Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-27
EMIGRATION OF VIRGIN
IANS.

Oh l,anuojrh Macon College, on
Thursday, Hon: John W. Daniel
took advantage Of the occasion tn i'm
part to his yCuthfnl hearers, whose
acadtlaiic course had closed, some
very wholesome advice as to the in
nd"isability OF any young Virginian
of the present day abandoning his
State to seek his fortune eldewhere.
Stick to old Virginia." he urged
with Characteristic earnestpess and
eloquence. Don't leave her for any
other State OF cline. There is room
for us all, and as we are proud of
our home, so should we he proud to
stay and to help to bear her up"
These words of the distinguished
Senator are as wise as they are true.
The young Virsininn who, after tho
acquisition of nh education, leaves
the Commonwealth under tho i'm.
preston that the North or West or
the far South extends brighter
prospect of professional or business
SUCCESS, falls into mistake TINT he
will certainly have tho strongest rea-
son to regret. Virginia is barely
upon tho threshold of her material
greatness. The spirit of hopo and
confidence abroad in her boartlcrs is
but the first faint indication of tho
rising grandeur of her material dcs
tiny, destiny which sho has hardly
yet begun to work out. Tho young
man, who leaves tho State now, sim
ply cmiSrates from the land of the
most brilliant promise to be found
i'll tho United States IIe will DO
turning his bnck upon the sceno Of
fortune. The West il practically fill.
cd up. The chances of attaining to
early and unusual SUCCESS in that
section, which have been 80 mmer.
GUS in the pnst, arc fust declining
now thnt it's various communitios nre
sinking down to the sobricty and
conservatism Of tho Northern com
munities. The South il rapidly ns
Stunning the position formerly occu
pied by tho West in The oyes OF
young business and professional mon
iD the East, and of Eastern cnnital
ists.
Virginia stands at tho very gato-
way of tho South, and in consequence
OF this fnct, as We'll as of her natural
advantages, is already receiving an
enormous share of tho tide of wealth
and population that has lpgun to
flow 30 freely towards the Southern
States. The young Virginian who
decides to sottle outside his native
State i'll This age shows n degree of
blindness, n lack of practical good
sonso. that argues i'll for his success
i'll any community, however stirring
and prosperous il mny be. IL is not
unnatural that tho young man enter
ing the field of active life should for
II time be tossed by spirit of rest
lessness, which has strong tendency
TO induce him to remove from the
place of llis birth This feeling is
not unnatural, although often most
i]l-advisel and unfortunate, because
f'eIuently so much opposed TO the
true welfare OF tho person who falls
under i,s influence. TO the young
Virginian who may experience this
feeling upon graduating from college
the Timex would give this ndvicc
If you arc n resident of Richmond
settle in Danyille, or Norfolk, or
Roanoke, or Bristol. or Staunton, OF
Warrenton, or if you nro resident
Of any one of those towns, come to
Richmond. Under no circumstances,
however, cross the borders of the old
state Which has nourishcd you from
your birth.
The reasons why the young mon
OF Virginia should not emigrate from
tho Commonwealth arc undoubtedly
exercising rapidly increasing inAu.
ence upon their action. The mum.
Der now leaving the State is small rs
compared with what it formerly was,
and this number will decline in the
most marked degree with tho pass
age OF each year until finally it will
practically amount TO nothing One
OF the most gratifying results of the
rising prosperity of Virginia is that
n