The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-30


subjects are as yet only in their mid-career.
Time viii bring forth disclosures which win
have even a more startling effect upon the impe-
rial government and the railway operators in
France.
The Approae hing Southern Commerclal Com
vention-What's In the Wind Nows
On the eighth of December another of those
visionary assembages known a. Southern Com
mercial Conventions, is to meet in the fortunate
little city of Savannah, Georgia. The fira sfair
Of this kind came off some ten years ago at Mem
phis, Tennessee, under the immediate auspices Of
Mr.. Calhoun; and since that day they have been
gaining favor among our Southern ultra-politcal
economists, until they have become as regular
an institution as the anniversaries of the WO-
mans Rights Sisterhood Of the North. Among
the leaders of these Southern commercial gather
ings, the great declared ultimatum is general
system of commercial exchanges between the
Southern States and foreign nations, wholly in
dependent of New York merchants and Yankee
shippers; but thus far every experiment to inau-
most distressing failure.
In late editorial Of the Richmond Enquirer,
however, we are now assured that something
practical is coming at last; for that this impor-
tant Southern problem of squaring the circle has
been brought to most beautiful solution by no
less a parsonage than Col A. Dudley Mann.
Says the Enquirer
perhaps with commercial matters than
any other individual IN the Unon proposes the establish
and the aers Of Great Britain The scheme 10 captivat
ing in conoeptcn and 10 wanting In no circumstance es
sentia TO success On the contrary, Col Mann is salts
6ed OF It's pracucahily and he 10 not person 70 embark
in faolih hazardous venture. We know something
Of bis and connenons, md do not hesitate TO
his enterprise 70 the confidence and support Of
the SOIih
We also know something Of this remarkable
individual. He may not now be " the person to
embark in foolish or hazardous venture" but
he has certainly had notable experience in
things of that character. 1t is to Col. A. Dudley
Mann that the country is indebted for those lea
Their breeches diplomatic circulars of Marcy. 1t
was COL Mann that laid down that original red
republican and flibustering foreign policy for
poor Pierce, the first Developments Of which were
the appointments of such men as Soule to
Spain, Owen to Naples, Daniel to Sardinia, and
Scion Borland te Central America. The Koszta
case and the Koszta letter, the doings Of Soule
at Madrid and the bombardment Of Greytown,
were all but parts and parcels Of this new and
wonderful American democratic foreign policy.
The last card of Col Mann was that famous Os-
tend Conference and that infamous Ostend Mani
festo 1t was under his special auspice. as conf
Dental envoy extraordinary from Washington to
our principal diplomats in Europe, that this
aforesaid Ostend Conference and Manifesto were
brought about. But with the failure of this last
desperate expedient to kick up general row be-
tween the United States and the naval Powers of
Europe, Col. Mann ceased to be Marcy's assistant
Premier, and incontinently disappeared from the
public eye He now turn. up as the prime
mover of this approaching Southern Commercial
Convention !; and from his antecedents as states
man. we may form a safe judgment, perhaps, Of
the practical value Of bis present scheme, viz
he establishment Of a line of exclusively South
ern steamers between Norfolk (va) and Milford
Haven, (England); each steamer of $500 tons
burthen.
Notwithstanding all this, the reasons for the
adoption Of this policy Of Southern direct trade
with Europe, as recommended by Col Mann, are
presented by the Richmond Enquirer with CON-
prehensivebess and gravity which are really re-
freshing. Hear our Richmond philosopher -
Ills pecessary above all things that the south should
relieve nself Of u dependence upon the NORTH
for while nsubnts TO this vassaage Idle 10 talk about
the developement Of s resources. All are o1rssd TIA.
ne Erx "a, The propres " freedom and indT>Hese 70
"a tJen DIRE. commercial Tec'tonS lrth EsroJe For this
pecssary advance, the present period peculiarly pro-
Of n,errsl improvement has brought the remote West
n easy cummrnicatitn with the ciues OF the Atlantic
cCa; Plenty Ct produce will oner Itself for the markets
or ihe world the moment that we oousuu mate some ar.
rbscneni Tor ts expectation The spirit Of the South Ia
,arer 10 sfser the Independence OF our commerce. but
~ there such public interest, our agriculture
would 10, willingly submit 10 The exactons Of Northern
factors n any opportunity Of escape from the burden
were offered 10 iE acceptance.
Freedom and Independence This smacks
pretty strongly OF a Southern confederacy az
the ultimate object Of these pseudo commercial
conventions We have heard, too, that nullifca-
ton and secession are to enter more openly aud
undisguisedly into the merits Of this Savannah
gathering than ever heretofore. The Savannah
ReJsJlicon. a conservative anti-democratic paper,
adrnonshs- the Convention, in this view to be-
ware lest they display too much of the cloven
hoof But the temptation will be strong to give a
broad hint or two to the President cleo: concerning
The foreign and domestic policy Of hi, administra-
ton, and it il in this light that We shall regard
this general meeting Of these commercial South
ern politicians with some degree of interest
Heretofore, the subject Of Pacific railroad
and the opening Of the navigation Of the great
Amazon river, in South America, have en-
tered very largely into the deliberations OF
these Southern conventions; but our Richmond
democratic contemporary fatty say. that 1t win
not do for this Savannah assemblage 10 repeat
the folly Of other years and erpend itself in idle
defamation over impossible enterprise Audit
further says: In the name Of common sense, let
US have something 70 the point-somcthing less
colossal in the conception, but more practical in
The nnrnnse than a Pacific railroad or the naxi.