The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-09
TIE SontkesR C0nan1e xcfal Convention.
ITS ApJoUENnENT--ITs LABORS AND THEIR RESULT.
LETTER FROM GEN, GREEN.
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LETTER FROM GEN, GREEN.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 7, 1865.
TO TIE EDITOR OF THE inRAlD.
| On reviewing the labors of the Southern Conyen
ton, which closed its animated and harmonious ses
| sion at P. NJ. to-day, the only advantages can
discover as likely to arise is the developeinent OF
more attention and effort towards building up an in
dependent Southern trade both foreign and domestic
Ex-Governor Floyd, OF Va, offered resolutions IN
favor Of creating "a line or lines Of first class steam
| els from Southern ports which, as policy, had
the unanimous sympathy Of the conventions; aud a.
though it run off Oh distractions, in the end they
| were adopted in all their force.
Col. N. q. Morris OF Va, offered resolutions which
| were unanimously adopted, recommending the
South to Southern manufactures in preference to
those of the North to patronize nope but Southern
| watering places, and to educate their children in
| Southern schools and colleges.
Resolutions were also offered requesting Congress
| TO repeal the duties on railroad iron
Gen. Green of Texas introduced resolutions re-
commencing the Southern States to sustain and as
sst national highway to the Pacific, on the line Of
81 deg. North lat, (that IL the line OF the Texas
Western Railroad Company, as surveyed by Col. A.
B. Gray, which was adopted with but one dissent
ing voice.
General Cazneau, Of Texas offered resolutions =
broader scope. They demand the attention Of the
general government TO the importance Of set Or
system Of continental highways, which, under law
Of equal and impartial encouragement, should unite
the three great maritime ports of the Atlantic Pac
fc and Gulf Of Mexico by ndissoluble bonds, aad a.
collateral of this comprehensive system Of national
highways, the establishment the same geuey /
basis Of equal encouragement of lines Of ~, |
steamers from all the principal seaports Of ire
Union.
These resolutions, which aimed to place all the
practicable railroads to the Pacific and all the
ports and steam lines Of the Union on an equal
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the vote Of one State
These are the leading points, and they show ~
fairly and clearly rs know how to state them the
objects and sentiments Of the convention. The i'm
mediate practical consequence OF this interchange of
views and pledges will be to draw away from the
North the money the South has hitherto spent ut
Northern schools, colleges. watering places, &C. to
build up similar institutions at the South, and to
stimulate the capitalists Of the South and the South
efn representatives in Congress to call into existence
lines of steamers and direct trade, and with il
direct imlni grafton 10 Southern ports
The convention adjourned to meet at Sayan al,
Ca, the second Monday of December next.
A MEMBER OF THE CONVENTION.
GENERAL THOMAS !. GREENS TOAST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. O, lsj5.
TO INF EDITOR HERALD.
Your reporter, in the HERALD Of Yesterday, makes
a mistake in my toast at the dinner given by the
city Of Richmond, Va, to the Southern Commercial
Convention. 1t was this =
The Southern Repubiicf driven to separation
bounced or tho north by Mason and pxons line arr >
the sou,h b. the Isthmus Of Iehuentep.c IN ing
Cuba and all other islands Southern shore, ich
threatens African ization
As this sentiment was given in response to n co'n-
pment to the filibuster state Of Texas, Of which
am proud of being citizen, it has meaning IL
each and every word, and was approved by to- .ve
company present, and believe will be by the va.
nous sentiment Of the Southern States. ask il
there one 80 stupid as to believe the federal Union
would survive year the Authorization OF Cuba
I think not. Such an idea 10 Southern sentiment il
rs preposteroas TO believe that the occupants Of
castle would fold their arms in quiet end await the
result after the train TO the Magazine beneath them
lad been fred
Yonr reporter makes me say truly that " / an, a
buster and proud OF II y but not 80 proud, in the
sickly criminal Interpretation as now applied to it,
of violating the laws, and thereby offending Great
Britain. But ] said on that occasion was prod
Of it, as aiding liberty upon this continent
proud Of it in the sense of the first, the
greatest, the best of flibusters-the Father
Of his Country whose portrait adorned the opposite
wall. Proud Of it in the service Of Andrew Jackson
when President of this republic he permitted myself
ard others to purchase munitions Of war, and to re.
cruit soldiers with drum and fife under the flag Of
the lone star which Haunted in the breeze. With
the great Jackson's permission, thus we marched
into Texas. TO " fight for our rights" There we
struck for liberty and redeemed aD empire from des-
potjsn. This was the work OF ten long years
When in The commencement, we believed one short
one would accomplish IL. regretted, as most other
democrats Of this Union did, TO see orr democratic
administration departing from the glories of Jack.
sonism, by using the federal arm TO prop despotism
and suppress liberty upon this continent believed
flat our democratic President was wrong abstiaetly
al practically ! believed it was one Of the iuhc.
rent rights of Americans to hight for liberty ut home,
and help our near neigbbors do likewise. thanked
cid Virginia for the hearty response to these senti
,uents: thanked old Virginia for furnishing an ex-
aed patriot in the person Of John Tyler, whose last
Presidential act was the Accomplishment Of annexs.
ton, when, in the language Of the toast makes the
I" lone star grow brighter and brighter in the con-
ISOLATION ~ States" THos. J, GREEN