The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-12
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION.

This exposition of southern fabrics, va
ried industries, applied sciences, mineral
ores and agricultural productions at At
lanta has been an eminent success in every
respect, save one-very few people have
gone to see it. The reason of this is not
very clear. 1t is, perhaps, from the fact
Atlanta hotels and boarding houses allowed
a report to get out they intended to charge
double their ordinary rates, and unques-
tionably from the fact the railroads,
until now, refused to make any marked re-
duction in their fare. They have seen their
error, and are drumming for trav-
elers and visitors in style
bordering on the frantic and with the most
Indifferent success. That the show has
been poorly patronized is to be deeply re-
GREETED. 1t was and is altogether worthy
of better, a more liberal fate, Northern
visitors are unanimous in its praise. They
say it is far superior to anything they ever
saw in their states, and some even pro-
nounce it equal to the Philadelphia CEN
tennial Before it opened it was doubted If
the time had come for the south to under
take thing of that kind. II was thought
too soon after the war to make an
exposure of our emblems and evil
dences of civilization to advantage,
We would suffer by comparison
with the supposed more opulent north.
The directory, however, were Of different
opinion, and went bravely forward with this
undertaking. The result has been ON the
order astonishing like the figures and facts
of the southern states drawn out by the cen
sus oflSSO. Those who in their cOnceit and
spite had made up their minds that the
south was dead and an inanimate country
and upon the rctrograde, are again puzzled
to know what to make of the splendid eNhi-
bition. They there find specimens OF handl-
craft, of Cunning workers in gold, brass,
wood and iron" they little dreamed
could come out of their denounced and
much maligncd Nazareth. And perhaps
they viewed with qualm of fear those
matchess natural productions Of our soils
the ores from our mountains and grain and
cotton and sugar from our valleys--as
pointing the drift of empire in the not re-
mote future Everything is there they ever
knew at the north and countless things be-
sides which have no existence among them
Every true political economist knows that
the wealth of nations does not wholly con
sist in artifice. And he knows nc
wealth can permanently exist with
cut being literally sustained by nature
He knows the reason the once opulent As
syria has disappeared in oblivion, and
England is the richest country on earth
And were he truly acquainted with the
south during the war and learned i'll the ca
pacities and productions of its soil, he ha(
no fear whatever what its ultimate destiny
would be. That to be seen at Atlanta to
day is but moiety of that behind it, anC
that there and that at home are but atoms
of what the future will bring forth
And this generation will no
wholly pass away without seeing
more startling revolutions than have tNkci
place recently. AS Britain disappeared
under the cloud of the dark ages and reap
pcared as England, so the south wa
shrouded by the calamities of civil war
only to emerge grander and n noble
country Mt a future time. This reaction
might have been predicted by men les
sagacious of human affairs than the cor
querors of the south. For it is to be chief
ascrbed to n law rs certain as the law
which regulate the trade winds and the SUE
cesson of the seasons. 1t is the nature
man to overrate present evil. and III
derrate present good; to long for what h
has not, and be dissatisfied with what h
has. This propensity, as it NJ
pears in individuals, has oite
been noticed, both by laughin
and by weeping philosophers. 1t was
fayorite theme of Horace and Pascal, {
Voltairc and of Johnson. To its intuenC
on the fate of great communities may b
ascribcd most of the revolutions recorde
in history. Emerging from the war Stripe
of their wealth, their pride humbled by
foe they never acknowledged their supcriC
in any respect, the southern people, tho
oughly dissatisfied and chagrined at the
failure, recommended the battle of life wit
that old energy which first attacked Il
forests of Virginia, the Carolinas an
Georgia in the sixteenth century. Silent
and without murmur they have been
: work for seventeen years. The productic
of cotton has been doubled, networks
railways laid down, mines opened and pc
ulation doubled. The Hugucnot and Il
Cavalier are again rising to the zenith
power and influence they held under Lou
XIV. and Charles l., and in exile exercis,
, upon the first half century of the Nor
American republic
THE RESULT IN VIRGINIA.