Speech of the Hon. James E. Cooley
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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. James E. Cooley: Before the Democracy of Syracuse, in Mass Meeting Assembled, on Tuesday Evening, Nov; 1, 1853 I remember passing over the site of your city more than thirty years ago. Then it was mostly an uncomely and desolate scene, covered with stumps and trees, with decayed wood, and mud and malaria. Then it had an insalubrious, ungenial aspect, and, in close proximity to it, were vast tracts of primitive forests, stretching off majestically beyond the eye´s comprehension, and almost illimitable in extent. Then there was little attempt at cultivation in the immediate vicinity of Syracuse, and only a few slightly built houses and shops scattered here and there, mostly along the banks of the newly excavated canal. Then there were no school-houses nor churches in the place; and, I believe, only one small public house, and that was situated on the north or left bank of the canal. There were a few shops, groceries and porter-houses, and some stables for canal horses; but I doubt whether stages began at that time to run through Syracuse. The roads, only endurable in dry weather, were impassable during the rainy season, in late autumn and early spring. In short, Syracuse had then but just emerged out of the gloomy wilderness, the silence of which had but recently been broken, and the forest cleared away, in constructing the canal; which was then so nearly completed along the middle and eastern sections of it, as to admit the passage of boats down to the Hudson. What a wonderful change has been wrought here since my first visit to Syracuse! How has this great, populous, thriving town sprung up here in the "wild woods of the west," as this region was called less than forty years ago! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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