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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • This meeting has for its ultimate object the 1 establishment of a national park; to be located somewhere in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Its immediate purpose is to effect an organisation that will enlist the active co-operatian of the people of the so. Sputh that the claims and advantages of this section may be properly presented to the approaching Congress that we may procure from that body the enactment of such laws as will neoure the establishment of the park. W» raedt in the interest of no state and no locality,but for the common good and for the attainment of a purpose that will be of Inestinable benefit to the whole country. This meeting win beccrane historic. .It will mark an epoch in the growth and development of the south and especially the mountain section of the south. The strength of our cause and the beneficence of our piqppose saust insure success* It has been the policy of the Government to establish parks from time to time,and it is remarkable that this mountain region of the South has heretofore been overlooked, iPor above all other seotions it is an ideal country for a park. It has not the snow- clad altitudes of the Rockies nor the sterile grandeur of the Sierra Nevadas;but here is a great country of undulating table lands and mighty mountain ranges whose soil is as productive as the prairies of Illinoisihere ar$ peaks where Vulcan might forge his thunderbolts and where the Cols of Olympus might sit in coun- oil above the oloudsihere are fertile valleys sleeping peacefully beneath the gianclifts of mountains that rise in majestic grand- cur above the storms,watered by Crystal streams that break in everlasting melody fresh from the granite of etennal hills;here is a region where winter lingers not;the mountains swell with life
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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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