Address Before the Agricultural Association of the Fifth Congressional District of Illinois

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Excerpt from Address Before the Agricultural Association of the Fifth Congressional District of Illinois: At Woodstock, September 22, 1887 Fellow-Citizens: I desire to return my sincere thanks to the officers of your Association for their courteous invitation to share your generous hospitality, and address you upon this occasion. Notwithstanding the fact that for more than a third of a century I have been a resident of Illinois, this is the first time I have had the honor of meeting and mingling with the people who, by a kind Providence, have been permitted to find peaceable homes in this, the fairest portion of our great State. I bear to you to-day the greetings and congratulations of your fellow-citizens of that great county lying one hundred and fifty miles to the southward - the good county of McLean. Its history, stretching over but little more than half a century, savors more of romance than of reality. The log cabin has given way to the commodious farm-house and the elegant mansion. The rude appliances of a pioneer civilization have been succeeded by comforts and conveniences to which the wealthy and noble of former generations were strangers. Its school-houses and churches, colleges and universities, its institutions erected by the hand of charity and of patriotism, declare more eloquently than can any poor words of mine that the county in which I dwell has not lagged behind in the great march of Christian civilization. And yet, what is true of the one county I have named is true of almost every portion of Illinois. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.