New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-22

Mr.. Lyons reported from the committee resolutions
ton be held in the city of Montgomery, Ala, on the
second Monday Of May, 1865.
The committee also recommended the Convention
to adopt sundry resolutions encouraging Southern
manufactures, and merchants who import directly
| from abroad.
The committee also recommended the adoption of
] the following resolution 2:
| Resolved, That it be recommended to the LED a.
lures of all the saveholding States to pass acts ex
empting one or more slaves in the hands of each
Shareholder from liability for debts contracted after
the passage of said acts. 5'f
The committee also recommended that the follow
ing resolution be rejected by the Convention:
Resolued, That the indirect system of taxation by
duties imports should be abandoned by the Federal
Government, and that direct taxation should be re-
sorted to exclusively; thus securing entire free trade,
perfect equality in the burdens of taxation and the
utmost economy in the administration of the Govern
ment. r,. Est8 .u,.,I ... w.
The consideration of the special order was then re-
sumed.
Mr.. Gladney Of Mississippi, offered the following
resolutions by way Of substitute:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention
slavery is neither moral, social, nor political evil
and therefore is not proper subject Of prohibition
by legislation.
u
slaves from one master to another, is not in itself
wrong, and is not therefore proper subject of prohi
btion and that the attempt to suppress the African
slave trade having resulted in more evil than good,
the South ought not to be taxed to support the police
| navy for its suppression.
Res0fped, That we recognize, in the domestic in
situations of the South that form of government best
adapted to the African race, most conducive to the
permanency OF republican institutions, and the
great commercial interests Of the world and that as
such it is the duty Of the Christian and the patriot
| to improve and sustain them.
Resolved, That the Southern States possess all the
advantages in soil, climate, harbors, rivers, water
power and commercial resources, capable of making
them the most Independent people the globe, and
that it is our duty to develop them by all the means
| in our power.
Resolved That the great evils which threaten our
Union the results of vicious theories and principles
propagated BY books periodicals. newspapers literary
and theological institutions and that the South ought
to publish her own books and support her own re-
views, periodicals, and literary and theological inst
buttons.
| Mr.. Lyons from the Committee on Business, made
reports on the following subjects: ..
The committee asked to be discharged from the
further consideration of the document of Mr. Chase
of Pensacola Florida upon the labor problem, as the
| subject was not one that the Convention could now
properly consider.
The committee also recommended that the Con.
vention reject the following resolutions:
Resolued, That this Convention recommend to the
Legislatures of the different States that they lay
tax upon all articles of merchandise used in Southern
States, which manufactured in States which re-
| fuse to support the Fugitive Slave Law.
| Resotced, That it is the duty Of the President of
this Convention to bring this resolution to the notice
Of the Governors of the Southern States
| The committee also recommended the adoption of
the resolutions asking the Convention to recommend
to the favorable consideration of Congress the appli
cation of the inhabitants Of that portion of the Gads
den purchase known Arizona, for form of Terri
torial government, the establishment of post route
| to the Pacific. @
Mr. Bethea, of Alabama, called up the resolutions
fixing the time and place of the next meeting Of the
| Convention.
The resolutions fixing upon Montgomery Ala, as
the place, and the second Monday of May next as
the time of meeting call upon the governors and the
authorities of towns cities and counties in the several
Southern States to appoint delegates and provide for
the appointment of a committee of five to propose
and issue call stating the objects of the Convention.
The resolutions were then adopted, and Messrs.
Lyons of Virginia, Bethea of Alabama Churchwell
of Tennessee, Yancy of Georgia. and Boyce of South
Carolina, were appointed the committee.
The Convention then adopted the following reso-
luton:
RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the Legisla-
lures of all the slavehoding States to pass acts
empting one or more slaves in the hands of each
Shareholder from liability for debts contracted after
| the passage of said acts.
The resolutions reported back by the Business Com
mittee, recommending the establishment of lines of
steamships and railroads between Southern seaports
and towns, and the establishment of commercial in
tercourse between the South and foreign nations,
were adopted.
Mr.. Churchwell, of Tenn, offered the following as
an additional resolution
Resolued, That this Convention request the Gov
ernors of the several Northern States to appoint five
Delegates whose duty it shall be to present the SUBJ
ject of line of steamships across the Atlantic, for
the development of the resources of the South, and
the building up of our carrying trade with Europe to
the people of the Southern States and to solicit aid
to carry out such plan as said delegates may adopt
in Convention which they shall call at such time
and place as they may select.
After discussion the resolution was adopted.
The series of resolutions, as whole, were then
adopted, and the Convention soon after adjourned.