New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-24

ia reuort to the next Southern Commercial Conven-
(tion the manner and comparative expense OF selng
cotton in the principal Southern markets and further
to report every change which, IN the OPINION OF the
committee would advance the interests OF the plant
ers in the sale insurance and re-packng OF cotton
I The resolution was adopted. .g.
! The President appointed the following rs the com.
mittee
Messrs Elliott of South Carolina, Blewitt of Mssis-
sppi, Jones of Georgia, Prince of Alabama, and
Sparrow of Louisiana. m pm .r- a.s..t.e lsg d
Mr. Carroll of South Carolin offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
| Resolved That committee consisting of the Pres
ident of this Convention and one member from each
State here represented be appointed to Suggest bsl
ness for the consideration of the next Commercial
Convention to be held at Montgomery, and that said
committee, through its chairman be requested and
expected to report the in the public prints on or
before the meeting of the next Convention.
Mr. Steele of Georgia offered a resolution recon-
endng to the Legislatures of the several Southern
States to take into consideration the expedency OF
establishing publishing house in some one OF the
cities of the South upon plan that the States take
stock in the enterprise and that State holding the
largest amounts of stock to have the location of the
publishing house. ..-...
On motion of Mr.. Spratt, it was
Resolred That this Convention is not possessed of
action on the subject of re-openng the African slave
| trade and with view to such information a commit
tee consisting Of the President of this Convention
and one member from each delegation present be
appointed to collect information in relation to the
condition of the native African, upon the wants of
the South in respect to population and labor, and
report the at the next Convention to be held in
| Montgomery in May next. g..
| Mr. O. P. Temple of Tennessee offered the follow
ing as an additional resolution by way of amendment
Resolved further, That for the better information
of the members of the next Convention. committee
of five be appointed by the President of this Conven
ton, to report at Montgomery upon the subject of
foreign immigration, showing, by carefully compiled
statistics to what extent the South has been over
borne by the annual infusion OF foreigners into the
North within the last fifteen years.
This resolution was laid the table by the follow
ing vote:
Yeas-Arkansas H. Georgia 10, Mississippi 7, Louis
lana 6, Alabama 8, South Carolina s. Virginia Is and
Florida 3-62.
Nays-Tennessee 70, North Carolina 10, Maryland
| $780,
| The following resolutions from the Committee on
Business were then considered and adopted
Resolved, That the Tehuantepec route to the Pa.
eifc should be recovered to the citizens of this
country, and opened as promptly as possible, and
that the Congress. and Government of the United
States should extend to it all the aid and protection
|
matey extended to it under the Constitution.
| Also resolution recommending the repeal of the
bountes upon fisheries.
Also the resolutions in regard to the culture of the
grape as published in this mornings proceedings.
Also the resolution in relation to the repeal of for
eign duties upon American tobaccos.
Resolved, That the navigation laws of the United
States ought to be so amended as to allow the citi-
zens of this country to employ in the coasting as
well as foreign commerce, any vessel which they can
employ, whether such vessels be owned by citizens of
this country not and also to permit vessels which
come into ports with foreign cargoes to dispose
of part only of their cargoes at that port and then
proceed to some other port ports and dispose of
the balance of them when it shall be found necessary
to do SO.
| RESOLVED, That all the laws giving bounties to
fishers, or persons, or ships engaged in them ought
to be repealed, because they are wrong in principle,
unequal and unjust and are fraudulently enforced
and if not repealed, they should be so amended that
the bounties shall be received by the fishermen for
whom they were intended and extended equally to
the South with the North.
Resolred That copies of these resolutions be sent
to the Senators and members of Congress from the
Southern and Western States, with request to en-
force them if possible.
The President announced that the resolutions of
the Committee on Business were now disposed of.
Mr.. Page, of Alabama, offered the following re.
solutions
Resolved list, That it is the sense of this Conven.
ton, that the course of Gen. VIM Walker, in Mica
ragua has been highly meritorious, and that in our
opinion the interference with his relations by the
United States man.of-war, st. Marys, was uncalled
for and wrong.
Resolred 3D. That this Convention sympathizes
with Gen. Walker in his attempts under the express
invitation of the provisional government of Nicaragua
to institute new order of things in that unhappy
and distracted country.
Resolred Sd, That that policy of Gen. Walker, tc
introduce system of African slavery in Nicaragua
be approved by this Convention, and that it recon
mend his enterprise to the serious and earnest con
sideration Of the Southern States in this Conederacy
Resolced, That a copy of these resolutions be trans
mtted to the Governors of the several States here
represented and to their Representatives in Congress
The question was then taken upon the adoption O.
the resolutions, and they rejected by the follow
ing vote:
Yeas Georgia 10 Louisiana 6 Alabama 9-25
Nays: Tennessee Il, Mississippi I, South Caroline
s, North Carolina 10, Virginia Is, Maryland $50.
After the transaction of further unimportant bust
ness, the Convention adjourned to meet in Mont
gomery, Ala, next year.