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The cotton planters' Convention.
The Memphis papers of Feb. 19, contain the proceedings of the Convention of Cotton Planters, which met in that city on the previous day. A series of resolutions, offered by Mr. J. F. Simmons, of Mississippi, urging upon Congress the establishment of an Agricultural of Home Department, were referred to a committee of one from each State represented, to report at the next annual meeting of the Convention.
A resolution proposing to memorialize Congress to impose a tax of twenty dollars a bale upon all cotton produced within the Confederate States during the present year, in the event of the non-raising of the blockade of our ports before the 1st of May next, led to a protracted discussion, in which the policy of growing or not growing a cotton crop was fully entered into.
Finally, the following substitute, offered by Dr. W. S. Gibson, of Mississippi, was adopted:
Resolved, It is the opinion of this Convention that every planter throughout the