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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER II, 1881
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pcan government* had fora thousand yearn been great fertility and large area of the : Mississippi
meting their lawif on the l-'Yazoo") bottom within the limits of the Mate, tne
inference would be that the high position of the
slate's production is due to the-e fertile lowlands.
Hut a detailed discussion of the areas of production
shows that a little over one-fourth (27 per cent) only
of the cotton product of the state comes from the
Yazoo bottom, while over one half of the whole is
produced in what might be termed the first-class
constructing and reconstructing
subjects of production, manufacture, internal trade
and foreign commcrve. before the lines were made
on the map of the world which inclose the United
htales. Nor wus the new republic, baaed on the
principled of the declaration of American
independence, warmly or cordially welcomed into
commercial fellowship with countries governed by .
kings, emtiemrs, czurs. shahs and sultans and other i uplands, viz: the table-land belt bordering the Mis-
??? - - - ??? rippi bluff and the prairie belt. The remaining
one-fourth is grown scattering over the sandy up
lands. hearing more or less of the long and short-
leaf pine that form about half the area of the state.
It thus appears that the high production of Mis
.-iie-ippi is due to the fact that quite one half of its
territory i* occupied by soils of exceptional fcrtili-
tv. eoiijded with the circumstance that cotton cul
turn Is the one pursuit to which the population de
votes itself. *- * 0 v * * ?? *
It is evident that the stole of Mississippi alone could
produce the entire crop now grown in the I'nited
Slates.
Georgia stands second in total production, but
examination shows the causes that place the state
so near tothehighe*t in position to be widely dif
ferent from those obtaining in Mississippi. With
half a million more inhabitants than Mississippi,
the cotton product of Georgia is a little over half a
bale (0.53) per head, and the average product per
' ??? ??? ??? >.3I to
royal potentate*. Treaties were not made with us
iri the vurlier years of our independence, as with a
favored iintlou, in the language of diplomacy, and
lids was more es|M-ciidly true as to Great Britain than
any other power. VVc were, therefore, not free to
???choose our commercial policy with our governments
???as w e might have bceu had w e equaled theta in age,
-opportunity, development, wealth and experience.
Freedom of trade hu* a seductive sound, but if it
la 1 not rc iprrsal, and of equal advantage among
nations, it b attractive only in sound, and notli-
ing more. The policy of a wise government ia
necessarily one of self-interest, and it has a trust to
perform in the care of its own people before carry-
trig its benevolence to others. The policy of a free
and Unrestricted exchange and silt- of commodities
between commi-ieiiil eotlnlries has, for the last
fifty years esj-cclally, been the theme of eulogy on
the part of Itritish writer* slid statesmen, but Jt can
not be forgotten that this policy was never advanced
???on the pan of Great Britain until.by hundreds of
years of not merely protective but prohibitory legis
lation, she had so fostered and built
up her home industries, and at the twine
time so chca|>eiicd the w ages of abor. that competi
tion on the port of other nations was no longer
feared. The student of history has hut a short dis
tance to go in the |sist in order to hud Knglish laws
-denouncing the barbarous penalties of death and
mutilation against the importation of certain ninn-
tifariurcd goods; iiud also against the im|sorta![on
and exportation ofcertuiuiigriculiuml prialuctions'
huch absolute exclusiveness in trade us theeomiKir-
ntive recent history of England present* can hardly
lie found in any other country outside of China.
The British coni laws, originating in lain, in the
reign of fid ward III, ami repealed only thirty-five
years ago. constituted the most elaborate and com
plete barrier to the exchange of agricultural
productions ever conceived by man, and
they were accompanied for centuries by the
almost total prohibition of manufactured
importa 't hese statutory restrictions of trade closed
the markets of Great Britain to the grain grow ing
regions of lire world, slid to foreign mauiifaclures,
except upon certain hard conditions, and in hilt few
instances. They also set an example on the subject
of protection to home industries of ail kinds which
strongly influenced the policies of all the neighbor-
trig nations of Kurope. It wus in the face of such a
system us this, supported by the laws and interna
tional usages of nearly live hundred years, that
American statesmen were tint called upon to frame
a system of commerce for their ow n country which
would most surely develop its roeou rees.give employ
ment to its citizens, mid render it indcje-ndeni mid
imiw erf til iiniong jealous uud unfriendly monarchies.
The American people were confronted with the
.ullcriiulive of purenasing all manufactured pro
ducts ncccmnry to liieir existence and comfort from
-iliroad. without even free markets in Kurope for
their gain; or, oil ti ;JK ther hand, adopt such
measures as Would inaket eni r St self ustainiug.
and eventually fonnidnuic eompetitoi in every
brunch of skill and labor. As a purely agricultural
people, devoted to that alone, it would have been
oltr mission to feed ourselves and starving millions in
???-other lands; but with our labor diversified, und capi
tal encouraged in every channel, we have |>erform
ed that mission, and one of iiitiiiitc progress ami
glory besides. The homes of the people, those
salietuuriesof a nation???s advancement uml stn-ugth,
where civiii/niiou begins, mid where its richest flow
ers first peep forth uud exiaiud lu lieauty, have been
-furnished, adorned and brightened by the labor of
home. The giant improvements of the age, like
mighty pulsating arteries, have carried develop
ment and wealth to tatr remotest boundaries, and
the whole world has Pi ken note of the fuel that we
are a people equipped with an almost perfect com
bination of all the industrial arts and pursuits.
T here are some faults und blemishes, as in all
things human, out in the main the work which our
fathers begun lias beep carried forward iu magnifi
cence and honor.
As every people, however, have their different
eni???, in which new systems of thought mid action
???ire conceived, or new applications made of old and
tried ones, may we not he convinced by mi occasion
like tile present, and by the whole current of pass
ing event*, that we stand now upon the threshold
of a new era in American enterprise, development
und history? lines it not appear as if a wider field
is i in-ning for the application of those principles
which have already made the American name so
renowned? The last quarter of h century inis been
very full of instruction to the people of every sec
tion of tlie I'nited Slates. Some errors have been
-corrected in every quarter, mid additional light,
though nt a painful cost, has been thrown upon
many subjects. This is a World of compensations,
and it scents to me that for the sorrows
???of the past we are now standing in the dawn of a
la tter day th in American history has ever known,
uud Unit the splendor of its unclouded sun will
soon break over our heads. Sir, the south enters
tlie arena to contend, for the first Ume, for the
supremacy iu nil the industrial pursuits. She
comes with the light of youth and hope
???tu her loop, her eyes no longer red with Weep
ing, und every patriotic heart in the north
aniiitcs her here nil these grounds witli a fraternal
???iibroce. Tills is a Held of peaceful strife over
???which Ute angels in heaven have joy. The south
and the north meet here with oue language, oue
, itory, one government, one allegiance, oue ling
tid one heart for the prosperity of all. Those whom
Its! hatli thus joined together let no man seek to
klicnutc or pul asunder:
iPpl
0.-16). A detailed examination of the soils of Geor
gia shows that her area of what in Mississippi are
considered first and seeond-clasH soils is very limi
ted-far more so thun is the case in the neighboring
state of Alubiimu. Yet Georgia stands siightly
ahead of Alabama in the average cotton product per
acre, und is only a trifle behind in production per
capita (0.53 to 0.55). In oUter words, the high posi
tion of Georgia is due, not to natural advantages,
but to better cultivation of the soil, the use of fer
tilizers, and the thrift of an industrious population.
Report* also show a considerable extension of the
area of cotton culture to, and even beyond, the
Blue Ridge.
Tlie geographical position of Alabama between
the states standing at the head of the list given
double interest to the question regarding the causes
of her position in the same, which would be the
third place, but lor the enormous area of Texas,
w here the spurs,- population has thus far picked the
best lands. Alalmma is a newer Mate than Georgia.
an.1 there reach into it from Mississippi tlie two bells
of rich prairie lands which terminate short of the
Chattahoochee. Northern Alabama is almost iden
tical in its UKrictilttir.il features with northern Geor
gia: and we should therefore expect to find a much
more marked difference in favor of Alabama than
is shown in the figures above quoted. The infer
ence seems irresistible that while Mississippi is still
partly within the period of the first lluslt of fertili
ty, and Georgia has reached the stage when the use
of fertilizers Is renovating her fields, the soils of
Alabama have passed the first stage, and her popu
lation hits not yet realized the necessity of sustain
ing the soil's power* by fertilization.
Cotton culture in Florida is chiefly confined to
the northern part of the state, lying adjacent to
Georgia. This is mostly pine land, aiul is cultivated
without manure: hence the low product of less Ihnu
a quarter of a bale per acre. Notwithstanding this,
there has been a resjieetablc increase in production
since 1*70, though not so lage a* that of tlie popula
tion, a circumstance doubtless due to the prominent
msition which the culture: of tropical fruits
ms assumed during the past decade,
tid to which most of the newcomers
have given their attention. No cotton is
returned from the portion of tl.e state lying south of
Tampa bay, and but little from the coasts, as well
as from the extreme western part. The cottou-
growiug counties show nu average product of 0.2G,
ora little over a quarter of a bale per inhabitant.
Tennessee presents the striking fact of a total pro
duction less than Imlf of tlmi of Alabama, but with
an average product per urre one-half greater, equal
even to that of Mississippi. The cause of this state
of things becomes apparent when we circumscribe
the regions of production in accordance with tlie
nntunil divisions of the Mate, it then np
pears that the portion of Tennessee lying east
of the "central basin?????? (the valleys of the
Cumberland, I>uck and Klk rivers, with tributaries),
from tlie eastern highland rim to the line of North
Carolina, and comprising nliout one-third of the
area of the state, produces only about 1 per cent of
the total amount of cotton, while *1 per ccut of this
total Is produced in the country lying between the
Tennessee and Mississippi river*. More than this,
within this region the average production per in
habitant is 0.52 of a bale, and n little less 10.10 of a
bitie) per acre, while the average for the entire
state, )a;r Inhabitant, is out- 0.21 of a bale. Again,
of the above S4 per cent, 70 belongs to the two tiers
of counties- lying nearest to the Mississippi
river. Of these, only a small portion Is bottom
land of the Mississippi river, the greater part by far
being gently rolling uplands ("table lands"), such
a* form a large body in northwestern Mississippi
also, and extend, gradually narrowing, as far south
as Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It thus appeurs that the cotton production of Ten
nessee is concentrated upon a comparatively small
area of highly productive land, the rest being de
voted preferably io grain, tobacco, grasses and other
industries, to which the soils und climates are
more specially adapted, while in the other cotton-
growing Mates cotton is very generally grown as a
matter iif course, regardless of other cultures, of
which tlie partial pursuit, at least, would in the
end be more profitable than exclusive cotton plant
ing.
i .The relations which the southern states hear to the
great questions of production and manufacture an:
of Vital amt overshadowing importance. Here
stretches, through many degrees of longitude and
iBilude, that mighty cotton bolt which startled and
revolutionized the trade of the world less than a
-century ago; whose fields, with their tinted blos
soms, are- richer uud more valuable to mankind
than all tlie mines of gold and diumond fields of the
-earth. It was once thought that the cotton planta
tion wits dependent upon a certain system of lnbor.
The rapidly increasing production of cotton during
the last fifteen years lias, to the joy of the world,
exploded that error. It is the creature of intelli
gent industry by whomsoever bestowed, it in
vites the labor of every nativiiy ami color, and re
munerates them all. But there is a far higher re
muneration titan has ever been given by cotton yet
in store for the laborer, the manufacturer, tlie south
and the eullrc country- In the midst of the cotton
plantations themselves there Is a career for nuuiu-
laetmiug development such us the world has not
yet seen. Nature here is not only lavish in her
gift* to the agriculturist, but she invites the raann-
lai-tun-r also with matchless inducements. With
-coal, iron anil timber in perfection and inex
haustible, und water power everywhere, by
what rule of political economy should the
.Minihern people send tlieir cotton, at an ex
pense always deducted from its price, to distant
sections and foreign countries to la- spun uud
woven? If the manufacturer iu Great Britain,
transporting hi>cotton from India and the I'nited
Elates, can realize substantial profits, why may they
not he realized here, and thus render an aid to the
general welfare-? We have seen the manufacturer
of New England. lit u long distance- from a produc
tive base of supplies, mm a sterile country into the
seal of culture, refinement and wealth. Why shall
not tlu- south put forth its energies and reap the
same, and a fur greater reward? Hen- the eottou
grows up to the-doorsteps of your mills, and sup
ply and demand clasp hands together. The average
exportation during the last ten years, from these
wonderful fields to England aud other European
port*, has been over 3,000,000 of halo* per annum;
while to the mills of New England and other north
cm states another million have been annually ear
ried away from your midst, and from the best man
iifuetiiring region on ihe globe. Jt is my firm be
lief that this policy on tin- part of the south will
not long continue. Sooner or later 1 expect to set
thus- principles of legislation which have filled olh
:-r sections with prosperity applied to the manu
faclurinc interests of the south. The spirit of even
handed justice seems to call for this. Tlie manu
factories of the eastern aud middle state-Avere nur
tured by the government when tumble to stand
alone. 1 am prepared to say that within proper
and safe limits, and with primary consideration for
the agriculturalist hs the foundation and begin
ding of everything, the same policy of encourage
men: which has heretofore, in general, marked our
legislation should now be continued to the in
fant manufacturing Industrie-, --f the south and of
the west. There is such a thing as fair play in the
history of a people, and the time has now come for
he south, in my opinion, to enjoy its fruits. There
s a gigantic double profit within your reach if von
will put forth your hands and take it. The profit of
???lie producer you already have; the profit of the
aannfueturer???which enriches nations???is your* to
???ominand; it awaits vour call, and if I mistake not
be meaning of this day, the call has been made.
Be assured that it will be answered. It is my fond
iope and belief that he who is 'living
wenty-fivo years hence, will behold the
ranstiguration of the south. New industries, itt-
s-oming capital, and teeming populations are-
in More for her future. The cotton belt proper, ex
tending from North Carolina to Texas will be
studded with gems more resplendent than ever
??? shone on the belt or diadem of rovalty. Along the
??? banks of southern streams, inlet* and bavs, new
???hies and villages will arise, sending to all tire- mar
ket* of the world the manufactured productions of
he neighboring plain*.
The blast furnace, the rolling mill, the nail factory
rill ail be here- to manufacture the iron of your
djaivnt mountains. Workers in brass, copper
nd wood will in the coming years find employ-
aent here where nature lias provided every material
t abundance. Thrifty and intelligent lmpulations.
ne greatest of all wealth, will come from distant
:*srts and swarm into your rich valU-vs. and climb
he slnj.es of your mineral lands. Who' shall say that
nis vision will not be fulfilled? The Creator has
ere spread His amplest bounties for the human
tee, and the south now for the first time, with the
uthority of circumstance and ceremonv, invite* the
ipital and laltor of the world to assist "in their de-
elopnient. In order to rivet the attention of
1-servers to the capabilities of the cotton belt and
ts different localities for investment and enterprise.
. take the liberty of submitting an advance sheet of
lie forthcoming census report for 1SS0:
THE COTTON STATICS t-ROPKR.
MUfxdppi stands first in total production, while
sixth in population amoug the eottou states, thus
bringing nj.it* product to 0.!H. or over eight-tenths
Ol ??Ml! rsr head, .u li..; la tint, oi a**
Arkansas produces its608,000bale* (in round mint-
in of acres, making
ightly higher titan
il 0.76 of a bale per
bore) on somewhat over a million
the average product per acre *li:
that of Louisiana, viz; 0.5S, anil
inhabitant. A cursory examination shows that by
far the greater portion of the cotton produced come*
from the eastern and souther i portion* of the state,
which contain* a large projiortion of bottom lands,
while in the extreme northern and north
western counties but little cotton is grown.
The form of returns make* it diffi
nit to segregate the production of the up-
lands and lowlands in this ease, but the product per
acre of Chieotoounty stands second to the highest
on the list, aiul it is safe to assume that, on detailed
discussion, the average production ol uplands and
lowland* will he found to be, respectively, about
tlie same as iu Louisiana, lu .both state* alike the
use of fertilizers lu the large scale of production of
cotton may be regarded a* wholly insignificant in
its influence on the general result.
In the case of Louisiana, as in that of Tennessee,
u considerable portion (about one-fourth) of the
state is devoted mainly to other culture* than that
of cotton, the sugarcane gaining precedence iu the
lowland country lying south of the mouth of Red
river. In which only about 6 percent of the total
amount of eottou is jiroduccd, but at the average
rate of 0???S0 bale J>er acre. Nearly tlie same, or a
slightly higher average per acre, is obtained in the
alluvial lands north and west of the mouth of Red
river, and in the Red river valley itself. The
small parish of East Carroll in the
northeast corner of the state, ha* the
highest average product per acre of any county in
tin- cotton states (0.95 of a bale), aud stand* second
in total production within the shite. It will be noted
that East Carroll corners upon Washington county
Mississijqii, and adjoins Chicot county, Arkansas;
both representing maxima of production in their
respective states. We have lien-, apparently, tlie
center of maximum cotton j??roduction on natural
soils in the I'nited States, and probably iu the
world.
The average product per acre in the uplands of
Louisiana is approximately half of that of the low
land* (0.41): and as the average for the state is
0.5t', it follows that somewhat more than half the
acreage in cotton belongs to the uplands, while the
lowlands yield nearly two-thirds of the entire
amount. This predominance of lowlauds cotton
explains the higher average product per acre iu
Louisiana, as compared with Mississippi where less
than one-third of the cotton production comes from
the Yazoo bottom lands. Within the eottou grow-
iug region proper, the average production is
ujiproximately 0.95 of a bale per
habitant ; hut as thisfigure excludes the entire pop
ulation of the city of New Orleans, so largely iuler-
t-sted in cotton, it is no: fairly comparable with the
proportion exiting in other states, if oue-haliof the
population of the city be taken as roaiuly interested
in cotton, tlie per capita proportion would stand
O..S0 bale.
The great state of Texas stands third in the list of
total production, while first in j>o)>ulation, among
the cotton states. The fact show n toy the figures of
acreage und total production, namely, that in the
average product jier acre it sum (is eleventh in rank
0.37), will be a surprise io most persons, and is
loubtic** in part to be accouuted for as an accident
of the season, the year JS79 having been an unusu
ally dry one, and therefore especially unfavorable
to a country in which so laige a proportion of the
staple is grown on upland soil*. Among these the
heavy black prairie soils, so highly productive in
favorable seasons, are notoriou-.lv the first to suffer
from drouth, it is probable that in ordinary sea
son* the average product per acre iii'Texas would
approach more nearly that of Mississippi or South
Carolina.
A discussion cf the returns shows that 52 per cent
of the cotton jiroduct of Texas is grown iu thenorth-
easteni ]*irtio:i of the state, north of the thirty-sec
ond parallel and east of the ninety-eighth meridian,
aud that within this region the production Is highest
in the counties adjoining Red river, the product
averaging 0..M bale per acre. Southward of the
thirty-second parallel the average yield is
0.31 bale per acre. The coast coun
ties produce but little cotton: inland,
between Red river and San Antonio, about 35 per
cent of the total product is grown on black prairie
land, the average product per acre on such land be
ing (in 187?) 0.34 bale per acre. A comparison of
the returns of the prescut census with those of the
preceding one shows that within the last decade the
region of cotton production has extended seventy-
five miles to westward. On the south but very lit
tle cotton is grown south aud west of the Nueces
river.
Compared to the area of fertile lands susceptible
of cotton culture, the present cotton acreage of Tex
as is almost insignificant.
The cases of the two Carolina*, with resjiect to
cotton production, are nearly alike, and may as
well be considered together. In both states the
average cotton product per acre is high as compared
with that of Georgia ana Alabama, and, in the case
- - - ??? ' of Mississippi
pla
culture upon a permanent foundation, by adopting
a system of regular return* to the soil; and the high
product per acre, as compared with Georgia aud
Alabama ou the one hand aud with Mississippi on
the oilier, exhibit* tellingly tlie tide wave advancing
westward, the ebb of Uie first native fertility in
Alabama and Florida, the rising tide of restored
productiveness i:i tlie Carulimut, with Georgia on the
westward slope of the wave, ou which it is risilig
and showing distinctly a higher product per acre in
its eastern than in its western portion, where the
use of fertilizer* is much less extended.
Throughout all this vast extent of country, and
portions of certain oilier stale* be ides, therupabili-
ties of the south tor cotton-raising and for manu
facturing her own productions are praetieaUy with
out limit. There are young men and women now lis
tening to me who w ill a* certainly behold a crop of
twenty million bales in the future as they have
seen one of five millions in the past. And they will
with the same certainty, behold the purchasers of
the whole world coming here not only tor their sup-
ply of the raw material, hut also for manufactured
goods iu sueh quantities as to role all markets,
foreign and domestic. Much is tlie great aud puis
sant future which 1 foresee for the south, springing
forward, ns she now is, to grasp all the improve
ment*. the inventions, and the progression of the
{ ???resent age, aud all the benefits and blessings of
ier government.
???Sir. I come from the northwest, and I bring to
you tin- huil of Iiojhi, good cheer, and American
brotherhood from every true and manly heart in all
that raightv region. We, too, like yourselves,
are a producing people, and liuve derived our
riches and our power from the soil, but the time has
come for 0s, as well as for you. to devendfv our la
bor und give it a wider range for employment; to
manufacture for ourselves the necessaries and
comforts of life, and to reap the advantages which
arise from activity and production in all
the industries. Indiana is leading iu that direction
witli an agricultural productiveness scarcely equal
ed in projiortion to area anil population on the face
of the glol??e. Hite i* at the same time rapidly devel
oping her manufacturing resources and bringing
iuto Harmony all her industrial pursuits. In IK'S)
Indiana produced more wheat than all the New
England states. New York, New Jersey. Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia. North Carolina. South Car
olina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida. Louisiana aud
exas combined: more, as it will be seen, than
all the Atlantic seaboard and gulf states,
with the exception of I'ennsylvania. put together.
Iu the same year her com crop was greater than
that of all the Atluutie states north of Virginia, in-
eluding Pennsylvania and all the New Eugland
states, and adding to them tlie crop of tlie great
state of Texas, she is the second state for wheat
und the fourth for com in the union, with far less
territory than any state which surpasses her. Yet
the ja-oplc of Indiana, with all thei tremendous
capacity for agriculture, are not content to ignore
all the other branches of remunerative industry.
They arc reaching forth their hands, guided by skill
and intelligence, to develop all the bounties of na
ture and to pluck fruit* in all the fields of labor.
And if iu paying a tariff tax for government sup-
port, as revenue, they find that the laws compelling
them to do so likewise foster,encourage and protect
their young and growing manufactures of iron,
hard wood, glass, wooleu anil cotton, they will re
gard them with favor, as the result of wise legisla
tion. Indeed, they will demand such
uu adjustment of the tariff as to insure
that end. The interests of this country are
rapidly becoming homogeneous, and the interests
of diflerent sections do not clash as they once did.
With the exception of the queMion of transjiorta-
tiou as an outlet for the productions of interior
states, like my own, aud the consequent improve
ment of the Mississippi river and her tributaries as
cheap water lines to the seaboard, there is but iittle
left to excite a struggle likely to be defined by sec
tions. Blessed are the peacemakers between the
sections, and blessed is that peace and community
of interest and of feeling which now prevail, ana
which are growing stronger as time goes on!
And now, sir, my duties on this occasion are
drawing to a close. Soon this grand exposition
will lie declared formally open; a few moments
more and the first world???s fair on southern soil will
begin its three months??? career' All the nations will
take note of the experiment Your brethren of the
east, of the north aud of the west are looking ou.
hoping all thiugs. and believing all thing*favorable
to its success. After* little while it will take its
place iu histerp, and from that point may a new era
of national jirosjierity he ojieued before the Ameri
can jieople, aud may they be inspired with new aud
lasting affection for cach'other.
THE EXPOSITION OPE.
Hon. N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, was introduced
and read the ???Exposition Ode,??? written expressly
for the occasion by Mr. 1???aul 11. Hayne, of Georgia.
It was os follows:
I had a vision at that mystic hour.
When in the ebon garden of the night
Blooms the Cimmerian flower I
Of doubt and darkness, cowering from the light:
1 seemed to stand on a vast, lonely*'height.
Above a city, ravished and overthrown;
The air about me, oue long, lingering moan
Of lamentation, like a dreary sea.
Scourged by the storm to murmurous weariness :
Thou, from dim levels of mist-folded ground,
Borne upward suddenly;
Burst tlie deep-rolling stress
Of iubiiaut drums, blent with the silvery sound
Of long-drawn bugle notes, the clash of. swords,
(Outltashed by alien lords)???
And warrior-voices, wild with victory!
They could not quell the grieved and shuddering air
That breathed about me its forlorn despair;
It almost seemed as if stern triumph sped
To one whose hopes were dead.
And flaunting there his fortune???s ruddier grace,
Smote, with a taunt, wan misery iu the face!
Lo! faraway,
fFornow my dream grows clear as luminous day.)
The victors??? campfires gird the city round.
But she, unrobed, discrowned,
A new Andromeda, beside the main
Of her own passionate pain;
Bowed, naked, shivering low,
Veils the soft gleam of melancholy eyes,
(Yet lovelier iu their woe.)
Alike from hopeless earth and hopeless skies:
No Perseus for her sake, serenely fleet,
Shall cleave the heavens with winged and shilling
feet;
Ah, me! the maid is lost???
For sorrow like keen frost
Shall eat into her being???s anguished core:
Atlanta, (uot Andromeda iu this).
What outside Helper can bring buck her bliss?
Cau re-tUuminc beyond its storm-built bar.
Her youth's Auroral star.
Or wake tlie aspiring heart that sleeps forevermore?
Oh! lying prophet of a sombre mood,
This city of our love,
Ia no poor, timorous dove.
To crouch and die unstruggliug in the mire;
If for a time she yields to force and fire.
Blinded by battle smoke aud drenched with
bliHsl.
???Still must that dauntless hardihood,
Drawn toiler veins from out the iron hills,
(Nerving the brain that toils, the soul that wills)
.Shake off the lotus languishment of grief!
I see her rise, aud clasp her old belief
In God and goodness, with imperial glance.
Face the dark front of frowning circumstance
While trusting only to her strong right arm
To wrench from deadly harm
A11 civic blessings, and fair fruits of jicace!
High souled to gain???(despite her ravished years).
And dragon forms of monstrous doubts and fears.
The matchless splendor of toil???s "golden fleece!???
I see her rise, aiul strive with strenuous hands
Firmly to lav.
The fresh foundations of a nobler swaj ???
War-wasted lunds,
Laden with ashes, gray and desolate:
Touched by the charm of some regenerate fate???
Flush into golden harvest* prodigal:
???Set by the steam-god'* fiery passion free,
1 hear the rise and fall
Of poudrotis. iron-clamped machinery
Shake, ns with earthquake thrill, tho factory halls,
While round the massive walls
Flow vapor like a sinuous serpent steals;
Through which revolve iu circles great or sural],
The deafuing thunders of the tireless wheels.
Far down each busy mart,
(That throbs and heaves as with a human heart).
Quick merchants pass, some debonair and gay.
With uudimmed youthful locks???
Nome wrinkled, sombre, gay;
But all with oue accord
Dreaming of him???their lord.
The mighty Monarch of the realm of stocks.
And year bv year her face more frankly bright,
Glows with the ardor of the blooodiesa fight
Fot bounteous empire, o???er her cherished south,
ltle upon her maiden mouth.
Grain of the uplaud and damp river bed
In yellow stalks, or sifted meal for bread:
rnnumbered births of Ceres, clustered nigh:
Beholding which???as touched by tropie heat???
(The old-world picture never can grow old.
Nor the deep love that thrill* it dumb and cold)
Clean fancy looks on Booz in the wheat;
And in her simple truth.
The tender eyes of Ituth.
Holding the garnered fragments at his feet:
But piled o???er all. thro' many an unbound baie
Peenng to show it* snow-white softness pale???
Snow-white yet warm.'and destined to be furled
In some auspicious day.
Forwhieh we yearn and pray.
Round the halt naked misery of the world;
A fleece more rich than Jason???s glances down;
Ah???, well, we know no monarch???s jewelled erown
No marvelous Koh-i-nor,
Won first i>ereliance from gulf* of human gore.
Or life-toil of swart millions gaunt and poor.
Hath e???en outshone its peerless sovereignty???.
The wings of songunfold
Toward thy noontide???gold???
The eyes of song are cleur,
{Turned on thy broadening sphere).
To mark. oh! city of the midland weald
And follow thy fair fortunes far afield.
The years unborn.
Doubtless must bring to thee
Trials to left thy spirit???s constancy,
(While qi.tiSiR ahe
PERRY DAVIS??? PAIN KILLER.
PERRY DAVIS???
PAIN KILLER
iens wear the mask of scorn),
???ks without thee, aud within,
' sliylocks hot to win
nil things glibly, sav
iny a subtler ill.
hose boundless maw
the law!
Financial
Wrought!
Their'
Ravag
Can swa
Adtouiyi
Sudden and subtle as the ambush laid.
Bv blaek-browed???stranglers??? ???raid an orient glade;
But thou, with keenest will,
Shallt cut tlie bonds of stealthy fraud apart.
And if force fronts thee with a murderous blade,
Bierce the rash son of Anek to tlie heart!
Oh, Queen! thy brilliant horoscope
Wus cuM by lldios in the halls of nope;
And hope becomes fulfillment asthv tread
Firm-placed between tlie living ami tlie dead.
Wins the high grade which owns a heavenward j
slope;
For force and fraud undone.
And stormless summits won.
In thee I view heaven???s purpose perfected!
Thou shalt be empress of ail jK-aeef ul ties.
All potent industries.
All ivorld-embraeing magnanimities:
A warrior Queen, no more, but mailed in love.
Thy spear a fulgent shaft of suti-steeped grain,
Thy shield a buckler, the field-fairies wove
Of strong green grasses, in the silvery noon
Of som full harvest moon
Thv stainless crown, red roses blent with white.
Now, throned above the hulf-forgotien pair
Of dreadful war, and war???s remorseless blight.
Thy heart-throbs glad and great.
Sending thro??? all tby Titan Matured state
F'resh life, and gathering tides of grander power.
From glorious hour to hour.
Thousands thy deeds shall bless
Witli Mreuuous pride, toned down to tenderness,
Shall bless thy deeds, exalt thy name,
Till every breeze that sweeps from hill to lea,
And every wind that furrows the deep sea,
* ranee of thy soul abroad???
The sweetness and the splendor of thy fame???
For thou, midmost a large and opulent store
Of all tilings wrought to meet a nation???s need???
Thou, nohlv pure
Of any darkening taint of selfish greed,
Wert pre-ordained to be
Purveyor of divincst charity???
The love-commissioned Almoner of God!
La Fayette, Indiana, Sunday Times.
Our city druggists report an immense sale
of St. Jacobs Oil, saying the demand is based
upon the popularity of its success. Wherever
it lias been used, it lias proved its value a
thousand fold, and receives its best encomi
ums from those who have tried it.
IS A PURISTjY vegetable remedy
FCR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USE.
A Sure snd Speeds Cure for Sore Throat, Coughs, Colds, Diphtheria, Chills, Diarrhea,
Dyscntonf, Crimp?, Cholera, Cummer Complaint, Sick Headache, Neuralgia, Cuts,
De\j!v.??fN, Sprains, c.j.
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Eveiry buyer should
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octC dim???thur sat tuesiiwlm
ESTEY ORGAN CO., Atlanta, Ga.
MACHINERY.
HEGE???S IMPROVED
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS,
WITH UNIVERSAL LOG BEAM,
Rectilinear Simultaneous Set Works and Double
ECCENTRIC FRICTION FEED.
Manufactured by the
Salem Iron Works,
8ALEM, N. C.
WARNER???S SAFE CURE.
J. H. ANDERSON
Is made from a Simple Tropical Leaf of Rare Val
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???for Torpid Liver???Headaches???Jaundice??? Dizzi
ness, Gravel, Malaria, aud all difficulties of the
Kidneys, Liver, and Urinary Organs. For FEMALE
DISEASES, Monthly Menstruations, and during
Pregnancy, it has no equal. It restore* the organs
that MAKE! the blood, end hence is the best BLOOD
PURIFIER. It is the only khoivn remedy that cures
BRKiHTS'H DISEASE. For Diabetes, use WAR
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For Sale by Druggists and Dealers nt $1.25 per bot
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H. H. WARNER &CO., Rochester, N. Y.
febl???d&w24m sun wed fri lix ril mat top col
More.sweet the tun:
Just rounding into curves ol womanhood,
Because all unwith stood.
The magic of her power and stately pride
Hath called from many a clime
Of tropic sunshine and of winter rime.
The w orld's skilled art aud science to her side;
Hence from her transient tomb
Three lustra since, a hideous spot to see.
Grows themajeMic tree
Of heightening and green-leaved prosperity;
Hence, her broad gardens bloom
With rose and lily, and ail flowers of balm;
And hence, above tiie lines
Of her vast railways, droop the laden vines.
A luscious larges* thro??? the summer calm;
* o if 0 * S
Feeling her veins, so full of lusty blood.
That pulsed within them, like a rythmic flood,
And eager for sweet sisterhood, the bond
Blissful and fond,
That yet may bold all nations in its thrall,
Atlanta, from a night f splendid dreams.
Roused by soft kisses of the morning beams.
Decreed a - glorious festival
Of art and commerce in her brave domain:
Site sent her summons on the courier-breeze.
Or thro??? the lightning-winged wire
Flashed forth her soul's desire.
Swiftly it passed
O???er native hills, and streams, and prairies vast,
g>P??*f h 5* th ????? 01 MtsstsMpp. : ??? rI au ., streams, aim prairies vast,
itself. Without entering into details on thesubject And o???er waste barriers of dividing W.
of the distribution of cotton production in these 1 Till from all quarters, like quick tongues of flame
states, it may be broadly stated that the culture of : That warm, but burn not. cordial answers came,
cotton is reported to have greatly extended of late. And waftage by benignant messages,
even up the elopes of the Blue Ridge itself. Among : Thus, thus it is a mightv concourse meets
the causes leading to this gratifying result, rejwrts o'erflorring squares and streets???
received show that the use of fertilizers, and, with Borne at flood-tide toward the guarded ground,
it, better methods of culture, are foremost. Where treasures of two hemispheres are found
iu ouitf v*o??utwo Uti&bctt el UiO ficpul Xo ulx Um enquiring x&iu<i ( iue curious eye!
iCTDNKY WORT.
|THE ONLY MEDICINE]
IN EITHER LIQUID OR DRY FOBS
That Acts nt the same time on
\TSgLI7SM, T3EBQWm,\
AED ms snjssrs.
I WHY ARE WE SICK?
Because tee allow- these gnat organs to
i become clogged or torpid, and poisonous
humoreart therefore forced into ike Uooel
that should be expelled naturally.
General Agent for Georgia,
-FOR-
HEGE???S IMPROVED SAW MILLS
junelS???d&wtim wed thnr sat tues 69 BROAD STREET, ATLANTA. GA.
WHITE & MILLER
Genlcm Agents torCiG Cooper???s
PLAIN, PORTABLE, TRACTION
???AND
STATIONARY ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
GJUST MILLS, SMUT MACHINE-), ETC.
Also for the Hamilton Stationary and Monarch
Portable, Traction and Road Engine. These latter
guaranteed to draw 4,C00 feet of lumber, or 20,000
oounds of freight over ordinary roads. Also the
???>lij)se and Merchant Saw Mills, manufactured at
tu-se works. The machinery of these two houses
???i*s no superior in the United states. In stock nml
(or sale: Circular Saws, solid and planer tooth; tho
celebrated Gilpin Sulky Blows, walking Cultiva-
??? >rs, and a general assortment of Steel Blows and
itllivators, manufactured by Deere, Mansur &
'o. Call and see tlie Moline Elliptic. Spring Stalk
'utter, for cleaning cotton and corn fields. Send
for illustrated catalogues or call on
WHITE & MILLER,
Cor Broad and Hunter sis, Atlanta, Ga.
oct2???dfim sort fhiuwtwfim
COTTON GINS.
1 HAVE ON HAND AND ON WAY, FRESn FROM THE
Factory, an immense stock of COTTON GINS, ENGINES
etc., of' various first-class makes.
I Sell Gins at $2.25 per Saw
Superio r toothers selling at $3.00 to $3.50jpcr saw.
I can save you money on Engines, Cotton Gins, Feeders,
Condensers, Presses, Saw Mills, Shingle Machines Saws,
et Give mca trial is all I ask to convince you. All my Ma
chines are fresh???no old stock.
S. F. PERKINS,
???262 febl3???illy sun wed fri &wky ly. 32 and 34 W. MITCHELL STREET.
Our Price-List for the Fall of 1881 is now ready,
and will be sent free to any address. We ???
Wo
sell all kinds of goods, in any quantity,
aiithefoi- Sat wholesale prices. Send
in stock
Price-List, and
well we can
all your wants.
see how
supply
WILL SURELY CURE
KIDNEY DISEASES,
LIVER COMPLAINTS, 1
PILES, CONSTIPATION, URINARY 1
DISEASES, FEMALE WEAKNESSES,
AND NERVOUS DISORDERS,
\by causing free action cf these organs or.dl
| restoring their power to throw off disease.
(Thj suffer Billons pains and aches!
I Why tormented with Piles, Constipation! j
I Why frightened over disordered Kidneys! j
Why endnre nervous or sick headaches!
[ Use KlDXEY-WOETand rejoice in health. I
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I qua one package of which mokes six quarts of ]
I medicine. Also in Liquid Form, very C'oncen-1
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tyg acts with equal efficiency In either form. I
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I (Will send tho dry post-paid.) BtrcIKCTOS, TT. f
-d&wly nx nl mat 2 alt
"want
ed in
the homo
or the farm
and we sell
everything
cheaper than you
can buy at home. It
costs nothing to try us.
Wo occupy tho entire
buildings, 237 and 239
Wabash Avenue, four sto
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with tho choicest articles.
Dealing with us, you can
select from an endless
variety and liavo all
the advantages of
low prices and
??? best goods.
consumer at wholesale pnces.N carefulat-
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of goods, and
many others: Dry
Goods, Fancy Gooi
Hosiery, Gloves, No
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Shoes, Hats, Caps, Under
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Jewelry, Silverware, Sew
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Musical Instruments,
ECardwarc, Tinware,
Guns, Harness, Sc
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Trunks, Gro
ceries, at
in fact ev- , -.,, ??? x
Experience enables us to avoid errors
is * ??? ??? v ???^??? *???- 1 ???
r \Ve are the origi-
r ^nators of the system 9 ^
of dealing direct with the
r No obligation to buy.
MOKTGOMERYWABD&CO.,227and229Wal)asliAYe.,Chicago,E
tention
giv
en.
DR. HARTERS??? IRON TONIC.
Endorsed and rwo??\
mended ??u themedi-\
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if if, UTervous Mfromtra-1
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pence from Fevers,4?c.g
4: IvTas"sLSerin?fromKeaerardebilitTt^uc^!n^xten^Siit my labor
Gensome to me. A vacation of a month did not give me mnch relief, but ??a wmtrary,
increased prostration and sinking chill*. At this time I began the use of your IRON To>ri<2, fro?? wnlcn ire*
??? Iftha Tonto ba* not dona tto??
Christian Chnrch. Troy. Q.
and rigor of body, has come also a dearness
work, 1 know not or hat. t giro it tbocredit.
J.P.Watsoh.
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