The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-19

Ia6lio Meeting to Be held II vicksburg-

n6nc Meeting to be held ii vicksburg--
lrfeSs OrIeous FariR.
The Vieksburg Wing makes call on the
merchants and planters Of Warren, YazOo,
Washington, Holmes, Madison, Rankin,
Kinds. Copiah and Claiborne counties, to
meet in general convention in the city of
Vicksburg on MONDAY, THE Firth DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, for the purpose Of adopting such
measures as may tend toward counteracting
the injurious effects likely to be produced up
on the commerce Of our State by the unjust
and arrogant assumption Of power of late
exercised at New Orleans, through the me-
dunn of the tariff recently adopted in that
city.
The subject to be acted upon at this con-
templated meeting is one of the greatest inn
portance, as il undoubtedly involves the
question, Shall we be independent in our
commercial transactions, or, must we remain
tributary to the city of New Orleans! That
the alI-grasping functionaries Of that city are
convinced in their own minds Of our ina
bity to establish Home Market, is made
clearly apparent by this late enforcement Of
high-handed and misplaced power. Not
content with the immense sums of money
that have heretofore been paid by the plan
ters Of Mississippi to the cotton factors of
New Orleans, and the vast amounts which
would have continued to add to the wealth
Of that city from the same source, an over.
bearing and Ubiquitous tariff must needs be
y
imposed upon our commerce, and the pro-
ceeds of our labor unscrupulOusly wrung
from US TO replenish the sinking Golfers Of
the great cotton mart of Louisiana! When
the money market of New Orleans was in q
aOurishing condition, then it was to be de-
sired our cotton should there be disposed Of,
but now depressed and worthless as much
8 oft the Louisiana money is, what advantages
are we to derive by an exclusive traffic with
that city, even were these exorbtant duties
not imposed upon 'the rich products of our
soil!' A more favorable opportunity than the
! present has not, and probably never will
offer itself to our planters and merchants, to
establish mart for the disposal Of Missis-
sippi cotton within the State Of Mississippi.
> No matter what point may be selected fol
this purpose, wherever the cotton is retained
there will flock the purchasers. We have
the advantages of good sea-board and one
of the MODEST rivers of the world, and shall
we not by using them prove to the arbitrary
rulers of New Orleans that the vast com
r merce Of our State must be untramelled!-
/. We have succumbed too long to impositionI
and barefaced frauds that have been put up
t on US by our overreaching neighbOrs Of New
/ Orleans, and that have followed each other il
rapid succession in nearly all of our cottOr
e transactions with them. We trust, howev
If er, the time has at length arrived when b.
!, a determined course of policy and unity o
action, the schen es and deep laid plans o
). those who have heretofore dealt with us bu
is for debasing elf-aggrandizement, will n,
e more wrench from the sun-burnt planter TIL
Dr. recompense Of his toll and labor and the hart
d earnings preceded by the sweat of his brow
s, Enormous as has been the tax upon thi
a. State for the disposal Of her cotton in til
d tnarketof New Orleans, it almost sinks int
insigniHCance when compared to the vast q
= mount Of moneys calculated 10 be draw
:, = yearly into the treasury Of that city by tn
i imposts Of hepresenttarif. "A gentleman
j in this city (says the Vicksburg Whig,) cha
e made calculation Of what the amount Q
revenue to New Orleans will be under th
r. new Tariff, and says that in ten years itwi
4. produce q sum sufficient 70 pay the interes
ilI and the whole Of the Peapsytvania Stat
Debt! 5ebtwhich Is now about FORTY TIv
4. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Il s. or this immens
nj amount Of money near FIVE millions yearI
IS would Be put into the treasury Of N. Orleans
drawn from The bard earnings Of the farmer
% Of the West and the planters Of the South
b and as the growers Of cotton, in our opinion
would suffer mostunder this sxorbitant tax
e. anon, MississiPpi, as great cotton GROWN
a. Ssateg would almost sink beneath the pres
sure. There are those IN the city of Ne,
N ofleansiIself, who shls obnoxious ID
O. riff in is proper light. and among thesa
the editor Of 1.-THE JefIeponian." An art