The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-21
4 SOUTH! YOUNG HAN. =

Il! MI III IN n. &
President Harris n, ON his tour through
1.-The South, after having seen the Won
||dsrfuI growth Of ynchburg, Bedford
Gity, Roanoke Salem, afford, Pulaski,
YsaleYille and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
| line of the Norfolk 8 Western Railroad,
land viewed the country Of Southwest
Virginia, said in his5speech to the people
I5of Bristol, Va:
Fellow CitizeDg:-I have found not
lonly pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion Of the State
isof Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
ling way the impulse Of new Development.
It IS extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources of wealth. which
were 50 long unobseryed and SO long tlIl-
used are new being found, and that those
regions, once SO retired, occupied by pas
l:toral people, having difficult access to the
Icentersof popnla tion, are now being rapid
Iiy transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the early
settlement Of this country emigrants
poured over the Alleghanies and Blue
Ridge ::llike waters over au obstructing
Hedge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of The great West. They
passed unobseryed these marvellous hid
den stores of weaIt which are now being
brought into use.
Having filed those great basins of the
West theysa now turning back to Vir-
sginia and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
Isproduction for which time is ripe and
which viii surprise the world. 1t has not
tbeen 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 conf
merce and American influence which will
lift the nation to a place among the ma
tons OF the world never before attained.
easssWhat is to hinder us when we have
.secured the markets Of our own States
that we shall reach out and enter into
4 successful competition in the markets OF
Iother 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 a genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tons 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
ingit honor in every aport2
! 81 am glad to-day tosstand 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
,gladto 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 it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion Of obedience to the
/ law as the majority of our people, by
/ theirAown representatives, make IT..
:.Ishall carry away from here re-
, newed impulseto public duty; a new in
SEPARATION as citizen, and that too, OF. q
country whose greatnessis only dawning.
And now let ME express TO you the
pleasure / shall have in every good that
lean come to you as community and to
leach of sou as individuals. May peace
4 prosperity and social order dwell in all
fyoura families, and the fear and love OF
God in every home"
CONE TO VIRGINIA The coming wool.
4 growing; agricultural and iron producing
lsection Of the United States.
4 E Come via Merchants and Minors
4 From Boston steamship Line, via Norfolk, Penn
Il and sylyania Il. B., via Norfolk,or Wash