The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-21

deposits lie Lne nnest Duildlng
marble AMI stone, of differing
t,nts; woods, hard aud soft, of
the highest quality that enter into
the construction of all hsbltations,.
from the hut to the palace; phos-
phate beds that, II properly dis
tlIbuted. would enilch the sterile
spots of les favored lands, per-
meated by railroads and navigable
Streams that make these regions
accessible to the commerce of
every CLINE. These favorable
conditions constitute this the most
INVITING field that ever tempted
the sloth of luxury or the cupidity
OF avrrice.
Tins broad Southland produces
enough of the cereals TO maintain
human life, more than halt ofihe
tobacco ot CONNER ce, and cotton
enough to clothe the world. Add
to these the I'm mense product of
sugar, rice, dsciduons aud cItroHs
fruits, and faint conception may
be formed of its capacities to
supply whatever is needed for
the sustentation and comfort of
human life. The well-recognized
I'M portance of its livestock inter-
ests; its ample grazing fields,
stretching from the Blue Grass
regions Of Kentucky down
through the Bermuda fields and
brakes of the Cult States,
evidence the fact that nowhere
else has nature afforded better
capacities for the profitable rear
ing of the horse, the COW, and
every domestic animal that minis-
tiers to the comfort of mankind.
In an article necessarily cIrcum-
scribed as this must be, it IS I'M
possible TO particularlze as to all
the varied and multlform excel
leuces of the Southland.
The South has Known the desc
latIon of war; its industries have
been i'm peded by civil conflict,
but it has demonstrated ITS rpcu
peratIve capacity under circum-
stances that would have appalled,
any other than descendants of
the Anglo-Saxon race, and has
achieved a degree prosperity y
and progress that has no parallel
IN history.
In the development OF what is
properly called the New South,
which is perhaps not altogether a
pleasant appeIIation to its own
people, there has, with the excep-
tIon of the press, been no single
agent more poten. than the occa-
slonal xposiIIo1s held within the
last ten years. The great expo
sItions Mt Atlanta, at New Orleans
ard at Louisville were followed
at once by an industrial revival
that extended throughout the ter
ntory immediately. Tributary ia
I those poIuts. and their beneficial
effect is still apparent, not only
, IN material evidences, but m the
spirit Of the people whose efforts
made them important exnonents
of aud stimulants to Indus RIA
J progress.
/ Indeed, valuable as was the adj
vertIsement they afforded of the
: resources Of the territory they es-
! pc ia;ly represented, II may safe
ly be said that they accomplished
their greatest good Ill their effecl
r on the communities whuse ener,
/ gies they called into play; fol
! Tie prosperity OF an American
+ community depends upon th,
spirit of its own people.
; Therefore it Is not merely as ;
, matter of national pride, or ever
7 Of local pride. or cfany other sen
, timental interest, that the World
Fair appeals to each State (
: make thoroughly represents
f i've display OF what is best with
IN It's borders.
! The exposisions mentioned
! above were more or less local II
4 character. The Centennial Elk
position of 1876 followed toc
closely after the prosfration o
The war for the South to have de
rived much benefit thereirom. Ii
1876 the South's resources wer'
D not even known.
j May It not, therefore, witt
{ propiety be urged that the who'll
'asuth, forgetting any of the preju
z that may have been engen
ed by the. war, and mIndfD
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