveston and Mobile, levy rigid, esuse-
less and runous embargo upon the trade Of
New Orleans
Have the grent commercial interests Of
New Orleans no remedy; no redress2 Weno-
tics that the holders Of tho bonds OF this
State. dissatisfied with the settlement ten
dered them In the debt ordinances OF the con-
vention propose to prostitute, II possible, the
Federal judiciary, aud employ II III the prose-
eution OF n scheme to sue this sovereign
State. overthrow the ordinance Of the donven-
lion and compel from our impoverished tax
payers per cent interest on their bonds
There ID not an Intelligent man In the country
who does not understand that the success OF
this scheme would DO revolution and that Ii
should DO denounced reprobated and seorned
But the city Of New Orleans, indeed, The
State NJ Louisiana, should appeal To the Fed
sral courts To protect our commences and that
or The grent valley of the Mississippi against
the Illegal embargoes of Texas and Alabama.
our trade by Galveston and Mobile, without
redress from the courts, while through tho
| courts our people may be Impoverished 70
pay the exorbtant claims OF rapaelous public
| creditors, there ls no telling where the devas-
| tation may end, and, as the ut. Louis Times
predicts, oil the cities of the Gulf coast may
dwinde away and the trade Of tho whole
Southwest be- forced by lawless embargoes
to vt. Louis.
And right here we think 1t pertinent to ask
what benefit the National Board Of Health has
conferred upon tho country That board has
not been able to prevent the imposition of an
| embargo by Galveston and Mobile. under the
| thin and contemplate gt1se Of u quarantine.
1t has, In fact, done nothing to benefit the
country. II has only succeeded In cultivatlng
the suparstltious terror Of tho people In the In
terror; Its work has been confined to spying
out every sporadic case OF yellow fever and
representing every doubtful sickness as n
full. iledged case Of the dreaded disease.
Perhaps no official body, with SO pompous
and ostsntatiotg d name md such huge pre-
tentions, has ever made itself 80 ridiculous
and accomplished such Injurious results.
There has not been as many cases OF yellow
fever III New Orleans this summer US there
have been In New York and yet tho teegraphlc
reports OF the National Board Of Health have
had the effect of cotking up the trade OF New
Orleans az efrectualy as II we had had nj
epidemic Every sporadic case, every doubt
full and several false" cases were telearaphed
over tho country, and Galveston and Mobile
strengthened their quarantine and frightened
their embargo.
We have had enough Of the National Board
Of Health. What we now require are proceed
ings In the Federal courts to prevent the i'm
position Of an infamous embargo under the
seductive name 81 quarantine upon our trade
by Texas and Alabama towns or by those
soverei9nties.
Lot the sovereign will OF the State prevail
In the settlement Of her debt and let the SOW
ereignty Of Louisiana protect the commerce
Of her metropolis, II necessary. as she has tho
right to do, through the courts, and st. Louis
will have little to boast Of as to her suprem-
aey over New Orleans In the Texns trade.