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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • 3 / civilisation, This Whole Appalachian region was wrested from the in* dians by the valor and prowess of the aen fror, whiOia we are descended, A: o singly or in little bands first aroused its nsuntains, peopled Its walleye, fought their own battles, mil nc.de no step backward. They .are always ahead of the government, eel&esi aided by it a anay of and often, I car. eoapeiied to admit, Independent of Its treaties. The conquest was thai re, and thai re alone. The western Carol inns, the v. astern firgintasi Tennessee and Kentucky, were In very truth, atifts of the pioneers to the Republic, In the northwest, the ;lft of the states to the Republic or ita purchased property, a benign and festering .joverniaent— a wise ;jov- ar^aent—not only gave the settlers their losses and guarded the® with its arades, hut, aith a wiedea beyond praise, est apart lands for the purpose of schools* fa bad no school lands, or alaoet none. In Ten- nasse© we gat 22,0^0 acres, when we should have bad over four hundred thousand acrar>. The 'Overnaent had it to.;Ive, but we appealed for it in vain, I do not eoapioin nor say that we were fro© from fault, I only state the fact. Later, when the west needed railroads, the Federal jovem* meat not only gave the railroad corporations vast areas of land, but mora than once leaned these its credit, and results have Justified tooth the esspedlenoy and the tserit of the j-oiicy. The northwest was built upon a lattice of subsidised railroads* Our railroads were built as our lends were won, without federal aid, Along the line of railroad t traverser the entire iengtb of tl e valley of Em% Toun^^m,
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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