The daily gazette., 1883-05-30
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The remarkable development OF the i'm
portance of the Southern Exposition, which
will open at Louisvilie, August LIST, has
aroused the Southern States 10 app eciation
OF the opportunity II will furnish for dis
PLAYING the resouTc, and attractions OF that
section Of the country The projectors of
the Southern Exposition were impelled by
the leading idea of bringing the attention of
the world to the vast natural products of
the South, ard furnishing the Southern
people convenient opportunity Tor examin-
lug all the modern Improvements in
machinery that might heip 10 enhance the
value OF the products which nature had SO
bountiiully bestowed upon them.
The Northern aud Eastern people OF the
United States, with characteristic energy
and enterprise, lost no time in taking hold
OF the project, and even before the neces-
ssry arrangements were completed for re-
cciving applications for space, began apply
ing for the privilege of exhibiting in such
numbers that the success of the undertake
log as an exhibition was Immediately as
sured. The Southern people, not so well
prepared for prompt attention In such mat
ters, and not SO well schooled iu the bene-
fts Of occasions Of this kind, were slower in
responding; bat the last few weeks have
brought about a marked change in the rela-
tions of the Southern States To the South
cru Exposition, auG there il rvery assuI-
ance now that the South will present her
self in manner never before attained
The Garlic st assurance was that Northern
| builders of machinery, and Southern buyers
OF machinery would certainly come together
In the Southern Exposition, and make it q
great aud interesting exhibition. The further
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making grand display of her resources
with view 70 inviting new people to make
their homes in that prolific section. Not
only will this display atIraet the attention
| of foreign immigration, but the farmers and
miners and woOdmen of all the over-tilled
aud overworked parts of the country viii
see in the Southern Exposition the evidences
OF the Southern land OF promise that is just
now presenting itseli 10 the consideration of
the world. 1t seems nov as II the most IN
teresting competition in the Southern Ex-
position will be in the friendly rivalry Oi
| Soptheri, States yieing with each other in
/ making the most complete and attractive
| display of agricultural, mineral aud forest
products.
Tue great railway systems OF the Louis
vile and Nashville Raj road and the Ciu
eiDnati Southern Railroad have entered the
lists, each with a corps OF agents IN the
| field making careful AMI comprehensive col
| lectioUs OF products illus' rating the natural
wealth of the vast territory penetrated by
their respective lines OF railway. The State
OF Tennessee has already hled her formal
application for three thousand feet Of space
in which her commissioner of agriculture
may exhibit the varied resources of that In.
vitiDg State. Commissioners appointed by
the various Governors OF our Southern States
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that will justify the pretensions of their re-
spective States to be classed among
the most inviting fields of America,
and in due time will define the
space they desire in the great exhibi-
ton. The Governor of Arkansas has Just
issued his proclamation decl0ring that 1.-THE
Importance TO the State OF being properly
represented a. the Exposition cannot be
overestimated, aud that every Southern
State will be represented and will make a
display Of its products and visitors will at
tend from every section of the Union" The
commissioners appointed under authority
of the Arkansas Legislature, have followed
| the proclamation OF the Governor with an
address, declaring that the Southern EXPO
sition sis to be the grandest advertisement
of the resources of the several States OF our
Union that has been witnessed upon this
continent, except, perhaps, the Centennial
at Philadelphia, ''and that 'sll the States OF
tine Union will avail themselves of the op-
portunity, and never iu our history has
there been such an opportunity"
The development of this spirit OF emula-
ton among the Southern people gives wei.
come assurance of the consummation of the
entire project OF the Southern Exposition
The North has already responded, and the
only question in that connection affecting
the managers of the exhibition is the already
serious problem Of finding room for all the
valuable and interesting exhibits that are
asking space in the machinery department.
All anxiety that might have existed few
weeks ago, as 10 the ability OF the South TO
hll out her part in this great array, has been
rel eyed by the recent activity and earnest
ness Of the Southern States.
The Southern Exposition will doubtless
be, as its name implies, thorough and
complete exhibit OF all the agricultural and
natural products OF that favored territory
known TO the country as the south.