The Arkansas banner., 1849-11-06
PROCEEDIsgs af lhs MEMPHIS CONVENTION.
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Conveatlou met al haif past Aine o'clock
 MT- Maagy being abssnf on account of ina,~oa. sitioH, C. C. Clay, drst Vice President called inc convention to order
 Prayar was offered up by the Rev. Mr Wnhh..
 Hon. Setoa Botisnd easled ap the resolutions which he he'd otered aad isid aFon the speakers table.
 Ny peFmisslon Of the convention he then pre ceedea To make some remasks npoa his resolutions They involved, he said, the oaly reaiiy ussfai and operative coarse which the convention could take We were all tn Ignorance in reference to t,~ ,.if. fsfeat routes for railroad to the Pacific Ha then Pfoceeded to reeapstWaie the action had hy the Ua- ted states Senate committee on public laads on the dierent Pacific railroad pra,eeis That c0snsnittes had found no definite information in reference io routes, aud had declined 10 commit the United States to anything indefinite and unin,eilisib;e -- Costhuing his explanatioa of the character of his resolutions, he urged hat if favorably acted upon ey the United States Congress. to which they were to De feteFred, weald greatly assist ia popalatiag the eeuntry between the Mississippi river and the sfarile eeeaa- In eonclnsion Mir Borland proposed to take the sense of lhe convention oa his resola. tions.
 Judge Wslker, of Louisiana, objected. ,hs. the Louisiana delegation had already offered atous similar 10 tbose of the gentleman from Arkansas, which resolutions had been appropriately referred to the committee on resolutions Ills co-delegates were prepared to show 10 the members that ihere wasa natural routs, not tn territory but marked out by Providence IS channel of eommn nlcatioa across the continent to the Pacific. Louisiana favored alt practicable routes all practicable com munteatton; she asked Of tue United States Gov ernment and the people only to consider her protect net to construct the road. The Louisiana resoI.l- lions were more patriotic, just and expansive than those of the gentleman from Arkansas. They advocated all the rontes, aud proposed that they should all be surveyed. as well those without as those within our eoRntry. What they desired was thai railroads might traverse the country in every erection from TehHantepec to Prairie du Cheis,-- they heed 10 see every part of the country liaked together by these iron baads, and the steam horse Pamng and blowing over every practicable route Louislaaa woad approve all these plans and routes -woald aid and cooperate In thcln. Al that shs desired was, that the public mind might be fixed on her iayofte projeci-ihat it should be discussed oeiore the people and that the government should De instructed 10 make the best and cheapest ar- fahgeiehts It could for the transportation of mili- tafy s,ores and the mail The effect of the resoln- ton oi the gentleman from Arkansas would be to exclude altogether from the consideration of the OoFernment the plan which tue Louisiana delega- lioh deemed the most practicable mad best Mr Walker enforced tIsis view by further remarks
 Mr Boraand withdrew his motion insisting upon direct vote on hts resolutions and they were re- ferred 10 ihe general committee.
 Oa motion, Mr. ReilaRd's resolutions were refer
 
 Hon. II. A, Woodward, of South Carolina addressed the Convention. .Genlemen were, quick 10 etSin HaiIoaahty for their special projects Bat ne did hot love To proceed on metaphors. The st. Lohis convention Was moi national the resolutions from the eentietpan irotn Aikansas and the gentle man from Lonisiasa were not national. st f.oois thought New Orleans thought, the line ofna,ionaliiy was ey taem Shaald we not inquire if the ne was not hefel Conventions were held f, bring ,o Legislative n0tice focal questions which otherwise m'sRf, indeed ceftaiiiy would, escape Ha conld not go as Tar as our extraordinarily pahi5tic St. Louis irtehds--we wanted the route here lie had eome 70 see Il thls place not on tue right line Tor the taiiroad; and If the government woai apply ule matbenailt al instrument II might be !ound 50. w were called Hpon to decide eonst tuliona eiles- i'chS-ihe smallest Of which wouid ocrapy grave Ju"Sfs TOT 'htee tsys, and require whole wagon 'oaa ot oeoks. We shonld he more modest; we shoald oaniine ourselves 10 the expedieneY, the fae'lcaoiily of constructing the road and inc best me TOT q; Ills resolutions only indieaed that Ve rom Memphis 10 San Diego might be the route -these vas s,iiY .. isgit 5s " sisif1Dfstsyas net taaf m"desi9 Mir. Woodward concluded by moving hfs resolutions.
 Resoleed, That it is highly expedient. in military and commercial pein, of vies, that cotnnguica. ioh, Oy ratiSay, shOall exist between inc waters oi 1e AusstssIppi river and the Pacific Ocean: and that every means and facility tha, may lie wifhla the co itit'onai PoweEs oi tle governmeni If any W. r"Sitd of dpiien To such object.
 hssofred, That roaie t0 terminate wes,wartsly al San Diego, on the Ptcidc Ocean, and eastwaFlly al Memphis, on the Mississippi river, IS s,rpngly in. dicaled by climate, temperature, geographical and commercial relations; dleciness oi course, eenra- F, ahi an equal regard b the interests Of every part
 Judge Walker, of Lonisisna. rep,ied. The sar easn oi The geitleinan from South Cafolina required some notice al bis hands The gentleman had com pained oi his tMr W's) meiaphor., and rhetorical noarishes. lie thought his metaphors were just as dangefous as the gehtlemau's facts far less than ms "'t Louisiana did not pretend ;o nonopose all me ekpansioa and patriotism 0i the convention and OonouesS seH-inierest existed m this, as iH every o'heF body. Loaisiana approved all rouies--would Vo'e Tor the geniietPans resol1tousbat sue wanted Der own route With unprohouaee able name Ih,s convention vas not he lhOushi) called specially to consider particular route.
 Judge Bpwiin, Of Missouri, thought t time that h.s State should be heard. He believed in local attachments Set down your Jacobs staH in Mem phis and Goi had so formed the earth that would be central ,o the world 50 it was with St Louis why, last night We had New Ogleans proved to be The very place aud the only place. from which to measure degrees Q! longitude, Bat St. Louis had at her convection taken Memphis under the wings ol her protection. St Louis had acted in a much Dfoadef, uofe national and patriotic spirt-she had refused specially to press her local claims upoa the
 
 She had assisted 10 pass resolution merely in favor oi great national road, with braDehes to St. Louis, Memphis and Chicago. The resolutions of the geniIeman iron South Carolina looked 10 a war of l-aeasy and rivalry among Chicago St, Louis aud MemPhis--l triangular duel. We waited The road We must have IL
 Mr. Eashn oi Kentucky moved to amend the reso- luton of Mf Woodsard. of South Carolina, with the following resolutions:
 l. Rss6tcsd, That the public lands are now held and ought to be held foT the benefit of all The States
 Rssefvsd. That all he States of the U aion have an equal right with the cAi&ehs of the new States, m ihe Phbe lands, as ta the proceeds of the sales thereof, not o'he wise appropriated.
 5. Rssotred, That tue Atlantic and Pacific oceans ought to be connected by Railroad communication at the earliest psrio and that the public lands sIe Aasas! tuTd properly applicable to this great National object.
 Rssoiusd, That this convention have the utmost contishee tn the Typographical Beaaro. and that shns t..iIx i