History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois . d acquire ownership by evidently looked upon Mr. Gilbert withsome distrust and ill-will, as he was notregular in this; he claimed there were yetproperty rights here of the Cairo & CanalCompany, and he further believed in themajesty and supremacy of the law of theland. Be gave his time and labored faith-fully, never, for a moment, so doubting hiseyes and senses as to lose faith in the futuregreat destiny of Cairo. From 1843 to 1851did he continue thus to hold the fort,and protect the town and build up its inter-ests. I
History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois . d acquire ownership by evidently looked upon Mr. Gilbert withsome distrust and ill-will, as he was notregular in this; he claimed there were yetproperty rights here of the Cairo & CanalCompany, and he further believed in themajesty and supremacy of the law of theland. Be gave his time and labored faith-fully, never, for a moment, so doubting hiseyes and senses as to lose faith in the futuregreat destiny of Cairo. From 1843 to 1851did he continue thus to hold the fort,and protect the town and build up its inter-ests. In those eight long years of decay anddilapidation, the population increased onlyfrom 50 to 200 souls. Except for theefforts of Mr. Gilbert, there was an interreg-num here, and a prostration of the hopes ofthe town quite as profound as was the finan-cial and commercial panic in the countrygenerally. And all over the West this pros-tration lasted until the passage by Congressof the bill for the building of the IllinoisCentral Railroad, in February,
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