The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14

resident iaol, on bis tour through
Tue South, after laylng seen file Won
dsrfsI grow nchbnrg, Bedford
CIsy soanose salen, Radford, Pulaski,
sseriIle md Abingdon and tiie indus-'
opmens Id progress along the
line o the n osfoIk 6 Western Railroad,
and viewed the country Of Southwest
gsnia, said ii his speech 20 the people.
81 Briskol
sssss s. Fellow Citirens; ~ have foand not
onl pleasure, but-insfruction in riding.
to-day through the portion of the State
oE Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
,sng way the impulse of new Development.
Its extremely gratifying to notice that.
those hidden sources of wealth which
we're SO long unobserred and 80 long un-s
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once 80 retired, occupied by pas
teral people, having difficult access to the
centeg of population, are now being rapid
ly transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the early
settlement Of this country emigrants
poured over the Alleghanies and Blue
waters over an obstructing
dedge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great Wests They
passed unobserved these marvellous hid
den stores of wealth which are now being
brought into use.
Having filed those great basins of the
West they are now turning back to Vir-
ginia and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
production for which time fs ripe and
which will surprise the world 1t has not
been long since every implement OF iron,
domestic, agricultural and mechanical,
was made for you in other States. The
iron point Of the wooden mold board pillow,
with which the early farmers here turned
the soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee are stirring
their energies to participate in large
degree in mechanical productions and in
the great awakening of American COM
merce and American influence which will
lift the nation to place among the ma
tions Of the world never before attained.
"What is to hinder us when We have
secured the markets of our own States
that we shall reach out sand enter into
successful competition in the markets of
other parts of the world: say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all the elements of
material wealth; endowed with genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tions of the earth, shall again have on the
great seas a merchant marine flying the
flag Of the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
II am glad to-day to stand for this mo-
ment among you and to express my SYM
patty with any and every interest that
tends to develop you as a people. | am
glad to stand with you on one common
platform of respect for the constitution;
differing as some of us may do in our
opinions as to what the law should be and
how it1should be applied; having in view
one common devotion of obedience to the
law as the majority of our people, by
their own representatives make it.
81 shall carry away from here a re-
newed impulse to public duty; a new in
SEPARATION as citizen, and that too, of
country whose greatness is only dawning.
"And now let me express to you the
pleasure shall have in every good that
can come to you as community and to
each ofyou as individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love of
God in every home"
CONE TO VIRGlSIA.-The coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section of the United States.
( Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, via Norfolk, Penn
and sylyania Il. R., via Norfolk, or Wash
New England ington, or Harrisburg; Baltimore &
lOhio r. r., via Shenandoah Junction.