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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
forward in large numbers to discuss public questions. In evidence of this phenomenon, stands the Southern Commercial Convention, a meeting of planters and lawyers. At the Knoxville meeting of 1857 a committee was apppointed to report on the policy of re-opening the African slave trade and to consider the constitutionality of the act of Congress which pronounced the trade piracy. The report was to be made to the next annual meeting of the convention, appointed for Montgomery, Alabama, in May, 1858. The significance of the discussion of this subject lay in the movement, already more or less advanced, to secure Cuba for the United States, and also in the then pending scheme of General William Walker to conquer the Central American States and erect a government there with institutions similar to those of the Southern States. African slavery, it was believed, would flourish well in those tropical, yet fruitful agricultural regions, while the Southern States were much in need of sympa