The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-09-30
The south's Exposition.

From The New York sun
Governor Morton IS reported as eNpie -
ing himself amazed that city IKE Nu'ht'
mas baan able to carry through to success
-, .,t.rnrise Of the magnitude and com
,,,.be,sivcuess of the southern exposition
nov commanding the admiration OF every
visitor. H..
The growth OF Atlanta itself into a city
carahI. Of conceiving and p"rIteuhS sucH
an undertaking IS amaZing but ~ ls not ?"
surprising as the enterprise when IN lI'S
short ncriod Of twenty years only has de-
,eloped the industries and pushed forward
tho whole civilization Of the south. Ihe
southern states came out of the civh war
with fbef1 social organization disturbed ana
alrrr.t disrupted. with the spirits OF the
people crushed. with poverty pre- 'liu6'
and the system Of industry confused
Ia the south everything had 10 Toe bniided
anew after the war. It's cotton crop
which had been toward five million bales
in 1860 fen to q little NOR" than two
millions IN 1866 and iu 1861, ana II was not
,utl 1896 that ID reached the quantity Of the
YEAR before the war. During the ten years
succeeding the restoration OF peace ITS
nraercss was repressed Joy political aEen-
cl,s and methods hardly less crushing TO
orderly enterprise than war itself had been;
but as soon as these were removed, the
south started up auo marched forward with
the energy and elasticity Of n youthful peo-
ple fr, -h and bGayant. Ina 1891 and ISL IL
raised cotton crops twice as great as iAe
largest 10 had produced previous 60 the war.
Ia established Industries generally grew
with equal rapdity, and b introduced many
new departments ANA varieties of Produc-
ton which were developed with astonishing
results For the first time in its history
II began 20 discover or to get some coHcep-
ton az the richness of It's natural resources,
and IL went to work TO utilz. chem with
the tircless energy of pioneers.
one consequence is that today the most
prosperous part Of the union is the south.
/ u has done SO well that 1t is dissatisfied be-
cause Go has not yet attained all the pros
perity il sees is i'm the future II has the
/ Impotence of youth.
4 chief source of good fortune for the
I south H. in its labor from which both il
and its critics expected SO much evil II
has in the negroes "a laboring population
, which has been removed from the operation
/ of the causes which elsewhere have dis.
1 turbed labor so seriously. The negroes lik,
the south and the southern people. Will
Z comparatively few exceptions they haYi
I remained and increased i'm the southern
states. Attempts to colonize them else
where have been unsuccessful Almost uni
vcrsally they prefer TO stay whore they are
They are 10y nature a cOntentcd people
docile and afeetionate. They are entitle
10 a large share in the glory of the deVel
I opment Of the south, and it was just tina
in this southern exposition at Atlanta AM
at its opening they should have the proml
neut place allotted to them.
The south is now only in the beginning
1 OF SIS progress. 1t is taking the first step
merely in a forward march which in tween
~ years TO come will have carried it $
far beyond where il now is that its presen
advancement will seem slight compare
lively.
The southern states have the area an
resources whose development requires
population so much greater than they mo-
have that when the knowledge of the OF
poriunity extends and is made inviting b
southern enterprise immigration will pou
i'm rapidly