Illinois in the World War: The war-time organization of Illinois, by Marguerite Edith Jenison

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Theodore Calvin Pease
Illinois State Historical Library, 1923
 

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Stran 392 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Stran 426 - ... what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...
Stran 366 - In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Stran 333 - ... that he is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such...
Stran 426 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and Christ and reason say the same; and they will find it so.
Stran 115 - An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes...
Stran 435 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me, and on which I have unwillingly trespassed so long.
Stran 384 - Beginning at the mouth of the Wabash river, thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the northwest corner of said State, thence east with the line of the same State, to the middle of Lake Michigan...
Stran 257 - Upon the other side of said envelope shall be printed the following oath : "OATH OF ELECTOR. I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a citizen of the United States, and am now of the age of at least twenty-one years, or will be on the day of 19.
Stran 256 - ... in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district...

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