The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-16

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The Old Wamen,s Conventions OF the Day and
1 the New Revelation. ,,t.,t.
They have been holding for some days past,
| at New Orleans, another of those curious pow
| wows called Southern Commercial Cenven-
tons; and they have been proposing various
devices for developing the resources, stirring
up the dormant industry, and for establishing
the commercial independence OF the SCotn.
Among these devices they propose that the Pa
cific railroad shall go by some Southern route,
tapping the Atlantic at Charleston--tha pueli
lands ought to be voted literally to. Southern
railroads--that Cuba must be had-and tina.
it would be good thing to re-establish the
slave trade between the baracoons of the coast
OF Africa, and the neglected seaports of Mexico.
Such are some of the principal expedieats
laid before this Southern Convention at New
Orleans the great object of which is to devise.
the ways and means Tor rendering the South
wholly Independent Of the North in domestic
manufactures and foreign commerce. Well, the
| old women in both hemispheres have lately been
| stirring themselves, and holding all sorts OF
conventions upon matters OF science, religion,
politics and trade; and this New. Orleans
Convention may be classed among them. The
gravity and practical utility OF its proceedings
are only surpassed by the awful and pompons
solemnity of the doings of the late grand coun-'
Gil at Rome, upon the paramount question Of
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Yir.
gin. If the learned Roman hierarchy have
| unanimously authorized the Pope to decree to
the allied armies at Sebastopol, "and the rest
| of mankind, y the Immaculate Conception of
| the Virgin as dogma of faith, and as the true
| road to the golden streets of the New Jerusa
| lem, so is the New Orleans convention equal
| ly unanimous in favor Of a Southern railroad
as the true route to the gold mines of Califor-
MIA. ~. rt.:
Upon other subjects the practical utility of
| the propositions entering into thesdeliheraioos
Of the New Orleans convention are Oh 4 par
with the resolutions of our women's rights,
and other old granny conventions Of the North.
II the New Orleans reformers have resolved
that we must have Cuba, our women's rights
women have resolved, over and over again, that
they must have the right of suffrage, the right
to run for Congress or the Legislature, for Pre-
sident or for Governor; and an equal right to
the public plumber, as well as the right TO wear
the bIeeches. And ii it has been proposed at
| New Orleans to take measures for re opening
the African slave trade with Africa, our Old gran
ny conventions Of the North, of both sexes and
all colors, have been resolving tor twenty years
past, that slavery and all distinctions Of color
shall be abolished. So, too, II our Southern
conventions have decreed in favor Of liberal
grants of the public domain to Southern rail-
roads our land reiormers Of the North, old wo-
men included, are working away like beavers
for the cession of all the public lands in free
farms to actual squatters upon the dogma OF
| the Hutchinson family, that
Uncle Sam il rich enough
To give US all a farm.
| Even the great cardinal measure OF these South
| ern conventions-that Of establishing the bene-
| fits of direct traffic and free trade between
Southern and European ports-is eclipsed by
the proclamation of Miss Frederick Bremen,
which proposes nothing less than universal
association Of ladies, youog and old, of all
Christendom, for the abolition of sin and misery
| throughout the world.
No. no. Southern abstraction conventions,
| and speeches. and resolutions will no more
alter the laws and channels of trade, nor build
| Pacific railroads, nor secure the Island OF Cuba,
nor re-establish the slave trade, than will our
women's rights and old granny reforming
conventions and coteries OF the North
abolish the existing laws OF society. Ac-
ton, enterprise, capital, and we'll directed in
dustry are the. instruments for developing
the resources and wealth OF the South.
! II they would have direct trade with Europe,
they must put their ships upon the sea; II they
would have manufactures, they must erect
them They have the water power, the climate,
the raw materials-all the required natural adj
vantages Tor successful competition with the
North. If they would have railroads, they
must look to other sources than the federal
treasury and If they would have q Pacific rail
road by the Southern route ten good lobby
men, well armed with toe sinews of war, at
Washington, will avail more than Southern
convention OF ten thousand men al New Or
leans.
II is gratifying to know that of late years, ia
Virginia. Tennessee, the Carolinas Georgia
| and other Southern States, they have been
going to work in factories, foundries, railroads
and other practical enterprises, in the right
way Let the work be followed up after this
fashion, and no Southern abstraction conyen-
tions will be needed to develope the latent riches
aid vast resources Of the south. Mr.. Wise, of
Virginia, in his stump speeches, is disclosing
the true business policy Of the Southern States.
Let Us hope that the day FOR the exhaustipg ex-
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