The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-10
The Boston Exposition.
Correspondence ofMe N,cns anil 0,mi,

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COLUMBIA, April 25.-At the sugres.
/ ton OF Commissioner Butler Col. S. A.
Pearce, the president of the Columbia
Board of Trade. some time ago addressed
( the secretary Of the New England Man.
ntacturcrs' and Mechanics Institute of
Boston in relation to the space which it
was thought that South Carolina would
| require in tho Exposition building for
her display. A letter has been received
from Mr.. +. w. Griffin, secretary Of the
Institute, in which lie says:
! When the committee from tho fnsti-
tute. OF which | was one, stopped in Co.
lumbia last November we considered tho
matter of the acceptance of the invita-.
ton as definitely settled, and picked up
an impression somewhere that what re-
manned to be done was simply to carry
out the details of the collecting and
arranging Of the exhibit. Accordingly
we rated South Carolina as representing
SO much work done which would, In
time, enure to the benefit of the people
OF the State aud of New England. 1t
would DO very great disappointment to
the people of this part Of the world If
South Carolina should not put in an an.
pearance and, therefore, l can promise
you every assistance which l am capable
| ct achieving. Ia response tr your sug.
gestion that should write to Col. Butler
concerning space, would say that the
matter was so talked while we were in
Columbia, and, under date of February
9Th last, | wrote him among other things
in the following words Our proposition
to the South in business point of view
10 briefly to furnish the several States
constituting it ample space in the most
desirable location possible in this build.
ing. II il proposed TO reserve entirely
for the use Of the Southern States the
central portion of the main floor, as in
the Judgment Of the management the
most desirable portion Of the building,
though if any State should entertain q
different opinion there is no objection to
Its being gratified in some other place
deemed more desirable. 1t is proper for
me to add that the Institute charges
nothing for space, and that in the not
improbable event of its being necessary
to erect annexes, this will not fall to in.
Vited States. for whose accommodation, if
necessary, the whole building is reserved
But though this language would seem to
be explicit, | think that it may be we'll.
nevtheless, again to suggest the idea, as it
may not have been kept in mind. We
certainly shall not fail to reserve space
for South Carolinn's exhibit until the
very last hope Of it is destroyed"
COL Pearce has received, since the
Board of Agriculture decided not to
make = exhibit, another letter from Mr..
Griffin which indicates that the Institute
has not yet lost hope Of South Carolina,
and which suggests mode of action
which will be resorted to rather than that
the State should DC unrepresented. Mr..
Griffin says:
The extraordinary action OF the board
Of agriculture, in declining to make an
exhibit with us contrasts so strangely
with that OF the neighboring State OF
North Carolina, which has appropriated
$lO,O0O for that purpose, as to induce US
here to believe that the board must be
laboring under some fatal error in this
regard. On Wednesday next l leave for
81 Louis to attend to some husiness, and
on finishing it it has occurred to me that
l, accompanied perhaps by an associate,
would make 1t in my way to come to Co.
lumbia if could be of any possible
assistance. 1t seems to me that the local
organlZations-particularly the Board of
irade OF South Cnrolina-might inaugu-
rate on their own account something
which would have the effect of either
stimulating the State TO exertion, or of
doing what the State should do. The
fact is we arc very much disappoint-
ed Mt losing South Carolina"
think these letters show the situation
in Boston, and that the New Englanders
are in earnest in their invitation and
don't give as up yet. The Act creating
the department Of agriculture expressly
authorized it to make exhibits at State
and National expositions, but one mem.
Der Of the board was deferred by this
very authorization. for he contended that
the New England Exposition was neither
State nor National. If it is not tecnni.
cally State fair nor National one, the
people Of South Carolina, at least, are di.
rect and untechnicsl enough to consider
it an exhibition partaking of the nature
Of both. The Legislature in creating the
board surely did not anticipate nor in.
tend that by its own words the State
should be debarred from participation in
the benefits ofsuch an exposition as this,
which Is infinitely greater than any State
fair. The people, after all, will have to
act for themselves.