Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-04-26
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION

SOUTHERN CoMNEhClAL CONVENTIOS.
This body me, in Charleston on Monday
the 18Th and was numerously attended,
There were delegates present from South
Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala.
bama, Tennessee and Florida. Asbury
| Hull of Georgia was chosen President, and
Vice President was appointed from each
State represented in the convention. A
committee Of 2l was appointed, and com.
mittee Of 10. The object Of the latter to
ascertain and report if goods had heen ina
ported into the Southern States and sold as
low as those imported into the Northern
STATES.
April 18th.
Chancellor Harper, from the Committee
of Twenty. One, stated that the Committee
had agreed to report the Resolutions Of
General Hayne, with some amendments,
and that they had adopted reports on d..
rect Trade with Europe, and on the Taxa
,lon Of Commercial Capital, and propos.
ton for the revival Of the Southern Review
which would be severally read or submit
ted by other members of the Convention.
Gen. Hayne then real the report on
Direct Trade with Europe, an able and elo.
quen. document. demonstrating the ability
of the South 10 resume the control Of her
own commerce, and reap her just share Of
the profits and advantages ola trade, which
her own supiuencss chiefly has so long sui:
fered 10 enrich the Golfers, Of others, and
pointing ou, limited partnerships, the EN-.
barkaiion OF the surplus capital Of the
planter in trade, and the establishment,
of lines of packet ships and steamers, as
among the means Of effectiug this happy
revolution. This Report is too long for
publication at present..
The Resolutions, with which the Report
concludes, are as follows:
lst. Resolued, That in the opinion OF this
Convention, the present state Of our trade,
by which the supplies Of foreign goods, re.
ccived in exchange for the pro 1uctions of
the Southern and South western States, are
chiefly Obtained through the cities of the
North, is highly injurious 10 the citizens of
these States, and we are therefore called
upon by every consideration of duty and
patriotism to correct the evil.
I'd. Resolved, That as the producers OF
tie great staples which constitute the basis
of the foreign commerce of the Unlon' it Is
RICH: and proper that we should enjoy liar
share Of the profits of that commerce, of
VIII ch however, we have heretofore been
deprived by the une qnirocal action OF the
Federal Government, and to the ex-
elusive devotion of our own citizens in
other pursuits.
81. Resohed, That in order to secure
to these States, the esimable advantages of
direct import and export trade, COM
mensurate with their resources and their
wants, it is, in the opinion of this Conven-
ton, indlspensably necessary, that the
public mind should be enlightened on this
subiec. by full and free discussions, and
that a general sympathy should be
enlisted, and hormony Of feeling and con-.
cert of action secured, by earnest and
rel,era ed appeals to the public spirit OF our
fellow citizens.
4.h. Resohved, That the progrers
already made in this work, as manifested
BY the wise Legislation of several OF the
Sia,es-in the deep and growing interest
every where felt upon the su1lect-the
great increase Of our foreign and domestic
trade, ond the number of merchants from
the nteriour WHO now obtain their supplies
from our own ports, affords 6 cat encour.
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