Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-21
THE WEST AND THE SOUTH.
A Union Of Interests will Compel an
IndissOluble Bond between Them.
Large and Influential Meeting in st.
Louis in Favor OF a Convention
OF Congressman.
The People Of the Great Valley OF the
Mississippi Must Have Government
Aid and Assistance.

ST. LOUIS, April ia large meeting
Of merchants, bankers, real estate own.
ers and business men generally was
held at Mechanics exchange this after
noon, to consider the question of hold.
a convention of western and southern
congressman here next month. The
committee appointed at the previous
meeting reported that the mayor of the
city and the members of the city gov
ernment, and many prominent citizens
who had been consulted, were fully
agreed that great benefits would
accrue to the entire country from
interchange Of views and full and free
exposition of the wants of the great
west and the Mississippi valley to the
members of congress through an infOr-
NAL conference in our city and an ex-
cursiOn by our newly opened railway
from this city to the Gulf of Mexico,
through the Indian Territory and Texas.
Your committee believe that in no more
suitable or forcible manner could we
bging to the attention of the members
of our national congress the importance
to the country at large of the develop
ment of the interests of the Mississippi
valley and OF the great west, and thereby
secure to these interests a more fayOra-
bic recognition il future legislation,
than by the presentation of our claims
in this way and at this place. The i'm
provement of western rivers, so as to IA
cilitate direct and cheap interchange
of the products of the northwestern and
southern portions of the Mississippi val
ley; the encouragement of the eOnstrue-
ton Of slack-water navigation connect
ing the waters of the Mississippi river
and its tributaries with the great lakes,
and with the tide-water of the ocean on
the Atlantic seaboard; the remov-
al of the distractions at the
mouth of the Mississippi river;
so as to secure cheap expectation of pro-
ducts of the grain, tobacco, hemp and
cOttOn-growing states of the Mississippi
valley, and the cheap importation of
foreign products consumed in the west,
are the more prominent of the important
subjects which might be brought to the
attention of congress and of the people
of the entire country; and we would sug-
gest that the special consideration of the
committee then recommend that the
mayor Of the city and president of the
Merchants exchange invite the senators
and representatives in congress to an in
formal conference in this citv on
the 18th day of May. In connection
with and preliminary to an excursion
by way of the Atlantic and Pacific, and
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads,
through the Indian Territory and Texas
to the Gulf of Mexico; and that during
their stay here they will be rendered the
hOspitalities of the city, and given a
public reception, banquet, etc. Mayor
Brown will deliver the address of well
come, and Governor Woodson, ex-
Senator John B. Henderson and other
distinguished citizens of the city and
State will be invited to address the con-
vention. The report was unanimously
and heartily adopted. An executive
committee, consisting of such promi-
nent citizens as Mayor Brown, Hon.
II. T. Blow, Thomas Allen, Adolphus
Meir, G.. B. Allen, Captain James B.
Eads, John S. McCune, w. H. Scudder
and others were appointed to arrange
and carry out the programme for the
convention and the entertainment of
delegates. Speeches were then made by
Congressman Wells and Stanard and
others, setting forth the Importance of
the proposed convention, not only to
the people Of the Mississippi Valley, but
to the whole country, and drawing at
tentiOn to the absolute necessity of in
creased and cheaper transportation facil-
tiles from thewest to the seaboard. 1t was
said one half the members of congress
had never seen the Mississippi river, and
a great many had never looked on q
prairie, and therefore knew but little of
the needs and requirements in this great
valley. Bringing them here and laying
before them statistics of the wonderful
Of the west, and showing
them a large portion of this val
ley, would increase their knowl-
edge, enlarge their views, and
could not but result in good to
and the people they repre-
sent. An effort win be made to take
the excursion party from Galveston TO
New Orleans via the gulf, 50 that
they can view the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river and obtain knowledge of the
there, and view the eoun-
try and its capacities along the banks Of
the great river about New Orleans.
A special dispatch to the Savannah
of the date of the tenth in
stant, gives information of serious
between the white and eolored !
people of Mcintosh county. The sheriff
dJteu2ptSu 10 dTroSL uSBIV outlaw, anu
in so doing provoked the indignation of
the entire colored population. The ne
groes assembled, armed, in the town of
Darien and attempted to rescue the pris- |
oner. The whites armed themselves, al
go, protected the sheriff and prevented |
a rescue. A collision between the armed |
bodies seemed at one time inevitable, |
but happily was averted and bloodshed |
1t is time that these colored
of Mcintosh and their
leader Campbell were taught that they |
cannot violate the law with impunity, |
Fer toe long a time have they been al
lowed to outrage and insult the whites
Of that county. The next session of the
superior court should teach them that
prompt punishment wiz follow every |
outbreak and every riot.