The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-16

Planters and Merchants there assembled from
various counties Of the State. No print in I
has advocated our Independence
n commerce in stronger terms than we :
have done, and willingly would we give the
entire proceedings of the Convention at
Vicksburg, had we space sufficient. We
are, however, obliged to be content with lay
ing extracts before our readers.
From the Vicksburg Wing.
VICKSBURG COTTON CONVENTION.
In pursuance of public notice, the Planters
and Delegates from various counties of the
State, convened on the 9TH inst. at the Court
House, for the purpose of devising measures
to obvate the payment of the tax attempted |
TO be imposed by the Municipalities of New |
Orleans, upon Cotton shipped to that port, as |
well as to consider other abuses incidental to |
the present practice of shipping to and selling
at that city. The meeting was organized by
the election to the chair of JOSEPH E. DAVIS,
esq.,, of Warren county; F. S. HUNT, of
Jackson, and r. B. MILLKEN, of this city,
Secretaries. Delegates from the counties of
Claiborne, Kinds, Madison, Rankin, YazoO
and Warren having presented themselves,
on motion o. ]. B. Peyton, such citizens pre-
sent as approved the designs of the ConVen-
ton, were invited to participate in the pro-
ceedings. On motion of w. S. Bodley, esq:
Resolved, That a committee of two MEM
bers from each county be appointed to report
to this convention, as soon as practicable,
upon the ordinance adopted by the Munlci-
| palties of New Orleans in June last, and
what measures they deem advisable in order
to have the same revoked or obViated, and to
suggest some plan to establish home mar
ket.
The following gentlemen were appointed
to said committee: From Kinds co., Major J.
B. Peyton, Hon. J r. Nicholson; Yazoo co.,
r. r. Abbey, esq, Sam'l Marley, esq.,; War
rem co., w. S. Bodley, esq, Col. A. burden,
esq. When on motion, the Convention adj
ljourned to NEE: again at 4 O'Clock, P. M. at
the Vicksburg Hotel.
Four O'Clock, P. M, the convention met
and adjourned until Tuesday morning at ten
O'Clock, A. M. When the Convention met,
and being organized, the committee appoint
ed under the first resolution, presented the
following report and resolutions which were
adopted.
Here follows an able report, occupying
near three columns of the Wing, of which
we cannot make room for more than the fol
lowing extracts:
"AnOther important consideration in re
gard TO the practicability Of enforcing a re
peal of the ordinance, is in the tendency o
all foreign trade to penetrate inland as ia. al
the sea vessels can conveniently go and fnt
an adequate amount of transactions. It is no
, the mouth Of the Thames, nor even the har
Dor at Portsmouth, out the dock at London
I many miles inland from the sea, which con
centrates the vast commercial transactions O
the British Island. Old Norfolk, with he
q splendid harbor, failed to realize the golde
q visions OF those who thought the trade woul
centre near the ocean, whilst Richmond
. Alexandria and Baltimore, hundreds of mile
inland, have enjoyed the trade she though
her own. If the local concentration shout
ST become considerable, and enough to Civ
ST variety to the supply and demand, and
certainty of transactions to Justify the pul
chaser of cottOns to seek the planter near hi
81 home, it will be found that importations an
S. explorations can be made in sea vessels frol
such point with less expense than by III
Is present mode. The planter can transact h
III business with fewer agencies and dimiT
ished charge, and the manufacturer and me-
chant can sell their fabrics and merchandi7
lg to better advantage and with less cost. /
in all cases, and especially on bulky articles
4 cause
a great part Of the expense which would |
- avoided by a direct trade. That no sue
point exists or has existed in rivaIly of Ne
Orleans, is no guaranty that none such VI
exist. The measures she is now taking a
ut calculated to develope and perfect whatev
of tendency may exist towards such aresult.-
av 1t is not forgotten that shipments have bee
made to a considerable amount from Natche
under circumstances much more unfaVorab
than those which now surround her, al
even then at a cost of about 80 cents D.
bale under that of shipments by way Of Ne
Nc Orleans in the ordinary mode, independe
of the important advantage in avoiding 10
and damage usually incurred by the handlir
and exposure on steamboats, and in Ne
&c Orleans. At that time there was an immen
D. concentration of banking capital at New o
leans, and the wild desire ofspeculation, il
duced nearly all to send their cotton there
lat order 10 obtain facilities" Now, what {
cilities can she furnish The same eaus
hold the planting interest in dependen,
'er upon New Orleans, and the steamboat int
lie est was so dependent that vessels bound
a. Natchez or VicksbuFg were forced TO Wa
- for towage, or TO pay extTavagant prices
il, as an inducsment to the steamboats, to ri
offending their merchant patrons. But no
-. the power over all these interests is to
- brought home from the agent at N. 0. ba
to the principal, the producers Of the cou
-. try, and they will command those Interest
not TO discourage, but TO promote the dire
trade. At that time also, the whole expol
Is. OF Natchez, and those naturally falling wit
in her power, did rot exceed SO 900 10 81
900 bales A few years have added to o
y strength, and would enable us to concentTa
rroro fhan double that arnna1nt Accord,
!, to the United States census Of 1910, the
= were produced in 1889, IN the fol!owiI
ge contiguous counties. in bales Of cotton aver
ne ging 400 lbs, each as follows;
70, Warren, 4Ol93 Scott, 9