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The picture gfren by the poet is in no w»y 1 tj exaggerated. It is industry which create* «• I ® rioas products, sad It is the interchange of 0 products which makes commerce, and it is com- 0 meroe which joins laud Is land and marries soil 1 to emk If the Cincinnati idea of a great South- I «rn read had been practically carried out thirty fl y ear* ago, the civil war might bare never oc- | earred. But we have to take thinge as they eome. J Cincinnati is not two thirds as populous as it wonld have been with the Southern road, j , But it haa grown immensely notwithstanding, and is to-day far more solid and really I wealthy than any of the merely commercial | towns, Bast or West. Perhaps nothing better I 4 could have been done to prove this, than this very exposition. It is the wisest thing that has been done in this city for a good while. We wish all the Bast and all the South could have seen it. The difference between manufacturing establishment? in New England and I Hew York and these here wonld soon be manifest to any observing mind, and the reason why the South ought and most look to Cincin- I nati lor the main supply of manufactured f products would be manifest. If you turn to any one class of manufactures (except machinery, in which Cincinnati excels) it would be easy to shew that there were immense establishments for the manufacture of that class in great towns of the Bast, which have immense and bring these products' almost to 1 perfection. You would find In Lowell one kind, U Lawrence another, in Manchester another, in Detby another, and ro on. But in erne respect Cincinnati is superior to any place we know of. It is the variety and the excellence of Us mechanic arts. Cincinnati is not built up by immense capital employed in certain rlatrrr of bnsineas. It is boxit up by all kindref independent artisans pursuing all kinds and varieties of aria. Hence it is that it is really the very best market for those in the South and West who have no such town in their midst. The Southern gentlemen who come here on rial road interests all see this, and will do all in their power—even to the coasts of North and South Carolina—to hare a direct railroad to the Southern Atlantic. A roundabout way to the Southwest, while it is absolutely necessary for that region, will not answer this purpose at all. This is the great commercial want of Cincinnati; but we do not mean to speak of that here. The thing before us is the exposition. An old citizen and manufacturer
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Cincinnati Semi Weekly Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 25, 1870
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