Papers in Illinois history and transactions . r him to Illinois, becauseas he stated: I had seen with painful emotions the increase of a dis-position to justify slavery, and our preachers, by marriage and otherways, became more and more entangled with this dark question andwere disposed to palliate and justify the traffic and ownership ofhuman beings. Summarizing his reasons for his removal to Illinoishe says: First, I would get entirely clear of the evil of , I could raise my children up to work where work was not 1 The chief sources of information concerning the career of Peter
Papers in Illinois history and transactions . r him to Illinois, becauseas he stated: I had seen with painful emotions the increase of a dis-position to justify slavery, and our preachers, by marriage and otherways, became more and more entangled with this dark question andwere disposed to palliate and justify the traffic and ownership ofhuman beings. Summarizing his reasons for his removal to Illinoishe says: First, I would get entirely clear of the evil of , I could raise my children up to work where work was not 1 The chief sources of information concerning the career of Peter Cartwright is hisautobiography, published in 1S56. A brief biographical sketch was published aftirhis death, giving the events of his career from 1856 to 1872, in the Minutes of theAnnual Conferences for the year , 115-117. Another book giving biographicalmaterial is Fiftii Years a Presiding Eider, by Cartwright, (Cincinnati. 1871). 2 For the .Tournal of the Western Conference, see Sweet, Rise of Methodism in theWest, (New York, 1920).. PETER CARTWRIGHT. 117 thought a degredation. Third, I beUeved I could better my temporalcircumstances, and procure land for my children as they grew up. Andfourth, I could carry the gospel to destitute souls that had by theirremoval into some new country, been deprived of the means of grace.* Sangamon county, to which he had come, was but newly condition of the country we will let Cartwright describe: It wasthe most northern and the only northern county organized in the had been settled by a few hardy and enterprising pioneers but a fewyears before. Just north of it was an unbroken Indian country, and theIndians would come in by the scores and would camp on the Sangamonriver bottom, and hunt and live through the winter. Their frequentvisits to our cabins created sometimes great alarm among the womenand children.* The Illinois conference, to which Cartwright had been transferredon his removal to Illinois, had just been
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