The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-05-08
SOUTH! YOUNG MAN. y

President Harrison, on his tour through
the South, after having seen the won
derfu growth of Lynchburg, Bedford
City, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski,
Wythcville and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
line Of the Norfolk & Western Railroad,
and viewed the country Of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech TO the people
of Bristol, Va.
my Fellow Citizcns:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion OF the State
Of Virginia that is feeling iii very strlk-
ing way the impulse OF new development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources OF wealth which
we're SO long unobscryed and SO long UNI
Used are now being found, and that those
regions, once SO retired, occupied by pas
,oral people, having difficult access to the
center Of population, are now being rapid
~ transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the carly
settlement of this country eniSrahts
poured over the Alleghanics and Blue
Ridge like cwaters over an obstructln9
edge, seeking the fertile and attractive
.arm regions of the great West. They
! PASSED unobscrvcd these marvellous md
zen stores OF wealth which are now being
brought into use.
"Having filled those great basins OF the
Ncst they are now turning back to VIZ
I'D Sf...
10 bring about Tie lull development and
production tor which time is ripe and
Which will surprise the world. 1T has not
oeen long since every implement OF iron,
domestic, agricultural and mechanical
was made for you in other States. HE
iron point OF the wooden mold board pillow,
With which the early farmers here turned
.he soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee are stirring
,heir energies 10 participate i'll large
degree in mechanical productions ana III
.hc great awakening OF American COM
.ucrce and American influence which will
lit the nation to place among the ma
lions 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 OCT and 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 CT
material wealth; endowed with genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tons of the earth, shall again have OH the
great seas merchant marine lying the
flag of the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
Il am glad to-day to stand for this mo-
mcnt among you and to express my SYM
pathy with any and every interest that
tends TO develop YOU as Il people. am
glad 70 stand with you on one common
platform of respect for the constitution;
differing as some of US may do i'll our
opinions as to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion CT obedience to the
law as the majority of our people, by
their OWE representatives. make it.
II shall carry away from here re-
ncwcd impulse to public duty; a new in
spiration as citizen, and that too, OF Il
country whose greatness is only dawnlng.
"And now let me express to sou 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.
COME TO NIEGINIA.-Thc coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
-nct ion of the United States
( Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, via Norfolk PENN
and syvnnia H. r.. via Norfolk. or Wash
New England ington. or Harrisburg; Baltimore d
Ohio Il. r., via Shenandoah Ju,ction.
From y. e., Come via Old Dominion Steamship
y. j. Line via Norfolk, Pennsylvania Il.
- Penn. : H., via Norfolk. or Washington, Or
% Del. Harrisburg: Baltimore " Ohio i. X.
- Sd. via Shenandoah Junction.
From the Come via Pittsburgh, or Via Chat:
West itanocga. or via Columbus and Ashland
For all Information, maps, reference
books. pamphlets, etc. descriptive of the
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources OF the States of Virginia and
West Virginia, apply to Agents of the
Norfolk & Western railroad, 800 Wash
ineton, Street, Boston; 1903 Broadway,
New York; ,l33 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, d. c.; 81 East, State Street,
Columbus, Ohio, or General Office,