Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-11-13
FROM the Charleston Courler.i
cppEcu OF HON. ME MCKAY, Of Aohlh-
CAROLINA.

from the Charleston CourierI
cprrcI oF NON. Nix. MCKAY, OF NORTH
CAROLINA,
,,ropr THE MACON COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
As presenting an interesting view OF no" 'ne s'o',
old North State is developing ner '''''S''' a' "'.
manufacturing resources. We lay before our 'e'oe'S
,ho r.uarks of this gentleman as takeh from the
Savannah .Neus
MACON Tuesday, Oct Is, 1861.
The Convention assembled according to ADJOURN
ment the President, Hon. A. q. Andrews, OF Thar
lesion, in the Char.
Rev Mr.. Evans tof the Methodist Chnrch) asked
Tho d,vins blessing upon the deliberations OF the
body.
Additional delegates enrolled their names
Th.r. being nothing before the Convention, Mr..
" 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 II understand the ob-
ject Of the Convention here assembled 1t Is to devise
some plan Of finance and commerce; but while suca
is the main object, it is equally clear that while we
are engaged as nation in our mighty struggle LOT
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 10 see how many
of these very articles may be able to supply our
selves scheme Of finance 10 furnish us with,
perhaps an inflated currency, and to extend our
commerce to the nations Of Europe, may hot be :"
great advantage to the Confedr,acy, as 10 know
what We can DO ut home, and by our own people;
10 that whatever may uc sought for adj oad
came as delegate to 10 this Convention, from
State that is as forward in the cause Of Southern
independence as any, which was the first to take
ton, and on whose soil the first blood was shed III
that cause at the battle Of Alamance, in the year
1ITl-the good old, Stale Of NorthCarona. Gap
plause.) came, sir from the land that gave birth
10 McCuloch Bragg, Zollicoifcr, Polk,
Holiness q Hill, and 81, pUD others who ale to-day
upon the soil of Virginia to drive back the miserable
invader from our soil. | came. sir, from a State
whose carly history is marked by the purest patriot
ism and the most unSulied devotion to liberty and
which, before she would conseM 10 give up the con-
test, would s! the proud hag of the Southern Con-
federacy cover the lifeleSs bodies Of all her sons,
yea and her daughters, too. Every effort must be
exhausted, every dollar must be spent, and every
man must fall
Now. Mr.. President, far as this question IS con-
cerned, there is hot State in this Southern Com
federacy that has not determined to conquer or to
perish in the attenIpt. But while these Things are
30, while we are thus determined to gain poti-
cal independence yet if we fail at the same time to
secure our commercial and financial independence,
the danger is that sooner later the battle will
have to te fought again either by ourselves
our children. This is. then, all important Convel>-
tiOu We are assembled to devise some plan by
which can free ourselves for the future from all
connection with the North that as our political
separation Is complete, perfect, final and perpet
ual, so also our commercial and financial Separa
ton may be equally as complete If We have any.
thing that they want let them send for it. not come
and if they have anything that We want, let us q
some where else to get it. u.aughter.) | am fo
free trade and sailors rights with every other ma
ton in the world except the United States. Gap
plause)
Well, sir, while may boast of what my Stat
has done. may boast of what the Southern Con
federacy ii determined to do. | HAY be pardone
il take up a few moments of your time in showin
you what tho city that hail from has already don,
and is doing, for the cause of the Southern Conec
eracy. While cannot say, as has been renarke
by q gentleman from Charleston, that his city wa
first in this great cause, may certainly say, tn:
she is second to no other. Sir, in the city Of Fa,
etteviAe We captured 10000 stand Of arms, tn;
were used in almost al our battle fields, havin
been supplied to soldiers from Georgia, Forid
South Carolina and Virginia, and think Mississi,
pi We'll, sir, after securing these arms what els
have We done! Ny city on the vote Of the Ord
nance Of Secession did not appear to do much: sh
only polled between six and seven hundred vote
She did not do her best but when she came to fu
nish soldiers to fight in the cause, she sends o,
eight hundred and sixty that are now upon the Sc
Of Virginia.
wen, Sir. there are other things which we are d
ing; VIC are manufacturing things that the soldie
!" OUT army need, and that are wanted all over tn
Ooh'eaeracy, and stand here to-day for the pu
vhof do;n
,ne nrSt pace, then, will show you something tn
has no no aankee about it. (Mr. Mckay exhibited
nunn'e VI SOCKS That appeared to be very substa
uaiI) ineee can he afforded at Sl.75 per doze
cheaPer tnan ,i'ose We have been in the habit Of
ceIyinz from those who We're drinking nm vour Il,
olood, whis they We're taking the money out
In doing this our ingenuity has not he.r ,x,.
ed. Here Is solne sewing thread, copt.;n;n.' 81
yards to- The ball = This beats yonr YanIaa r.. "
Wilson, Seward & Co.. aud is afforded a. Az ae
per dozen as cheap as the spools that con,a;.,
but 200 yards and as friend behind me rs,s;'
,ne, that while they professed to run that amor
MyardS, run only rs! They did not run half as
sstAe Yankees did when the Southcrners were At
them. Naughter.) - .rE
Mr. Mckay exhibited some cloth suitable for
o'es dresses, 1.-The patterns Of which were 50
coming that = gentleman, whose wife had clot
never seen her look SO pretty in all her life,
sone won called the black band iron, which
s7owed. from passage he read from the repor
sgeo'ogscai survey in North Carolina, by PROBES
luminous, to exist IN inexhaustible ousntities
v'i Ne on the surface Of the ground lie also re-
Sa 20 the Goa! mines, which he said were abb
apPty not only the whole Southern Conieder
Nv III nst indispensable article Of comfort. but
" """'e world. In the city of ra: etteville