They must wake up from the lethargy that has dominated and controlled them for years. that their ancestors have lived under for years. or they must gradually sink into oblivion in influence and numbers precisely as the American Indian has disappeared before the oncoming wave of the white mans civilization. The experience in Illinois is a practical refutation of the argument that is made that the SpanishAmerican elements can not exist in the new State successfully. The southern portion of Illinois was settled by immigrants from Kentucky and Tennessee. from Virginia and North Carolina. They came there with all of the traditions of slaveholding States. Many of them brought their slaves with them. although the Territory. under the ordinance of 1787. was dedicated to freedom. The northern portion of the State. especially the fourteen counties that were taken from Wisconsin and added to Illinois. was settled by people from New England and the Eastpeople who had been brought up to abhor slavery in all of its forms. and who looked upon the Southerners with great suspicion. These two elements met and commingled oh the soil of Illinois. No greater hatred can exist between the people of Arizona and any portion of the population of New Mexico than that which existed between the Immigrants from the South that settled southern Illinois and the immigrants who populated the northern portion of the State. The strife was fierce and deadly In Its character. and yet. Mr.
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