Illinois Day Celebration

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Excerpt from Illinois Day Celebration: For the University of Illinos This is the day whereon the sovereign State Of Illinois was born, December third, Eighteen-eighteen, the Senate cast its vote Without division granting finally The fair petition of our fathers for Admission to the Union of the States. Wherefore this day by law is duly held In honor and in grateful memory, And I today as President have called The University of Illinois In worthy Convocation, fittingly To celebrate the admission of the State. As specially his high occasion brings Together here the present and the past, So those who laid the States foundations sure Are here in those who led our fathers then, In Ninian Edwards, Territorial Governor, In Shadrach Bond, first Governor of the State, In Pierre Menard and in Nathaniel Pope, His nephew, Daniel Cook, and E. K. Kane, In Edward Coles, McLean and Thomas, - men Who, though they builded better than they knew, Looked far into the future as they worked, - As also in our day, God grant, do we! The President of the University resumes his seat and Governor Ninian Edwards rises. Edwards: As when we came, keen pioneers, from out The tangled wilderness, from out the dark Dense wooded swamp, through which we had cut our way, Into the open prairie and the sun, - So was it when we came at last from out The territorial status and became A State. In our own hands our destinies! 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.