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development Of the Industrial inter.
ests of the south.

development of the industrial inter.
ests of the south.
Alabama and Tennessee have led
the way and blazed the path to pros.
perity through a union of manufac.
lures and agriculture, and vet So
called southern papers have SOUGHT
to lnjure the prosperity of these
states, apparently failing to realize
that the downfall of the iron interests
of Alabama and Tennessee would
check the growth of the whole south
and turn to other sections the capitai !
that is now beginning to flow south
ward. from the iron industries of
these two states are radiating infu.
ences that will make the whole south
prosperous, that will cause the build.
ing of thousands of Eiles of rail
roads, make valuable land that is
now hardly worth the taxes, furnish
home employment to the tens Of
thousands of the you1g men growing
up in the south, who would otherwise
have to go west or north. This is
what the prosperity of the industrial
centers of Alabama and Tennessee is
doing, and this prosperity starting
there is spreading over the entire
south, and yet strange to say there
are southern papers that, instead of
upholding the progress of these
states, are constantly endeavoring to
discredit the soundness of their de.
velopment and giving credence to
every falsehood that is started
against them. ...
THE EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY.
Nr. Elwang Rises to Explain what He
Said that Mr. Girardeau's Som
in-law Said to Him.
To the Editor Of The Nescs and Courier:
For the sake of truth, and in order
to brush away at once all present
misunderstanding, and to prevent the
possibility of further complications, I
deem it expedient to publish, over my
own signature, the facts, as far as
they are related to me, IN the present
controversy between Rev q. A..
Blackburn and the Southern Presby-
terian.
In the first place, I wish to. say
that Mr.. Blackburn's statement can
be so construed as to do me an In
jnstice when he does not fully ex.
plain in his letter of the 7th inst, the
remark which he quotes me as har.
ing made. "that it (the article in the
Southern Presbyterian did not cor
rectly represent what I (Mr. b. had
said" I.referred, as Mr. B. himself
says. simply to the constructions
which the article puts upon his state
ments in assuming them to have been
authoritative. With that l. had, Of
course nothing to do, it was simply
deduction made by the writer from
the facts presented to him. AS to
all else in the article relating to him.
self and the undersigned Mr.. b. ad-
mitted it to be substantially correct.
In the second place, I wish to say
that much of what was said by either
of US at that time, now fully two
months ago, is only indistinctly re-
membered> by me because regarded
as bearing only indiferently upon
the chief issue involved. AS far as
the information given by me to the
writer of the article in the Southern
Presbyterian is concerned, I can rely
with perfect safety, as to minutia,
only upon a written minute made at
the time and approved by me; and,
as it appears upon an examination Of
that minute that I did not express
ly" state to the writer of the article
that Mr.. B. did not speak authorita-
lively, l must modify the assurance
given to Mr.. B. that did so state to
the writer in the Southern >Presbyte-
rian, and simply say that l cannot be
positive in regard to that particular
statement-I may or I may not have
made any. such remark. Even if l
had done so, the writer of the article
only drew his own deductions from
the facts presented to him, for al.
though Mr.. B. plainly disavowed that
he spoke authoritativeIy in the sense
that be spoke for another, yet his
statements were so confidently made
as to leave the impression upon my
mind that, while he was expressing
his own opinions, he had positive in
formation in regard to the matter of
his communications.
WIN. ". ELwANG.
Columbia, January 9.