The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-09

The Memphis Convention.
AZ ihe twentY-thiFd Of October approaches, it
bshoves ihe friends Of the Memphis Couventionio
iix en- some definite plan for carrying out the OBJ
iecis Of their meeting. And In order that they may
settle on any PLAN it IS necessary that ihey should
have clear and well-defned ideas Of some end TO
be attained. The delegates should 60 to the Com
vention for a single purpose, and that purpose
should be known beforehand, in order that no DIFF
ficulty may rise in the preliminary proceedings as
to the real object for which the assembly is called
Il is to be feared that delegates win go 70 Memphis
impressed with the idea that they are to advocate
il the Convention, the particular claims Of their
town or neighborhood, either as a terminus or a
station of the proposed railroad. If such is the
case the whole affair win end in smoke, and the
true object of the Convention will be defeated It
is necessary for men to understand that they 60 to
Memphis for no sectional or provincial object; but
in order that great work may be accomplished in
g. certain way The work is the building Of
railroad which shall connect the Mississippi with
the Pacific; the way in which it is to be done is to
carry ii by the Paso del Norie It is to this latter
point that the whole strength Of the Memphis Con-
vension should be turned; it is on this subject Of
the paao OF Southern route that all the intellect
and al the energy Of the assembly should be ez-
pended.
The delegates to the Convention win be men
from all parts Of the Southern, Western and
Southwestern States Of the Union. Many Of them
have been instructed 70 present the claims Of their
respective neighborhoods to the Convention; but
L this is begun, there will be no end Of speeches
made for every town and village in the Valley Of
the Mississippi and disssnsion and failure will be
the inevitable results. Let all 60 there with the
idea that they are to struggle for a common end
the construction Of railroad to the Pacific by the
Southern or Paso goute--and the meeting will be
harmonious and useful. The two termini Of the
road will hardly be fit subjects for discussion in q
merely counselng and inquiring body. twill re-
main for the dscreeing body-Congress and the
Presidential determine on the points, both eastern
and western, at which the road shall terminate
The advantages Of the Southern route to the
Pacific are being every day developed by the ex-
perienee of the thousands Of overland emigrants
to California. Let any one compare the letters re-
ceiVed from the travellers by the Northern routes
with those which we are daily receiving from the
men who have gone by the Southern, and he must
Be struck with the immense superiority Of the
Southern line for the proposed railroad. As this
superiority becomes every day more and more ap-
parent, it becomes Southern men to lay aside all
sectional feelings and struggle powerfully for an
end that requires only harmonious action in order
that success may crown their efforts.
The ST Louis Convention, which is also to be
held in October, viii be free from some Of the
troubles which may beset the Memphis meeting
but viii also have some difficulties that the latter
will not have to encounter. The Missouri Convens
lion will not be called on to listen to the claims of
a thousand towns for the terminus Of their road /;
81 Louis will hardly have rival, unless the Cairo
people are able to make diversion in favor of the
mouth Of the Ohio. an the difficulties of that
body viii be in fixing the pass Of the Rocky Noun
iains by which their road Is to get to the Pacific
slope. To this latter respectful Memphis Convention
will have the advantage, inasmuch as the Paso is
the only point BY which the Southern road can
reach the waters flowing into the Pacific II, then,
the Memphis Convention viii but sink all discus.
sions as to the emini Of the Southern road, it will
probably effect far more than the ST Louis BODY.
All the energy Of its members and friends will Be
and in that union, and that union
llones will eall the strength of Southern interests