Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-08
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Addresses Delivered at the Opening.


timore Sun furnishes that paper with
telegraph account of the opening cere-
monies of the International Cotton Expo
sition, with abstracts of the addresses
delivered on the occasion, as follows:
Director General Kimball gave his
tory of the Exposition and its develop
ments. He said it was only in April last
the association was formed. and in 106
days since ground was broken last June,
all the buildings were put up, and every
thing else had been done to present the
Exposition in the shape it stood to day.
The work, he said, speaks for itself.
The directory had stuck to the original
design, though seeing fit to add other
attractive features. The Exposition was,
in his judgment, a cotton and textile in
dustry, greater than anything of the
kind which the world had ever seen be-
fore. Mr.. Kimball paid a high tribute
10 the press of the country, which he
said, had lent its powerful aid voluntarily
and freely to encourage the enterprise,
and it was entitled to the thanks of him
self and associates. He concluded by
makinga formal transfer of the Expo.
sition buildings to the President of the
association.
Gov. COlquitt, in receiving the trust,
warmly eulOgiZed the zeal, intelligence
and administrative ability of the Direc-
tor General, and said he doubted if such
great results as this Exposition presented
had ever before been accomplished with
in so short time. To those who knew
these grounds in June last and saw them
now it seemed like the feat of enchant-
ment, rather than the work of hard mat
ter-of~fact labor While the Exposition
was in its material aspects a noble work,
there was beneath it nObler impulse,
running like thread of light between
every line penned in its behalf, and ami
mating every individual engaged in the
enterprise. This impulse, he said, was
desire to draw the people of the coun-
try closely together in all their
relations. Schemes, alterations and
collisions between sections and States
and individuals can alone divide the
country in the future and defeat the sub
lime purpose of such an undertaking as
this. No one will question the necessity
that exists for interdependence of the
people of all sections on each other for
the common and general prosperity, in.
telligence, self interest in the bond which
will unite us together, he hoped forever,
and the benifcent spirit of commerce is
a power greater than governments or
parchment guaran lees, and commerce
aud industry will unite people who can.
not afford to be enemies. Let every
patriot, he said. cherish the sentiment
that we have one heart, one hope and
one destiny. Governor Colquitt was
frequently interrupted by cheers.
Senator Vance delivered an address of
welcome, taking as his theme, Cotton
the Pride of our Fields, the Source of
our Wealth, and the King of Commerce.
His speech was brief and happily con-
ceived, and it was delivered in Mr..
Vance's own inimitable way. The COL
orirg of his language was warm and his
manner genial. He briefly alluded to
the recent past, when the South had been
desolated, its homes burned, its sod
saturated with blood and torn by artil-
lery wheels. Contrasting its condition
then with its present progress in
graphic way, he said it had survived the
raVages Of war and the still worse raw
ages of bad government for a series of
years, and it has come out now strong
and vigorous on brilliant career. The |
geniality of its climate, the fertility of |
its soil and the vitality of its political |
principles had demonstrated the in
eXtinguishable vigor of its man.
hood. The Senator asked to have it |
remember that whGt the South is today |
is due chiefly to the almost unmixed |
blood of the prerevolutionary settlers in
these sun-loved wilds. The immigra
tion of races and natiOnalities which has |
so largely sought the shore of the new |
world within the past one hundred years !
has scarcely touched the southern bor
ders. The South now, Sy this exhibi.
tion OF its resources, invites a shsre of |
this wealth, and will receive gladly all |
who will como to her in the name Of |
labor ana law and free government |
fGreat applause. In conclusion the
Senator said: Farmers, merchants, |
manufacturers. carriers, laboring men |
and men of letters, the great army of |
civilizers and supporters of progress and |
free government, the men of the press, |
strangers and others, we welcome you |
all. Cheering
The speech of Senator Voorhees,, |
though occupying two hours in the de- |
livery, was the chief event of the dav. 1t |
was a speech which showed how rapidly |
manufacturing interests growing up in |
the North, West and the South are |
changing the tariff notions OF the people.
Mr.. VOORHEES, struck chord which drew |
the responsive applause and appreciation |
of his hearers on protection and trade,
which was remarkable and significant.
The line of his speech was largely in
eulOgy Of the superiority of those nations
which had carried agriculture to its /
highest development. He gave an inter
esting sketch of the cotton history of the
South, political, commercial and agricul-
tural, and showed what a great revolution I
its development had made ia the indus
tries of the world. "Now, !" he said, 1--WE
are at the beginning of a new era of
American enterprise. In the cotton
plantations of the South is a career for
the manufacturer never known before in /
the experience of the world. The last
quarter of century has been full of in.
structions to the people of every section
OF the United States. For the sorrow
for the past we seem to be nov standing
in the dawn of better day. Fhe South +
enters the arena TO contend, for the first !
time, for the supremacy in all the indus
trial pursuits. She comes with youth
and hope. and every patoiotic soul in the
North salutes her here on these grounds
with traternal embrace. Here the cot.
ton grows up to the doorsteps of your
mills, and supply and demand clasp
hands. The South will not long con-
tinue the policy of sending its cotton
crop TO England and the Eastern
and Middle States to be made into
fabrics. Sooner or later those principles
Of legislation which have filed other
sections with prosperity will be applied
to the manufacturing interests of the
South. Great applause1 The spirit of
even handed justice seems to call for
this. The manufactures of the Eastern
and Middle States were nurtured by the
government when feeble and unable to
stand alone. / am prepared to say that
within proper and safe limits, and with
primary consideration for the agricultu-
rists as the foundation and the begin
ming of everything the same r,oIiev |