The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-05-19

do SO in spirit of exaggeration or fiat
terry 1t is real and genuine sentiment
and in proof of it, / have only to cite
the fact that our citizens send tlusty
messengers to every steamboat and train
that comes from Mississippi to tender
the passengers their cordial hospitality.
More than that, they scour the hotel
registers for fear some Mississippian may
be in town without reneiuing proper- at
tention. The fact that these Mississip-
plans sometimes have samples of cotton
in their hands or an order for goods and
supplies in their pockets cuts no figure
in the case, and does not diminish the
cordiality of their welcome
But am wandering from my subject.
| was invited here TO talk about Tennes-
see. II you have ever looked at Tennes.
see carefully on the map, you will no.
tice what an insinuating State it is. 1t
looks as if it had with malice afore>
thought picked out favorable loca-
tion between eight States, squeezed ito
self in and got flattened out in the pro,
cess. On the north it rubs up against
Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia, on the
south rests upon Mississippi, Alabama
and Georgia, on the east it leans familiar
ly on North Carolina and on the west
| seems to hold Arkansas in fond ems
brace. In fact it touches eight States,
and Illinois barely managed to escape by
very slender margin.
Tennessee is 435 miles long from east
to west, and 100 miles wide. 1t has
252S miles uavigable water within its
Boundaries besides 200 miles OF the
great Mississippi rushing by its doors. It
has 1924 miles of railway, and the next
ten years promises to double that num-
ber. 1t has 100000 population, three
fourths of them white. $3.50 school
buildings, pays salaries to 1879 teachers
and does it cheerfully and literally. Its
mineral wealth is boundless and mex
haustible, and in the sides of its noble
mountains lie treasures OF untold wealth,
treasures that could keep all the fur
naces in the world busy for 1000 years,
and in the shadow OF the Lookout noun
tain there is rising city that promises
to rival Pittsburg in manufacturing im-
portance. Of course, Tennessee does not
pretend to rival other southern States in
agricultural wealth, Nature intended
her for another destiny. Commerce and
manufacture will be her pursuit, while he
States that border on her territory develop
their magnificent agricultural resources.
A reount writer in the Manufacturers
Record, of Baltimore, expresses the idea
better thsn ! eau. He says:
ITO vast iron development ihe south
will add tremendous textile industry,
for where the cotton is grown there will
it be manufactured, and to cotton she
will add every variety of woodworking
business, and then on all these she will
build up diversity of small enterprises
that will help to enrich her people.
Gas boundless as is her future in mano
ufacturing. so are her agricultural posi-
bilities. Mississippi alone could pro-
duce the entire cotton crop of the south,
100000, 600 bushels of corn, and still have
room for her rapidly developing fruit
and vegetable growing business, hel
grazing farms and her blooded live stock
This one State could do all this, and yet
Mississippi has scarcely one>tenth of the
souths whole area.
1 "No pen has ever yet fully picturet
this wonderful combination of advanta'
DISADVANTAGES given by nature in such
unstinted measure. The more we con-
template these advantages and contrast
them with those Of all other countries
the more deeply will we be impressed
with the unquesticnable truth that here
in this glorious land, 'Creation's Garder
Spot" is to be the richest and the great
est country upon which the sun cvel
shone."
When tho glorious day comes Missis
sippi will be at the head of the column
and by her side Tennessee ready to bar
ter the product of her furnace for thu
product of the gin, ready to exchange
the fruit of the loom fol- the fruit of the
soil, and right within ten miles of the
boundary lines of your own State, Sc
near that you can near the hum of he
industry and the roar of her commerce, il
rising a city destined to be the metropolis
of the south, Need add the name o
that city is Mem phis? By the wise fore
thought Of nature there can be no rival
ry between the two States, Mississippi
and Tennessee, and the prosperity of ont
: cannot but rebound to the wealth of tht
other And what is true of Mississippi
is true of the other States that border
upon her territory They are all interdc.
pendent, and each an element of strength
to the other. The future is rich with
promise of them all, and when the full
fruition of our hopes is reached she worlc
will be presented with the splendid
I spectacle ofa solid south, solid with Q
new significance. Solid not alone il
votes, but in wealth; solid in the securi
ty of her fortunes; solid in the happines!
Of her people solid in the enduring ma
ture of her prosperity.