Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-09
PLANTERS CONVENTION AT MEM-
pHEIH.
THIRD ANNUAL SESSION.


MtRsHlL Co., Miss, Nov. : 1861.
! EDITORS APPEAL: 1 see BY the jackson
| M,ssissippiau, of the 4th inst, that the third
annual session of the Southern Planters Con.
l~vention, is TO assemble at Memphis on the 10th
day Of next month.
As the importance Of this convention, at this
particular ~iuncture of affairs, can hardly be
over-estimated. let us hope. Messrs. Editors Of
the APPEAL, that the imperial agricultural in.
| t~eregts of the Confederate States-including
! king cotton, queen sugar, and the lords of to
bacco. rice, wheat, and ~hemp-wil be fairly
represented on the interesting occasion.
The grand object of the approaching session
| of the planters convention, at Memphis, in ad-
! dition to the subjects heretofore more peculiarly
prescribed in the plan for the permanent organi-
zstion of the convention, win be, ! presume, to
bring about as nearly as possible a more perfect
/ concert of action among the farmers Of the
/ South in the matter, not only of production. but
| of prices. Of articles heretofore raised for ex-
p~ortation to foreign countries, We must hereafter
I plant only half a crop, and devote ourselves 10
I double or treble crops of grain and provisions
raising enough of the latter, not only to supply
home wants, but also 10 supply our brave SOL
diers who are so gl0uously defending our liber-
ties in the field.
1t will be, I dare affirm, the bOundeu duty Of
the convention to devise some effective plan 10
defeat the vile schemes of those specializing Shi-
locks, those ~vultures and vampires in human
lurm-amOng whom government contractors
49, -A~ 4L, L. ava, IL ID 49, a.
body polite, AMI take advantage OF the distresses
| ola struggling and bleeding country to enrich
and agerandize themselves. The man who
| comes out Of the conflict in which we are nov,
engaged. richer, in anything save honor, than
/ wheu he went into 1t, may be safely set down rs
I both a knaye and o traitor. This assertion is
/ not aimed at those milliOnaires among Us who
have given only a couple of hundred OF so to
III CAUSE, or who refuse TO send their contra
| bands 10 work ON the walls of Fort Pillow
| for, | presume that these nabobs who are more
deeply interested in the salvation of the Confed-
eracy than any of Us. intend, before the war is
over, to DO better. They are probably holding
themselves back for a grand crisis, when they
can come up with their money-bags in one hand
and their muskets 10 the other, aud save the re-
public. But this is a digresssion.
My object in this communication Is 70 call the
attention OF the press generally to the approach.
ing convention in your beautiful aud patriotic
city, so that it may be largely and respectfully
attended and to this end, in behalf Of the off
GERS of the convention, / earues ly invoke the
powerful assistance Of the APPEAL, and all the
| other presses of Memphis. Let every State
every county, every agricultural interest, from
the Potomac 10 the Rio Grande, be represented
By full delegations, and, my word for il, tn
| deliberations of the convention cannot but re
sult in incslculablc good to our beloved. on
] GJd-ftnded country.
a Son or THE SOIL.
p. She following is-a list OF the officers o
the Planters Convention 10 be held 81 Nemph-
on the 18th Of December. 1861:
PRESIDENT.
Thos. }. Hudson. Lamar, Miss.
YICE-PREsIDENTs.
Al~absma-Isaac Groom.
Arkausas-Wilibv Williams.
North Carolina columbus Miles.
South Caroliua-Robert j. Gage.
Floriia-Robt ". Williams.
GeoTgia-Bicbard Peters.
Kentucky-B. ". Scott.
Louisiana-Aisusuel White.
Marylaud-J. II. McHeury.
Missouri-Henry Yateman.
Mississippi. Y. Harris.
Tennessee-John Pope
Virginia.. B.. Ware.
Texas-Dayid Random.
SECRETARY.
". A.. Goodman, Holly Springs. Miss