The Last of the Illinois and Sketch of the Pottawatomies

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Excerpt from The Last of the Illinois and Sketch of the Pottawatomies: Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, December 13, 1870, Also Origin of the Prairies, Read Before the Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences, December 30th, 1869 Slavery has always been the disturbing element in our Government. Its recognition in the Constitution of 1787, by the equivocal language used therein, was the result of compromise, and an honest belief that in a short process of years it would wholly disappear. Its deadly leaven, even then, had corrupted, if not the whole lump, a large and influential portion of the inhabitants of the Southern States of the Union. In the North and East, as anticipated, Slavery soon ceased to exist: but elsewhere it took deeper root, and grew in strength and power, until it attempted its last crowning act of wickedness, the destruction of our free government. No one can doubt the origin of the antagonism of the North and the South, an antagonism more intense and bitter than that of different nations and tongues. We were of the same stock, reared under the same government, educated by the same teachers, and imbued with the same ideas of politics and religion. Our pilgrim fathers, landing upon the inhospitable shores of New England, relied upon their strong arms and untiring industry for success. The ship that landed at Jamestown the first settlers of Virginia, brought also the curse which has since blighted the rich soil of that ancient Commonwealth. 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.