Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-02-27


At a meeting Of the citizens q Pamela
county, Mississippi, held at Pamela, February
25th, 1861, on motion Colonel J B. Fizer was
called to the chair, and B. W. Bedford, j.,
appointed secretary. On motion Of }. 4.
Keith a committee Of Eve was appointed to
draft resolutions, consisting Of d. Joarnsy-
gan, J.. II. Keith, J. J. Meek, Alfred Hudson,
T. F. Wilson,
During the absence o. the committee, Col,
Miller addressed the meeting in a spirited
and animated speech, Teeounting the wrongs
and grievances under which We have been
lab0ring for years, and which have forced an
unwilling people to sever TIE ties which once
bound a happy and PROSPEROUS people under the
broad egis Of The United States Of America
as formed BY our forefatheTs, and administer
ed ~ them, with fidelity and Write. Also
he onerOus grievances under which the South
has been l~sboring-undsr unjust and oppres-
sive tsxstion-most especially BY he opera
ton Of a protective tariff, protecting as II
does the interest Of the North alone, and I'M
posing a grievous burthen on the south-she
thus paving tribute to the North, 20 her NJ
manifest injury; and showing further me ad-
v~antaEes that would accrue to the SOUTH by q
severance from our Northern ensmies-noTe
especially IN reference to the radiance OF this
tax upon her labor to sustain her factories
we paying the expenses Of The government
and they reaping all its benefits
At the close Of Col. Millsr's address, the
committee reported through their chairman
Alfred Hudson, the following preamble and
resolutions
WHEREAS. We have hitherto cherished the
eorgSRpt hone that our late sister State Of
Tsnnessse, bound to as, az she 10, By SO many
commercial, Industrial and social ties, would
withdraw from a Union In which she is no
longer an equal, and unite with Us in the FORM
alton Of a southern confedsracy; and whereas,
by her recent election she has coldly turned
her back upon as and our cause, and declared
her willingness to be ruled by a man whose
words, breathing threats Of coercion and blood
against the South, have scarcely died upon the
air, now therefore be It
RssolBed, That while we accord the fun
measure Of our sympathy and our praise to
those gallant sons Of Tennessee who have so
nobly struggled for the cause Of liberty and
equality, vet, in our business relations we feel
constrained BY the promptings OF duty and
self-preseryation to discriminate between com
munities which owe allegiance to and are
component paris Of a Government about to
pass into the hands Of our desGlieat enemies,
and communities which have embarked their
all with Us in The great cause Of southern in
dependence ; and, to that end,
Resolped, That we viii use our best endear-|
ors to transfer the trade Of Pamela county
from the foreign and snti-southsrn city Of
Memphis. TO the dOmestie-and loVal city Of
New Orleans; but, nevertheless, If the people
Of Tennessee should. before the beginning Of
The next commercial season, bring their State
into line with Mississippi, our reasons for de-
string to withdraw trade from Memphis would
no longer exist.
Resolref, That a committee Of three be sp-
pointed BY the chairman to confer with suita-
Bile parties In New Orleans for the purpose Of
securing Us steamboat communication with
that city, by way OF the Tallahatchie river,
during the next season; and also to ascertain
at what rates cotton can be transported to
New Orleans during the next season By way
Of the Mississippi and Tennessee, Mississippi
Central, and New Orleans and Jackson rail-
roads.
Which were unanimously adopted. In ae-
cordance with the provisions Of the resolutions,
the following committee Of conference was
appointed Alfred Hudson, J. H. Keith, T. F.
wilson.
On motion of Col. Miller, it was requested
that the proceedings Of the meeting be pub
llshed in the Pamela Star and Memphis and
New Orleans papers.
On motion, the meeting adjourned sine de.
J. B. FIZER, Chairman.
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