The South and the Southern Railway: The Statement of a Record and of an Ambition

N.pl: N.p., 1916. Fair. Toned with short tears/damage to spine, wrappers detached.. A 1916 address given to the Virginia Bankers Association by Fairfax Harrison (1869-1938), an American businessman and lawyer for the Southern Railway Company. Advocating for developing railways in the South, Harrison begins his speech by rooting his aims in Reconstruction: "Overlapping its political reconstruction since the Civil War, there has been, and still is, going forward in the South an organic and economic reconstruction no less fundamental and scarcely less complete. The ante-bellum characteristic of the South was individualism. This was manifested and fostered by the predominance of rural life ... the patriarchal tendency of slave holding ... the war was a great leveler" (p. [1]). Includes tables of economic and agricultural data showing growth and the need for railroads. Single vol. (9" by 6"), pp. 16, in original printed wrps. Blind stamp of Western Reserve Historical Society to upper wrapper with discharge ink stamp to verso. Fairfax Harrison (1869-1938) was an American businessman and lawyer for the Southern Railway Company beginning in 1896.