. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . rizon;when the Anglo-Saxon language shall be spoken only by the tongue ofthe stranger; then the generations looking this way shall see the greatpresident as the supreme figure in this vortex of history CHICAGO. It is impossible in our brief space to give more than a meager sketchof such a city as Chicago, which is in itself the greatest marvel of thePrairie State. This mysterious, majestic, mighty city, born first of water,and next of fire; sown in weakness, and raised in power; planted amongthe willows of the mars
. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . rizon;when the Anglo-Saxon language shall be spoken only by the tongue ofthe stranger; then the generations looking this way shall see the greatpresident as the supreme figure in this vortex of history CHICAGO. It is impossible in our brief space to give more than a meager sketchof such a city as Chicago, which is in itself the greatest marvel of thePrairie State. This mysterious, majestic, mighty city, born first of water,and next of fire; sown in weakness, and raised in power; planted amongthe willows of the marsh, and crowned with the glory of the mountains ;sleeping on the bosom of the prairie, and rocked on the bosom of the sea,the youngest city of the world, and still the eye of the prairie, as Damas-cus, the oldest city of the world, is the eye of the desert. With a com-merce far exceeding that of Corinth on her isthmus, in the highway tothe East; with the defenses of a continent piled around her by the thou-sand miles, making her far safer than Rome on the banks of the Tiber j.
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