New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-17
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SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
F o U r 7 II DAY 7,

THURSDAY Dec. IL, 1856.
At halEpast the Convention was called to order
by the President.
Mr. DeBoW, Of Louisiana, reported several resoIu-
tons from the Committee On Business which the Con-
venton proceeded to consider.
A resolution was adopted that when the Convention
adjourn, it shall be to meet again in Knoxville, Tenn.
on the second Monday in August, 1857.
Resolutions recommending to the favorable consd.
Grafton Of Southern citizens the projected "weeky
ferry line of iron steamships of 10000 tons, between
Chesapeake Bay and Milford Haven" as set forth in
the pamphlet of A. Dudley Mann, were adopted
The Committee on Business submitted report re-
commenting return in Southern schools and col
leges to the system OF Eton and Oxford "upon which
was based the education of the speakers and writer's
OF the South at the beginning of this century," The
committee also submitted resolutions that committee
be appointed to select proper text books for the
Southern colleges and Schools and that the Legisla-
lures of Southern States be requested to order their
adoption in all the public schools of their respective
States The resolutions were adopted, and the fol-
lowing gentlemen named as the committee:
Professors Bledsoe, McGufey, of Virginia, and
prest. Smith, of Randolph and Macon College, Vir-
gnia;; Hon; George q. Badger and D. /. Swain, Of
North Carolina; Right Rev. Bishop Elliott and j.
Hamilton Cooper, of Georgia. Prof. John Lecompt,
Rev. J. H. Thornwel, Rev. J. W. Miles and Rev. Dr,
Curtis OF South Carolina Prest TalImadge of Geor.
gia; Dr. Lacey, of North Carolina Ashbel SIN tn, of
Texas Prest. Longstrect of Mississipp Dr. Garland,
Of Alabama Charles Gayarre, of Louisiana: DR..
Richard Fuller, of Maryland; and Dr.. Alonzo Church,
of Georgia.
Resolutions recommending Southern Legislatures to
Withhold from"al schools and academies that may use
Northern textbooks or employ Northern teachers,
any portion Of the school fund, and recommending a
preference to Southern Northern professors and
teachers, were laid upon the table.
Resolutions from the Business Committee, depreca-
ting the support given by the South to Northern
journals allied with the enemies of Southern institutions
were adopted.
The following resolution from the Committee on
Business was adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention should memorialize
the Legislatures of the different Southern States tc
establish and sustain Institutions where should be re
educated apprentices for the marine service
Resolutions favorable to the enterprise of inter
oceanic communication via the Istl,mus of Tehuante
pee, und recommending the general Government tc
contract with the Tehuantepec Company for the trans
portation of the U. S. mail by that route, were
adopted.
DR.. Brashear, of Louisiana, submitted resolutions
recommending State Legislatures to offer bounties OF
ship and boat building, abolishing wharf and Dor
charges on Southern built ships: also, to offe
bountes for woolen and cotton yarn manufactured ii
the South and exported to foreign countries.
Referred to Committee on Business
The Committee on Business, to whom had been re
committed the Pacific Railroad resolution reporte
them back without amendment and they wer
adopted.
Mr.. Clayton, Of Alabama, introduced resolutions in
deative OF the course which ought to be pursued b
the South, in order to obtain her just and equa
share in the settlement of the Territories Of the Unite
States.
Referred to the Committee on Business.
A resolution to appoint committee to investigat
the subject of reopeDing the slave trade was mac
the order of the day for next meeting.
The Convention soon after adjourned.