. History of Pike 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 .. . llict. In theSouthern end of the State slavery preceded the coujpact. It ex-isted among the old French settlers, and was hard to j>orlion 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 po
. History of Pike 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 .. . llict. In theSouthern end of the State slavery preceded the coujpact. It ex-isted among the old French settlers, and was hard to j>orlion 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 nortliern part.»f the State. These sections misunderstood and hated each otlierjierfectly. The Southerners regarded the Yankees as a skinning,tricky, ])enurious race of peddlers, tilling the country with tinware,brass clocks, and wocnlen nutmegs. The Northerner thought of theSoutherner as a lean, , 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 ot the ordinance of 17^7, and in spite ofthe deed of cession, it was determined to allow the old French set-tlers to retain their slaves. Planters from tlie slave States might. GEN. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR. UISTOKY OF ILLINOIS. 59 bring their slaves if tliey would give them an opportunity to choosefreedom or years of service and bondage for their cliildren till tl)eyshould become thirty years of age. If they chose freedom theymust leave the State within sixty days, or be sold as fu^ were wliij»i)ed 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, GOVEKXOR OF NORTUWESTKRN TERRITORY. On October 5, 17S7, Maj. Gen.
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