The Arkansas banner., 1850-10-15
The Ceorgia and Nashville Conventions

The GeorsIa and Nashville Conventions.
 IL is now we'll settled that both Of these bodies will assemble. IL is slso highly probable that the whole cotton region will unite for redress ati safety. The States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Florida. hiississppi aud Arkansas, are compacty united in territory, in interest, and ia sentiment.
 However other slave States may fancy they can exist without slavery, and may therefore lamper aud compromise with the enemies oi that inslitu- ton, the cotton States know that is vital to tem Without slavery. inc growth of cotton must be abandoned in the South, and that region relinq aish cd by the white race io Ihc black
 Bat it happens that the white people of those States have the power aud the will, ihe number, inc wealth and DO ition, to avert such catastrophe They are Bot going to countenauee any northern usurpailon, southern submission, or alliance with il. that will have the effect,
 l. Oi cutting oil slave einigrahoa 10 new terri ries.
 ? Ofinv,ing white emigration 10 them from the slaveheldng States.
 ,. Of hasteuing slave emigration 10 the cetton States from the border slave States Thus aeJucng the white population of the cotton States and augme ntHg the slave population in them at length tO eoacsntrats ia the cotl6n States population in which slaves shsll largely prepen- eerate, with an anti-slavery population around them. and an anti-slavery government and amOug them.
 The defsction of lhe border slave States from ths cause 0i the South. instead of delaying will accele- rate the of tue cotton States The active cooperation ofkentucky. Maryland and Delaware. with the North, in the system of SouiLs, dsnlem- brInent eAgusl.lsi snd aia tite apathy of rtrslhia ali teach lle cotton States they have no time to lose.
 Now Il so happens that these cotton Slates have the largest foreign commerce of any people of the sams number ia the world, aud a eotnn,eres that employs more tonnage. They command the South Atlantic coast. the Gulf of Mexico, the West Ia- dies ths mouth and much of the course of the Mis- s'ssiPPL Yet although they furnished an enormous foreign export, the corresponding import goes into the North, and tue profits of selling and disfribu- ting that import, are monopciizsd by the North he exporting States are compelled to pay the diff ference Of Exchange and the cost of besides profit to the Northern importer, before they can receive commodities ia exchange for their own products.
 New, next to tine preservation of harmony among the States, which was the first great ob,ect of the u nion, and which has failed, was tlIe regulation of coIn'nerce. but Il was ReYer intended or dreanIed tbat Inc Union would result iu commercial mono poly by single State, or two or threa States or citeS on tho contrary. it Was expressly provided h Inc constitution, that no preference shall be given to l'ie Poris ot one State over another. The fra ners ol the cons tuition do not appear Ia have un- derstood that line inevitable teudeney of Union under eoin.hoh government is to concentrate its eetifti'-ree in stugfe city Yet sue Is the cas-,
 Commerce seeAs with an irresistible instinct common centre because exchanges are effected with iachty m prcp0rtoa to the quantity aud varete 0i comtnodiiies that can be eolleetcl in q single spot. iieuce, the moment the Union ,Vns formed the largest city had the start, other things bene equsi, III the H.airy Tor commercial .meuopoiy- ne NoFtassa Cities ths largest. i II addition to that and as cause of that they were nearer to Europe, the seat of civilized commerce. The as- sumption Of the debts of the States, which Hamil- NN Aadff I.ft. Madison threw some fifty millions Of convertible eaPta into those eties and they left the ei,is of me South in the dim distance. But now if the ohion were dissolved, the eighty millions of cotton exports from southern ports would return direct 10 T in eighteen millions of imports.
 A revenue duty of 25 per cent. would give to six cotton States revenue of 20 900 009 an aualiy and II tiis were disbas ssd among them, instead of being expended chiefly in northern States it wsaki pro- duce quite decided effect on ths value of property tAe tendency of emigration. the gr0wta of cities ana the march ol public improvement aud private enterprze.
 These views, and many moro, which we have not no" time to deveioPe will present tbeelyes to the Georgia and Nashville conventions.
 We predict that the cotton States VII tender to the other States of the Union ti.s isssv of eeces. sion or justice that the border ss~.A iing States #il tbsh hnile in the demand for justice: that the States ol lDdiana, illinos, and PsanS lYaI.a; will then E1cogGAs ihe validity oi such ekfnan1s and the exPedieDey Of aecsding 10 them. Hd then the other nortaefn States will have opportunity of inBlfestigg that devotion to the Uniaa which tb.y profess 10 loudly And ws have no buoi tie pro fsssion Is sincere, for il is brsechespocket sec- uon-and We therefore are confident lai rsstitatioa ol the southern share of the new territory will bs made, and that guarantees of soutasr rights in f- tsfe will be gven.--Sou. Press.
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