Amid the silence of that prairie graveyard. broken alone by the soft sighings of the wind as they mourned a requiem over his grave. I thought that his life had been more of a romance than thatof anyother man this country ever saw. Born of poor parents in Ireland in 1810. he emigrated to this country in 1826. Admitted to the bar. he commenced the practice of the law at Kaskaskia. Ill.. and soon by his eminent talents and genius brought himself to the front. where men like Lincoln and Baker and other great minds of that State were his compeers and rivals.
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