The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-07-10
il(j)HD SOUTH! YOUNG HAN.

President Harfisen,on his tour shrougn
the South, after having seen the won
derfal growth Of Lynchburg, BEDFORD
CITY, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulsskis
wytheYille and Abingdon and the indus
trial development In progress along the
line Of the Norfolk 4 Western Railroad
and viewed the country Of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech to the peopie
of Bristol, Va:
aMy Fellow citizena:--I have found no.
only pleasure, but instruction ln rluias
te-day through the portion OF tue s.ate
Of Virginia chat is feeling in very strik-
ing way the impulse of new development.
is extremely gratifying to notice tnas
those hidden sources of wealth whIcn
were SO long unobserved and so long un-
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the
center 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
Ridge .rlike waters over, an oDstruc.ihg
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions Of the great West. iney
passed unobseryed these marvellous hin-
den stores of wealt': which are now being
brought into use.
"Haying filled 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 is ripe and
| which will surprise the world. 1t has not
been long since every implement Of IRON,
domestic, agricultural md meeAaHle ai,
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 meehlen!lssal productions and IN
| the great awakening bf AMERICAN Gym.
mcrce and American influence Which will
| lift the nation to place among the ma
tions of the world never before attained.
{ "Wast is to hinder ua when we have
secured the marksts Qf 9gr own States
that we shall reach out ana entef infQ
successful competition in the markets Of
other parts of the world: ! say what is
to hinder this people; possessing ny fhes
Providence of God, all the elements OF
material wealth; endowed with a genius
aaa energy unsurpassed among the na-
tons Of the Garth, ehall again have On the
great seas a merchant mdriae aying the
flag of the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every ports
81 am glad TO-DAY to stand for this mo-
ment among you and to express my sym
pathy with any and every interest that
tends to develop you as q people: | am
glad to stand With YOU on ONE common
platform of respect for the constitution;
differing as some Of us may do in OPT
opinions as to what the law should DO and
how it should 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 re-
newcd impulse to public duty; new in:
SEPARATION as citizen, and that too, of
country whose greatness is only dawning.
"And nov 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 oil
your families, and the fear and love of
God in every home"
| CONE TO VlRalSIA.-The coming wool
growing; Agricultural and iron producing
section of the United States.
Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, Wis Norfolk, Penn.
| and sylvania K. r., via Norfolk, or Wash
New England, ington, or Harrisburg; Baltimore d
Ohio h. r., via Shenandoah Junction.
From X. vi Coma via Old Dominion Steamship
{" n, j. Line, via NgFfolk, Pennsylvania r.
s. Penn, r.. via Norfolk, oF #RsAlngton, OF
&C Del. Harrisbnrgi Baltimore q Uhf9 s. Is
50 Nd. lvia shenandoah Junction,
| From the Come via Pittsburgh, eE via Chat,
| West ltanooga, 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, 300 Wash
ington, Street, Boston; SOB Broadway.
New York; ABB Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D. c.; 67 East, State Street,
Columbus. Ohio, or General Office,