The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Commercial Results of the Secession movement.

A Convention was held at Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 13., the object of which is to promote the introduction of Southern spun cotton yarns into the markets of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Russia. The Convention was largely attended by cotton planters and others. A report was adopted, in favor of making up a complete set of samples of Southern spun yarns to be forwarded to Europe, and of taking steps to obtain accurate information from abroad as to prices, styles, numbers and kinds of cotton yarns saleable in foreign markets. The Convention was addressed by Messrs. Fulton, Brumby, Bayton and other gentlemen. Mr. Bayton made a statement of the financial, commercial and industrial issues, bound up in the political future of the South. He argued that separate political existence, unaccompanied by financial and commercial independence, was but the shadow without the substance of liberty. A resolution was adopted in favor of a Cotton Spinners' and Planters' Convention, at Atlanta, on the 19th ult., --and inviting all the Cotton States, in favor of Direct Trade, to send delegates.

There is palpable truth in the argument of Mr. Batton. ‘ "Separate political existence, unaccompanied by financial and commercial independence, is but the shadow without the substance of liberty."’ The practical sense for which Georgia is pre-eminent will never rest satisfied until it has accomplished this essential object.