The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-08-26
The Great Question for the People.

Inc Gfeat YHeStloh loT JIG IeOples
PEOPLE of Augusta, ''the great question"
the most momentous of the age, will be sub
mittcd to you tomorrow! Read, reflect and
act as becomes the descendants of honored
sires!
WoRK1NGMEN, do you want good wages,
plenty of work, and prosperous county ?
IF SO, vote for the Chesapeake and Ohio sub
scription.
SMALL FARMERS, do you want a double
market for your crops and produce? Do
you want your land doubled in value Do
you want your children educated and your
homes made happy Then vote for the
great enterprise-the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad.
THE Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains
those grandly silent sentinels, which for years
have kept watch and ward over your county,
could they speak, would thunder forth sFor
ages untold wealth has laid hidden, undcvel-
oped, in our bosoms, You need but the coal
Of Kanawha to make you rich, strong and
prosperous. Will the people we have watched
over, be so lost to all that is worthy of them,
as to reject the only means afforded to accom-
piish this great object? Be up and doing !:
live, move and have your being in the great
world, as its car Of progress speeds along
Cling not to the selfish ideas Of dead and
buried past, but show you are worthy. of the
priceless treasures bestowed upon you by a
DO untiful Providence, in voting to pay your
part towards completing the grandest enter
prise of the 18th century-the great through
line from the Atlantic to the Pacific"
RICH MEN, wealthy farmers, if you are SO
blind to your own interests as to oppose the
subscription to the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road, think, for a moment, Of your duties to
the honored dead and the sspoor ye always
have with you" The honest laborer, the me-
chanic, the artizan,. left home, wife, children
all, to brave danger and death for you
Alas but few returned broken down, MAIN
ed, tired, footsore and weary. They have
nobly faced the work before them-have
worked Ter you and with you, as men never
worked before. Now do they ask too much
when they say! aGive out of your ample means
the small pittance required to complete this
great work, which will develope the untold
wealth Of your county, make labor honorable,
diversity it and give us chance to educate
our children, and leave an independence for
them when we die!' We think not, and in
your hearts you can but feel that your duties
are but poorly performed if you resist this
earnest appeal. Vote the subscription; be
men-liberal, generous hearted men-men
worthy of Augusta worthy of the name Of
"Virginians Of the Valley!'
"WE want tho Great Valley Railroad"-
Certainly we do, and the only way to get it
is to build the Chesapeake and Ohio The
law expressly says the Valley road cannot be
built to Salem until the Chesapeake ard Ohio
Railroad is completed. We have every as
surance that as soon as Augusta votes the
subscription to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio will at once
commence the work from Harrisonburg to
Salem. Unless we do So she has no interest
in coming farther than Harrisonburg and
never will. These are facts, stern facts!-
Pooo1loot tbo,,, rs ~, or,o,ui
SOME PEOPLE talk about sswaiting until
the country is settled before we vote for the
Railroad Subscription" They might as we'll
have "waited" before planting crops after the
surrender Bah 1.-The Gods help those
who help themselves" Put your shoulders
to the wheel and Democratic 'shelp" North
will soon settle matters. Then it is well, and
if Grants elected-what's the difference?
PEACE and Plenty-a war desolated coun-
try bailt up; divided Commonwealth re-
united; populous, thriving, brave people,
educated to know the right and strong enough.
to maintain it all these blessings will flow
from the completion Of the grand through
line-the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Augusta it depends on you to heap these
blessings on our beloved Virginia! Do your
duty fearlessly, and vote the paltry subscrip-
ton ! 4H a