. The Southern States. perity is theinevitable result of great opportunitiesgrandly utilized. The people belicAed in the eminence of their city and com-pelled others to believe in it, and how-ever much they may have differedamong themsehes upon every othertopic, they were and are unified uponthe prosperity of Atlanta. They notonly claimed supremacy, but worked topro\e it by prodigious coherence andexploit. Sentiment, which Disraeli saidrules the world, animated these people,and had oracular music in the writingand speaking of a Grady; but behindsentiment marched the army of capital,brains, ind
. The Southern States. perity is theinevitable result of great opportunitiesgrandly utilized. The people belicAed in the eminence of their city and com-pelled others to believe in it, and how-ever much they may have differedamong themsehes upon every othertopic, they were and are unified uponthe prosperity of Atlanta. They notonly claimed supremacy, but worked topro\e it by prodigious coherence andexploit. Sentiment, which Disraeli saidrules the world, animated these people,and had oracular music in the writingand speaking of a Grady; but behindsentiment marched the army of capital,brains, industry and thrift. The men who united for such a pur-pose were chiefly and initially drawnfrom Georgia, Alabama and Virginia,but East Tennessee has proven a potentfactor, and the North and Europe can-not be omitted from the muster-roll ofnationalities. It is a popular legendthat East Tennesseeans and North Geor-gians can more than match the Hebrewin money-making ability and that thecombination of such potentialities has. THE STATK CAPITOL. ATLANTA: THE GATE CITY OE THE SOUTH 327 considerably helped Atlanta to suprem-acy. Luckily for Atlanta, nature hadprovided these elemental conditions witha munificent and exceptional the clt}- was, as Metternich oncedeclared ot Italy, a mere geographicalexpression, the clair\oyant \ision ofthe illustrious John C. Calhoun discernedthe grandeur of the future. He beheldthe superb situation of an inevitablerailway centre at this place, and heplaced his finger upon the map wherethe focal point of traffic would mag-neticallv approach and complete itsmaterial Sfjrcery. Later on, , who had much to do with thesuggestive building of the Western &Atlantic Railway, a\erred that Atlantahad every condition for a majesticmunicipality but one, that was the lackof water supply, which would at allhazards and expense be the other day this one defect wassupplied by pouring into the city theabundant and salubriously filtered fl
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