Jesse B. Thomas and Ninian Edwards. and in this House by John McLean. The prairies and the woodlands of our State were by nature )eautiful. and the soll was as fertile as the valley of the Nile. these with a tempting temperate climate attracted immigration from the very beginning and within the sI5an of but few years the hunting grounds of the Indians along the navigable rivers. on the picturesque plains. and in the bounteous basins of the Mississippi. Ohio. Illinois. and Wabash Rivers. became the happy homes of hundreds who came north and west to seek their fortunes. In those days there were two tides of immigration into Illinois. One from Ohio. New York. and New England caine by way of the Great Lakes. thence through what is now Chicago and down into the State from the north.
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