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good display. A poor display is worse
than none at all.
The time has come for the most heroic |
exertlons on the part of the people OF
the South, and especially on the part of
the people of Tennessee.
The proposed Centennial Exposition
will give us an opportunity such as we
have never before enjoyed. From all
parts of the United States, and indeed
from all parts Of the civilized globe, men
skilled in the sciences and arts will
gather at Nashville to compare the re-
sources and capabilities of other cOun-
tries with those Of Tennessee. In this
contest
TENNESSEE HAS NOTHING TO FEAR.
Her natural advantages are without
rival. All the raw material that goes to
build up and sustain new industries;
the climate that strips poverty of half
its ills by destroying nearly all its suf-
fering; the healthfulness of the State
her central positions her grand water
courses that dip down into the State
like rainbows of promise; the past his
tory of her people-all these go to prove
that the Centennial Exposition will be
grand success and productive of the
highest results. Failure will be posi-
tive disgrace and merited calamity to
the State. Success will pour into the lap
of the State, and of the whole South, un-
told millions of dollars
In physical geography Tennessee is
an epitome of all the States that sur
round her An exhibition from her
eastern chain of mountains will repre-
sent equally the products of southwest
ern Virginia and western North Caro-
lima, one from the great valley of East
Tennessee and the Cumberland Mount
aims will be equivalent to an exhibition
from Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia and
| Alabama; exhibitions of the products
from the great Highland Rim and the
| Central Basin will be in effect an exhi-
bition of the products from central
Kentucky and northern Alabama, while
any display of products from the Pla-
teau Slope will be the same as one from
Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. All
these States, therefore, are deeply inter
ested in the success of Tennessee's Cen
tennial Exposition. Tennessee can
equal any portion of the world in the
extent, variety, excellence of her natu-
ural wealth, and of her possibilities
This is emphatically an era of restora-
ton. For thirty years the South has
been living on hope and drawing its in.
spiration from the past We have been
travelling through period of financial
uncertainty and tentative development
The very uncertainty of our ventures in
manufacturing and mining industries
has worked out the problem of success
We now know with certainty what oui
coal may be mined for and its quality
how muchit costs to. make ton of pil
iron and the character of every ore de
post; what may be relied upon in the
manufacturing of cotton and wooleI
goods, and how far agriculture may bt
pushed and in what special lines it ma,
be made profitable. The problem o
cheap labor as compared with intelligent
labor has found its solution, and the III
ture will see an uplifting in the capacity
and efficiency of the labor of the Soutl
by reason of its increased intelligence.
The Centennial of Tennessee will be
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the patriotic feelings of l776.
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
will mingle in fraternal greetings owe
hallowed memories. 1t will be an aus
picious moment for Tennessee, for neve
will the people in the North, or of tn
world, be in better frame of mind TO
; studying her physical resources THAI
when they become interested in the his
tory of her early struggles and patroti
endeavors. They will then examine no
with prejudiced, but with kindly
; eye our iron ores and timber, waite
power and coal fields and means o
, transportation, as well as our agricul
! tural advantages aud possibilities The,
win never be more disposed tQ.examin
; these Jewels of our State than whel
clasping hands with us over the sacre,
memories and traditions of the past.
: To make this exhibition a triumphan
success is sacred duty we owe to our
selves, to oar posterity, and to the illus
trious memory of our ancestors Mac
I auley, in effect, well SAYS that d peopl
who take no pride in the noble deeds c
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of which their descendants will b
proud. No excuse, other than wal
Il pestlence or famine can relieve us G
this sacred obligation 1t is our solcm
duty to make this exhibit in order to lie
our posterity know that despite tn
!. waste of war, the decentralization c
labor, the disheartening influence {
deep-rootpd prejudices, the people {
Tennessee and OF all the Southern Ian
have not been recreant to their tfus
n but have gone onward III growth an
u prosperity, have built up many indus
e tries have established school system
n that are ditiusing the light OF intellgenc
II all over the land and above all thu
e from the chaos left by the civil war the
e have evolved good government, an
u established law order and a high civil
e cation, such as becomes the descendant
/ of the Anglo-SaXon race, We oite
n hear of decay, but we see nothing bu
A, progress, While exhibiting what "
4 have done, we should show how niue
Is more may be accomplished by the use
is capital and skill which we may thus il
D. duce to occupy our rich fields whel
81 golden harvests may be gathered b
n their aid. With the influx of capiti
y and skilled labor invested with til
L sympathy of our people, and protecte
n and encouraged by our laws, the Sta
will move on to a proud destiny with
history embiazoned by heroic deeds an
illustrated by noble citizenship, by ma
e, niticent seats of learning, by a creditab
/ literature, and by rich development
at every industry that leads to fortune an
h. to fame.
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If SHOULD EACH COUNTY