Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-30
Mr.. COL YAR'S SPEECH.
He Talks About Iron Furnaces
and the Wonderful Prosper
ity in Store for Us.
What Is Meant BY The New South and
What Has Been Accomplished.
COL. TON McCONNEL'S EXPLOITATION.

We were unablr yesterday to give
the speeches, inaugurating the new
industrial enterprise Of Clarksvilit
by the formal laying Of the corner
stone OF the Gracey- Woodward 100
ton iron furnace. Col. A. S. Colyar,
Of Nashville, was the orator of thu
day. Mr.. Kennedy, after reading
congratulatOry letters from Hon. A.
X. Mcclure, of Philadelphia, Hon.
A. s Hewitt, OF New York, Senator
VIM. b. Bate and Prof. Stafford ex-
pressing regrets that they could not
be pre.ent, introduced Col. Colyar.
The speaker regretted not meeting
the gentlemen above named, who
had given the South so much encour
agpinent.
He congratulated the people on the
Inauguration Of this enterprise, spoke
of the vast wealth and resources il
promised to develop uader its excel
lent management, the great wealth
1t would bring in, producing $500
per day, he advantageous location
of GAINESVILLE for great manufac-
turing city, If the people would put
together their capital and energy.
He spoke Of what had been accom-
plished at Chattanooga and Birming-
ham under less favorable circum-
stances, in thus showing our people
what might be done here and In sup
port of his statement concerning the
POSSIBILITIES OF GAINESVILLE, he spoke as
follows and was enthusiastically APP
plauded all the way through:
The hope Of the South is in the spir-
1t of progress so remarkably exhibited
by southern men who have embarked
in new industries. / say new indus
tries, for here in the South, whether
pleasant or unpleasant 10 be told, ii is
u fact that until the war freed the ne
gro aud thereby quickened the ener-
gies of the white man by knocking
out the props which supported him in
idleness and self indulgence, there was
positively no effort TO discover and de
velOp the hidden wealth of tho South.
Some people object to the term New
South.O This comes from morbid
sentiment ami false pride In ancestral
fame. Nothing is meant among intel
ligent and progressive people by using
the term "New SOuth,n except that
fha Spnfh hna NAM XDnvu
These new ways consist in develop
ing an immense wealth which the
quickened energies of our people dis
covered. Indeed it was u discovery.
As much of discovery, aud of vastly
more utility as Henry NJ Stanley's
discovery of the lakes and rivers and
naked people of Central Africa. And
what Is this new discovery in the
South ? 1t is not new religion; ii is
not new code Of morals nor Is il new
theories of government. But it Is the
discovery aud development of coal
mines, richer than gold mines, coal
mines that our ancestors no more util-
lied than did the Mound Builders be-
fore them, Coal which already, won
derful revolution, warns every house
in every city Of the South, coal which
spares the ii siber aud moves the grow
ing commerce on all our southern wa
tiers aud southern railroads. Through
this new agency, this great discovery,
aud by It's Aelp we have been enabled
to open the way and demonstrate the
vast possibilities of King cotton by
- ourselves - into goods,
instead of shipping it to foreign coun-
tries, and by IL we have in few years
ast0niShed the workers in iron in
England as well us our watchful
friends of Northern States, in the un-
paralelled progress we have made as
an iron producing region.
The astonishing progress which we
have made In these two new indus
tries has quckened the progressive
spirit until IN all our cities we are rap
idly coming to be manufacturing
people. We are not only making goods
for home consumption, which we
bought abroad before the war, but we
are sending our cotton goods 10 New
York aud Chicago, and we are send
Ing our iron into more than twenty
Northern States
The daily shipments of iron from
Tennessee and Alabama amount to
fully $4,000 and for which we draw
drafts on New York. This money is !
nearly all distributed among the labor |
Ing people of the South.
This change, superinduced by
waking up 60 our needs, the needs |
which the caiamities of the war |
brought, and then to our possibilities
vas the opening way to the new
South, in which we lind the great |
cities of Chattanooga, |
Birmingham, with others like Nash |
Vile, Memphis, Knoxville, Richmond, |
whose multiplied industries are
US seif'sustaining and self.
relying people.
And this, | beg to say, ia the rock on
which the South must build. The .
nearer the nation rs well as the fam
ly, comes To be self sustaining, the
nearer IL IL to the highest civilization
Make the South independent and pros.
porous in agriculture, independent of
the spindles and looms and FORCES of
'ther countries, and II will be an easy
matter TO take care of our politics.
independence in our agricultural,
aud educational inter.
'sts Will give us a charming respecla-
,tlity among people who have
politely supplied ia with every
necessary aud every luxury, but in the
aud courtesies Of public AID
10 ial life, have been slow to give the
land shake OF warm hearted brather
You will see that have put Chat
anooga and Birmingham in the front
aux, among the progressive cities of
h. ; ,uth. Tn =" twp cities, IL Is
rue, have great natural advantages;
he one possessing natures gateway
nto the South surrounded hy un
OLD resources rhe other having
n quality, quantity aud proxim