Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1869 — NASBT. [ARTICLE]

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[From the Tolado Blade.] MR. NABBV AND UlB CONPEKRRRA HOLD A COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT THE COHNBHB—AN ACCOUNT OF TBE PROCEEDINGS THEREOF A UKM AHKABLB OMISSION WUIOH WAS AFTERWARD REMEDIED. Post Oma, OoamaiT X Roane, I (Wlch li In the State av JConfedrit X Roads cannot be said to be, in the Northern sense of the term, e prosperous town. The fact is IU railroad facilities are not uv the beat, the nearest l one to us bein some twelve milee away, and ite other roads are not so gorgiotu ez cood be desired. They are passable for wagons in Joon, duly and August; for mules in April, May, September and October, and the balance av the time they mite possibly be navigated by fiat boats, es the citizens hed anything in pertikeler to leave the town for, or es anybody pertikeler desired to come to it Tbe citizens, now that they are onct agin in full akkord with the General Government,, and been thoroughly reconstructid, felt, that they hed borne neglect uv their interests in silence ez long ez cood be expected nv the impetuous Southern nacher; and also, that the time hed come when the lead in cities uv the Sonth shood make some effort to avail theirsflves nv the nateral advantage uv their position, and wrest from the North the full share uv the trade uv the Continent, to wich they are entitled. We uv the Cross Roads, felt that we hed too long accept id a second rate commernhel pneishen, and we felt that we cood not endure it longer. It wuz therefore resolved to hold a commershel convenshen at the Cross Roads, to take these matters into consideration, with rich others as might suggest therselves. Invitashens wuz sent to all the princl pie leaders uv the Southern masses, and uv em it wuz confidently expected tba' Breckinridge, Lee and Boregard would be present. The convenshen assembled on the day sot. It wuz one uv the largest and most enthoosiaatic it hez ever ben my lot to at tend There wuz delegates present from Secessionville, Davistown, Boregard, and all the towns in that section uv the Btate, represents tbe-intelligence and wealth uv the real old Kentucky stock uv those localities. , Gen. McDingtls, late C. 8. A_,nv Secessionville, wuz made President, with thirtytwo Vice Presidents, wich comprised ail the delegates present. This wuz done ez all uv em seenild to want to be officers. Gen. McDingus stated the object nv the convenshen to be the divisin uv the means to increase the commershel importance of the section, -Jo develop her resources, to increase her manufakterin interests, and to show the recooperative power the South possesses. Kentucky wants manufakters, Kentucky wants commerce, Kentucky wants populaahen, and to devise means uv gittin these is the object uv our sssembiin. He begged the members to commence to-wunst. Kernel McPelter, from the Committee on Invitashens, wuz about to perceed to read letters he hed received from prominent Southerners, when O&pt Podgers, uv Davistown, begged leave to offera resolooshen. He saw sittin in the convenshen, with ez much ashoorence ez tho he hed a rite there, a wretch, with whose name he woodent sully his mouth, who hed come from Massychoo— no, he woodent sally his mouth with the name nv the State—from a ablishn State, and hed startid in Davistown a factry for makin pig iron! employin therein thirty-five men, wich hed bot a plantashen nv a diatrest planter and put thereon twenty houses, a akoolhouse and a church! He stigmatized this man ez a carpet-bagger. He hed been repeetedly warned by the citizens nv Davistown to leave, but he hed lafit at the warning. ,On threatenin his factry, he hed armed his operatives with donble-barreled shot-guns, and with these hed held the citizens at bay. This man hez strength enuff to keep up his factry, but he shd not sit in convenshen with Southern gentlemen. Major Bsngum remarkt that at Boregard they hed different ways nv meetin these difficulties. A carpet-bagger from Pennsylvany undertook to start a store at Boregard, but we nipt it in the but at the beginin We gave him twenty four hours t> leave and he left. Hed Capt. Podgers oominenst in time, afore the evil took njk>t, it cood her bin eradicated. Deekin Pogram statid that an attempt hed bin made to plant a cotton factry on a waterpower at Confedrit X Roads, and gave in detail the method adoptid to pre vent it, both speeches bein receeved with cheers, which showd that the Souther n heart wuz still ez Southern tz ever. Capt. Podgers offered the followin resolooahen. Rescued, That all carpel-bagger* be reqaeated to leave tbe Hall durln the aessioa av the convunnhen. * It wuz carried with loud applause* after wich Capt. McPelter read the letters he hed receeved, or rather passed am over to me to read, ez I do the most uv it for the Corners. » Jefferson Davis— President Davis, I exclaimed, ez I kiat the letter—regretted that he cood not be present. HU heart still beat for the Sunny Bouth I cood git no further with the reading this epistle. The most enthusiastic and ’vociferous cheers it hez ever bin my lot to hear broke from the throng in the bnildio, Capt. McPelter endin with the genooine Southern chargin yell, at wich the niggers in the vii-inity uv the buildin grew pale and took to the woods. They’d heard it afore* and not bein advised that the meetin wuz purely a Commerthl Convenshen. they wuz seriously affrighted. G(rural Boregard regretted that he cood not be present, but— Agin l wuz iuterruptid by cheers wich made the roof shake, and the members uv the Convenshen threw up their hats to an extent wich fairly darkened the air. Letters wuz attempted to be read from other noted leaders nv the South in the late unpleasantnis with the vandals uv the subjugatin States, bat at the menshen uv each uv their names thecheerin was so extraordinarily vociferous ez to prevent anything bein heard: At this pint, while the enthusiasm wus at the big nest pitch, Deekin Pogram riz, and remarkt that Confedrit X Roads wuz, he wuz aware, painfully defisbent in many things. They hed but one store, and that wuz run by a' despicable carpet-bagger, and Baacom’s whisky wuz not alius uv the best, but one thing she cood boast nv, namely, her wimmen. “ Stand up Mlrandjr!” be remarkt to that gushin damaal; “ and tbe others in the gallery may ez well rise likewise,” wich they all did, wavin Confedrit flags and bustin out into that ever Inspinn anthem, “ The Bonny 8100 Flag.” “There,” remarkt the Deekin,

“ there is our Jewels. Three cheers for our daughters ?” ■ The effeck nv this was somewhat spiled S r a dozen or more quadroons, risin with irandy and the rest nv em! Tbat ojua demorallzin vifiin, Joe Bigler, who delitea in spilln tetchin tabloos, hed em rang in tbe gallery all the time, and he sprung em onto ns thus crooelly l Gen. Belter, nv Boregard, offered a resolqoshen denonnein the reoonstruckshen measures, President Grant and his Cabinet, the oppresive Naehnel debt, carpet bag gars, and the Republican parte; Major Flair offered one lmplorin the Northern Dimooraoy to stand firm agin the constooshnel amendment; C .pt McPelter one inalstin on the revokashen nv sill laws bearin onto those who hed served on tbe side nv States rites doorin the recent collision uv States, all uv wich wuz adopted enthoosiastioally, when the convenshen adjourned tine die. > ‘ The delegatee, congratulatin each other on the noble work that hed bin done for the South that day, took a partic drink at Bascom’s at the expense nv our citizens, wich Bascom wood not set lt out till some responsible citizen, wich hed land with not more than two mortgages en, wood make himself responsible for em, and wuz a gettin into the wagons to duot ont. for their respective homes when one nv em remarkt—- “ We’ve forgot one thing I” .“No wehevint,”„remarktGen. McDingus. “ We’ve done everything that’s yoosual at Southern commershel convenshens. We’ve cheered for Davis and Boregard ; we’ve admired the wimmen, denounst the abolishen party, and demanded our rites—wat more wuz there to do ?” “ We haint sed a ouasid word about commerce.” “ Thunder I” remarkt the General, “ it’s a fact D—d es it did’nt slip my memry entirely. We must assemble agin." And the meetin was agin t convened. The work wuz accomplished in short order. Resolooshens wuz passed demand in tbe buildin nv a railroad by the ginral Government from Davistown to Secessionville, and four different lines nv road to the Pacific, with branches endin at Confedrit X Roads, Secessionville, Davistown, Boregard, and sich other V’wns ez mite consider it to their interest to hev <m. In addition to these it wuz demanded, that dredges be taken from the harbors on Lake Brie and other Northern waters, and kept twelve months in the year at work in Camp Run to keep it navigable to the Ohio river for boats uv all classes. A resolooshen wuz offered demandtn uv the (Government the buildin uv a levee around Deekin Pogram’s farm, a part nv wich ts frekently overflowed in the spring and tall, and also the graTiin or plankin uv the roads in the county, but it wnz considered best to withdraw uiese ez they didn’t feel like askin too much to wunst. Other resolooshens wuz passed demandin recompense for the loss uv niggers, and property destroyed doorin the war, in order that there might be that harmony so mnch to be desired between the Government «nd Kentucky, and the meetin ad jaurned, this tipie for keeps. Es these neks nv justis is done, well and gooff; es not Kentucky protests. The Crinvenahen hez hopes nv results follerin its ackahen. Petroleum V. Nabby, P. M., (Wich it Post Master.)