The daily union., 1856-10-22
soTrgERy cosvESrIos At sAvASEAH, GEORGIA.

FxtGoW-cfrrrENs: The southern convention which was
hd Ia February last at Richmond adjourned BY res
outop 20 meet the city OF Savannah on the second
Tunaay, the eighth Of December nsSt
Amoag the resolutions adonted at that suuon waa
ops nominating COMMITTEES 10 whom reierred all the
resolutions which had been adopted as the sense Of the
body with instructions 10 prepare and publish an address
a tbe people Of the southern States developing and en-
rasspp more fully It's views and inviting general and
.rpsr attendance Of delegates al the adjourned session
The committee consisted Of J. D. B. De Bow Of Louisiana
Tnch TilghanAn Of Maryland Robert Ould, Of the Dis
triet Of Columbia James Lyons R. K Meade J. Ander-
Mysr Myers r. Dean, of Virginia and J. h. Glib
bon, Of North Carolina
Nearly quarter ofa century ago it began first To man
st itself the southern States that although they en-
braced in proportion 10 population, the woalthiss pro-
ducng region in the world they contributing direct
" or indirectly OF It's prooseds to the aggrandEement and
commercial opulence mainly of other sections Of the Union
Notwithstanding every consideration Of proprey and pa
otsm demanded that these elements of wealth should
be retained at home Fourfhs Of the commerce OF the
nation are made up from the products OF southern indus
try Our commerce with Great Britain alone constitutes
the half Of what has given 10 her the commercial con-
ol Of the world Her great economist McCuiioeh said
long ago "The cotton manufacture forms the principal
business carried in this country ahording an adyan-
tageous ed for the accumulation and employment Of mil
lions and millions of capital and thousands upon thou
sands of workmen II gives strength to sustain bur
dens that would have crushed fathers and could not
be supported by any other people"
The conventions which were held at Macon and Au-
eusta Georgia and at Charleston, South Carolina, in
1882 representing several States and embracing among
their members the ables most distinguished and patriotic
Of our citizens constituted the earliest Embodiment of this
sentiment and these conventions have been succeeded by
others of equal respectaby, and wider influence
adsurnng from place 10 place and composed of delega
ons from every State Of the South appointed in primary
assemblies by municipal gcsernment by executive
hory The records of these assemblies Memphis in
ls45 ls4s; Baltimore 1852; New Orleans, ls5l-54 !;
Charleston, 1856, and Richmond 1885, having long since
been given the public and marked by ability and
patriotism seldom surpassed in this any other
country.
Ii is impossible to resist the evidence that these
TONS originating at first in purely economical considera
tons however afterwards stimulated and deriving
cd activity from the insoent and aggressive spirit exhib
tied times by the free States sufficient in other countries
to have led to open hostes and which has threatened
and only been arrested upon the threshold Of disruption
of the federal Union itself have contributed largely
consolidation of southern sentiment to better under
standing of condition and necessities and have also
been felt in that general development everywhere
anifestng itself AT the South extending railroads
largng and dversifying commerce and manufacturer
and developing agriculture inviting and
ting population and leading to combinations and to
higher and still higher hopes
II declared al Richmond that the objects of the con-
venon to TO the southern States the utmost
amount of prosperity integral part of the federal
Unisn enable them maintain their rights and in
stutions any event. and that all germane
which related the deveonent of soil the enlarge
nent Of nternal-mproyenent system, domestic
trade and direct foreign commerce. mines manufactures
and the arts the social system and institutions of the
South schools colleges and the press 1t will prop
ery be the duty of the committee therefore make few
bref references TO each of these heads.
l. AGucUIrURE-What the means OF increasing the
agricultural wealth of the South and of bringing home
the farmer and the planter from their fields the largest
results and the greatest prosperity and Of promoting the
best condition Of their operatives
Il INTERNAL EPRoyEMKsTs-How shall the lines Of com
munchOn among and between be SO extended as to
admit Of the most economical distribution of product
from section to section with the utmost facility of inter
course-oonsderAtons All-important in cemrntng the
bonds Of southern union and in making indeed
ought be- in interest and in sentiment Thus and
thus only shall there be distributed home those con-
siderable amounts which annually swell the aggregate Of
northern travel-for business or for pleasure
I'll. Domestic AND FoEEIGs TRADE-ShaI a portion Of
the results servable from these be shared home or be
left they generously Are-to be enjoyed wholly BY
share in these resu and other things being equal or
nearly to preference his northern competitor Is
ii too late 10 learn the lesson that honora
bs agriculture and that II is dshonorable TO pur
chase the and commodities Of sbolitionis know
ing him 10 be SUCH it would be give aid and coun
enAnos TO the enemy during the pressure Of actual war
In intercourse with the North il at ees becomes us 10
syssmAtiEe traffic that il shall be with those only who
not in open and acknowledged hostility to our rights
and insttutons Can there Ns profitable drec trade
opened from southern ports 10 the continent of Europe
and not the times rife for such May not
the shipping interests Of the South be augmented and that
consummaon be early reached which all Of us have 30
mnoh At heart and believe be praeticAble-a line
Of steamships from our ports TO Europe1
". NNEs, NAxUFAcruREs, ASD THE AKTs-The mineral
and manufacturing facilities Of the South stand
without rival The manufacturer must be in constant
communication with the sgriculturist perish in the
Of competition Side by side they stronger and
mutually add to each others development In q quarttr
Of century has been to grow up the colossal manu.
featuring system of the North 1t thought earlier than
this that and commercial empire were alone the
destiny Of that Ourshng section In another quarter Of
century, the South bat do Der duty like error shall
be corrected by her in less striking and re-
markabls
'. Social sYRTEN INSTITUTIONS or THu SouTH-Is
II purpose that these shall remain intact amid the dis
organizations which threaten other society," This system
and these institutions hsvs been ours ard those Of
ancestors including the very founders o The republic
They have given al cf opuence that s enjoyed They
have raised ten millions OF froemsn and enabled ne
TO bring under ChrEsn inuences four lions of happy
weProteced and oOnenied nborers dcsosndans Of bar
barisss thrown upon shores sy TIE hands Of Prov