The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-17
CHICAGO, ILL.

Within the Bounds of the State.
 It was through one of the really important events of history that the fourteen northern counties of Illinois were included in the boundaries of the state and that we are permitted to
 call the people of Chicago and vicinity
 Illinoisans
 In 1918. when the enabling act was
 being discussed in congress for the
 admission of Illinois into the union,
 Nathaniel Pope, delegate from the ter
 ritory of Illinois, urged that the north
 ern boundary of the. new state be
 moved nortward distance of fifty-one
 miles, e4 .F{@
 As originally, fixed the territory of
 Illinois had for it's northern boundary
 line running east and west through
 the southern bend of Lake Michigan.
 Pope argued that the metropolis of the
 northwest must be developed on Lake
 Michigan, that Illinois by her fertility
 of soil location, her great length her
 eastehrn shore washed for 150 miles by
 the Ohio river, about the same distance
 by the Wabash, and her western shore
 bounded by the Mississippi, would be-
 forever united by commercial ties to
 the Gulf of Mexico and influences of
 the south.He saw that the channels of commerce must eventually reach east
 and north through the great lakes, and
 that if Lake Michigan of the southern
 portion of itt belonged to, Illinois 1t
 would bind the state tos Indiana, Ohio
 Pennsylvania and New. York, and thus
 s,,Aa
 southern influences; that this would
 make the state of Illinois the keystone
 of the national fabrie,st the cementing link which would hold the south to the
 east and the north; that in the days to come canal would be built, which, in
 connection iwth the Illinois and Missis7 sippi rivers, would unite the lakes and
 the gulf. and that wheflever the ques- tion of the dissolution of the union would be raised, as he raised, as he argued it would be raised, as he argued it would be raised. Illinois would, be
 the great central power that would save the union. ~ IF,
 So in that early day in,January, ISIS, on the floor of the house of congress. Nathaniel Pope presented these argu-
 ments with sucvh power, that they
 were adopted without division. The boundary was moved { nortward for f1fty-one miles, taking in what are now
 the fourteen northern counties of the state, and the act also established
 perpetual fund for the, encouragement
 of learning How like the voice of prophecy does this argument now ap-
 pear! In less than fifty years every
 word spoken by Judge Pope was veri- fled in history. But for this change the canal would not have been built.
 But for this change the Illinois Central railroad. the creation of which was
 chief distinction of Senator Douglas, would not have been built. It was the vote of these fourteen counties in 1854 which sent Lyman Trumbull to the senate and turned the state of Illinois right-about-face on the great question
 of slavery. It was the voice of these same counties which, two years later, saved the state to the party of Lincoln and made possible his candidacy for president of the United States. Ineed not go further by way of suggesting the momentous train of events which followed as a result of Judge Pope's work.
 The man who made this argument and controlled the action of congress and gave Chicago to the state Of Illi- nois was Nathanial Popt, the man who afterward became district judge of the United States for the district of Illi- nois, and who was the first man to hold the distinguished office whose duties are now divided between Judge c. c. Kohlsaat of Chicago and the writer. Thus has been recorded in history a perpetual call upon Illinoisans of every age to remember the sacred trust re-
 posed in them as the special champions and guardians of the union by the
 great and wise men who adorned the councils of the nation in the early days of the republic.
 No more far-reaching, no more ben eflcial legislation has ever been se- cured by any public servant at any time on behalf of the state, and his- torians generally accord to Judge Pope the distinction of having achieved more lasting benefits to the state of Illinois during his brief service of delegate than can be accorded to any other man. Chicago Standard
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