The true Democrat., 1857-01-20
Action of the Southern Conventions.

Action Oi the Southern Convention.
 The following resolutions, with their pre- amble, embrace summary of the action of the late southern convention, which assembled in Savannah on the morning of the 18th ult and adjourned on the evening of the 12th
 STEAMSHIP LINE TO SOUTH AMERICA
 Whereas, A petition has been presented to the Congress of the United States by MesSrs Robert Stratton, Samuel L. Mitchell, Wm. H. Webb, and Thomas Raney, representing the North and South American steamship com pany,whose stock is owned in the city of Savan- nah and the city of New York, for small and reasonable appropriation for transporting the mails Of the United States from the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississppi valley to and from the West India Islands, Brazil, the Republic of La Plata, and other countries in Souh America.
 And ,olereas, The line contem lated would prove peculiarly beneficial to the commerce of tne south by making Savannah the last city touched by the steamers before proceeding to the West Indies, and the first touched on their return to the United States.
 And aohereas, This is the first mail line that has proposed opening direct, rapid and reliable communication with those rich and expanding heids ot commerce empraced in the West h. dies, Brzil. the Republics of La Plaza, the Amazon, and the Orinoco, and with Vesezula and New Granada. Therefore,
 Resotved, That this convention respectfully and earlestly recommend the subject to the fa- vorable consideration of Congress.
 SOUTHERN FACILITIES FOE MANUFACTURING.
 Whereas, The demand for our great staple must be increased by lesscning the cost of it's production, and the avoidance of unnecessary on the material and fabric And,
 Whereas, There is on and near our cotton plantations, the most abundant power in un- failing falls of water, and inexhaustable seams of bltumiuous coal, in districts where the eli mate is peculiarly favorable to the operations of and where the supplies of food for operatives are, and must continue to be cheap and certain, and where, consequently our cotton could be changed into its most va. luabe forms with extraoryinary facility; and where capital and labor would be attracted, and would be withinthe sphere of our influence, if the facts were fully understood at home and abroad
 Therefore be 4 -esolvsl, That proper mea- sures should be taken, if not by the General Government, at least by the Legislatures of the cotton planting States, to obtain and publish al the facts that will throw light on the relative advantages of southern and western localities for carrying on this branch of manufacture, and showing where all the elements that en- ter into the cotton fabric can be brought togeth- CT, and combined with the least expenditure of capital and labor.
 RAILROAD LINE FROM THE CHESAPEAKE TO
 THE OHIO
 Res0lved, That in view of the importance of connecting at the earliest period the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, with those of the Ohio and Mississippi, 1t be urged upon the Legislature of Kentucky, to complete the remaining link, by constructing a railroad from the city of Louis vile, to the Cumberland Gap to meet the inn provements of the State of Virginia.
 SOUTHERN SHIP BUILDING.
 Whereas, The primary ohjectof this Co,ven- ton IS t" encourage and promote southern wealth aud development, which will bring strength and home improvement practically in Its train; be 1t
 Heso'Ued, That in order to encourage ship and boat building etc., objects of indispensable i'm portance to real southern independence and home sustaining effort, that all State and muni- clpal ald and encouragement be given to such home built vessels.
 SOUTHERN FAIRS
 Re,oiUel, That it be recommended to the sev- eral local and State agricultural and mechanical associations to provide for occasional southern fairs at points which shall be accessible to all and that the State legis atures be recommended to make appropriations in aid of such objects.
 CANNON FoUNDRIES AND MANUFACTURg OF
 ARMS
 Re'o(Uea, That the establishment of foundries and works tor the casting of canton and manu- actory of arms should be recommended to the attention of the several Southern States.
 SOUTHERN SETTLEMENT OF KANSAS.
 l. Resol0ei, That the security and honor of the south demand that she should maintain hef equal rights In the territories of the Union and that she ought to resist at every cost, any at tempt whatever made to exclude her from those territories.
 2 Resolucd, That the unprecedented effort now DelnS made by the northern people, through the lnstrumentality of emigraut aid societies. to force hostile population into the Territory of Kansas, affords startling evidence of the deter minatlon ot our enemies to effect, by indirect. but most effective means, the purposes of the Wllmot proviso, to wall up the south within her present limits and prevent the admission of any future slaveholdng State into the Union.
 ,. Resolved That in the opinion of this con- ventlon, counter emi grafton from the south is the most practical, peaceful and etfectua means oi Frustrating this freesoi scheme, and that this convention most earnestly recommends to the people of the southern States to organize plans iromotlve Of southern emigration to Kansas, and by every lawful means within their power 10 assist the settlement of southern men therein. THE soUTH's QUOTA OF ARMS FROM THE cr-
 NERAL GOVERNMENT.
 Resolved, That it should be inquired by the Senators and Representatives of the southern States Tn Congress, whether their respective States and the south, as whole, nave received the ful quota of the arms distributable under acts of Congress; and also whether there is placed within their limits in the arsenals of the United States, their full proportion of all the arms ot every kind, and all the munitions of war and camp and other equipage of the United States, wherewith troops of all arms may be equlpped, on emergency; and if either be found not to be the case, then they should urge sncb immediate action or distribution as may be needed to place the south, in that respect. upon footing of equality.
 SOUTHERN COAST OFFENCES.
 Reso'ued, That inquiry should be instituted by Congress into the most efficient means at the present day for the defense of coasts and har- bors against attacks by steam and other ships of war; and ID regard to the size of vessels and ganS that may be most efficiently used in such defense; and that the Senators and Represen- tatlves of the southern States should insist upon all the important sea ports of their States on the seaboard and gulf being supplied and kept supplied with the most approved means and armanents for prompt and efficient defense.
 THE CIVILIZATION OF CENTRAL AMERICA.
 Reso'ved, That the sympathies of this con. ventlon, are with the efforts being made to in- troduce civilization into the State of Central America, and to deveope those rich and pro. ductive regions by the introduction of slave labor.
 PEEMoNITIoN OF EvII.-The singular fac IS stated that at Saltwater, Minnesota Rev. A G. Nelson, Methodist minister, broke down in llS Sunday mOrn,Op sermon opJ ,-o, c, oo,,