Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27


it is the opening and not the close;
it is the business end of the boom
which has struck tho Old Dominion.
This country has suffered from
drouth and flood and from pestilence
and war, but it has never ceased to
grow in wealth and population. A
furry in Wall street cannot stop it
now.
The causes which have forbidden
the building OF cities in the South
have ceased. The channel of mod
ern thought was long INSTRUCTED, and
the waters of progress pent up; but
the distractions are goue, the waters
run free, and society will rush to its
natural level with speed and power
that is unexampled. The burden of
proof rests upon those who deny
this and declare that what has been,
is, and oyor will be, world without
end.
Upon them lies the necessity of
proving that to Massachusetts has
been vouchsafed some blessing de-
MED Virginia. They must show that
it will pay better to haul cotton
across the length of the State and q
thousand miles beyond it's borders
than to manufacture it here. They
must prove that Massachusetts is
nearer to the granaries of the NIissis-
sippi Valley than Virginia. They
must provo that 100 splendid rivers
will give us no power, although they
descend from 500 to 1000 feet MS
they flow FROM the mountains to the
sea. They must blot from the maps
of the Old Dominion the superb har-
bors which wait by tho gates of
dawn. They must prove that al
though our mountains are choke full
of iron and coal and limestone. tho
world wants mono of them. They
must prove that tho Shalers, tho At
kinsons, the tfowitts, tho Kolleys,
and the Depews, who havo prophe-
sled the future greatness of the
South, are fools or liars. They must
prove that the Goulds and Wander
bits and uuntingtons and Sages,
who are investing millions in the
South, are dwelling imbccilos. inca
pablo OF guarding the spoils of their
genius.
No, mol 1t is goodly heritage
which is ours. There is not an aero
in the Old Dominion Which is not
fruitful, nor valley which is not
happy with the melody of living wa
ters. There is not cereal, nor a
fruit, nor flower of the temperate
zone that docs not flourish in her
soil.
Nature has robed her like prin-
cess, and dowed her like queen.
The smile of heaven greets her in
the sunshine, and upon her the bone
diction of God descends in summer
showers.
She has walked through the valley
of the shadow of death, but in her
degradation and despair tho hearts
OF her young men tHrned to her
with an affection more tender and
filial than in her pride and strength.
They know that the night is past,
aud that the day cometh. They have
an abiding fifth in her future which
is worth more than millions.
Tho year 1890 marks new era in
her history. From this time she will
grow in wealth and population as
she never grew before. Massachn
sets has 100000 more souls within
her borders than she had ten years
ago. 1t is perfectly reasonable to
believe that Virginia will add from
100000 to 10000 to her population
within the next decade. The tids of
emigration which has carried tons of
thousands of young men from the
State within the past % years has
ceased, and the tide of migration
has turned this way.
But where will this great increase
in population go? Who can give a
correct answer? "There's millions in
it," This much may be taken as Ger.
tain: the growth will be in the cities
and towns. The country, under ex
listing conditions, cannot be expected
to increase in population.