Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-15
Louisville Convention
Third Days Proceedings.


/, LOUISVILLE, October 1.-THE member
. of the Convention were tardy to-day, ant
many failed TO reach the Opera House
during the session, which began at half
o past II. There was barely quorum pres
+. ent when President Fillmore called tbs
a meeting to order, but good many came
in before the meeting adjourned.
James W. Massey, of Virginia, Chair
Q man of the Committee on Immigration,
submitted a report, portion of which
/, was adopted after some discussion, OF
which the following is synopsis. The
I report was prepared to be presented TO
the Louisville Convention by the Com
mittee on Immigration, raised by the
Memphis Convention of May, 1859.
: The report says that the population of
the whole country was nearly equally di-
! yided between the North and South. The
increase of the two sections in population
may be taken as the same. According to
the census of 1860, the population of the
, two sections was as follows: North,
I9,36s, 1872; South, I2,04S, 149. This shows
that of the emigrants and their descend
ants who had come into the country
during the seventy years, from 1880 to
1860, and were then living, 7,32I, ,033
more had settled in the North
than had settled in the South.
According to the estimates made every
foreign immigrant who settles in this
country adds 10 the national wealth $500,
but, 10 be clearly within the limits. your
COMMITTEES viii assume it to be $500
per head. The calculation il simply,
! S500K732, ,033-S36G, ,05I $50. The industrial
capital of the North, over and above the
/ South, from immigration alone, has thus
been increased by this enormous sum-
! The North has outstripped the South in
| the struggle for material wealth. The OBJ
ject of your Committee is how to devise for
/ the South to participatein the advantages
Of immigration. Most, if not all of the
! Southern States since the war, have
adopted measures for the encouragement
/ Of foreign immigration. These measures
/ have not been attended with much sue
| cess, us the emigratiug class of Europe is
/ wholly uuintOrmed in regard to the
/ Southern States, and is from Ignorance,
! and in some sort of .nisinformatiop,
/ greatly prejudiced against them. This
/ ignorance must be dispelled and preiu-
| diees removed. This ignorance and pre-
| judice applies with equal force to all of the
Southern States. This obstacle should be
removed. An Impression prevails that the
/ South is unsulted to the white man.
/ Europe has heard of the parallel of 36o so
as q dividing line between black and
/ white labor in America. Spain, Italy, Bar
| barry, Egypt and Asia Minor, which lie
south OF this line, and are within the
same parallels OF latitude which include
the Southern States. These St4tea are
inhabited by races having tanned or black
skins, and from this il is inferred that our
climate is unsuited To the TeutOn, and
so long as these hurtful preiudices
exist, the stream of Germans, Swedes, |
NOrwegians, BritOns and Danes will never |
| How into the Southern States. The rsnO-
val Of these prejudices can be best accom- !
plished by Z united eiioEt, aRd the plan |
contemplates state organizations for the |
announcement of emigration. The Com |
m faa haf
point a general agent Of emigration, and !
that the States be requested to apprOpri- |
ate sum to be placed in the hands of the |
general agent, to be used in preparing, |
publishing, translating aud circulating, |
gratuitOusly, among the eiuigrating glass;
es, report showing the physical Ee- !
Ography OF the several States, and |
also adopting this plan to their |
industrial resources, the special adyap- |
tages which they offer The emigrant, and |
all other necessary information. These |
maps shGgld show Interchangeable streams,
canals, railways and other artificial inn |
proFemeuts, and the chief industries of /
the cooperative states, in order that the
emlgrant may tell the chief product of
each State and comprehend the geograph-
ical limits Of the grand staple, and know
ing these he could select that portion of /
the country in which he would prefer to
dwell. The general agent should be al
bursements of the fuhds, and as
soon as emigration begins from
Europe into the South, all Of the leading
Southern port3 should have regulaE liGes
of steamers with the various ports OF
Europe. All of these ports now have do
mestic produce enough for a monthly, if
not a weekly, line of steamers with an
outward cargo, and were the stream of
immigration turned to their wharvee
there would te i4elght both ways, where!
by the South would be Relieved of The ne.
cessity Of paying for empty ships to cnme
out asid 0aTly OF their products, and Ia
hasten this day each State should
authorize the General Agent of immi-
grafton to correspond with the
railways leading from the ports of the
South ard asiertaiG the facilities which
they offer to such Hines of steamers, that
the same may be stated in tabular form.
In his report he should state the encour-
agcHent Ehish each state May ne pre-
pared to afford to the emigrant who Set
ties within her borders. The report of
the agent should be circulated among the
lmmfgratiRg Glasses, especially in the
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Hol-
land, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden.
Great Britain is the chief field for thiR
missionary work, and the agent shouHF
have large discretionary powers in Us
should sssess GkGh State f01 hen aqeta.
The C6mmittee does not design to inter
fere with any plans adopted by individ-
ual States for, besides State organizations,
there is a great deal Of machinery lying
idle in the South which could lie employ
ed TO promote q healthfHl system of inn
migration. These consist Of private land
companies and public associations for the
encouragement of immigration. The de-
sign of the Committee is to bring together
and cOnsolidat2 these parties and put
them Into 'efieetiye operation. ~'a "a
In reference to Oriental labor the
Committee aaid; "The importation
Of Cinnamon and OF other Aslatic
labor does not require the reasons sug-
gested in the report; that could be accom-
Dlished bv the separate States and private
bFsaalzatiCns. The future may develope
the necessity of using ne MEANS IA asia
now suggested in this report and, there
fore,
Resolccd, That this Convention concur
in the foregoing report.
Aesotged, That the great learning and
deservedly high reputation, al homb and
abroad, Of Commodore Matthew F. Maui
ry, eminently fit him for the discharge of
the duties herenbefore designated, and
that this Convention recommend him to
the several States for the post of gem
eral agent of emigration; that the Con-
going report to the various States herein
represented, and especially those. of the
South and Southwest, by adoption by
their respective Legislatures.
That the President OF this ConVen-
ton forward to the Governors, the Presi-
dents of the Senates and the Speakers of
the Houses of each of the said States, a
copy of this report and resolutions, for
such action as may 70 them seem adyisa-
ble
The Committee on Immigration. also
read another report in reference to the
Oriental, New York and Mediterranean
Steamship Company, which, so far as i'm
migration was concerned, was laid on the
table.
The Committee on Banking and Finance
made the following report, upon which
action was postponed until Friday:
. The conclusions OF your Committee |
on Finance and Banking are as follows:
1.-The wealth of country consists
in the net value of its productions, and
all financial measures must be determined
in the light of this fact.
"2.-Currency is not a product of a |
country, and is not property, but only a
medium TO facilitate the exchange of prop
eTty.
%. Currency values of property and an
iTredeemRhle currency regulate them
selves by each other, so that, except tenn
porarilV the amount of irredeemable cur
rency in circulation in no manner regil-
latea the ease ofthe money market OF in