Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-12

i say it with confidence, as it has been made matter of study by men who know. It can sustain 30, ,OOO, 900 people Its wealth in all the minerals is double that of Great Britain and France combined, and that is but a small portion of the wealth of the South We will show this-beside cotton and wool and textile fabrics-we want to show to the world what wealth of resources there is in the South. There is no country on the face of the globe that has been examined that pre- sents greater facilities. That is what we want to do. We want to show to the 5.oO0,- GOO tenant farmers of England, who are al- most starving because the West sends wheat over there, that we have country that al- most runs itself.
 Pernit an allusion to another matter I know pretty well what sort of talk the poli- ticians make on both sides. These politicians will have to admit in this way that in all their talk they don't mean anything That's the only way they can get around it. Talk about the Solid South. have always taken pride in saving that am Yankee-a real New England Maine and Connecticut Yankee. have all the time said that I was born and raised in Maine and lived in Connec- ticut, but in fifteen years I have never felt or seen a slight in any form myself nor my family, no ostracism, no ex- clusiveness I have been received just as warmly and freely as if I had been born in a southern State and reared among them. I take not pride to self, but tell you there is in the South, among Democrats and Repubi- cans, white and colored, that feeling that we want progress. (Applause.) We want our men, meet you in this matter and tell you proudly and freely that for the man who wants to come to Georgia to work, to help, to be good citizen, there is no place where you will get warmer, kndier, more gen. erous greeting than you will in Georgia IL r,G $2OO, GOO. We estimate it with no special show about. Everything about it will be of utility, so as to prevent as far as possible waste and expense. We do everything to avoid waste, as we are obliged to call upon the North to help. All the money will come back. Beside the entrance fee we charge for space We charge fifty cents foot forspace used, and an entrance fee of $25. Hundreds of entries will be made that only take table space-smaIl exhibits. We have applications from one man for 10, 900 feet. I have been | all through New England. The manufactur- l CTS all going to exhibit. We, as sald charge for space The entrance fee will be fifty cents apiece, and this will pay all ex- penses, such as advertising, clerical help and altogether we bring the expenses down to a | small figure. We have joint stock compa- ny, capital $2OO,OOO, with four payments, I and these share in either the profits or | losses There may be twenty-five per cent. | | be more. Our most careful men can't see 1 how it will be anything. We make allot- ments. We allotted to Atlanta $50, 900. She l took $6O, GOO. We allotted 1925, ,O00 to New 1 York; she took $50, 900, and so with other | cities. We allotted $25, ,OOO to New England dence promises well. Philadelphia was al- | lotted $15, 1000, Cincinnati $10,OOO. So we go on to St. Louis. The exposition will open | on the 5th of October and continue until the ! 31st of December, just at the time most pleas 1 ant for your people to come down and visit ! us. (Applause.) In addition, we have a | small plantation of fifty acres, divided into | half acre lots-the ground prepared, and off, l fer prizes for the best mode of cotton culture | to show how much and what is the best kind of fertilizer and the best kind of seed. This l is under the charge of a superintendent, who keeps entire record, and the premiums are ! mostly upon the largest per cent. of profit, so that it is to educate our people as to the best means of cotton culture.
 Now what will be the result? It is a mat ! ter for all-North and South to consider. It ! is of moment. want above all things, and ! expect to live to see, the time when all this sectionalism will be wiped out. Applause. )
 When the South will be no longer called a l section We belong to you and you to us l (Applause.) Now what will the result of | this Cotton Exposition be? When you take cotton and jute. etc., together to the amount of thousands of millions of dollars, is it not plain that the result will tend to wipe out
 sectionalism? tell you, gentlemen, if you ! will join hands with us the result you will all rejoice in. This is the first time in the histo- ry of the country that we of the South ad- init that you can give us strength and power i; you can do this. tell you this is the fore runner of grand results. Now New Haven may say we don't raise cotton. etc. We have had a large business &bnG a,,1 11o4 kIoC Is this the spirit of New Haven? ? I know you too well. I know none will take more generous, ready, hearty interest in the vel fare of the South than the people of New Haven. I have done. I ask for nothing. have told you what we are doing. I leave it with you. You are adept at figures and know that New Haven's quota would be comparatively small, and were not here among my old friends and acquaintances would tell New Havens amount and leave it to you. But, gentlemen, am here to tell you of the spirit that animates me. I speak as Georgian, man from the South Now, gentlemen, if you are inclined to say that you will take any number of shares, I shall be only too proud to accept it. I shall be pardoned for taking it in some measure as a compliment to myself as an old citizen. Thanking you, gentlemen, for your kind and thoughtful attention, leave the matter with you.
 
 ing hearty sympathy with the movement and qualification at the remarks of Mir. Kimball and at opportunity for blow at sectional ism. He spoke of Eli Whitney and the cot ton gin, saying that he recalled hearing his father say that Mir. Whitney, whose name had been so pleasantly mentioned by Mir. Kimball, had remarked to him of the opposi- tion his claims met in Georgia, adding that when before the courts of that State defend ing his patents he could not find anyone to come to the court and swear that he had ever seen cotton gin, although one was in opera tlon within sound of the court room. It was great pleasure to hear of this wish for a model of the machine for the exposition. The speaker hoped all success for the expo- sition. Professor Silliman paid a tribute to Mir. Joseph Parker for his invention utilizing waste cotton for paper.
 MT. l.. B. Page, at present in this city, was heartily glad of the movement for the. expo sitlon as movement which would orerate to greatly benefit the whole nation and to help wipe out sectional feeling The gentleman was commissioner from Connections to the Crystal Palace Exhibition appointed from Hhartford by Governor Seymour. For many years he had resided in Nova Scotia, and he had a son in Texas, in visiting whom he saw much of the South He spoke of the new invention, leathende, used for belting and other objects.
 Governor Bigelow expressed hearty sat isfaction at the enterprise, and it had his best wishes He was glad to see MT. KimbaD and hear his address. He moved that a committee of five be sappointed to see that New Haven did it's share in the subscriptions. The fol- lowing were appointed: Gov. Bigelow, ex- Mayor Lewis, Thomas R. Trowbridge, B. S. Pardee and James D. Dowell
 MT. Eli Whitney rose amid applause. He said: have had great interest in the earnest, liberal statement of my friend MT. Kimball thank him for the complimentary allusion to my father, and in response Isshall be most happy to furnish model of several my father had made, and now in existence of the cotton gin as it was when first invented in 1792 The in- ventor has, of course, long since passed away and the fact of my fathers inventing the cotton gin is almost myth to this gener- ation in the South. Of course Georgia was the scene of my fathers greatest peril, and he had sixty law suits before he established his claim. The speaker referred to what Prof. Silliman had said on this point, and added that there had been no substantial i'm provement of the original invention. Blot this out itwould be 8 great blow It had made the southern States, made England rich, |