The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-11-28

virginia must become q manufacturing
State. Nature designed her Tor it, and man
will work out the grand destiny. AS it is
now, our people dig and toll to coax from the
earth few dollars, which are no sooner real
lied than they are saatched from us to con
tribute to the Golfers Of the manufacturers Of
other States, who convert our raw material
into fabrics aud send them back to demand
the results Of our own labors. We must be
our own manufacturers, and thus keep within
our confines what the tillers Of the soil pro-
duce from the ground, and bring the energies
and enterprise and capital Of other sections
to our assistance.
Why cannot s.taunton gre hero in the
strife" of this splendid future We have
already the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad;
will soon have the Valley road and then the
Shenandoah Valley road It is the fixed
purpose of-thls latter company to push for
ward their enterprise with all possible speed.
Either Staunton or Fishersvile will be the
crossing point, IN it's march to tho Pacific for
that is its destination. We have reason to
believe this. The most satisfactory assurance
has been given, that auch is the purpose
With these great lines flooding the wealth OF
the territory they will penetrate through our
section, we certainly would prove ourselves to
be a tame people, did we not keep apace with
the spirit they must inspire, and put forward
every exertion to concentrate 10 our midst
the floating fortunes they will carry with
them.
We can see in the future the golden fruits
this new era is to throw into the lap of the
New Virginia The labor of the country is
to be fostered aud nourished the wealth of
our valleys and mountains dragged from their
hidden recesses. railroads checkering our ter.
ritory, manufacturing enterprises dotting our
streams, the legislation of the State stimula-
ted and controlled by an enlightened senti-
ment of public progress and broad and COM
prehensive national spirit pervading the pco-
pie. The bone and sinew and the youth aud
energy of the Country will rise in their might
and right, grasp the helm Of State aud push
forward over thu corpses of the old political
dead-beats who have held the State down 10
the past. The time is now suspicious for the
Inauguration of a new condition Of political
affairs in harmony with the material future
Of New Virginia. Already the people breathe
freer, look and talk more hopefully, and feel
within them the necessity Of thinking and
acting for themselves. The people themselves
must come to the rescue. It is their govern
ment, their State, and they should see to it
that the great and prosperous future that is
now unfolding is not wrested from them By
the old fossils, the self-assumed and self-im-
posed leaders who have long directed the af-
fairs Of the State almost to its ruins. We
assure them an earnest determined and fear
less championship Of their cause. If they
but show themselves worthy of the grand
promise in view, the battle is already won.-
Conscious of right, conscious Of power, and
conscious of the fact that these have been
heretofore used by the designing for selfish
purposes, they cannot fail to avail themselves
OF the opportunity to assert their own majes-
ty and their utter reputation Of those who
have been manipulating the great con Germs OF
State, through the machinery Of party, for
the virtual vnsavement of the masses