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the old town this new and attractive city, of which they 

 have just cause to feel proud. 



Probably no other city of the South could have at this 

 time accomplished what she did in the matter of the Cotton 

 States Exhibition of 1895. The exhibition drew large num- 

 bers to Atlanta, who carried away with them to their homes 

 in the North and West a far better idea of the South than 

 could otherwise have been obtained by them. The fact of 

 their coming to meet and greet their brethren of the South 

 will prove of great advantage not only to them but through 

 them to the whole country. 



Time has softened, and is still softening, the old antago- 

 nisms once existing between the people of the free and the 

 former slave States. This is manifest in the cordiality with 

 which the people of the South meet and greet Northerners, 

 and especially is it the case with the old officers and soldiers 

 of the late confederacy. They are loyal Americans to-day, 

 and are as proud of their country's greatness as are we of 

 the North. This is as it should be ; and we believe that the 

 Farmers' National Congress is doing grand work in that 

 direction as well as for the interests of agriculture, and 

 should be maintained and aided with proper substantial sup- 

 port of all the States of the Union. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JOHN G. AVERY. 

 W. A. KILBOURN. 

 ETHAN BROOKS. 

 R. G. F. CANDAGE. 



Jan. 12, 1896. 



