Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-23
THE CONVENTION.
/. Convention has adjourned

IUt ~OOiiNCuAlCH HIS ftdiObAAiCAs
The members have departed for their
homes, carrying with them, as the
words of their complimentary resolu-
tons expressed it, the warmest re-
collections of Memphis and her peo-
pie. They came as strangers, but left
us friends. They came, many of
them, with preconeeptions of us at.
variance with our real standing as a
people, but left us willing witnesses,
prepared to bear testimony, in every
part of the country, that we are a law
abiding, energetic people, alive to the
importance of our location and sur
roundings, and prepared to avail our
selves Ofevery means that may offer for
u advancement and welfare. They
came, perhaps, with misgfvings of our
ability to assists great Convention to
a success, but have left thoroughly
convinced that up to our opportunities
we filed the bill and met even the
sanguine expectations of those of them
who had known us in the bright and
prosperous days, before the war had
robbed us of many Of our best,
and nipped in the bud the
growth that in '62 promised
such large results. They left us salts
fied-as much so as we ourselves are
at the work of the Executive Com
mittee, to whom the great affair was
entrusted. The Convention was a sue
cess. 1t was n success not alone so far
as our part of it was concerned, but a
success commensurate with the ideas,
the wishes and the expectancy of the
people generally. 1t was conducted
with a marked decorum and propri-
ETY., and presided over with a dignity
that would become the highest legisla-
tive body. Parliamentary rules
were closely followed, and the
dispatch of business was as rapid as
a proper consideration of the grave
subjects presented would permit. Of
speech-making there was, all things
considered, but little INDUCED in; not
more than the occasion was calculated
to elicit, and the debates provoked
We're generally promotive of the pur-
poses and business on hand. 1t
has never fallen within province as
journalists to witness an occasion Ofso
much promise, carried forward to so
grand a success. We have not the
space to go at length into an analysis
of the work accomplished, Of the
great, the vast benefits to accrue to us
from the Convention. That we leave
for days TO come. We were not
pleased at, and conceived ii to be our
place to express ourselves plainly upon
the decision of our friends upon
the Southern Pacific Railroad ques-
ton; but that was, to our mind, the
exception to the general rule that
characterized the committees and the
itself in the disposition
and dispatch of business; and, as we
are told, and as we believe, even the
we consider so adverse to
our interests vas agreed upon
as a compromise deemed neces-
sary to procure the end we
all have al heart. Accepting it in that
we are justified in reAskiing
the Convention a success, and in APP
plauding il as a grand success; one
that will take its place beside the first
that gave Memphis an inn
and that decided for us a place
the column of promising points in
the United States. We hope at no
distant day again to meet the
gentlemen who composed the
Convention, and to show that
we have prOfted by their counsel
and advice, and have awaited our
selves of their wisdom. If the Con-
yention which meets in New Orleans
tomorrow, and that which will meet
N Louisville next November, lead to
Is happy results, and are as successful,
-he people Of both cities will have oc-
,asion to congratulate themselves as
We do the people of Memphis upon
he happy close of the great CONNER
.ial Convention of May, 1869.
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