The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-07
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Saturday slornlng May 2. 1870
ThoiIin mi igrntion Convention.
: r REPoRTs OF COMMITTEES.

their chairman, Mr.;Robert Mure, made
the following report, which was received
as information, and laid upon the table.
subject to future consideration:
The Committee on Direct Trade, up
pointed BY the convention. have given
the subject as much confederation as the
limited timeiallowed them to report, but
ny no means;as much as its importance
demands The city of New York has
for yenrs been the great emporium and
centre oftrade for all sections of the
Union,4of which she is the metropolis.
Thithertend allthe streams >of wealth,
to ponr their largesses into her Golfers,
already full to overaowing Aud it is q
wellknoWn fact that tho South is, more
than oil other sectiona, a tax. payer to
this exciting CONNIE erciel liaut tocrat. Year
by year, as tile earth brings forth her in
crease. and the planter is rewarded for
his toiitby an abundant harvest of the
heecy textile, by which humanity is
clothedi q large proportion goes as tribute
to the3Northern manufactures, banker,
ship!owher and importer The question
arises Why should this be 30? Why
should the Southern people. with the
spirit that animates them, thus snpinely
submit to state of things so manifestly
against their. best Interests, when, by
action united. aetermined. notion, they
may cast of these ,shackles which have
hitherto bound themy and become indie
pehdeht'of, the great metropolis
The Committee on immigration, fully
alive to the Importance Of the subject,
will doubtless bring forcibly to view the
many Advantages to be derived from an
entefptise, looking to the introduction
into the, South of class of thrifty and
Industrious immigrants, and will point
biIity tof such an enterprise. Such q
scheme as this will buiId up the waste
places of the South, and fill them with q
numerous and happy population, and CO.
equal with this enterprise in Importance
is that of direct trade with Europe,
whereby our produce may find q foreign
market by the most direct and expedi-
tious route, and our imports from thence
to supply the wants of our people be
brought direct to our doors, without first
paying a tax to the banker, the importer,
and jobber of New York.
We would propose, therefore, that q
company be formed, having capital
sufficient to construct and equip four
freight and emigrant steamers. and that
the,shares in such capital stock be placed
at an amount which would bring it within
the power of the greatest number to par
ticipate,
Your. committee have assurances that
not only individuals III this country and
Enrope.. but wealthy corporations, are
willing and ready to subscribe to this
object. a-a
They therefore recommend the adop-
ton of the following resolutions:
IL.
menu thnt company be formed for the
establishment OF permanent line Of
freight and immigrant steamers to port
in Europe. in shares of $25 each.
Resolued, That O committee be ap-
pointed by the chair to obtain subscrip-
tions from the .yagio1s. railroad compn-
MES and corporations interested in com
merce, aud also take measures for the
establishments of % company, on per-
manent basis, to form o line to consist of
four steamers. Hrf
ResolDetl, That the chairman of each
delegation be churRed with the duty Of
obtaining subscriptions in their section,
with power to appoint sub b.committees,
who will report to the chairman of the
committee appointed by the convention
the names aud amounts subscribed.
The Com mittee on the Manufacture of
-
Cotton! through their Chairman, Col. J.
B. Palmer, of Columbia, reported as
follows:
That it has been contended, for years,
by our most sagacions statesmen, shat it
was not the policy of the South to ex-
port its cotton in the lint. Benjamin
Franklin, writing from London. said:
''Here in England, it is well, known aud
understood. that whenever q manufuc-
ture is established. employing number
of hands, it raises the value of lands all
about" Andrew Jackson, in 1924, ad-
vocated, In a private letter, the taking
'from our agriculture GOO, 900 men. wo.
men and children, to- be. employed in
manufactures" Lord Goodrich, in the
House Of Lords, speaking of France,
said: eff it we're freely to admit our ma,
nufactures, il would speedily be reduced
to an agricultural, and therefore, a poor
nation. as all must be that depend ex-
olusively on agriculture" Washington
entertained similar views. While these
opinions have been stated by many, most