Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-12-18
Southern Convention.
Savannah, Dec. {

ced the Committee on Business
Among the resolutions offeredto-day was
one by Swan of Tennessee, that all bonds
and notes issued by Southern States,
Cities and Counties, be made payable
in said States. Referred to Business
Committee.
a resolution that each member sub
scribe Sl00towards directline of steam
ers 70 Europe was adopted but afterwards
reconsidercd and referred.
Mr. Bothel, of Ga, made long speech
in favor of abolishing tariff and raising
funds by direct taxation to support Gov
eminent.
Mr. Kean. of Va, offered resolutions
depreciating the education of southern
youths at the North, and advocating the
encouragement of southern books, news
papers and manufactures.
Mr.. Golding, of Ga. Offered resolutions
|instrueting southern Congressman TO
use their efforts to secure the repeal of
the tariff, repeal laws interdicting the
slave trade, and to procure treaty for
the rendition of slaves from Canada
Laid on the table by an almost unani-
nous vote.
Mr.. Mason, of Alabama, offered res
olution in favor of a railroad from the
Mississippi to the Pacific, along the 22d
parallel.
Adjourned till Wednesday.
Savannah Dec, 10.
| In the Southern Convention to-day,
Mr.. Goulding's resolution, relative to the
re-opening of the slave trade, was dis
cussed.
Mr.. S. Pratt editor of the Charleston
Stanard, avowed himself in favor of
renewal of that traffic. The Convention,
he said, should not acknowledge the
right of Congress to impose restriction
upon the slave trade, it should meet the
Question at once.
Mr. Hunter, of Va, thought that the
South should ponder long before they
defied the opinion of the Christian world,
The recent message of the Governor of
South Carolina had astonished the whole
South, and he was not prepared to en-
dorse that message. The subject was
lone involving tremendous consequent
ces, and time for reflection was necess-
airy.
Mr.. Goulding, of Ga, defended the
policy of the renewal of the slave trade.
Slavery, he said, was derived from God,
and he was ready to defend it in all
its bearings.
The question was discussed by other
gentlemen, including Mr.. Mcleod, of
Texas, who pledged his State to the ex-
tremest pro-slavery measures.
The motion to take up Goulding's slave
traffic resolutions was lost l6 to II, South
Carolina, Texas, and part Of Tennes-
see voting in the ffirmative.
i Savannah, Dec. IL.
In the Southern Convention, Mr.. Devoe,
of La. offered series of resolutions en-
dorsing Dudley Mann's scheme for the
establishment of q line of steamers from
Chesapeake Bay to Milford Haven-fa-
: voring the introduction of southern text
books into schools and colleges, and the
appointment of acommittee of distinguish
ed Southern professors to prepare such
books-recommendin to Southern egis-
lature to order that said books be used
in Southern schools recommending the
encouragement of Southern books and
periodicals in the place of Northern pub
LEGATIONS, and the encouragement of
IIil1lluA anu NobS t'N
the South. These resolutions were all
adopted.
Mr.. Selmeg reported favorably on an
Iinter-oceanic communication, via the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and offered a
resolution recommending that Congress
should make contract with the Sloo
Company for the transportation of mails
between New Orleans and California,
over that route-adopted;a as was also the
resolution reported yesterday, in favor
of Pacific X. Il.
A letter from Senator Toombs, of
Georgia, was read, advocating absolute
free trade.
A desultory debate in reference to the
revival Of the slave trade, then sprung
up; in the course of which, the exclusion
of everything of Northern manufacture
from the Southern markets, was advoca-
ted.