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... legislature was held . Madison County will include in its celebration , the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of this beginning of representative government in Illinois . This bill has passed the Senate . A bill has also ...
... legislature was held . Madison County will include in its celebration , the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of this beginning of representative government in Illinois . This bill has passed the Senate . A bill has also ...
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... Legislature for appropriations for aid of this Society we ask specifically for annual appropriations for archaeological purposes , being firmly of the opinion that the State will respond liberally to such request . Chicago , Ill . , May ...
... Legislature for appropriations for aid of this Society we ask specifically for annual appropriations for archaeological purposes , being firmly of the opinion that the State will respond liberally to such request . Chicago , Ill . , May ...
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... Legislature . Many of the people of the State of Illinois , too poor to own slaves , had migrated from the south to the State for the purpose of getting rid of slavery and they did not want it established under any circumstances , and ...
... Legislature . Many of the people of the State of Illinois , too poor to own slaves , had migrated from the south to the State for the purpose of getting rid of slavery and they did not want it established under any circumstances , and ...
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... Legislature in order to give the pro - slavery men a two - thirds majority . I mentioned the name of George Churchill be- cause I once had the pleasure of meeting him in Galesburg . He was a brother of the late Norman Churchill of ...
... Legislature in order to give the pro - slavery men a two - thirds majority . I mentioned the name of George Churchill be- cause I once had the pleasure of meeting him in Galesburg . He was a brother of the late Norman Churchill of ...
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... Legislature is a bill making an appropriation for internal improvements , and which contemplates the location of a canal , from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River . It has passed the House of Representatives , and has been twice read ...
... Legislature is a bill making an appropriation for internal improvements , and which contemplates the location of a canal , from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River . It has passed the House of Representatives , and has been twice read ...
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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 51 - Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey.
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.
Page 70 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.
Page 71 - And ever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is Life — there are no dead!