The record-union., 1896-03-04
RATHER WARM TERMS.
Resolutions Adopted by the Atlanta
Exhibitors Association.
Speeches ofTilIman and Evans OF South
Carolina Denounced in Em-
phatic Language.

During the late Cotton Exposition at
Atlanta, Ga, Senator TillInan and Gov
ernor Evans of South Carolina made
speeches in which they denounced the
North and the Union and said they be-
lIeved that the time would come when
the South would rise in favor of the
''lost Cause The Exhibitors Associa-
hion appointed a committee of five from
different parts of the country to draw
up resolutions expressing the sentiment
of the association on the speeches. The
resolutions were drawn by ]. A. Filcher,
a California Democrat, and were unani-
mously adopted, as follows:
Whereas, The public expressions of
representative men who have visited
the Atlanta Exposition have been of a
conciliatory character, marked by evil
dence of the broadest patriotism and the
most sincere fraternity; and
Whereas, This characteristic has
been true regarding the expressions of
distinguished visitors, whether those
visitors came from the North, the East,
the West or the South; and
Whereas, The friends and promoters
of the Atlanta Fair, by reason of the
many fraternal expressions their enter
prise had provoked from patriots of all
parts of the Union, had begun to regard
the more friendly relations between the
different sections of our common coun-
try as one of the best and most graft
flying results likely to grow out of their
EtupendOus enterprise; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Exhibitors Asso-
citation of said Atlanta Exposition, a
body composed largely Of American citi-
zens and representing all parts of the
Union and all shades of political opin-
ion, that we deeply deplore the one
marked and fragrant exception to the
heretofore prevailing expressions of
fraternity, brotherly love, patriotism
and loyalty that was made manifest at
this exposition on South Carolina day.
and in which Ex-Governor of that State
Zen Tillman, and the present Governor,
John Gary Evans, were the offenders.
Resolved, That we know from our
own contact and intercourse for the
past few months with Southern people,
that in their disloyal and infiammatory
utterances those two ranting dema-
gogues are a libel on the better class of
Southerners and do not give voice to the
prevailing Southern sentiment.
Resolved, That we sympathize with
the Southern States of our Union in the
affiction which compels them to endure
such blots on their inner worth and such
clogs to their merited progress; and we
especially sympathize with the igno-
rance that must yet prevail in South
Carolina to make il possible for such
scum to rise to the surface.
Resolved, That for the fame and
good name of the Atlanta Exposition,
at which these men were unfortunately
permitted to speak, we denounce their
speeches as being devoid of reason,
seEse and patriotism, and we repudiate
the speakers. In this we feel confident
we are but voicing the sense of our
country and the earnest feelings of the
better people of all the Southern States.
Resolved, That we sympathize also
with the management of this exposition
that under the cloak of temporary au-
thority two such fanatics should have
been able to intrude their utterances
factory proceedings that have charac-
terized this enterprise. But while dis
missing the utterances of these men as
unworthy of further notice from our as
sociation or the country we do not for
get that in the general economy of ma
ture mankind must have his troubles
and communities their Affections. 1t is
not many years since that California
was greatly annoyed by brace Of BAN