Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-19
LFrERNooN SESSION

Inc President cdlied the non. N A. cooper
Of Ga, to the chair.
Mr.. MeCas. of Ala. offered the following
Resolpsd, That tha South ought to favor more
! intimate and direct commercial relations with
I the empire Of Brazil. Referred to the Busl-
ness Committee.
! Mr.. Walker, Of Ala, offered resolution to
the effect that the several slave States should
pass laws prohibiting the emancipation Of
slaves, aud that the free negroes in those States
should be removed.
Mr. De Bow, from the Business Committee,
reported back several resolutions referred 10
that committee. resolution in relation to the
abolition OF the fishing bJunties Recommending
the abolition Of the same,) was reported on ia
vOrably BY the committee, aud on motion the
resolution vas adopted.
Mr.. Yancey, who up to this time had not
arrived, now entered, aud The chair announced
that he was entitled 70 the floor
He wished 10 address himself to those dele
gates who did not understand the position
which be occupied in a local point Of view.
They were unaware Of the fact that trap had
been set for him IN the discussion of this q1es-
tiOn, and his enemies hoped be might be caught
in t.
Mr.. Yancey continued. He said be bad de-
tained the Convention for g time, but be hoped
be should BE- excused when be said that be had
heea engaged with a party OF Southern men
over a bottle Of good VINE m responding to this
sentiment: " TIE unity OF The South, for the
sake Of the South, and nothing else"
No trap coali be Sc: for him in which be
should fall, unless the South fell With him. His
own personal fortunes stood as nsugAt in the
scale when tie hoaor, the rights and the Inter-
Z ests Of bis country were at s-ake-hs cared
nothing for office. The idea which would lead
a man 10 stand only By principle because 1t
is favored BY majority, was wrong, and he
] L. \ =. "a rmH ha
sWsyed BY the fact that this nan or that man
would not stand By bin. Here the speaker
paid most beautiful tribute TO the memory OF
the immortal Calhoun, such as would be faliacy
TO report by mere synopsis. be then ad-
dressed himself to the point He did not say
in bis report that the law prohibiting the slave
trade was unconstitutional. de would be
willing, were it not that such names as hadl-
son and Ellsworth were attached to the atiEma-
tive side Of this question, to meet even the Hon
gentleman from Virginia Mr.. Preston) on the
pain question OF reason aud colstituuonslity
Mr.. P had deemed it PROCLAMATION to say that
| ThOs Jefferson would sign law which would
I put the mark Of Cain upon the SoutH. He ad-
mired the patriotic idea which gave rise to
/ this sentiment, but be would mention the name
| Of Mr. MoarOe who sanctioned the Missouri
restriction. The gentlemen who addressed the
/ Convention. bad hedged themselves round
/ about by the ideas Of statesmen of former days,
/ but be thought we were the best judges Of our
/ own interests Of to-day The Jewish dispen-
] sstion vas fer centuries the acknOwledged
palpsble law, given the Jews by the Almighty
| himself; but there came afterwards child
who proc aimed that this dispensation woult
I aud should be abf ogated. The Old fogtes Oi
ii L day dec sred his treason AMI blaspte ny
reasoning from the past, be would say wt
should not reject a new proposition because .
does not correspond with the ideas o. the past
| Il is not impossible that a new idea may be
good one-it will bear examination. In Older
times il took centuries for ideas to become pre-
d iminsnt.
In his report he bad said the effect Of thes
laws had been to restrict the expansion o
Southern slave labor, and to keep down th
price Of Southern laBds-snd why? Bscaus
OF not having sufficient labor 10 produce sup
ply Of cotton equal 20 the demand. We hav
ons-third Of our domain untenanted, becaus
We have not this supply Of labor. His secon
proposition was, that the operation Of this pro
hibitory law was in opposition to the spirit o
toe Constitution Il may have been thought .
the time Of Monroe and bis compeers, that sue
a law was not in opposition to the spirit Of tn
Constitution; but times have changed sine
then, aud circumstances have arisen which ma
lead as now to think differently. The South
ern man in former DAYS did not dream OF tn
haired which we now discover in the Mort
/ against the S0uih-that this very law would b
used, not In the spirit proposed by the frameT
Of the Constitution, but as an instrument o
oppression sgaius. the South.
J The speaker then read from a compendiuI
of the census from 1898 to 1850, showing tba
/ the increase Of population 10 the NrTth wa
vastly greater than that in the South, and, also
that the foreign population Of the North cover
this increase, which enables herto have pre-
T ponderaLce over us in this Union. He went o
= to show that the migration Of free white labo
! could be prohibited by the same clause OF 70
Constitution which prohibits the importatio
Of slaves after 1905; but that Congress ha
+ only taken up one portion OF the power granite
2 bY this clause-it places restrictions on the Ia
poTtation Of negroes 10 the SOuth-it places
> restrictions on the migration Of free labor
; the North. From these facts be argued th'
the North had increas in power 50 much as
0 carve cut new States, aud increase herrepresel
tation in Congress, 40 as 10 mold within i
= grasp the power to manacle and shaekie u
: south and strike at her very vltsls.
e The gentlemen on the other side OF th
q question say, If this question is pressed Il
2 South will be divided.
s What, be would ask, are we united on now
c Nothing but on the question OF Submission
8 Mr. FauceY hsd. up TO this time, SPOKE
q three hours. when Hon. Percy Walker mOvl
: an adjournment till this morning al 9 O'clocl
d in order to allow MIR. Yancey to conclude b
j. sneech The motion was carried amid vocifs
e Gus cheers for Mr.. Yaneey.
e At the afternoon session resolution was T
= ported from the Business Committee, TecoI
e nencing Vicksburg, Mississippi, as the pla
J. of meeting for the next Convention. The res
2 luton was adopted.