Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society, Issue 16Illinois State Historical Society., 1913 - Illinois |
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... territory became a territory of the second grade and in that year the first territorial legislature was held . Madison County will include in its celebration , the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of this beginning of ...
... territory became a territory of the second grade and in that year the first territorial legislature was held . Madison County will include in its celebration , the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of this beginning of ...
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... territory . As a territory her southern and eastern and western boundaries were as now , but the northern boundary was an imaginary line running due west from the southern point of Lake Michigan . The northern boundary of Illinois would ...
... territory . As a territory her southern and eastern and western boundaries were as now , but the northern boundary was an imaginary line running due west from the southern point of Lake Michigan . The northern boundary of Illinois would ...
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... Territory , dedicated this whole region to freedom . Under that ordi- nance , Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Wisconsin and Michigan , came into the Union as free states , although in a few isolated neighborhoods slaves were held in bondage ...
... Territory , dedicated this whole region to freedom . Under that ordi- nance , Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Wisconsin and Michigan , came into the Union as free states , although in a few isolated neighborhoods slaves were held in bondage ...
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... Territory and the lower Mississippi Valley were later peopled . Mr. Sloo who was born at Washington , Mason County , Kentucky , and who passed his youth and young manhood in Cincinnati and about a decade of his more mature years in ...
... Territory and the lower Mississippi Valley were later peopled . Mr. Sloo who was born at Washington , Mason County , Kentucky , and who passed his youth and young manhood in Cincinnati and about a decade of his more mature years in ...
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... territory but in respect to brief residence he does not suffer in comparison with many of his contemporaries or with such later politicians as Douglas . He was a man of extremely simple life and tastes , but was not on the plane of ...
... territory but in respect to brief residence he does not suffer in comparison with many of his contemporaries or with such later politicians as Douglas . He was a man of extremely simple life and tastes , but was not on the plane of ...
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Page 81 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 87 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 71 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 15 - History of the first New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution.
Page 69 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 71 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 71 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death!
Page 80 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 15 - The Siege of Charleston by the British fleet and army under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the Surrender of that Place on the 12th of May, 1780.
Page 71 - For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.