The southern press., 1851-11-04
Editorial Correspondence of the .Neto York Courisi
and Enquirer-By Telegraph.
The Cotton Planters Convention at Macon,
Macon. GA, October 81.

| Macon, "a, October 81.
The Southern Cotton Planters Convention
has been in session here at intervals for several
days. but very little important business has been
transacted until to-day. The convention con-
sists of ab )ut three hundred delegates, of whom
tw) hundred are from Georgia, representing less
than one-half Of the counties; sixty eight from
Alabama, presenting about one-quarter Of the
counties nineteen from Florida, representing
! FIVE counties and one or two delegates from
each of several other Southern States. Mr..
Baylor, our consul at Amsterdam, delivered an
address, urging the convention to adopt meas.
ures for establishing direct trade between the
South and the continent of Europe. In the
course of his remarks, he presented overtures
from merchants in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
proposing 10 cooperate with the merchants of
the Southern States In accomplishing this ob.
ject. The convention unanimously passed reso-
lutions approving of the project, and strongly
recommending the shipment, as early as Tracti-
cable, of at least portion of the cotton crop
by direct transportation.
The main busLess of the convention was to
devise means for providing against the depres.
sion and fluctuations of the prices of cotton.
| There was considerable conflict of oIinion con-
cernng the practicabity of accomplishing this
result, and various plans for providing remedy
were presented The subject was finally re-
ferred to a committee of twenty-oDe, who could
not agree upon anything definite.
A resolution providing that central com.
mittee should be established, to which all plant.
ers should make returns of the cotton housed
by the middle of January; and further, that be-
fore the first Of May not more than two-thirds
of the crop should be sold, and that at not ess
than eight cents per pound, and that the third
fharaaftar obonld ha 81. ~
time az might be recommended by the commit.
tee, was, after a protraeted debate, rejected; !;
forty three voting in the affirmative TO forty
eight in the negative.
minority report was presented by the com
mittee favoring the noted Florida scheme for
cotton planters association, to organize with
a capital Of $20,000,000, 10 erect warehouse.
store the cotton, and control the prices. This
was violently opposed in the convention.
Resolutions were finally adopted, recon-
meDdiug the establishment of central, State, and
country associations, for the purpose of collect
ing statistical and general information in regard
to the production and consumption o. cotton.
a committee was also appointed to procure
the passage of such acts Of incorporation as
may be deemed necessary to promote the in
terest Of the planters; but with the understand
ing the action of this convention, reference to
! the procurement of charters, be not intended 10
commit any cotton planter TO particular mode
] of operation.
! Other resolutions were adopted declaring
/ the expediency of using the utmost exerton to
encourage Southern Manufacturers to employ
slave labor in their factories.
Also, urging the holding Of another cotton
planters convention hereafter, pledging the
GeIegates TO eDdeayor to arouse public attention
TO the importance of the subject, and enforcing
the necessity Of appointing lecturers to canvass
the cotton-g growing country. The convention,
without doing any thing else Of Importance, ad-
jourped sine die.