Railroad Enterprises at the South [pp. 559-564]

DIRECT TRADE OF SOUTHERN STATES WITH EUROPE.
"Resolved, 5. That similar efforts should be made to bring about a
co-operation between our merchants andscapitalists, and those of Europe, for the purpose of immediately establishing lines of packet ships
and steamers, whereby regular communications, at stated periods, may
be secured-and that all other proper measures should be adopted to
effect as speedily as possible, this all important object.
"Resolved, 6. That in the opinion of this Convention, it is essential to
the success of any scheme of direct importation, that a demand should
be created in our own ports for all the goods so imported, which can
only be effected by opening free communications with the interior by an
extensive system of railroads, canals, and turnpikes, by which the.
merchants of the interior may be enabled to lay in their supplies on
better terms than they could procure them from any other quarter.
"Resolved, 7. That among the measures auxiliary to the important
objects we have in view, this Convention cannot but regard as of deep
interest and importance, the adoption of the proper means for introducing COMMERcIAL EDUCATION among the youth of our country-the
training them up to habits of business and thereby establishing a body
of merchants, whose every interest and feeling shall be identified with
the country which has reared and sustained them."
"Resolved, S." This resolution applied to the revival of the old
"Southern Reviewt," of the palmy days of Southern literature, the objects of which were the defence of our institutions and the developementu
of the resources of the slaveholding States.
A committee of twenty-one, of which the venerable and distinguished
Chancellor Harper was chairman, and of which the following indivi.
duals were members, prepared the report. To our citizens as deserving
of preservation and extended circulation, we shall present it in another
number of the Re',iew.
COMMITTEE.
William Harper, Robert Y. Hayne, G. A. Trenholm, J. K, Doiglass,
F. H. Elmore; C. G. Memmnenger, A. Blanding, from South Carolina.
William Dearing, A. D. Miller, D. C. Campbell, A. H. Stevens,
J. Phinizy, J. Cowles, from Georgia.
John H. Crozier and Thomas C. Lyon, from Tennessee.
Abner McGehee, E. A. Holt, from Alabama.
Mitchell King, William Patten, from North Carolina.
James Gadsden, Wm. J. Mills, from Florida.
Art. XIII.-RAILROAD ENTERPRISES AT THIE SOUTII.
The people of South Carolina are still alive to the importance of
bringing their sea coasts into contiguity with the mountains, and giing
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