The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-23
HANN|5 TAYLOR
ION IN RAGE PROBLEM
Former Minister to Spain Speaks
Before Students Of Johns
Hopkins. :.
soUTH's GREAT PROSPERITY
Says That Abolition OF Slavery
Has Been the Greatest Bless
ing to the Southland.
soUTH's GREAT PROSPERITY

BALTIMORE, ND. February 22.-
The principal address at the annual
exercises to-day commemorative of tho
opening OF the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity was delivered by Hannis Taylor,
former minister to Spain. Mr.. Tay
Tor is professor of international and
constitutional law at George WASH
ington University, Washington. His
subject was1@rhe Relation Of the South
to Pending Problems, He regarded
the thirteenth amendment to the Con-
tstitution as a declaration of indepen-
dence, because lit set the South free
from "a dying institution.
Mr.. Taylor said in part:
Let every lover OF his country be
thankful that}the national spirit has
at last triunphed over the provincial
spirit, and3that tthe South was in the
ordeal cmaneipated from system
Which would ,haye consigned her to
say that at least one half of the entire
wealth EDf thef South was swept away
by the Civil War. While thus crippled
and broken she was called upon to
deal with such political problems as
had never before been presented to any
part of the l1nglish-speaking world.
It is a grave mistake to regard the
mighty problems arising out OF such
conditions as ariurcly sectional. T!h,y
We're in the highest sense national. and
III my humble, Judgment the honor of
their solution. so far as they have been.
solved. belongs IN a! large. degree to
wish to pay my homage in that large
and unsectional spirit which should
now, | think, intimate us ell, In that
spirit ] reverence the patriotic work
ing OF the Constitution. Just as /
reverence the work of Chief Justice
Marshall in The founding of It, The
work of rebuilding, oapatriotically be-
gun by Chase was pressed to Its CON
clusion by a stronger mentality. Tho
opinion Is RAPIDLY gaining ground that
the most. masterful expounder OF the
Constitution since Marshall was
Samuel L. Miller, whose definitions of
the new national citizenship created
by the Fourteenth Amendment have SO
profoundly affected the relations, of the
State and Federal governments to seach
other While the iuristic Statesmen
OF the North We're thus rebuilding the
Constitution and healing it's wounds
with medicine drawn from the subtitle
alchemy of judge made law, Pro-.
man In the South, who proved to boz
bold enough and wise enough TO res
cue his section from an impending
doom.
Senator George.
Where among the thoughtful men
OF the south can you now find one who
bodied in the Thirteenth Amendment?
For my part, regard that amendment
asa declaration of Independence, be-
cause it set my section free from a
dying institution 1 t has given us the
opportunity to be strong and rich and
independent, The first great mistake
was made when sudden and universal
emancipation was followed by sudden
ana universal cnfranchisement of
those entirely unprepared for citizen
ship. While the future OF the South
was stiil overcast by the consequences
OF g. that dreadful mistake, the, great
wise enough to perceive that an OK
post iacto remedy could be drawn
from the ample re-lousc In when
abide the reserve powers Of the States.
Tor Congress to Withdraw the right
to vote from all citizens within the
District OF Columbia, when, for a GER.
tain well-known reason. It was deemed
! teenth Amendment. In imposing the
single existing limitation upon the
power Of n state to regulate the fran
chise. only denies to#a State the. Hint
to take It away ION account Of race.
color, or previous condition of servi-
tude," such was the power and such
the limitation under which Senator
George worked while fubricatng the
new system Of Southern constitutions
upon whose luminous wings sllg is now
rising from her ashes ana establlsh--
ms u material prosperity which VIII
soon start!c tho world.
Property Wealth.
Prom 50 600, 100000 In 1870. the total
assessed property or tho South has N
creased until il now Is over $1,000, O00,-
600, q sum in o4cess of the total pos
j scssed by the rest of the Union IN lS0O,
Last YEAR tho farm products Of tho
south alone were valued at 100000
900 while her lumber, coal and IRON
ptodncts eSeeed sho0.0ooooo, or lhe
| twN'Gilyye millions Of bales Or sott3,l
\ Which alln row produces Annually, INC
South IL manufacturing nearly two
millions aud n half Of bales on her own
soil In some respects tho greatest In
d,ustry IN inc world Is the nan al., {,
ture OF cotton, and upon, the, south.
Whlch produces three fourt rs u INC en-
tire staple. that industry absolutely do
lpends, TO the SOUTH Europe ~ now
Sending nearly lour hundred millions
Ssnr, a sum ereater than the worlds
annual gold production. Withdraw no
cotton CROP OF the South and llnglan,d' !
Industrial uie would receive almost q
death blow. while tfat.of New ENGLAND
would tpitnr It's foundations. COT
ton Eth Az King,
u VIII venture 10 say that tho cx-