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Chatham County's Part IL It-Hon. w,
ID. Harden Appointed Commissioners
Meeting of Citizens Tomorrow Night

Chatham County's Part IL lt-HOn. w
ID. Harden Appointed Commissioner
Meeting of Citizens Tomorrow Night
10 the People OF Chatham County: On
Dec. next the Worlds Industrial and
Cotton Centennial Exposition viii be
opened at New Orleans. 1t is expected to
surpass in size, in the quantity and varie-
ty of exhibits, and in attendance, any
other universal exposition ever held. The
Exposition Company has at its disposal
millions OF dollars, and every facility
needed to insure success. The citizens of
New Orleans have already subscribed
5000, 900 and are raising $4O0, 900 more; the
United States Congress has appropriated
81, 5SS, 900 towards it, and most of the ma
tions Of the earth have already secured
space in which to be represented.
Each State in the Union is doing its
part towards the success of the EXPOSE
ton by seeing that its own particular in
terests shall not be neglected. Informa-
ton has reached us that every other
Southern State, except Florida, has made
appropriation of public moneys to secure
proper exhibits, and Florida has raised
S27, 600 by voluntary subscription. By the
constitution of this State no appropriation
of public money can be made towards a
yantages, therefore the rank which GeOr-
gia is to take among her sis
ter States in this great Exposition
OF mutual prosperity and capacity
for advancement and progress, must de-
pend upon the voluntary efforts of her cit
liens as individuals. Our fathers have
raised Georgia to the front rank of the
Southern states, and, whether in peace
or in war. she has borne, by general con-
sent, the proud title of ''The Empire State
of the SOUTH let us see to it that she not
only shall not lose that pre- eminence, but
that the visitor to the Exposition, whether
from a sister or 3 foreign State. shall be
at no loss to understand why the title is
hers.
We have within our limits the means
of attracting and maintaining millions of
the best people from other States and
other countries, and, more important still,
innumerable advantages and resources to
keep our own people at home; there is no
need for any one who is here to 90 else
where. We need onr own people: we
need our own capital; we need more peO-
pie and more capital. How can we Keep
the one and get the other? Manifestly by
letting our advantages be known. At this
Exposition we viii have the world for an
audience. Let us speak to it with a CON-
plete exhibit of our State.
Every portion of the State must have
its advantages distinctly and emphati-
cally set forth. Savannah, its
chief seaport-the second cotton
and first naval store port of the
world-must not be behind in the
race. She must be represented by her
cotton, her naval stores, her lumber, her
rice, such manufactures as she has, and
the soil and forestry of the county. She
must make an exhibit of her situation,
her steamship, steamboat, and railway
lines, and show how great are her adyan-
tages for every kind of commerce and
manufactures. No city in this country is
more favorably situated as to position,
climate, soil, health, ingress and egress
than is our own, and the more widely
these facts are known the greater will be
our prosperity.
The Exposition will be held, Georgia
will be represented. The only question to
be decided is, shall she be represented in
a manner worthy of her past record and
palm to her more enterprising sisters?
Northern and Middle Georgia haYe
pledged an exhibit worthy of the State. |
Let the seab0ard, led by Chatham, assert |
and prove its equal Importance to, and |
pride in, the grand old commonwealth.
All citizens of the county who feel an
interest in their State and section are,
therefore, requested to meet at the Coun- |
Gil chamber in the Exchange at 6 O'Clock |
p. m. tomorrow, June 80, to determine
what steps should be taken to secure such |
an exhibit as shall do justice to us and
the occasion. WILLIAM ID. HARDEN,
Commissioner for Chatham.