The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-06-26
SOUTHI YOUNG MAN,

:
President. Harrison, on his tour through
the South, after having seen the Won
,derful growth Of Lynchbnrs, Bedford
City, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski,
sWythcville and Abingdon and the indus-
trial development in progress along the
line Of the Norfolk s. Western Railroad,
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech to the people
of Bristol, Va:
aMv Fellow Citizcns:-I have found not
onlv pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion of the State
of Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
ing way the impulse of new development.
It's extremely gratifying to notice tnat
those hidden sources Of wealth which
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 Alleghanics and Blue
Ridge like waters over an obstructlng
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions Of the great West. They
passed unobserved these marvellous hid
den stores of wealth which are now being
brought into use.
"Having filled those great basins OF the
West they are now turning back to VIZ
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 and mechanical,
was made for you in other States. Inc
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 III large
degree in mechanical productions and IN
the great awakening of American conf
merce and American influence which Will
lit the nation to place among the ma
tons 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 OF
material wealth. endowed with genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tons Of the earth, shall again have on the
great seas merchant marine flying the
flag Of the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
81 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 yon 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 rs to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion of obedience to the
law rs the majority Of our people, by
their own representatives., make it,
81 shall carry away from here Il re-
ncwcd impulse to public duty; a new in
spiraton as a citizen, and that too, of a
country whose greatness is only dawnlng
"And now let me express to you the
pleasure shall have in every good that
can come TO you rs 4 community and to
each fyou 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 VIRGlSlA.-The coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section of the United States.
T Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, via Norfolk, Penn
aud ! sylyania K. r.. via Norfolk, or WASH
New England, ington, or Harrisburg; baltimore d
Ohio X. r., Via Shenandoab Junction.
From \. y, Come via Old Dominion Steamship
" j. Line, via Norfolk, Pennsylvania X.
g Penn. r., via Norfolk, or Washington, or
Del. Harrisburg: Baltimore Ohio r. r..
$ Md. via Shenandoah Junction.
From The Come via Pittsburgh, or via Chat
Vest (tauooga, 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, 29O Wash
ngton, Street, Boston; 3O3 Broadway,
New York; ! 1873 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D. O.; 81 East, State Street.
Columhus Ohio. or General Office