The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-01-08
"COHE SOUTH! YOUNG MAN.

President Harrison, on his tour through
the South, after having seen the won
derful growth of Lynchburs, Bedford
City. Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski,
Wytheville and Abingdon and the indusd
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 Citizens:-I have found not
only pleasure. but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion of tho State
of Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
ing way the impulse of new development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources of wealth which
were so long unobseryed and SO long un-
used are now bein, found, and that those
regions, once SO retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to tho
center of population, are now being rapid
Is transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the early
settlement of this country cmigrants
poured over the Alleghanies and Blue
Ridge clike waters over an obstructing
edge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions Of the great West. They
passed unobscrved these marvellous hid
den stores of wealth which arc now being
brought into use.
"Having filled those great basins of the
West the are now turning back to Vir-
ginia anu West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
production for which time is ripe and
which viii surprise the world. II 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 pillow.
with which the early farmers here turned
tho soil, came from distant States. But
now Virgin and Tennessee are stirring
their energies to participate in large
degree in mechanical productions and in
the great awakening Of American COM
merce and American influence which will
lift the nation to place among the ma
tions of the world never before attained.
"What is to hinder US when nc have
secured the markets of our own States
that VIC shall reach out and enter into
successful competition in tho markets Of
other parts of the world: say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all tho elements of
material wealth; endowed with a genius
and energy unsurpassed among tho ma
tons Of the earth, shall again have Oh the
great seas merchant marine flying the
flag Of tee common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port7
81 ain glad to-day to stand for this mo-
ment nmong you and to express my sym
pathy with any and every interest that
tends to develop you as q people. l am
glad to stand with you on one common
platform of respect for the constitution;
differing az 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 tho majority Of our people, by
their own representatives, make it.
Il shall carry away from here re-
ncwed impulse to public duty; new in
SEPARATION as q citizen, and that too, of
country whose greatness is only dawning
And now let me express to you the
pleasure shall have in every good that
can come to you as q community and to
each ofyou az individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love Of
God in every home
CoME 10 VIRG1NIA.-The coming wool
growing: agricultural and iron producing
section OF the United States.
Come via Merchants and Minors
TcouI Boston Steamship Line, via Norfolk, Penn
and sylvania Il. r., via Norfolk, or VI ash
New England ngton, or Harrisburg; Baltimore d
tOhio L. r., via Shenandoah Junction.
From II. vi Come via Old Dominion Steamship
E" n. j. Line, via Norfolk, Pennsylvania 4.
C Penn. R., via Norfolk, or Washington, or
{" Del. Harrisburg; Baltimore & Ohio K. Z.
g Md. via Shenandoah Junction.
From tho Come via Pittsburgh, or 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 Il Western railroad, 800 Wash
ington, Street, Boston; 303 Broadway
New YORK; 1883 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washing -on, D. c.; 81 East, State Street
Columbus, Ohio, or General Oace
| Roanoke. Va.