Illinois An Address

Author : John Pryor Hand
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ISBN 13 : 9781332527830
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Illinois written by John Pryor Hand and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illinois: An Address by Honorable John P. Hand Ladies and Gentlemen: I am pleased to meet you on this, the eighty-eighth, anniversary of the admission of Illinois as a State into the Union. In what I shall say this evening, I will only call your attention to a few of the prominent landmarks which have been left along the highway which the people of Illinois have traveled in the building of that great State, leaving you at your leisure to fill in the details of the brief outline of its history which I shall present to you, and if I shall succeed in more fully arousing your interest in the study of the subject, I will have accomplished all I could hope to accomplish in one evening. The discovery, early settlement and development of the State of Illinois, are attractive and inspiring subjects for study, and the young man or woman who desires to acquire a thorough knowledge of the history of that great commonwealth and is so fortunate as to be a student in an institution of learning founded and fostered by the State, where able instructors are provided and an ample library furnished, is to to be congratulated. The fourth centennial of the discovery of the Western Continent was celebrated upon Illinois soil thirteen years ago, by the civilized and semi-civilized nations of two continents, whose peoples assembled on the shores of the great lake which washes its north-eastern boundary, to pay homage to the progress made by the Anglo-Saxon race in the United States in four hundred years. 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.