The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-10
GONE SOUTH, YOUNG MANI

CONE SOUTH, YOUNG MANa
President Harrison, on his tour through tho
South, after having seen the wonderful
growth of Lynchburg, Bedford City. Roanoke,
Salem, Itadford, Pulaski, w ythcvilc aud Abing-
don and the industrial development in progrcss
along the line OF tho Norfolk and Western
railroad, and viewed tho country of south
west Virginia, said in his speech to the people
at Bristol, Va.
MY Fellow Citizcns have found not only
pleasure, but instruction in riding to-day
through the portion OF the State OF Virginia
that is feeling In very striking way the i'm
pulse of now development. 1t is extremely
gratifying to notice that those hidden sources
of wealth which were so long unobserved and
so long unused arc now being found, and that
these regions, once retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the GEN.
ter of population, are now being rapidly trans
formed into busy manufacturing and CONNER
cal ccntcrs. In the carly settlement of this
country emigrants poured over the Allcphanics
and Blue Ridge like waters over an obstruct-
ing ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West. They passed
unobserved these marvellous hidden stores of
wealth which arc now being brought into use.
Having filled those great basins of the
West, they arc now turning back to Virginia
and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring
about the full development and production
for which time is ripe md 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 pow,
with which the early farmers here turned the
soil, came from distant States. hut now Vir-
ginia and Tennessee arc stirring their energies
TO participate in large degree in mechanical
productions and in the krcat awakening of
American commerce and American influence
which Will lift the nation To Il place among
the nations of the world never before at
tanned.
What is to hinder us when we have secured
the markets OF our own states that We shall
reach out and enter into successful compcti-
ton in the markets of other parts OF the world?'
say what is to hinder this people, possessing
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material wealth; endowed with genius and
energy unsurpassed among the nations of the
earth, shall again have on the great seas a mcr-
chant marine flying the flag of the common
country and carrying It's commerce into every
sea and uphodng its honor in every port?
~ am glad to-day to stand for this moment
among You and toeXprcss my sympathy with
any and every interest that tends to develop,
you as II people. ] am glad to stand with you
on one common platform of respect for the
constitution; ditfcrlngas some OF us may do in
our opinions rs to what the law should be aud
how it should Inc applied; haXing in view one
common devotion of ohcdicNcc to the law as
the majority OF our people, by their own repre-
Scntativcs, make il.
IL shall carry away from here renewed i'm
pulse to public duty; new inspiration rs
citizen, and that, too, OF IL country whose great
ness is only dawning.
Anu now let me express to you the pleasure
shall have in every good that can come to you
as IL community, and to each OF you rs indi-
viduals. May peace, prosperity and social
order dwell in ail your families. and the fear
and love Of God in every home"
COME TO VIRGINIA.
The Coming Woodworking. Agricultural and
Iron Producing State in the United States.
FROM BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND,
Come via Merchants and Miners Steamship,
Line, via Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via
Norfolk, or Washington, or Harrisburg; Baitl-
more and Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah.
Junction.
FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENN
I SYLVANIA, DELAWARE. MARYLAND.
| Come via Old Dominion Steamship Line, via
Norfolk; Pennsylvania Railroad, via Norfolk.
or Washington, or Harrisburg; Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, via Shenandoah Junction.
FROM THE WEST.
| Come via Pittsbnrg, or via Chattanooga, or
| via Columbus and Ashland.
For all information, maps, reference hooks,
| pamphlets. etc, descriptive OF the wonderful
mineral and agricultural resources OF the
| States OF Virginia and West Virginia, apply to
agents of the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
No. 2gO Washington street. Boston; No. 30,
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