The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-03-04
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
Friday Nora. March. A, 1870.
REvo1UrroNs IN COMMERCE.

Our friend, Col. A. 5. ATKINSON, who
resides in this County. bu: whose early
associations and interests still connect
him with the Georgia sca-coast, was re-
Gently invited by the citizens of Glynn
county TO address the people at Bruins
wick on the subject of the commercial
interests, present and prospective, of
that place to which he responded in
an address cheering, glowing, comprc-
hensivc and enlightened on the imme-
dia,c interests Of Brunswick. the mate.i-
al interests of Georgia, and the grandeur
to which this country is now advancing
in the march of human progress.
His points are well chosen and logi-
calIy argued. All other races will dis
appear before tho Caucasian. 1t is a
law of nature. The Federal and Com
fedcrate, the South, the North--the East
and West, should cease to be distin.
gui5hcd save by common emulation in
advancing the common glory of com
mon country.
Our people united, one great centre
OF the worlds commerce, while England
is striving to prevent the other from
passing from her, will be found in the
United States, and it may be, not far
removed from us. The Speaker said:
''Let me now speak little about the
coast of Georgia, and its commercial po-
siiion. If n merchant in San Francis
co wished to 60 to the mouth ofthc ANA
zon in an air line, his only route would
be through the sea coast Of Georgia; il
q merchant of Iowa should wish to go
10 the mouth OF the Oronoco, he would
pass through the sea coast of Georgia
if a merchant from Ohio wished to 20 10
Panama, his air line route would be
a thousand miles out of his way 10 20 by
way of New Orleans. Have you ever
reflected that Brunswick lies more than
hundred miles west of Panama, and
that the same meridian of longitude that
DAehts lIEOtfSH III i'm bhIS wv CNtu
touch South America on the westY Do
you know that two air tight bottles, one
placed in the head waters of the Missis-
sippi and the other in tho head waters of
the Amazon will Join, come out around
the Cape Of F.urida, and pass towards
the north within twenty miles of tho
coast of Georgia.
The guano trade is now in its infan-
cy. The whole agricultural system of
the United States is now undergoing n
rapid and powerful revolution, and the
guano trade III few years will DC equal
TO that Of cotton, md the sea coast Of
Genrs. lies directly between Peru and
that part Of North America where guano
can tie most prolirably used. Let me
tell You another thing. The great
Northwest produces in Unlimited extent
-four, bacon, corn and other productions
exactly such as the people of South
America need and South America pro-
duccs coffee, sugar and hides, the very
thing the great interior of North Amcri-
ca needs, and we are located exactly be-
tween. You see now where we stand.
VIII we educate ourselves and rise up
to the wants of the time Is there any
time for idDeness and apathy and iguor-
ancc here
Look around you and behold the i'm
prorements OF the age; look at the tie
mcndous revolution that has taken place
on The American Continent in the last for
" years What will it lie in forty years
10 come. Look at the increase Of popua-
ton stretching far beyond the prrdic-
tions of tie most cxtravagant computa-
tiors; look at the impetus given to the
great army of emigration by the power
of steam 10th On land and wafer Look .
at the telegraph lines that are now
stretching around the world. Look at
hustle, the activity and energy Of ma
tions. aud tell nc if it is not high time
for ii South to wake mp.
tell ynu that if the West will meet
tie Sya.i rs friendly commerce on the
coal and so. beds It upper Georgia and
Tennessee, will produce q peaceful
revolution that it will caGse bright star
OF the glory Of this western hemisphere
again 10 rise. and Developments will be
made in comparison to which all the die.
covcries of the past will became totally
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