Year: 1860

BILE TERMS and it necesstates mercantile houses in
cities establishing branch houses in Northern cities, in
order to compete with rivals who have no such enor
nous taxes to paw. And since the paid sales
by the merchant fall at last chief part upon the con.
sumers in the necessarily increased price Of the goods
sOld the substantial effect of the law Is onlyto burden
capital in the hands first of the wholesale deaer job
be and then of the successive retail merchants and thus
to clog and cripple commerce in all its stages In
spcct at least to all goods OF domestic manufacture and
certain articles of direct foreign Importation i'll the hands
of the retail merchant well OF the wholesale imp0r-
ter it is submitted that these taxes might be released
with great wisdom and proprety.


And in this connection, your memoralists would res
pecully pray that such measures may be adopted as
your honorable body may deem most judicious to in
and protect the commercial capital OF the COM
mOnwealth and by proper changes additions and ln-
provements in the character number and organization of
the Banking Institutions of the State, to augment and
duse facilities for mercantile and general business
commodatOn.


Affiliated with the interests of direct trade with for
eign countries, restrictions commerce with the North
States and the augmentation and fostering of the
commerciacapita and mercantile facilities of the State
is the great and important duty OF encouraging domestic
manufactures These should be favored in every posi-
BILE manner by exemptions and by bountes, the safe
and certain reliance of State independence in any con-
tngency, whether of union or disunion.


Intimately aud inepaaby connected with direct trade
and home manufactures mercantile capital and facilities
and all the vast and varied interests and relations Of
independent commerce, rise TO view the great leading
lines OF internal improvement, designed to connect
Eastern and Western Virginia. and the whole OF Virgin
ia with North Carolina and Tennessee aud other adjon
ing States and through them with the trade and travel OF
all the South and West and the magnificent markets
ready to be opened for products and commerce.
Complete aud, if necessary, multiply those great lines
with tributary channels, as circumstances permit and
bring the Atlantic the East, with the multitude of
ships that greet its Shore into communication and
vi he valleys blooming
nahs of the West and South and ultimately, des
tiny points, with the regions along and beyond the
Rocky Mountains with California and the coasts of the
Pacific and the nations that hrOrg the boundaries of its
further and lar-disant shores


By this system OF measures and the earnest cO-Opera-
ton of individual citizens aud like action the part Of
the other Southern States commercial independence of
the North may be safely and sSiuy established.
10 limits can to the achievements of great and
united people determined to assert and vndicate their
rights; and the noble elements of Southern society will
be concentrated in manly action to accomplish the I'M
porta:t and patriotic ends in view


Meanwhile il behoOves TO cast a waichiu eve upon
the internal police aud OF defence OF the State and
your mcmoriaiss would urgently ask that more stIiu-
gent and summary laws be enacted ior the punishment
Of offences against slayeproperty against the right to
hold the same against the thereof that efficient
regulations be adopted, organizations egalZnd TO
the arrest, expulsion or other punishment of all
tnerant vendors Of merchandise, without license, and
all strOlhS PERSONS or UaNeHhS agents ol suspicious
character and that provision be made for refttng the
Armory Of the State, for renewing the manufacture OF
arms and the munitions Of war, and for thoroughly
equippng and organizing the militia.


And in conclusion, 20 the end that may
unanimity of purpose and OF action he part
of our natural allies aud friends your memoriats for
the present pray your honorable body in some prop
communication TO be made to the legal
v constituted authorities of the several Southern States
inviting concurrence and cooperation in the genetal pol
lev aud system of measures herenbeiore indebted,
far as the may be applicable to the said several
States and may contribute by their adoption to the ul
innate and permanent independence and protection OF
the South.


Respectfully submitted by


JOHN HOWARD,


LEWIS T.. HARVJE, Cou.u.;.,-


WIN GREEN,