Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-11-09
From the Charleston Courier.
SPEECH OF HON. MR. MCKAY, OF NORTH
&. CAROLINA,

rrroRE THE MACON COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
As presenting an interesting view Of how the good
old North State is developing her industrial ami
manufacturing resources lay before our readers
the remarks Of this gentleman as taken from the
Savannah -NeWS.
r---- MACox, Tuesday Oct. 16, 1861.
The Convention assembled according to adjourn
nent the President Hon. A. .. Andrews, OF char
lrSton in the Char.
Rev Mr. Evans (of the Methodist church, asked
the divine blessing upon the deliberations OF the
body.
Ad Iitional delegates enrolled their names.
There being nothing before the Convention, Mr..
w Mel Mckay of North Carolina addressed the
Convention. He said:
Mr. President with your permission, will brief
" address this Convention, on some topics that
consider to be important. 1t understand the 90
iect of the Convention here assembled 1t Is to devise
some plan OF finance and commerce; but while such
is the main object it is equally clear that while we
are engaged as nation in our mighty struggle Tor
our freedom and independence, and while we are
concerned about the absence of those articles OF
commerce which we desire foreign nations TO FUR
nish, We should also look at home TO see how many
Of these very articles may be able to supply our
selves 4 scheme of finance TO furnish us WITH
perhaps an inflated currency and TO extend our
commerce to the nations of Europe, may not be so
great advantage to the COnfedcracy, as to know
what we can do at home, and by our own people;
so that whatever may DE sought for abroad.
came as delegate to to this Convention from
State that is as forward in the cause of Southern
independence as any, which was the first to take
for independence in the American rcvOlu-
ton and OH whose soil the first blood was shed in
that cause at the battle of Alamance, in the year
l77l-the good old Sta.e of Nnrth-Caroiina Gap
plausej came, sir, from the land that gave birth
to Il McCullcch, Bragg Zollicofcr, Polk, a
Holmes, Hill and 10000 others who are to-day
upon the soil of Virginia drive back the miserable
invader from our soil. | came sir, from State
whose early history is marked by the pureSt patriot
ism and the most unSullied devotion to liberty, and
which, before she would Consent to give up the
test, would let the proud flag of the Southern Con-
federaGy the iifeieSs bodies of all her sons
yea, a!,d her daughters, too Every effort must he
exhausted, every dollar must be spent and every
man must fall
Now Mr.. President, as far as this question IS con-
cerned there is not State in this Southern Con-
tederacy that has not determined to conquer or to
perish in the attempt But, while these Things are
NJ, while We are thus determined to gain our pOliti
cal independence vet if fail at the tine to
commercial and financial Independence
the danger is that sooner or later the battle will
have to be fought again either by ourselves
our children. This rs. then, important Conven
ton. We are assembled to devise some plan by
which we can free ourselves for the future from all
connection with the North, SO that political
separation Is complete perfect final and perpet-
ua- so also commercial and financial separa-
tion may be equally as complete. If We have any,
thing that they want let them send for it. not Gomez
and if they have anything that we want let US 20
some where else to get it. Qaaughter.) | am for
free trade and sailors rights with every other ma
tiOn in the world except the United States. Gap
plauSe ~
Well, sir, while may boast of what my State
has done. may boast of what the Southern Con-
federacy is determined to do. | may be parduned
ii take up 4 few moments Ol your time in showing
you what the city that hail from has already done
and is doing for the of the Southern Conied-
cracy. While cannot say, as has been remarked
by gentleman from Charleston, that his city was
first IN this great cause may certainly say, that
she is second to no other Sir in the CITY of Fay
etteye We captured 40, 600 stand of arms, that
were used in almost all battle fields, having
been supplied to soldiers from George, Florida,
South Carolina and Virginia and think Mssissip-
pL We'll, sir after securing these arms, what else
have ye done? My city on the vote Of the Ordi-
nance OF Secession did not appear to do much she
only polled between six and seven hundred votes.
She did not do her best; but when she to fur
nish soldiers to fight in the cause she sends out
eight hundred and sixty that are upon the soil
Of Virginia.
Welt sir, there arc other things which we are do
ing; We are manufacturing things that the soldiers
in our army need and that wanted all over this
Confedelaey. and / stand here to-day for the pur-
pose of letting you know what are doing In
the first place. then, will show you something that
has no Yankee about il. lMr. Mckay exhibited
bundle of socks that appeared to be very substan-
tal.} These be afforded at $l.75 per Dozen
cheaper than those We have been in the habit of re-
ceVing from those who were drinking up yonr life
blood, while they were taking the money out of
your pockets. - -
In doing this our ingenuity has not been exhaus-
ed. Here is some sewing thread, containing 500
yards to the ball. This beats vour Yankee thread,
Wilson, Seward h Co., and is afforded az 49 cents
per dozen, as cheap the spools that contained
ont2o9 yards, and friend behind me reminds
me That while they professed to run that amount
OF wards run only 70! They did not run half as far
as the Yankees did when the Souherners were after
them" (Laughter.J $3.50
Mr.. Mckay exhibited some cloth suitable for Ia.
dies dresSes,--the patterns of which were SO be-
coming that gentleman, whose wife had clothed
herself therefrom last Sunday remarked that he h,G
never seen her look SO pretty in all her life-alsr
some iron called the black band iron which h,
showed. from a passage he read from the report o
a geological survey in North Carolina BY Professo
Lannon's. to exist in inexbaustible Quantities an,
TO lie on the surface Of the ground He also refer
red tothe coal mines, which he said were able 4
supply not Gully the whole Southern Confcderae,
with that indispensable article of comfort but ais
the whole world In the city Of Far etteVills. h