Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-03
CoRRESP ONDENCE of TIE TINES.
Memphis, Non. 9Th, 1915.
J. L. WM.LroS, Esq.
(coNcLyDTD.)

kCoNCLCDED.)
You will have observed the Convention did
not complete lis organization until Friday
evening. On Saturday reports Of committees
were received and those with the speech Of
Gen. Gaines occupied the forenoon. Each OF
the regular committees had reported one or
two general resolutions TO be adopted as cx.
| pressing the sense of the Convention on the
| respective subjects. As soon as they were all
| reported Governor Jones of Tenn. moved for
special committee To take all these rcsolu.
tons and digest them and report them back to
| the Convention This committee was an
! pointed and went out not 10 return until eight
o'clock IN the evening when they reported the
resolutions back, emitting very few and al
lerlng some OF the Icsta little, and submitting
The whole In series regularly marked and
| numbered on The margin. The alterations
made IN the resolutions so far as could Judge
only tended 20 make fi,e resolutions vague and
less suitable to thu. respective subjects than
| those of the regular Committees. Bat there
they came at eight o'clockand every body was
resolved 10 adjourn the same evening-so that
before 1t there remained from two to four
hours Tor discussion, consideration, action on
all the various important subjects. What
was TO DC done? Speeches could not be tolcr-
ated even Tor five minutcs-the bows from
MISSISSIPPI and Tennessee cried for the qucs-
tion-amendments were voted down instant
ly-eyen separate vote OH each resolution
was TOO slow proccss--onc single V te must
clear the docket and let the members loose.
So impatiencc supplied the place of unanilnity
olsenliment and an entire series of resolutions
which had merely been read over once were
passed with an upronr, or as the newsnapcrs
say with reclamation! YET, TO give YOU an
examplc,) among those rcsoluiions was one In
iavor OF Ship Canal from the Mississipi to
Lake Michigan, project so absurd lliatever
one heard speak of il ridicol.d it!
Such results might have bccn avoided per
haps had ii not been for Gov. Jones commit.
tee. or what use that committee was or
could be, Heaven only knows, unless TO nuke
Gov. Jones, who bad cut 40 great figure il the
Convention, appear to lead in the private nc
ton of the body.
But ] must non wholly forget to mention
that after Gov. Jones committee brought in
their report. IL appeared that they had omitted
t,include a resolution for d road (inecniously
styled military road) through Arkansas.
NhcreuPon fierce quick spoken, hairy gen.
tleman from that State jumped up and cried
in a sharp tonc-"ls Arkansas to have moth.
ing3 And to Get nothing7 If it had not
been Tor inc this Convention would never
have met II was ne that kept il together
last July. And am 70 get nothing! Arksp.
sis is always cheated this way! call ON tho
chairman Of that committee TO explain ,h;s
matter" After this aud some moe Of the
same from Arkansas It was Jgrecd 10 recon.
mend 10 Congress to make this lI.hioyy Road
from Memphis through the swainps Of Arksn.
sas--but the competition Of the Nqlio,,al tood
was promptly voted down s. 81. Louis bar.
Dor was recommended to tlr gcne,ol C,ocs,,
ment bat not tbs FaDs Of The Ohio b.,au.c
Che latter was IDcOl--a matter Of detail, Ia,
IL needed no. this 20 tcoch al s,,re,i,e -
ycrs that that il tie Wcft should eve, eel, -.
sectional conventions to make its itou,o,.
ments, u should call them for itscl(--vitbo,,
sllianees either with the las, o. the No,1 :,