The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-13
The Report Of the Committee on Direct
Trade and Immigration-An Admira-
bic Series OF Resoiutions-The General
Work OF the Day-Morning and Eve
ming Session.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 TIE NEwsl

owned and registered as American property,
and the South being too poor to build the
ships needed, the only plan left ls TO charter
European, vessels; but the committee recon-
mend that the aid of the Federal government
be respectfully invoked by memorial to
Congress for such assistance, in the shape OF
bountIes and subsidies, In the way OF mail
contracts or otherwise, as may be eX-
pedIent and proper; and, also, for au-
! thority, for a limited time at least, for the
purchase by our cilizens, In an Individual or
corporate capacity, Of foreign built ships 10 be
registered and placed under the American
flag under such regulations as may be deemed
necessary. The committee also recommend
that the assistance and cooperation of the
Legislatures of the Southern States be also
Invoked In the way of bountles and such other
aid as they can render, and that our people,
whose welfare is 30 Vitally involved In this
great enterprise, perfect, without delay, such
corporate or other organizations as may be
best adapted to combine and concentrate our
energies and our capital.
The committee subsequently made dnel
/ SeoPhS1S
The committee on direct trade and immi.
grafton have already reported upon TWO topics
embraced in the reference TO them. Deemlng
them OF pressing Importance, and as requiring
the immediate action OF the convention, they
thought that they. better fulnled the dulles
imposed on them by reporting before the final
completion of their labors the resolutions
| they thought |; expedient for the Convention to
| adopt. They regard the address OF BIT. How
ard, one OF The members, as the emoodlment
| Of their views upon the questions OF direct
| trade and immigration, and have consequently
not deemed 1t necessary to make general
| report, but simply to recommend for adoption
such resolutions as are calculated to give
effect practically TO the objects OF the CoDven.
tion upon the subject of intercourse with the
West and of direct trade with Europe. They
now beg leave 10 report, ard to recommend
for adoption, the following resolutions, all Of
which Is respectfully submitted.
G. A. TRENHOLM, Chairman.
l. Resolued, That this Convention recognizes
the importance OF more cheap, direct END
speedy highway for passengers and freight
between Lne great West and the Southern
seaports OF our country, and that the move
ment favoring the oonslructt1a OF canal
connecting the waters OF the Mississippi aud
Ohio Rivers with ocean transportation at the
South Atlantic ports is OF the highest conside-
ration in the great question OIL direct Trade ana
Q. RESOLVED, Taat while the present lines OF
railroad communication between those points
have accomplished much, we deem them
wholly inadequate, and therefore recommend
| that all possible encouragement be gwen 10
| all lines of railroad now projected, and IN
progress Of construction, West or Northwest.
| IL is apparent that The great lines to opera
| lion between the West and the cities OF The
North and East have largely contributed 10
| produce the present superior wealth and inhu-
| ence of those cities. This absorbing policy has
| been successfully pursued, drawing within lib
grasp the products. Immigration and trace
which lrgillm ilely belong 10 the south Allan
lie and Gulf ports, and which may yet be re-
gained by az energetic policy. .~
8. ResOlped, That 1t Ii Important that there
shall be large increase Of The moneyed
capital of our Southern cities 10 draw the pro-
ducts of the country la this direction. The
| Northern cities have an incalculaole advan-
| tage over Us In lhis respect; their advances
upon produce coming To market draw the
same irresistibly TO their "ilies. There.
| fore we earnestly appeal W .h -1erchants OF
our seaports to use their utmost endeaVors 10
| increase and extend their banking facilities
30 that the powerful influence OF capital may
| be brought TO bear in drawing The vast pro-
| ductious of the West to their several markets
| for foreign Shipment
| 4. RESOLVED, That this Convention recon-
|
| English and such foreign languages as may
| be desirable, giving Information respecting
| the resources OF the Southern States, and that
each State In the South give attention to this
subject, In order that the real facts may De
represented to the capitalists aud people OF
| Europe, and their attention be drawn to the
advantages offered to them for investments
and settlements in the South. And 1t is also
suggested to all the railroad companies OF the
| Southern States to adopt the policy OF Offering
| low rates of freight and transportation 10 lm.
migrants, and OF buying up the unoccupied
lands through which their lines pass, 30 as 10
offer easy means Tor the settlement OF immi-
grants coming TO our country. The conVen-
| lion also urges the land owners OF the South
to assist this immigration movement by Offer
| ing their lands for sale to immigrants, on
such terms as shall induce them to settle
among us.
| s, Msoloed, That this Convention while feel
| Ing the Importance of European immigration,
| Ia no less sensible OF The value and import
ance OF the introduction of capital and skilled
labor from the Northern States of this
country. They therefore extend cordial in
vitatlon to the capitalists and laborers OF the
| North to come among us and assist In deVel-
| opiDg our vast resources.
Resolutions were introduced oy the citizens
of Ebert County, Georgia, opposite TO Able
Vile, s. c., looking to the opening of direct
communication from the South Carolina line,
at that point, TO Cincinnati and Chicago. Re-
ferred 10 o special committee, with the me.
mortal OF Wluborn LawtoD, of Charleston,
for action on bill, now before Congress, 10
charter the Eastern and Western Transports
lion Company for building railroad from Port
Royal, S. c., to Leavenworth, Kansas.
The report of the committee on memorial
to Congress respecting the canal from the
Mississippi River to the South Atlantic coast
was adopted, and copy ordered to be fur.
nished to the representatives In Congress.
The Convention adjourned at three P. II. IL
partake of an elegant collation. furnished by
the citizens Of Augusta, and met again al
half-past seven P. NJ.
The convention adopted memorial to Con
gress on cheap and uninterrupted transpor
tatlon between the Mississippi River and the
South Atlantic. 1t represents This to be the
most urgent economical question of the day
as is sufficiently proved by the facts already
before Congress. 1t urges that the only com
plete means of meeting the want is first
class water communication, avoiding hlgt
mountains and hard freezes; such one as II
recommended by the Mcfarland survey, con
Meeting the Tennessee River with the .Soutf