. History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws. repressible conflict. In thesouthern end of the State slavery preceded the compact. It ex-isted among the old French settlers, and was hard to portion was also settled from the slave States, and this popu-lation brought their laws, customs, and institutions with them. Astream of population from t
. History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws. repressible conflict. In thesouthern end of the State slavery preceded the compact. It ex-isted among the old French settlers, and was hard to portion was also settled from the slave States, and this popu-lation brought their laws, customs, and institutions with them. Astream of population from the North poured into the northern partof the State. These sections misunderstood and hated each otherperfectly. The Southerners regarded the Yankees as a skinning,tricky, penurious race of peddlers, filling the country with tinware,brass clocks, and wooden nutmegs. The Northerner thought of theSoutherner as a lean, lank, lazy creature, burrowing in a hut, andrioting in whisky, dirt, and ignorance. These causes aided inmaking the struggle long and bitter. So strong was the sympathywith slavery that, in spite of the ordinance of 1787, and in spite ofthe deed of cession, it was determined to allow the old French set-tlers to retain their slaves. Planters from the slave States might. GEN. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR. HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 69 bring their slaves if they would give them an opportunity to choosefreedom or years of service and bondage for their cliildren till theyshould become thirty years of age. If they chose freedom theymust leave the State within sixty days, or be sold as were whipped for offenses for which white men were lash paid forty cents of the fine. A negro ten miles fromhome without a pass was whipped. These famous laws were im-ported from the slave States, just as the laws for the inspection offlax and wool were imported when there was neither in the State. ST, CLAIR, GOVERNOR OF NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. On October 5, 17S7, Maj, Gen. Arthur
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