The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-12

dents. and hoped that we would be pleased
with the President Ohio had Just given to
the Union. [Cheers.]
At Charlottesville also the people well
coined the eXcursionists with cheers and
music.
The train being an hour and half behind
time ION account OF the stoppages at Staln-
ton and the University longer than was
lcontemplated) Superintendent Dunn push
about thirty-five miles m hour. 1t reached
here about half-past O'Clock.
RrcHMoND's WELCOME.
The committees md citizens, with band
OF music. met the train. The eXcursionists
having assembled on the platform the for
NAL welcome was given.
r'. REPORT OF MR.. PULLIAM.
Mr.. Samuel Fl. PuIliam, addressing the
Mayor, said: Mr.. Mayor. the committee
reDresentine the City Council OF Richmond.
the Chamber OF Commerce, the Corn and
Flour and Tobacco EXch h'nges, report that
they have discharged their pleasant task
| met the western visitors ut the White Sui.
phur Springs, and extended welcome, and
| then accompanied them to our city. 1t now
becomes our agreeable duty to present these
gentlemen to you. They are representative
great States OF Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri,
Indiana, Illinois, and West Virginia, and
are entitled to our best consideration. We
have offered them the hospitality OF our
city, and we know our promises will be re-
deemed.
Mr.. Mayor, allow me to introduce our
| friends.
Mayors ADDRESS.
Captain Holloway and the crowd OF ex-
cursionists now gathered close around the
Mayor. who, standing on step near the
ticket office, said:
Gentlemen,-Firginian native and
adopted, feel the pulsations OF kindly hearts
beat response to the sounds Of the lip As
we welcome you to our and your mother
State. you men of the West and Northwest;
for the lands of your possession once bore
the name OF Virginia, and the sireS Of your
families once lived in our midst; 80 that
Eirgina'S sons, in this her metropolis, feel
lip. hand. and heart join in joyful accord to
bid you a true Virginia welcome TO our
homes, our hearts, and our trade.
II we are not -Virginians we are
brother -Americans-citizens of common
and great country-who should love, Sus-
tain, and deal with each other; for by such
dealings we bind hearts and interests to-
gethcr, and give to our common country
common wealth and prosperity. Especially
! should the people OF our section ana OF
yours open wide and broad avenues OF
trade, because we lie in your nearest track
to the open seas and the commerce OF the
outside world, and give you more speedy
and desirable market for your productlons.-
Nature seems to beckon to each other
across the separating mountains. and to BAD
us remove the slight, short barriers she has
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space, and economy OF transportation give
our respective people additional gain OF
wealth By emptying our treasures into each
others laps.
The mountain peaks you passed on your
tourney to our city are but monuments TO
the Almighty, standing over the graves OF
buried mineral treasures, waiting only your
touch and ours to spring into things OF ma
tcrial use and give life to our industries
and volume to our trade.
The silvery brooks which laughlngly
leaped along west Of our mountains were
but so many ministers Of motive power hllr-
rying on to the noble Ohio, that her waters
might have the volume to bear our common
trade to each other.
The broad acres and fertile fields that
smiled upon you as you came in our way
were our token OF peace and plenty, to as
sure YOU that Virginia will see you suffer
not while on her soil The James river
stands in the midst OF our city, p!eadinSly
inviting YOU to place on her broad bosom,
to be borne to the seas, such products ana
manufactures as YOU wish to send across the
waters or to foreign shores. She stands as
ready to bring to the Chesapeake and ONO
road such goods as you may buy abroad,
and bv this great route be carried quickly
and nearer your doors. If you have raw
material YOU wish manufactured, we'll
known artiticcrs in brass and other mine
rails, skilled artists, mechanics, and ma
chinists, stand here, with fully-equipped
mills and manufactures, ready to convert
your products into manufactured goods as
rapidiv and as faithfully us can be done on
the face OF the earth.
The watcr-power ut our doors is sufficient
for YOU and for us in any line you wish to
engage, and we invite you to share Its
wealth-giyng powers.
II YOU want safe investments, you stand
in a city with its par bonds OF Sl0o which
will bring SIG you stand in city which
had IS, 900 Inhabitants in 1860, and has over
$4,000 now, only needing such trade as
YOURS to double its present population IN
the next decade; a city which, since our
own people have possessed it again, has
made mighty strides in trade. commerce,
and population.
We invite YOU to share in our advantages
and prosperity by coming among lis or
opening mutual trade with us.
We have seen your fertile lands, your
waving fields, your wel-tilled soil IN the
West and Northwest. We know OF your
skill, your science, your successful business
careers yonr chivalry, and your high-toned
character, and we wish to trade with such
men.
We want this on terms OF mutual adj
yancement and interests; we invite you 10
all we have, and ask you to let us nave
trade and intercourse.
Let Us open our hearts to each other
opcn our trade to each other-and by united
efforts and united energies let us close up
all gaps in present lines of transportation.
Let us see that the Chesapeake and Ohio
road stops not at Huntington, on this SIDE
of your mighty Ohio, but let it soon hnd
the track for our trade TO cross over and go
to vour doors, and for yours to hasten from
YOUR homes to our midst. linen, 100, tne
waters OF our James and your OHIO seem
piniue to unite with each other, so that
short line OF cheap water-carrlage may be
continuous from the Mississippi to the east
ern world. Let the gap now existing be-
tween these waters be closed by a united
effort, so that by rail and by water our pro-
ducts and manufactures can pass to and
from each other. Why should you have to
ship down the Mississippi and around the
Capes, or up North and away out to New
York, to reach the world abroad, when we
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