The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-19
GEoRGIA'S JUBILEE.


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an and that they will buy your surplus
M make blossom the waste places IN
tt9ur fields and run your factories While
i0ing TINS you can oe sure IN tAe lulute
~ You have been in the past, that you ana
-1,1r families will be surrounded by the
most impatient, faithIul, laW-aoidlns anu
iinresentful people tnat the WOrIq mas
n As we have proved our loyalty 10
-1-I in the past in nursing your children,
s-.-ehing By the sick bed OF your mothers
md fathers and often following them with
-s4r-dimmed eyes 10 their graves, 80 IN
- furure in our humble way We shall
Ind By YOU with a devotion tnaI no Iof-
igner can approach, ready TO lay down
i7- lives if need be, in defense OF yours,
Ne,-srlacing our industrial commercial,
tru and religious life with yours IN a y ay
c.sT snail make the interests Of both
Iiees one. IN all things that are purely
7ri8l we can be as separate as the nnSerss
81 one as the hand in all things essential
10 mutual progress.
Gentlemen of the Exposition: As we
,.rasenf 10 you our humble effort at an
+vribftion of our progress, you must
ro+ EXPECT Overmuch; starting thirty
lars ago with the ownership mere ana
;@re In a Few quilts and pumpkins and
chickens gathered Irom INSTANTANEOUS
eources). remember that the path that
Tas led us from these 70 the lnVehuoh
"a ,iroduction of agricultural implements,
TIrgies steam engines, newspapers,
ho0ks. statuary, carving paintings, the
- moi been troddn without contact with
t6orns and thistles. While We take Just
Dride in what we eXhlDlI as result o.
our independent EFFORTS, we 90 not Ior
moment forget that our part in TINS eN-
Li6ifion would fall far short Of your eX-
+tsetations but for the constant help that
nos come to our educational life not only
from the southern states, but especially
from northern philanthropists VINO have
made their gifts constant stream OF
blessing and encouragement.
There are millions of colored people
who live and who will live among many
more millions of white people. why snail
a1y one forge a race issue? Honest and
decent men will accord 10 the negro that
lust measure of favor as a member of So
giety the laws afford him, and which his
conduct deserves, and the long processes
of time will determine whether his pres
ence is a benefit or an injury to himslf
and 10 the land to which he is now as
warmly attached as mis- white neighbOrs.
No process of reasoning, no fertility OF
conjecture, no empirical legislation will
afford another solution of the so-called
question. Why agitate 1t then? 1t un-
necessary discussion, as | have already
said, has withheld from the resources of
these states the developing hand of the in
dustrious white man, whether farmer or
artisan who, earning a bare support else
where, could, in this genial cline, win an
abundance of which ne never dreamed.
IL is more cruel to the negro than it is
detrimental to the white men, for the pre-
JUDGE il aWakens causes the idle, ignorant
and lawless to become his suspicious en-
tmies. 1t is, indeed, source of alarm
TO those industrious and respectable ne
aroes whose intelligent labor and self-de-
uying habits have supported their fami-
lies, educated their children and added
millions annually to the taxable values of
these states. The true policy of our peo-
pie is to ignore the question and drench
with Vitr1Ol1c contempt the narrow, in
tense, inhniteSsimal creatures who forge
the issue and disturb the good feeling be-
tween the races to advance their polit-
zeal ends.
Some ultra-conservative people VINO
have doubted the propriety of inviting
% negro to take prominent part in the
programme We're enthusiastic in their
praise of his speech and it is generally
conceded that its effect will be happy
one.
The next speaker was George Brown.
who represented Gov. Atkinson, the gov
crnor having recently been very i'll, was
too weak to deliver an address, and had re-
quested Mr.. Brown TO take his place. Mr..
Brown, who is a leading lawyer in North
Georgia delivered twenty minutes
speech, dealing with the development of
the south, especially in cotton manufac-
lures ana received much applause at the
close. Next came Hon. Emory Speer, the
orator OF the day, who delivered an elab-
crate oration which was applauded all
the way through.
The following are extracts from the adj
OF the day.
This is indeed a happy day for our
country. Cold and dun must be the nature
OF that man who is insensible to these
convincing proofs gathered that the world
may see the Advancement of our people
on all the paths trending toward d more
perfect clNlllzauOn. The spectacle is i'll
deed suspicious The astounding mani
festations of the energy OF modern nations
eNalt while they amaze the understand
ing. They elevate and enrich the imagin-
alton and yet ii is impossible for tina;
AVely faculty to conceive the complete
reality of the wondrous and imperial dis
play. Such is the ennObling panorama
This exhibition of the possibilities of the
Young and potent nation win place be-
lore the sentient and ObserVant mfnG
lnconceivably significant of mightful ma
uonal life, and weghty beyond estimu-
IONS in its lessons of patriotic duty to the
people TO whom, according to their sew
efal ability, as in the parable of the tar
ents these potentialities for the advance
ment of mind have been entrusted by
the Master.
The substantial magnificence and ben
ehcent humaneness of this vast undertake
ING was possible only to the resolution
ana activities of free people. An auto
crat might rear these magic structures
and might gather this vast assembly An
Arctic island on the borders of Finlanc,
III summer a heap of mud, in winter "a
frozen marsh, accessible only by painless
forests and deep morasses, within a year
was hlled with population of 300,O men,
whom the Car Peter had forcibly assem-
ped to establish a new capital. These he
brought from the vast plains of Central
russia, the sandy desert of AstraK-
nan, the fertile meadows along the Don,
ana the bleak prOmOntories which pro-
Ject into the Caspian. WharVes, harbors
streets, palaces and fortresses were ere
ated at the will Of the despot as if he pos
Sessed the necromantic lamp of the Ara
ban story. Said Noltaire: The whole
was force upon nature. Neither the,
lnundation which RACED his works nor
the sterility of the soil, nor the ignor-
ahce of the wOrkmen, nor even the NOR
lahty which carried off about 100000 men
n the beginning of the undertaking, could
overt him from his firm resolution Thus
the material victories of autocracy have
neeh Woni without regard to the agony
lhlllcted upon its subjects Thus st. Pet
Srsburg was completed. But that states
" abode of bureaucracy and despotism
Is not more beneflcent to the people whose,
SIMPLE ancesto died under the knout
Tor Its construction than one of those
lantastical palaces of ice with annually
eAlter on the wintry banks of the Neva
Not so with creations such as this of
q free people. They are enivened by the
!91eAevoence of great and generous men,
iIhey are encouraged by the fostering
Aahd OF sympathetic popular govern
!Hent. They are symptoms of vigorous
national life. They are attended with
warm demonstrations of concern by a
people Impractical in the arts of dissimu-
!9uon. Whether the sagacious people of
tIe British Isles provide and perpetuate
the lucent glOries of the crystal palace
vi lne brilliant Frenchmen while the soil