Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-01

before the Memphis Convention, we were a
bout TO state what we understand 10 be it.
general objects. when the sutjoined article
from the New York Herald fell under our eye
discussing the matter so literally and sepsibly
that we choose to substitute It for any remarks
of our own. We have ever held that IL il
by such means as the Herald refers TO that
the South is to conquer Sectional independence,
and render impregnable it's institutions and
rights. Industry, enterprise and education
railroads, canals, factories. telegraphs, school
houses and churches are to be the agents of our
disenthralment and development. That is a
sort Of progress" in which we have faith
a form ofyoung Americanism of which we are
followers. "Non intercourse" societics-"ev-
cry hazard" and "ast extremity" resolves
har-spliiting dissertations on state rights, and
every other shape and shade of political
empiricism might be tried till dooms.day-
without bettering our condition So much as
the value oil one hours repose. What we need
lie something that will add to our population,
and give us commanding influence in the Fed.
eral Government. Let US make ourselves as
strong as nature designed US to be, and We
may snap our fingers in The face of our assai.
ants. But We are keeping the reader from the
admirable article of the Herald:
From Maryland to Louisiana The men OF
the South OF last appear 10 have walked up To
practical conception of their domestic poll
cy; and the numerous Distinguished names of
all parties which appear in the several dele
cations, attest that this affair at Memphis is 10
be something more then holiday jubilee for
The explosion of gas and champagne, and the
consumption of Tennessee beef ard corn dod-
gers. 1t is plainly intended that this conven
ton shall ark the initial point of a great
revolution in the South--a radical and com
prehensvc revolution. vii bout secession, without
civil or servile war. without foreign or mere
tricious aid, without arms other than those OF
domestic enterprise, energy and activity, or
gsnized upon a practical basis, and directed
to the practical objects of the carrying trade,
home manufactures, home colleges and
more enlarged system of common school edu-
cation.
"And it is gratifying especially to observe
that South Carolina, that fiery, hlgh-splrited
and impetuous little commonwealth, has at
length had the film OF political transcendental
ism removed from her eyes; and that she sees
that railroads, steamships, factories, foundries
and schools, are OF greater moment to the self
sustaining dignity Of State than all micro
sopicai hair splitting constitutional distractions
that have been discovered from the epoch of
'9s and go down to the present day,
Georgia, the Empire State of cotton
country, has already illustrated. in her extern
sive system of railroads, and in her numerous
and prosperous cotton factories, the great fact
that the South has within itself the essential
elements of the highest industrial prosperity.
Ii is not surprising, therefore. that Georgia
should nominate n powerful delegation, of
nearly all her leading men of every county,
to attend the Memphis convention. Alabama
too, is deeply infected with the con,agion Of
railroads, and Mississippi has caught the fever
from Tennessee. In fact, from tho Dismal
Swamp, to the Balize, from Charleston to
Chattanooga and from Mobile TO the Muscle
Shoals, the hitherto sleeping South has been
walked up to The practical meaning OF South.
ern rights, by that great constitutional expoun-
der, the railroad locomotive. 1t passes through
the pine barrens. and lively towns and villages
spring up in its track-t winds TIN ough the
gorges of otherwise impossible mountains and
foundries, FORCES and furnaces make the noun
tain sides resound with their wholesome mu
sic--it rushes, like the embodiment of tenn
pest, over a region of swamps and morasses
aud straightway tho swamp and the morass
are blooming with fields OF rice and cotton.
it halts at a neglected seaport, and ships line
the reviving wharfs from the utiermost parts ol
the earth; or it stops Tor wood and water at a
county cross road. and hotels, schools and
churches rise out of,he earth at its approach
In the language of Captain Maury, the loco.
motive has turned the Mississippi upside down
and transferred one of its mouths from the G ulI
of Mexico to the port of New York And il
is this great gent of civilization and progress
1, of commercial development and material
prosperity has instigated this Memphis
, Convention.
Home manufactures, however, open ur
the largest field ofenterprise to the South. II
the working up Of cotton into the various fab
RIGS into which it is wrought, the Southern
|, States have almost every advantage in thei
hands for an absolute monopoly of the raw ma