Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-03-03
Where is Duluth ?n TRoars

! CiDlldl Oh MlllnCSOla, Just rs ire agony
of my anxiety was about TO eliminate
in the frenzy of despair, this blessed
map was placed in my hands and as
| Unfolded it a resplendent scene of i'll
etfable glory opened before me. such
as | imagine burst upon the enrap-
tured vision of the wandering peri
through the opening gates of Paradise.
! Renewed laughter There, there
ior the first time, my enchanted eyes
rested upon the ravishing word Du-
| luth."
This map, sir, is intended, as it APP
pears from its title, to illustrate the
position of Duluth in the United
| States; but if gentlemen will examine
| it, | think they will concur with me
in the opinion that it is far too modest
| in its pretensioIs. 1t not only illu =
trates the position of DulIth in the
| United States, but exhibits its relations
with all created things. 1t even goes
| further than this. 1t lifts the shadowy
veil of futurity and affords us view
of the golden prospects of Duluth, far
along the dim vista of ages yet To
| come
If gentlemen will examine il they
| will find Duluth not only in the center
Ofthe map, but represented in the center
| of series of cOncentric circles one hum
dred miles apart, and some of them
as much as four thousand miles in di-
ameter, embracing alike in their ire
mendOus sweep the frat rant savannas
of the sunlit South and the eternal
solitudes of snow that mantle the ice
| bound North. Laughter. How
these circles were produced is perhaps
one of those primordial mysteries that
the most skillful paleologist will never
be able to explain. Renewed laugh
| ter. But the fact is, sir, Duluth is
| prominently a central place, for | am
| told by gentlemen who have been so
reckless of their own personal safety
rs to venture away into those awful re-
giOns where Duluth is supposed to be,
| that it is so exactly i'm the center of the
visible universe thai the sky comes
down at precise ly the same distance
all around it. ROars of lauther.]
| find by reference to this map that
Duluth is situated somewhere near the
western end of Lake Superior, but as
there is no dot or ether mark indicat-
ing its exact location | am unable to
say whether it is actually confined to
any particular spot, or whether " it is
Just lying around there loose" Re-
newed laughter. rally cannot tell
whether it is one of those ethereal Gre
ations of intellectual frost work, more
intangible than the rOse-tinted clouds
of q summer sunset; one of those airy
civilizations of the spectators brain,
which | am told are ever fitting in the
form of towns and cities along thOse
lines of railroad, built with Govern
ment subsidies, Turing the unwary SET
tier as the mirage of the desert lures
the furnishing traveller on, and ever on,
until it fades away in the darkening
horizon, or whether il is a real, bona
fde, substantial city. all staked off,
| with the lots marked with their own
ers' names, ike that proud CONNER
| clal metropolis recently discovered on
| the desirable shores of San Domingo.
| Laughter. But, however that may
| be, | am satisfied Duluth is there, or
| thereabOut, for | see il stated here on
this map that it is exactly thirty-niDe
hundred and ninety miles from Liver
pool, laughter though | have no
! doubt, for the sake of convenience, it
will be moved back ten miles, so as to
make the distance an even four thOus-
| and. Renewed laughter.
| Then, sir, there is the climate Of Duluth,
uuqucstionaJly the most salubrious and de-
| lightful to be found anywhere on the Lords
EARTH Now, have always been under the
impression, | presume other gentlemen
have, that in the region around Lake Supe
rior it was cold enough fer Mt least nine
months in the years 20 feecze the smoke
/ stack off locomotive, ['iteat laughter. j
] But | see it represented on this map tat
! Duluth is situated exactly halfway between
! the attitudes OF PtrS an Venice. that
| gentlemen who have inhIle the celebrating
airs of the one, or basket in the golden sun
| light of the other, may see at = glance that
| Duluth must be &c place OF untOll delights,
| Tlaughther,l n terrestrial paradise, famed
| by the balmy zephyrs of an eternal spring,
| clothed in the gorgeous sheen Of ever bloom
| ing flowers, and vocal with the silycry mel
| oily of natures choicest songsters. Laugh
| ter. In fact, sir, since | have seen this
map, have no doubt that Byron was vainly
| endeayOring to convey some faint conception
OF the delicious charms of Duluth when his
| poetic soul gushed forth in the ripping
strains of that beautiful rhapsody
8. Know We the Ian of the cedar and vine,
| Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams
ever shine
Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed
| win Perfume
| Wax faint DER the gardens of Gul in her
| bloom;
Where the citron and olive are fairest of
fruit,
And the voice Of the nightingale never is
mute;
Where the tints of the earth and the hues
of the sky,
In color though varied, in beauty may vie ~
Laughter
As to the commercial resources of Duluth,
| sir. they are Simply illimitable and mex
haustiLle, as is shown by this map. | see
/ it stated here that there Is vast scope Of
| territory, embracing an area of over two
| million square miles, rich in every element
| of material wealth and commercial prosper
| ity, all tributary TO Duluth. Look at it, sir,
! Ipointing to the map.l Here are insxhausti
| ole mines of gold, unreasonable veins of
silver, impenetrable depths Of boundless
| forest, vast cOal-measurSs, wide, extended
plains Of richest pasturage, all, all embraced
| in this vast territory, which must, in the
very nature of things, empty the untold
! treasures of its commerce into the lap Of Du-
luth.
| Look at it sir, [pointing to the map,l do not
| you see from these broad, brown lines drawn
around this immense territory that the enter
/ prIsIng inhabitants OF Dulutn EBtehu some
day to inclose it all in one vast corral, 50 that
its commerce will be bound to 60 there wheth
er it would or not lGreat laughter. And
here, sir, [still pointing to the map,l ] find
within convenient distance the Piegan In
dams, which, of all the many accessories to
the glory of Duluth, | consider by far the
| most inestimable. For, sir, have been told
that when the smallpox breaks out among
the women and children OF that famous tribe,
ne it sometimes does, they afford the finest
subjects in the world for the s;ragctical ex-
! periments Of any enterprisin, Eiiii -'ry so
who desires to improve himself in the noble
art Of war, laughter: j especially for any
valiant Lieutenant General whose
''Trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,
For want Of 6ghting has grown rusty,
And eats into itself for lack
OF somebody to hew and hack
Sir, the great conflict now raging IN the
Old World has presented a phenomenon in
military operations unprecedented in the an
mails Of mankind, phenomenon mat has r.
verse1 all the traditions OF the past N IT has
Disappointed all the expectations OF the pres