Life of Abraham Lincoln : presenting his early history, political career, and speeches in and out of Congress . rence for their homes. The open character of thecountry undoubtedly repelled emigration, and caused it to beconcentrated on the chief streams, for a long time, when at lastit commenced in earnest. In 1820, two years after admission into the Union, the entirepopulation, still almost entirely confined to the same region,and to similar localities as ten years before, amounted to only55,211. From that time to 1830, there was some extension ofthe settlements northward, toward the center o
Life of Abraham Lincoln : presenting his early history, political career, and speeches in and out of Congress . rence for their homes. The open character of thecountry undoubtedly repelled emigration, and caused it to beconcentrated on the chief streams, for a long time, when at lastit commenced in earnest. In 1820, two years after admission into the Union, the entirepopulation, still almost entirely confined to the same region,and to similar localities as ten years before, amounted to only55,211. From that time to 1830, there was some extension ofthe settlements northward, toward the center of the State, andup the Mississippi to Galena, where the mines were alreadyworked. The rivers along which the principal settlements hadbeen made, aside from the great boundary rivers—the Missis-sippi, the Ohio, and the Wabash—were the Kaskaskia, theEmbarras, the Sangamon, and their branches. There were afew settlements, also, in the Rock-river country, and on therange of Peoria. The population, thus chiefly distributed,had now (1830) reached 157,445. The brothers of Thomas Lincoln had previously removed. LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 33 to a more northern location in Indiana, than that which hehad occupied. Both settled in the Blue river country—-Mor-decai in Hancock county, where he not long after died, andJosiah in Harrison county. Their example, perhaps, had itsinfluence upon Thomas, who, however, took a course of hisown. Whatever the immediate or remote occasion, he leftIndiana in the spring of 1830, to seek another place of abode,in the State of Illinois. He had seen the growth of Kentuckyfrom almost the very start, to a population of nearly 700,000and he had lived in Indiana from the time its inhabitantsnumbered only G5,000, until they had reached nearly 350, he first set his foot within the limits of Illinois, its vas iterritory had, comparatively, but just begun to be occupied,scarcely at all, as we have seen, except in the extreme southernportion, and here almost
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