The true Democrat., 1856-11-25
Southern Convention at Savannah
 Georgia.

FELLOW CITIZENS: The southern conven- ton, which was held in February last at Rich mond, adjourned over by resolution to meet at the city of Savannah on the second Monday. the eighth of December next.
 Among the resolutions adopted at that cor ventlon, was one nominating a committee to whom was referred all the resolutions which had been adopted as the sense of the body. with instructions to prepare and publish an address to the people of the southern States developing more fully it's views and inviting a general and larger attendance of delegates at the adjourned session The committee consist ed Of J. D. B. De Bow, of Louisiana; Tench T'ilshman, of Maryland; Robert Ould of the District of CoIumbia; James Lyons, R. K. Meade J. k. Anderson, Myer Myers, F. B. Dean, of Virginia; and J. II. Gibbon, O. North Carolina.
 Nearly quarter of 2 century ago it began frst to manifest itself to the southern States. that, although they embraced in proportion to population the wealthiest producing region in the world, they were contributing directly or Indirectly of it's proceeds, to the agsrandize- ment and commercial opulence mainly of other sections of the Union notwithstanding every consideration of proprety and patriotism de- manded that these elements of wealth should be retained at home. Four-ffths of the com. merce of the nation are made up from the pro- ducts of southern industry. Our commerce With Great Britain alone constitutes the half of what has given to her the commercial control of the world. Her great economist. M'Cul- loch, said long ago, the cotton manufacture forms the principal business carried on in this country, attording an advantageous field for the accumulation and employment of millions and millions oi capital aud thousands upon thou sands of workmen It gives Us strength to sus- tain burdens that wouIl have crushed our faith CT, and could n.t be supported by any other people"
 The conventions, which were held at Macon and Augusta, Georgia, and at Charleston, South Carolina, iH l83S-'9, representing several States and embracing among their members the abIest, most distinguished, and patriotic of our citizens constituted the earliest embodment of this sen tnent; and these conventions have been sue. ceede'i by others of equal responsibility, and even wider influence, adiourning from place to place and composed of delegations from every State of the south appointed in primary assem- bheS, by municipal government, or bv execu- tive authority. The records of these assem- bheS. at Memphis, in 1915, l843; Baltimore, 1852; Now Orleans, l83l-'5t; Charleston 1855. and Richmond, 1856, have long since been given to the public, and are marked by ability and patriotism seldom If ever surpassed in this or any other country.
 It is impossible to resist the evidence that these conventions originating at first iii purely economical considerations however afterwards stimulated and deriving renewed activity from the lnsolent and aggressive spirit exhibited at times by the free States sufficient in other coun- tries to have led to open h0Stities, and which has threatcned and only been arrested upon the threshhold of a disruption of the Federal Union itself, have contributed largely to a con- : solidation of southern sentiment, to a better understanding of our condition and necessities and have also been felt in that general devel- opment now everywhere manifesting itself al the south, extending our railroads, enlarging and diverstying OFT commerce and mauutac- lures, and developing oar agriculture. inviting and concentrating. population and leading to new combinations and to higher and still higher hopes.
 It was declared at Richmond, that the objects ot the convention were " to secure in the south- ern States the utmost amount of prosperity as an integral part of the Federal Union or to enable them to maintain their rights and insti- tutlois ln any event." and th tmatters were all germanc which related to the development of
 
 provement system, our domestic trade and direct foreign commerce, mines, manu lactures and the arts the social system and institutions of the~outn, our schools, colleges and the press. It will properly be the duty of the committee therefore to make a few brief references to each of these heads
 l. AGRICULTURE.-Wha hat are the means of increasing the agricultural wealth of the south, and of bringing home to the farmer and the planter, from their fields, the largest results and the greatest prosperity, and of promoting the best condition of their operatives?
 II. INTERNAL lMPRovEMENTS-How shall the lines of communication among us and be- tween us be extended as to admit of the economical distribution of products from section to section, with the utmost facility of inter- course-consideration all important in cement ing the bonds of southern union, and in mak- ing us as indeed we ought to be, one in inter- est and in sentiment? Thus, and thus only shall there be distributed at home, those con- siderable amounts which annually swell the aggregate of northern travel-for business or for pleasure.
 III. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TRADE.-Shall Q portion of the results denvable from these be shared at home, or be left as they now gene- rously are-to be enjoyed wholly by others?- Is not the southern trader entitled to an equal share in these results, and other things being equal or nearly so, to preference over his northern competitor? Is it too late to learn the lesson that commerce is as honorable as agriculture, and that it Is as dishonorable to purchase the wales and commodities of an abolitionist, knowing him to be such, as it would be to give aid and countenance to the enemy during the pressure of actual war? In our in- tercourse with the north it at least becomes us so to systematize our traffic, that it shall be with those only, who are not in open and acknowl- edged hostility to our rights and institutions Gan there not be profitable direct trade opened from southern ports to the continent of Europe, and are not the times rife for such move ment? May not the shipping interests of the south be augmented and that consummation be early reached which all of us have 50 much at heart and now believe to be practcable--a line of steamships from our ports to Europe?
 ". MINES, MANUFACTURES, AND THE ARTS. The mineral resources and manufacturing facilities of the south stand without a rval- The manufacturer must be in constant commu- nlcation with the agriculturist, or perish in the race of competition. Side by side they wax stronger, aud mutually add to each others de- velopment. In quarter of century has been seen to grow up the colossal mauufactur- ing system of the north. It was thought ear Tier than this that commerce and commercial empire were alone the destiny ol that flourish ing section In another quarter of century, if the south but do her duty, like error shall be corrected by her, in manner no less strik- ing and remarkable.
 V. SOCIAL SYSTEM AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE SoUTH.-lt IS our purpose that these shall remain intact amid the disorganizations which threaten other society? This system and these institutions have ever been ours and those of our ancestors, including the very founders of the Republic. They have given us all of opu. fence that is enjoyed. They have raised us to ten millions of ireemen, and enabled us to bring under Christian influences four millions of hap py, wel-protected and contented loborers, de- scendents of barbarians, thrown upon our shores H.. tho ha..l.,