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It has no reference to myself or people, but to my friend Gomo, the Pottawattomie chief. He came to Rock river to pay me a visit, and during his stay he related to me the following story: "The war chief at Peoria is a very good man. He always speaks the truth and treats our people well.
The following churches reported themselves as having been organized in the Territory: No. of Members. Pardee, Atchison Co 92 Union Church, Atchison Co 60 Leavenworth City 70 Big Springs, Douglas Co 72 Prairie City, Douglas Co 44 Peoria City, Lykins Co 23 Leroy, Coffey Co 108 Emporia 80 Stanton, Lykins Co 91 Iola, Allen Co 21 Humbolt, Allen Co. 12 Burlington, Coffey Co 9 Wolf Creek, Doniphan Co 70
He was sure of it when his wife signified her desire to make a visit to her old home back in Peoria. She did not give many reasons, but she did show him a letter that had found its way from old friends. This letter contained news that may or may not have been authentic; but it was enough, Belding thought, to interest his wife.
Presently I felt myself overtaken by the same drowsiness that had enthralled Peoria Red, and a queer numbness which as it crept upwards from my feet seemed to kill my ambition to battle for life against the "Death of the Arctic."
He was of burgher descent, had been educated by the Jesuits, with whom for a time he was connected, and first went to Canada in 1666, discovering the Ohio River in 1669, and the upper waters of the Illinois in 1671. In 1679 he established a fort on the Illinois River, near the present Peoria, intending it as a starting-point for an expedition down the Mississippi.
I was in Peoria when the prohibitionists held a convention there and was astonished that they would put up at a saloon or a hotel that run one. I never eat or sleep in one. My conscience will not allow me. I never saw so many ragged children or dirty streets, as in Peoria. I heard so much of the "Weltmer treatment" for disease.
At the mouth of a river, perhaps the Des Moines, Marquette places the three villages of the Peoria Indians visited by him. These, with the Kaskaskias, Maroas, and others, on the map, were merely sub-tribes of the aggregation of savages, known as the Illinois.
The First Inaugural can be traced through the Cooper Union Address and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, the Peoria Speech, and the speeches of 1854 to the seed of 1832, the plain, logical, direct statement of principles of Lincoln's first address to the public.
The Peoria speech, which drew to a focus all the implications of his early life, laid the basis of his political significance; the Cooper Union speech, summing up his conflict with Douglas, applied his thinking to the new issue precipitated by John Brown; but in both these he was still predominantly a negative thinker, still the voice of an opposition.
So I was afraid and I began to edge. Says I: "What time does that train get to Petersburg, Willie?" "About an hour from here," says he. "Where does it come from?" "Peoria." "Does it come through Havaner?" "Why, of course it does; why?" "Because," says I, "I thought I saw a friend of my pa's standin' on the back platform." "Who?" says Willie.
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