Identifier: eraofcivilwar18400cole (find matches)
Title: The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Publisher: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n at Salem, were held by advo-cates of a rail connection between St. Louis and southernIllinois. This convention, termed by its opponents a Rebel-lion Conclave, a Rebellion against our own State,1* wasattended by Governor French, who was himself interested inthe St. Louis road; he and the Springfield democratic machinewere opposed to the state policy propaganda and werecarefully canvassing the situation. When it became evidentthat the discussion had aroused a general popular interest in 14 Chicago Daily Journal, June 5, 1847. 15 Belleville Advocate, October 14, December 9, 1841, November 19, 1846.A line to connect Belleville with Illinoistown which would make the first town asuburb of St. Louis and a summer resort for transients was too local in interestto attract favorable notice from outside. 16 Cairo Delta clipped in Illinois State Register, March 3, 1849; IllinoisJournal, May 29, 1849. 17 Chicago Democrat, August 27, 1849. 18 Pickering to French, June 16, 1849, French manuscripts.
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Railroad Development1850 - 1860 41HIIIIH Railroads, 1850 Railroads, 18SS Railroads, 1860 COMING OF THE RAILROADS 35 railroads and that the state was about to be swept by a veri-table railroad fever, the governor issued a proclamation callingfor the special session and enumerating railroad legislationamong its objects.19 He was at once bitterly assailed fortaking this step and dubbed the tool of St. Louis and of aclique of railroad speculators. The Charleston Globe, a demo-cratic paper from Frenchs home district, edited by a personalfriend, was convinced that St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Vincenneswere tricking Illinois out of interest and privileges which areof vast import. 20 A bitter struggle was now under way. The advocates of state policy held railroad meetings and called for a generalrailroad convention to meet at Hillsboro. At this meeting,which was held on the fourth of October, eight or ten thou-sand persons coming from fifteen or more counties decidedto terminate the tribute to

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