The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-03
The Memphis Commercial Con-
vention.

densed form, appeared in our columns
last week. The matters acted upon were
alluded to briefly, and owing to the great
Importance of this assemblage, we feel ii
incumbent upon us to present more in de-
tail some of the leading features OF the
Convention. This can best be accom-
plished by offering for the information OF
our readers several of the reports and
papers adopted. Hence, we give the fol-
lowing, embracing such topics as the
people in this section of the country re-
gard with the deepest interest.
MANUFACTURES AND MINING.
General w. Phillips, of Georgia, SUBJ
,mitted the report of the Committee on
Manufactures and Mining, as follows:
.Resolved, That this Convention do re-.
commend the Legislatures of the several
States here represented to encourage
homo manufacture by enactment OF laws
relieving from taxation capital invested
in mining and manufactures, thus inviting
foreign capital to invest among US.
Resolued, That the Congress OF tho
United States be memorialized to reduce
all duties on machinery to be used for
manufacturing raw material in the Uni
ted States.
Whereas, the Government has hereto
fore gathered and published the facts re-
lative to the cost of producing cotton in
India, Egypt and elsewhere, in countries
competing with ours in the cotton mar
kets of the world !. and whereas, it is
highly probable, if not certain, that our
cotton. can be manufactured at home to
greater advantage, and that capital and
skill would be largely employed in the
Increased manufacture of finer material
il an elaborate statement of facts show
ing:the relative cost and natural advan-
tages, and the most efficient process of
manufacture at home and abroad, and
the proper means to be used and route in
reaching foreign markets with our cotton
fabrics, the cost of transportation TO
those markets, including interest, insu-
rance. diterential duties, etc.; therefore
.Resolued, That this Convention respect
fully reouest" Congress to. authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury, through the
Bureau of Statistics, as in their wisdom
they may deem best, to prepare full re-
ports on this subject.
Whereas, the great mineral resources
of the South-consisting of gold, iron,
copper, and almost every other mineral
have been but partially developed, and
their great value hitherto overlooked and
neglected; and whereas, the national ad-
vantages for manufacturing, of climate,
,waterspower, timber and fuel; all are
equal to that of any country or section (;
and whereas. to q. proper apprecia ton of
these great sources of wealth to the
South and the whole country, an elabo-
rate statement of facts showing the quail
.ity and quantity of the different ores and
minerals, and .he facilities, for manufac-
lures is indispensable, and, whereas, the
limited time of this session is wholly in
sufficient to enable your Committee to
properly represent these interests; to the
end, therefore, that the Committee may
be enabled to present to the members of
the Convention or to the country such. a
report, here respectfully ask further time,
with the privilege of publishing our re-
port without recommendations. from the
Committees, with the proceedings of the
Convention, and to be submitted to the
next meeting of this body.
ON AGRICULTURE,
The following report was read and
unanimously adopted:
Aqricultme.-This is the first, last and
greatest employment of our people, and
lies down under all other pursuits. The
rich productions which its diversifcatoD
gives to the country are the mainsprings
to all the machinery of domestic, social
and commercial life. 1t can never be
monopolized or too widely disseminated.
In this, s'the whole .boundless Continent
is ours" *
Since tho war, in the Atlantic, Gulf
and Western and Southwestern States,
field has opened unsurpassed in this coun-
try. These States embrace varieties in
climate, soil and productions SO numerous
that no other region on the Continent
can compare with them.
1t is to this storehouse of our wealth
that wo invite; .all-men everywhere to
come. Under existing circumstances,
more than half the soil in some of these
States, once under the plough, is now idle,
and the crops harvested from the remain
der do but approach its capacity when
more thoroughly cultivated.
While vast projects of river improve
ments and railroad extension are attract
ing the capital and engaging the minds
of all enterprising men, it cannot be over
looked that East and West of the great
river, OIL whose banks we stand, within
it's valley, is to be the home, within the
life of some now in this house, of more
than one hundred millions of people:
And that this valley will feed and clothe
that people, and leave large surplus for
other countries less fortunate The