Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-23
Senator hammond on Direct Trada.

The Macon Georgia. States Press pub
fishes the following letter, addressed by
Senator Hammond TO Howell Cobb, of IIoa-
ston Gin response to an invitation to attend
the, next Cotton Planters Convention, at
Macon: ~ t@
RED CLIFFE, March 29.--Dear Sir: I
anu obliged to you for your inyitation to at
tend your meeting at Macon, and if my
health and engagements will permit, l will
attend but not to makea a speech; that is
out of my line. f'Er
Ientirely sympathize with your move
ment. / regard direct trade as absolutely
necessary to the Independence of the South;
without it, she win ever be provincial,
though she may continue to furnish, as she
now does, more ofthe material Of commerce,
than any other populations of the same num-
bers evcrdid and materials that constitute
the most vital currents of commercial Cir
culation, coutrolling, r fact, almost the
whole.
Our drawbacks have been, not the supe,
rior energy or intellect ofauy other people,
but our shallow bars, yellow fever, and
want ofmercantile capital. Time, Ithink,
will show that vessels of l 900 tons are as
profitable as larger ones, TO carry ON trade,
cs.' ~" w. pI'so nc ys'.o"
lo.ei ot1 po mnoiiy oFaueo py conint"g
uu' ,' business season 20 the e'gnt inon'i,s OF
,n.' me year 9utlns WHICH We AN eNcmPe-
we can, and in fact do carry nearly all our
products to market, they are naturally our
business months, and those best adapted to
'"G,"o,'o E. - - ""'' ol."'"'o 0uo' 40 ouis
10 coo,'u'o we suD",, " VIC ooi'Ne-
iio"oo ~ " otnots, Vn"1 we ailow ,'o pe hcc-
ooea'S Vll". .lete shouIu pe any W Cransaet-
.9us .Io''l inc inteiiGr' OF rom ABROAD au
Uae LOU! ,:o Poss,p'e! yeitow ieFe. months
ano Eau ~ el,hcu,l Is "S 10 caPiM our
o"S tnl ',e 'Dr i,s. Par., ~ i'eD ailn1steh-
10y; en,P."Seu Ia Se.VIins ires,l la'l1S, V9,
.ouos eOn"dt" vno iulvsls: uiu iu'hisl'ilg 1ne
Ists's ,gts anu l9rnish'ng .,'e lnaseflais 10
US smS Ell, "u Leu ene e Morin m Ia .nese we
nu IN iui iol an our iuca'iSsa''a
be- Sa' and the @ snS of wl not Always
lively idle millions, in other parts, do not
seek tho rich harvest they may reap here,
our own surplusagc will enable us to occu-
py that field also
Nothing, think, is wanting in our Sou
thcrn country but time, provided we have
capacity to appreciate, before it is too late,
onr unparalleled resources, and the energy
to develop them | think we have. 1
nave every confidenee In our future, let,
mere politios take what course and produce
what results they may. Southern industry
tins moment the most prosperous otany ON
the globe, rests also on the sccurest basis,
and 1T only requires that 1t should rise to
iull appreciation and assertion OF itself, to-
become nee, IN little time, OF all those
provincial clogs which now encumber it.
confess that have been devoted to
other matters too much to have learned
precisely the wayln wmchyour Association
therefore. unable to Judge as to its nroba.
bic resnlts. Int tbat therc 10 = Wv ona
tbot s,,ooo1e go 80 49, - n"1' GU"
't"t " suoSess 70 sutt, ! uo iio0 i 1p9p''
cry respectfully, y9ut opedlent SER.
want sf y. III. HAMMOND.
HOWELL CoBB, Esq.
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iNCENpAlRlSM sCoNFEssED.77-W w Q learn
irom the Southern Enterprise that Messrs.
Cover. Cox, Markley e. Co. have by dill
gent exertion succeeded in defeating the
Villains who onnEcd tbc. +orch to tJ,a;r
extensive factnrp snnn n,o,ths go sne'
James s. Parker was arrested upon sus-
piclon and confessed that he, at the insti-
CATION OF one George j. 0berle, set fire to
the work shops a joprneymen boot-maker,
August Weiser by name, has been discoy-
cred to be an accomplice IN this daring
piece OF Sillamy Excitement runs high