The Arkansas banner., 1849-05-22
From the Charleston Mercury. aea~utfe nmA xamaSfw n atfPuah.

ID Hs Ere Y, v. B. Seabnaot--Sirs Your pahlIc position the highest representative of the char acter sod inserests of the State mast be my aPelogy for addressing yoa subject which stteets th"Sr interests aud to set apaa which s net inconsistent with that character. lt cannot have escaped year aisea,ioa that convention Sf delrFa'es from th. southern and Westega States has hcca called to meet at Memphis on the ensuing tth ct Jnsy. Ina object of thst meeting is to discuss the Sdvsasage ef public highway from that great crntrn of Ihe west to the Pacific coast; the prSprictv of imnfe. diate action ,ts construction, aud comparison o( such plans for it's exccutsoa as may e suggested during the deliberations Of that body That the western States attribute some importance to this movement is evident from the number aud char aetsr of the drerateS recently aproinled to repre- sent the city of Nashville st this meeting; aud | would respectfully saggrs, reasons recom- inendag the presence ia that budy ol rrpn,sentas lives from South Carolina.
 !. ft cannot he iOsg before large commsrre cen- itself upon the Pacific shore pour tsai across the continent in such channels s it may had. to hs eentered sgan a some Atlantic port for stilt farther and more profitable diffusion. Which will those ports be The railroad to Nashville vii, ssarcely complete It's ne before necessity will com pei is eoHtianance westward, either towards St. Louis point In AraansaS, Whether t shalt take north southwestern diFectien is tu us of much importance A subscription of 4Sgg, ,p0g hy the commercial metropolis of the Stata and tha
 
 teres, in the road 1t Is; sud evidently k that road destined to fnhi the promises of profit that Virginia has just determined, at heavv expense, to pusl the Lynchhurg railroad into the northeast eru corner Of Tennessee, thus seek Ing "a divida what H cannot monopoiise. Now this interest will bc te nIold increased by tae coming connertian-foe coming is surety is-with the Pacific: aud though it is perhaps. too early 10 say where this cumma nieation should be, H k duty be wherever ia. formation can he gathered.
 !. Besides the question of commercial iaterest which, perhaps. might he considered us addressed to Charleston mainly. there is broader interest concerned. That whole country is to be settled by of the Soush, or by cthers-hv as al least ii Ia to be hoped. To considerable extent. Ii ola opln- ions are Ia be kept alive; If old institutions are 10 be presevved; II ths asw hand is i0 be our friend ia its strengthening growth, we must be hear it--ase- fui to it. Let Charleston become th. Atlaailc port for that nation growing bey ond the moa ntatns. and 1 who shall presume on weak ue>s'
 i We want communication. and we want it speedily; we want 1t. too, Rstionai coimunicA. ] ton. ln the Mercury of the l7th inst is letter from MT. Freaner. from Panama. Speaking Of the difficulty of passage iheace. he says;
 NOtwithstsn nding tllis liue of steamers was es. iablisi'ed through sOutaern aud western inf faener the Messrs Aspin~ail & Co. will not allow ticket to bs sold In New Orleans, or any sOashern port. |
 Not less than eight hundred or a thousand per. sons are How on the lstImas awaiting trNnSporta- ton. two-thiFds of whom southern aud western men, some ot thesn with slaves The South aud West may rest assured that they cannot get Cali forna by this route as they can by land, unless they go to New York and get through l ticket"
 | Need this text be enlarged uponf The prvprieiy ot appointing delegate, delegates, who shall at tend this meeting aud gather such information, to be reported to you, may guide the action of this State when this important matter comes before Con gress for consideration. Is respectfully suggested to ! your exeellency. That it will come before that body may be inferred from tn. speech of Senator | Benton on a national road to the Pacific "a speech which. whether it carry conviction or not, will bs read with great interest by all those whs feel that t.od has destined the Atlantic and Pacific to tus ina boundaries of nation united in interest, ia sAsc- ton and n houOr. Youss, &c., A CIr,1sS.