The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-05
TAT,MAGE IN ASHEVILLE.
HE MAKES A SPEECH AT A RAN
QUIET.
What hs Thinks of Western North
CaroIina-Good Advice for Tarheels
to Consider-A Short sketch of his

Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel

Special Correspondence OT Lte toe7tttftet
AsHEvILLE, n. C. July 31.-No
visitor to this place has ever before
commanded the respect and attention
that has upon every occasion possible
been directed towards the distinguish
ed Brooklyn Divine who occupied the
pulpit Of the Baptist church last Sab
bath and preached to a tremendous
audiance. Your correspondent has
heard many comments on the enter
prise of THE SENTINEL in being
the first paper out side of Asheville to
publish verbatum report of the Dr's
sermon.
In conversing with DIR. Talmage
regarding his impression of Western
North Carolina, he replied: The
pen of Longfellow nor the brush of
a Messonnier can do it justice. Here
[ sit and watch nature, in all Of her
grand formation. Wonderfully grand
and majestic these silent sentinels OF
Gods own handiwork- beautiful and
charming these fertile valleys ripe
with the golden grain Of harvest time,
refreshing and soothing these noun
tain streams otpure crystalline water
vending their way to the ports of COM
merce, navigation and trade, restful
and passive this Skyland with pano-
ramas of floating beauty in ever chang
ing clouds, recuperative and health
restoring this oxygenated and balsam-
ic air fresh and uncontaminated, Civ
ing new zest to life and building up
worn out tissues of the human frame.
In referring to the industrial devel-
opment in the South he said: Pro-
gress seems to be the watchword every
where in the South, especially SO in
your own State. Fill your villages,
towns and cities with laboring looms
and manufactures of all kinds and
descriptions. And why shouldn't
you? What advantage over North
Carolina have the sterile rock-beds of
New England that could not be easily
retrieved? Capital? Massachusetts
did not always have it, but made it in
the face of competition. Besides the
greatest things have small beginnings
neither Manchester nor Lyons were
built in a year. You, young men,
must learn to be patient and persever-
ing. Utilize your lovely French
Broad and your euphonious Swanna-
noa, then operatives, and spindles will
not long be silent for want of hands to
make them buzz"
The DIR. is immensely pleased with
Asheville as summer resort and he
may lengthen his stay here longer than
he had anticipated.
At banquet few evenings ago,
given the members of the Charleston
Ne,cs and Courier excursion at the
Battery Park Hetel, DIR. Talmage was
present, and was called upon for a
speech. He arose and said: "Mr.
Chairman: I have heard Asheville
and Charleston greet each other.
Brooklyn greets you both. | have
heard with great exultation the grand
attractions Of both Carolinas, and 1
said to myself as I Sat there. This is
not my country. 1t is true was not
born in North. Carolina, but itiis not my
fault. All this continent will event
ually be under one government. The
United States will ask Canada for her
heart and hand in marriage, and Can
ada gazing across the waters remem-
bering her loyalty will look down, and
blushingly, say, "Ask mother"
We hear much conjecture about the
decay of this great country. | have
no fear of any such result. / am not
a pessimist but an optimist. The
world began as garden and it will
end as garden. Many alarmists will
say the country will be crowded.
Whenever hear hear a man say
so say to myself that man has never
been to Texas. Texas is bigger than
France with its 100000, or the
German Empire with its 45,000,000.
Let them come. They have recently
been pouring into Kansas. Whole
groups have passed through and | was
told by a gentleman in a position to
know that they averaged $1,000
piece in cash. I believe in not sim
ply foreign prosperity, but foreign
prosperity and American prosperity
together. l was strolling through
Castle Garden once, and wandered
around the Park there. I saw fam
ily group, and the father and husband
reading to the group from work
they seemed deeply absorbed in. I
had some curiosity to know what it
was. Passing close to where he was
reading, l saw it was the Book of
Books. Immigrants of this kind win
better this land and make it blossom
and bloom. In this land we have
100000 square miles of coal, alongside
10000 square miles of iron, and the
iron We use to pry out the coal, and
the coal to melt the iron. It is a pleas
ure To me to see something of the
prominent part taken in the material
development of the country as token