The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-06

fused,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, tho all things differ, all
agree"
Gen. Winfield Scott, in his letter,
paid a fine compliment to Major Mark
\. Cooper as an old time soldier, when
Lee wrote as follows: Your latter
breathes much of the kindness of an
ancient brother soldier. and was laid
aside in the hope that, possibly. might
find time to make the agreeable excur-
sion, but . official duty - confines
Inc here" Gen. W. o.. Butler, of Ken
lucky. wrote: II am much pleased
to perceive that the American mind
is everywhere awaking to the para
mount Importance of agriculture and
like yours. in which the practical ex-
perience of the farmer is united with
the science of the scholar have already
done much for its advancement and
are destined to develop many of its
yet hidden treasures. President
Willard Fillmore said. in his letter:
II feel much solicitude in every meas
ure calculated to promote the agricul-
tural interests of the country, and
hail with pleasure every manifestation
of activity and enterprise on the part
of those engaged in that pursuit. which
promises to increase their prosperity
and elevate the standard of excellence
amongst them. / was therefore, pleased
to hear of your intended Fair, and sim
cerely trust ii may realize the highest
expectations of the most sanguine
amongst you. . I should be hap
by - to be present but
public duties deny me the pleasure.
This / might go on and quote from
other eminent men of that day, but
I have given enough to show in what
high esteem agriculture was held
fifty years ago by that class of citi-
Gems, and what value they placed upon
such fairs as were then held. What
would Washington and Jefferson and
Clay and Calhoun and Webster and
those other worthless say if they were
alive to-day and could witness the
South's marvellous development in agri-
culture and its kindred industries, and
also visit the Savannah Fair. And
Mrs. Hentz, how she would rejoice to
hear a thousand cotton factory bells
all over the South sending their notes
over gurgling streams and roar
ing rivers and our great water-power
canals! Not long ago the Morning
News referred to prophetic picture
published some years ago by Col. B.
". Wrenn. in the interest of his great
railway. I have that picture framed
as a most valuable prophetic view of
what the future then had in store for
the South in the way of agricultural
and industrial development. Col
Wrenn stands in the foreground, hold
ing back a curtain, and by this act he
reveals to the world the great New
South" so-called, eagerly waiting for
the men and money to inaugurate the
grand industrial and agricultural era
that is now making her the envy of
the world. Then Col. Wrenn's glowing
description of this land of promise,
whose gateway he represented, were
deemed fanciful. But in the light of
what Savannah's State Fair will show
to Georgia's Legislature on the open
ing day, his description will seem mild
What multitude of railroads have
since been built; what millions of dol
lars have been spent in Savannah,
Brunswick, Pensacola, Jacksonville
Mobile and Port Tampa, in terminal
facilities, for our rapidly increasing ex-
ports.
In support of Col. wrenns glowing
description of the South, the lament
ed Congressman w. D. Kelly of Penn
sylvania, called Pig Iron" Kelly. once
said THE historic glories which will
forever illunie the history of the South
belong to past era in which her
statesmen lived upon their farms:
were thoroughbred agriculturists and
gave their estates the benefit of all that
was known of the science and art of
agriculture. AS political philosophers
they led the world" Congressman
Kelly then referred to ''the richly en-
downed, beautiful and once command
ing South" But he also declared that
wealth and honor are in the (B. w
Wrenn) pathway of the New South,
her Impulses being those which are i'm
polling the advance of civilization, the
progress of wealth and refinement
throughout Christendom, as her re-
sources, including geographical posi-
ton and climate, are greater and more
diversified than those in the possession
of any other people of equal mum.
bers. She must at no distant day
break from the thraldom of the
| past, and resume her once proud posi-
| ton in the van of civilizations advanc-
| ing column. She Is the coming Ell Do
RADIO of American adventure. May the
Almighty speed and guide her onward
prograss." How rapid and wonderful
ly the predictions of Wrenn and Kel-
| ly are being made into history! Com
pare the State Fair of Macon, just
fifty years ago, with the State Fair OF
Savannah this week, and read part
of that history. Sidney Herbert.