The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-24

-Utterances that are Creditable
Alike to His Hand and His Heart.
ATLANTA, Ga, October 16.-Gov-
ernor Hill, of New York, was driven
to the Exposition grounds at noon to-
day. The carriage was drawn by six
irongray horses, profusely decorated
with flowers. After visiting the differ
ent exposition buildings, the Governor
and his party were entertained at din
ner in the building of the driving
club. At the fair grounds Governor
Hill delivered in substance, the fol-
lowing address:
Ladies and gentlemen:
In behalf of the great State of which
l am proud to be the representative,
and for which this kind expression Of
esteem and hospitality is intended, l
wish to thank you most cordially. The
Empire State of the North sends a
warm greeting to the Empire State of
the South. She is proud of your prog
ress-as she is of her own. Piling up
wealth through century of wonder
full prosperity, her rich men have
searched for other fields of investment,
and with that keen foresight for which
most of them are noted they have
found the looked for opportunities in
the vast resources of your State, in the
rich mines of Alabama and Tennessee,
in the manufacturing facilities of the
Carolinas, in the orange groves and
hotels of Florida, and throughout all
the broad area called "the South. "
The entire North is now a partner in
your prosperity, and her interests are
closely interviewer with yours. The
North has not forgotten the message
which your eloquent Grady brought
to the sons of New England two years
ago. He touched, as no orator in the
generation since the war has touched,
cord of sympathy and charity, whose
sound vibrated from Maine to Cali
fornia, the echoes of whose silvery
tones have not yet died away. He
told us what we knew, but what we
never before fully appreciated.
l am glad that you have given me
this opportunity to see the South under
its new conditions, to see for myself
what you have accomplished in this
struggle of twenty-five years. Every
where we turn we are confronted with
the evidences of the achievements OF
our scientific men and skilled artisans.
No person can safely predict what i'm
provements may be made in the quar-
ter of century. Whatever contrib
utes to swell the sum of human hap
piness and tends to a higher and bet
ter civilization deserves the encourage
ment of a grateful people. America
owes much to her artisans, inventors
and men of genius. The enactment
of just and liberal laws for the protec-
ton of their rights and the promotion
of their interests, is the least tribute
which she can pay to the great work
which they have performed in her be-
half
1t is my good fortune to become &C.
quainted with the New South in a
State which, though one of the oldest
of the old South, is one of the most
progressive of the new-in a regior
which received the severest blight O
war, but which shows now the great
est degree of revivlication in city
which represents best the recovered
energy, the proud spirit, the wealth
the intelligence, the honor, the vigol
of this rejuvenated land. When l re
fleet upon the scenes which took place
IN this vicinity only twenty-five year
ago; how a stubborn and loyal army
battling for cause which it believed
to be just, for homes, for families, fo
country, for life, was driven South
ward step by step by force superio
in numbers and resources; how, da,
after day the sound of cannon ane
musketry reverberated through thes'
valleys, and the flames of burning
homes lit up the horizon; how vigor
ously the Federal forces, spurred OF
by the one desire of preserving th
Union of your fathers and theirs tough
their way through shot and shell, de
stroying homes as they went and de
vastating fields; how finally, thos
brave men in gray, driven from ever
stronghold, fell back within the fortifi
3 cations Of this fair city, and how, a
i. last, Atlanta fell when l reflect upol
the desolation which followed Sher
mans famous march to the sea, ant
think of the discouragement, the pov
erty, the distress, the broken heart
+ and the broken spirits which he let
t behind, and then look about me upol
! these scenes of prosperity, this rebuild
ed city, these hourishing industrie
and this hopeful people, l marvel a
: the transformation. The world ha
known nothing like it. In the lon
: list of wars on the pages OF history
. none tells the story of such wonderfu
recuperation. No victory of battl