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Title: Illinois history stories, for use in elementary schools
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Campbell, William H., 1851- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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acre is thrill-ing. They were scattered from the banks of theWabash to Mackinac. Most of them were eventuallyransomed and returned to the white settlements. At the foot of Eighteenth street, near the spot wherethis awful massacre occurred, stands to-day a group ofbronze figures upon a massive granite pedestal. Itrepresents the saving of Mrs. Helm by Black Partridge,a friendly Indian chief, during the heat of the struggle.It stands there to remind us of the agonies, worse thandeath, through which our frontier forefathers passedas they laid deep and strong the foundations of civiliza-tion in this western country. From this time to the close of the war in 1814,parties of soldiers were going to and fro in the state,seeking out hostile Indians, burning their villages anddestroying their crops, but there was nothing approach-ing a battle and little that deserved the name of warfare. As stated above, in 1812 the state entered upon itssecond stage of territorial government. A legislature, 106
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MAP OP ILLINOIS SHOWING COUNTY BOUNDARIES 1818. (ILLINOIS TY.) 107 ILLINOIS HISTORY STORIES consisting of five members of the legislative council andseven members of the house, was elected by the inhabi-tants of the five counties. This general assembly heldits first session at Kaskaskia in November and Decemberof 1812. It reenacted many of the old territorial lawsand elected Shadrach Bond to be the territorial delegateto Congress. During his term as delegate Bond securedthe passage by Congress of the first preemption law.This law provided that when a settler had made im-provements upon a piece of land belonging to thegovernment he could not be displaced by another pur-chaser until he had been given a chance to buy the landfrom the government. Population increased very rapidly from 1812 to1818. Many soldiers from Virginia, Kentucky andTennessee, who came into the state to protect the settlersduring the war, were so well pleased with the countrythat they came back with their families an

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