Addresses of Hon. Z. B. Vance of North Carolina, and Hon. D. W. Voorhees of Indiana
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Excerpt from Addresses of Hon. Z. B. Vance of North Carolina, and Hon. D. W. Voorhees of Indiana: At the Opening of the International Cotton Exposition, at Atlanta, Georgia, Wednesday, October 5, 1881 Mr. Vance said: Countrymen: The Spanish soldier DeLeon, in the early part of the sixteenth century, anxiously sought through the wilds of the Florida peninsula for the fountain that would renew youth; and his no less illustrious countryman, DeSoto, cut his way through all this Southern wilderness in search of the fabled hills of gold. Both died without finding the object of their search. Nevertheless, they trampled over it every day; they beheld it with their eyes; they inhaled it through their nostrils. It was the soil and the atmosphere, fitted to the production of that wondrous plant in whose honor we have assembled today. Better than the fountain of DeLeon, it renews the youth of nations; richer than the golden hills of DeSoto, its wealth, annually repeated, is inexhaustible. Through its means the splendors of modern commerce are made to surpass the glories of Tyre, Carthage and Venice. The world is now interested in its growth from the germ to its maturity, as the Infant Heir of the Blood Royal to the Empire of Trade. The merchant in the distant city listens for tidings of its coming up; the manufacturer amid his brick walls and tall chimneys anxiously observes its bloom; the restless speculator gazes upon its young bolls; the mariner, with his broad sails flapping idly against his masts, waits for its maturing, and the poor everywhere pray for the gentle shower and the soft sunlight on which it feeds, and rejoice at its safe ingathering. Its growth is the idyllic poem of our people; its mature existence is a system of political economy. It is the source of the hoarse shout of the steam engine; it is the melody of the soft song of the spindle and the loom. It is the fairy of the waterfall - it is warmth, it is comfort, it is beauty. It is the pride of our fields, the source of our wealth, the king of our commerce. This day we celebrate, with pageantry and rejoicings, the beneficent glories of our monarch; and in its train we have brought every other product of our goodly land to this fair young city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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