Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-29
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THE, PsorOsED sopTHERs CosvESTIoS-
VILE REFUSES 70 COVE rx1o ne AasAxezxKxTs.
1T IS Wen known to most. If not al Of our
readers that rumors aud preparations have been
IN progress about holding Southern CONNER
cial Convention in the city Of Savannah. ceor-
GA This Convention is called commercial but,
as We believe, is intended 70 be 50 only in name
The red object, as wesuppose, is 70 discuss that
time-honored subject, Southern rights and
Southern grievances 1t is TO bea general COM
rnittee Of ways and means to deTise how new
state Of Things can be brought about
We are glad TO know that such is the manner
in which it is viewed by portion of our peo-
pie, who are not 10 be lead and blinded BIZ mere
names Nashville, through her Common Coun-
ell. has deliberated upon the matter, and, after
full discussion and examination, has voted the
whole thing hoax, by eleven TO six The
Journals give as the reason for so doing, the
general belief that It was to be nothing more
than secession Convention. Nashville has had
enough Of this secession conclaying,-she saw
no good from it then, and discerris nothing for
the future from these would-be attempts to es,
tablish a sectional commerce. She is not going
70 lend.her countenance to Hartford Blue.light-
ism in any shape or form. Now, after all, al
lowing that it is to be indeed a Commercial Con-
vention Of Southern Statesman ttat-a Com
yention of Southern States, what does 1t all
amount to. What will they dos Will they
equip feet Of merchant vessels, renovate the
agricultural interests, build railroads, &c? Do
they propose these measures? No. They will
accomplish not one thing of the kind. They
viii go and talk and theorize awhile, and come
home just as they went, without having accom-
plished any thing at all. This idea OF seeking
10 direct commerce away from all that sustains
it, Of raising oranges, as it were, in hot houses,
has been riddled and sifted so completely by
Professors Wayland q Say, and the standard
writers on political economy, that it has come
60 be little more than humorous to talk Of such
things We are glad to see that portion of
our Southern contemporaries,w who are not tongue
tied either by fear or the spoils ligaments, are
raising their voices and exposing the barrenness
of the whole project.
The ST Louis Evening News, notices the mat
ter, and remarks that the recent sectional ex-
citement, which inflamed the country, the des-
pcrate efforts by the Secessionists to prepare the
minus VI une people Ior the AWFUL contingency
of a disruption of the Union, the mysterious
meetings and movements of restless politicians
at the South, the whispers of treason in the
very wind, and the sly hints which certain of
the Secession Journals have thrown out, all go
to prove that the subject of disunion win form
the warp and wool of the proceedings of the
Savannah Convention,
This was enough for the people of Nashville.
They emphatically and decidedly refused to be
represented. They love the South much; but
they love the Union more. They have the bones
of "old Hickory tosremind them of the allie
glance they owe to their country, and while
"old Hickory's" name and fame shall be green,
and the remembrance fresh of the battle fields
where he led Tennesseans to victory, the people
of Nashville will scorn to plot treason against
the Union.