The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-23
A GOOD MOVE.


Southern Commercial Convention, were two
on the subject of text books for Southern
Schools and Colleges. These provided for
the appointment of committe to take this
matter under their auspices and select and
prepare such a series of books in every de-
partment of study from the earliest primer
to the highest grade of literature and
science, as shall seem to them best qualified
to elevate and purify the education of the
South.
And that when this series of books shall
have been prepared, the Legislatures of the
Southern States be requested to order their
use in all the public schools of their respec-
tive States, and the Trustees of Incoporat-
ed Academies be requested to adopt them
as their text books.
The committee consists of Prof's Bledsoe,
MEG uffey, of Va, and President Smith of
Randolph Macon College, Va, Hon.
| G. Z. Badger and d. L. Swain, of n. c.,
Right Rev. Bishop Elliott and j. Hamilton
Cooper, of Ca, Pof John Lecoute, Rev. J..
II. Thornwell, Rev. w. Miles and Rev. DR..
Curtis, of s. c., President Tallman of Ca,
DR.. Lacey of n. c., Ashbel Smith of Texas,
President Longstreet of Miss, DR.. Garland
of Ala, Charles Gayarre of Lou, DR.. R.
Fuller of Ind, and DR.. Alonzo Church of
| Georgia.
Mr.. Hubbard, of Ala, offered the follow
| ing resolution, which was considered and
adopted:
Resolved, That a select committee of
three be appointed to consider and report
to the next meeting of this convention, for
its consideration, a system of detective po-
| lice in Southern States, supported by plan
| ters and shareholders also, a system of
finance and the proprety of Incorporating
| a planters union.
The President announced Messrs. Hub
bard of Ala, DeBow of La, and Ashe of
n. c., as said committee.
THE SLAVE TRADE AT THE NORTH
The New York Journal of Commerce has
the following paragraph for the digestion of
| the descendants of the men who pocketed
the profits of the slave trade, which is now
declared to be piracy by act of Congress:
We have been thinking over the question
of the proposed revival of the slave trade in
this country, and have come to the conclu-
sion that if ever it should come to pass, it
will be done by Massachusetts, rather than
South Carolina. A modified slave trade is
already carried on from Boston as well as
from New York, but not at all from Char
lesion or any Southern port. We allude to
the traffic in Chinese coolies, who, being
comparatively white, their enslavement I'M
der various forms of imposition, is all right,
as estimated by Northern cupidity. So far
as the African slave trade is carried on
| from Northern ports, it is done by foreign
ers, who skulk from public observations; but
| the cOOlie slave trade is conducted openly
and largely by Yankees.
RESULT OF INTEMPERANCE.-The Troy
of young and lovely woman by intemper-
ance. A few months since a young lady
Of one of the first families of that city was
married to New York merchant, under
circumstances most suspicious for the hap
piness of both. Lately she returned to
| her home in Troy, discarded by her hus-
band on account of her mania for intoxica-
| ting drinks, and in few weeks she died of
brain fever, induced by her habits. The
father of the young lady has been called
a. Al Al
! death Of wife and daughter by intoxica-
ton; and a son, once noble and manly,
whose highest nature has been perverted
by the same cause.
SOMETHING OF CHANGE.-It is said
that the Hon. S. A. Douglas, when he set
| out for Washington, was not allowed to
pass station between Chicago and Cleve-
land without being called out. While ac-
knowledging the compliment of an impromp-
tn demonstration at Toledo, he said it twas
but short time since he might have trav-
elled from Boston to Chicago by light of
his own efigies burning in every village
where abolitionism could muster courage
enough to attempt the disgraceful act, the
sole provocation for which was that he had
dared TO introduce bill allowing the people
of every State and every Territory to regu-
late their own affairs in their own way
But he congratulated his hearers that the
just principle of that bill bad been adopted
and made fundamental principle of our
government: and he felt proud satisfac-
ton in the approval and endorsement of his
/ own course, and that of his gallant col
league, Gen. Shield, embodied in the tri-
umphant election of the veteran stateman,
James Buchanan, to the Presidency