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EXECUTIVE SERIES, VOLUME
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GOVERNORS' LETT ER-B OOKS 1840-1853
EoiTEn WITH Introduction and ?Ioies BY
EVARTS BOUTELL GREENE^ CHARLES MANFRED THOMPSON UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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THOiSIAS CARLIX, Fron:
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GOVERNOR OF
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The
Illinois State Historical Library
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Printy
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Cbicafro. Illinois, U.S.A.
PREFACE The preceding volume Sta.te HistoricpJ
letters
of this Executive Series (Illinois
Library, Colleciions, IV.), was
taken from. Volumes
series of
II.
and
III. of the
"Governors' Letter-Books" in the
made up
of
manusciupt
office of
the Sec-
retary of State, closing with the correspondence of Governor
John Reynolds in 1834. The present volume is similarly made up of the letters in Volumes IV., V., and VI. of the same manuscript series. Of these manuscript volumes,
Volume IV. contains
Governor Thomas Caiiin
letters of
Thomas Ford Volume V. includes
(February, 1840-March, 1841) and Governor
(December, i842~November, 1845); Governor Augustus C. French (December, 1846-
letters of
Apiil 1852), together with a single letter of Governor Joel A.
Volume VI. is a series of letters chiefly addressed to Governor French by Julius Wadsworth and the firm of Wadsworth and Sheldon, financial agents of
Matteson (April
12, 1853);
These have been inchided because of the light they throw upon the letters of Governor French. The series is thus obviously incomplete. There are no
the state.
letters for the administration of
Governor Duncan (1834-
1838), for the first year of Governor Carhn's term, or the Notwithstanding these last year of Governor Ford's. deficiencies, it
has been thought best to reproduce the
books as they stand. doubtless irretrievably
Some lost.
letter-
of the missing letters are
Mrs. Julia Duncan Kirby,
in
her sketch of Governor Duncan, notes the destruction in the great Chicago
fire of
a considerable body of
Duncan manu-
scripts, then deposited with the Chicago Historical Society/ It is hoped that the publication of this series may stimulate
an interest
in the subject wliich
may
result in filling
the gaps. •
Kirby, "Joseph Duncan," in Fergus Historical IX
Scries,
No.
2y, p. 5-
some
of
IXLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
X
Considerable pains have been taken to secure accurate copies of the letter-book text. It is to be noted, however, that the latter is itself a more or less imperfect copy of the It
original.
is,
therefore, quite probable that
much
of the
erratic spelling, punctuation, etc., here reproduced
was due simply to the carelessness of clerks in the governor's ofhce.
The
supplemented by explanatory notes on persons and events mentioned in the correspondtext of the letters
is
In addition to the brief historical statement contained
ence.
in this introductory chapter,
to insert a
more
it
has been thought desirable
detailed study of the administration of
Governor Thomas Ford. The special emxphasis thus given seems justified by the personality
to this administration of the
governor himself and the
critical character of the
period.
For the
a^ssistance given in the preparation of
editors
desire
to acknowledge
their
tliis
volume,
obligations
to
Hon. James A. Rose, Secretary of State, and Mr. T. S. McCoy of the same department, to Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Librarian of the State Historical Library, to Professor Clarence to Professor
W.
Alvord, general editor of the
series,
Lawrence M. Larson and Mr. C. M. McConn
of the University of Illinois for their criticism of manuscript,
Buckmaster, Alton, Mary Dunlap, Jacksonville, Addie E. Benneson, Washington, D.C., Rev. Dudley Eells, to
Julia
Payson,
M.
J.
Howley, Cairo,
J.
F. King, Peoria, for assist-
ance in collecting local historical material, and to Mrs. Ella M. Thompson, whose incessant labor and keen criticism have lightened the burden of reading proof and making the index.
EvARTS B. Greene Charles M. Thompson Urbana-Ciiampaign, July, 1910
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
General Introduction
XV
By Evarts Boutell Greene
A Study of the Administration of By Charles Manfred Thompson I.
Nomination and Election Conditions in 1842
II.
.
State
IV.
Internal
VII.
VIII.
.
The Mormons
in Illinois
State Finances
.... .
.
.
.
The Mexican War
An
Chapter
L^di
Ixxviii
Illinois
........
cix
Executive Letter-Book of Thomas Carlin
1840-41
Chapter
1
civ
Estimate of Ford and His Histoiy of
I.
XXIX xxxvii
xU
Improvement System and
V. Illinois ?tnd Michigan Canal
-
.... ...
Banks
III.
VI.
Governor Thomas Ford
II.
5
Executive Letter-Book of Thomas Ford
1842-45
Chapter III. Executive Letter-Book of Augustus C French and Joel A. Matteson, 1840-53
....
Chapter IV. Letters of Wadsworth and Sheldon to Governor French, 1847-53
251
List of Letters
387
Bibliography
410
Index
.
415
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE
Portrait of Thomas Carlin
Frontispiece
.
Portrait of Thomas Ford
38
Portrait of Augustus C. French
131
Portrait of Joel A. Matteson
247
XI n
GENERAL INTRODUCTION From the retirement of John Reynolds in 1834 to the inaugm'ation of Governor Matteson in 1853 is roughly a This period, like that which preperiod of two decades. was one of rapid growth. The population of the state, as shown by succeeding federal census returns, rose in round numbers from 157,000 in 1830 to 476,000 in By the close of Governor 1840, and 851,000 in 1850. French's administration, there must h.a.ve been over a million ceded
it,
people livmg within the hmits of the state, about four times as
many
as
when Reynolds went out
In
of office in 1834.
1834, there were sixty orgpaiized county governments and
number had been increased to one hundred; nearly three-fourths of the new counties were in the northern hah of the state, where a large volume of immigration from New York and New England was emphasizing the sectional by
1 85 1
the
Notable
aspect of state politics.'
Chicago from a small village
in
also
was the growth
of
1830 to a city of nearly
30,000 inhabitants in 1850.
The comparative homogeneity of the earher years was still further modified by a great number of German and Irish
By
James one and Shields, had been sent to the United States Senate of the Germans, Gustav Koerner,had been elected lieuteiiantgovernor after several years' service on the supreme bench
immigrants.
of the state.
the
1853, one of the Irish immigrants,
Less fortunate in
its
relation to the rest of
community was the Mormon settlement during
the
admmistrations of Carlin and Ford. Naturally enough in such a period of rapid growth, the 'Tables in Grcone, Govcrnmcni of Census and Blue Book of Illinois, 1903.
Illinois,
Appendices C. and
E.,
drawn from U.S.
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popular imagination was easity stimulated
The
takings.
Illinois
and Michigan
to, large
canal, after years of
preliminary discussion and survey, was at
begun
under-
last
actually
and, though interrupted by the financial
in 1836;
troubles of the next few years,
was
carried to completion
Even more ambitious schemes filled the minds of The extravagant Internal Improvement
in 1848.
Illinois legislators,.
System
of 1837,
with
appropriation of millions of dollars
its
and other enterprises illustrated at once the aspirations of the young state and the financial incapacity The breakdown of the whole enterof its political leaders. prise was mevitable, and serious railroad-building had to for railroads
wait for another decade.
Before the close of the period,
however, came the federal land grant
of
1850 in aid of a
railroad from the Lakes to the Gulf; and in 185 1 the Illinois Central Railroad Company was chartered by the state. Through the co-operation of the United States, the state, and eastern capitalists the decade of the fifties saw an
immense development
of railroad mileage.'
comphcations resulting from the reckless internal improvements schemes were aggravated by equally inconsiderate state banking operations which showed that
The
financial
the people of Ilhnois had not yet learned thoroughly the lesson taught by their unfortunate experience with state
During the early forties the state was on the verge of bankruptcy and repudiation. The story of this crisis in state finance and the way in which it
banking
in the twenties.
was met by Governor Ford and his associates is told at some length in the succeeding chapter on the Ford adminisFord's fight for the financial integrity of the state stands out as the heroic episode of the period under distration.
•
See next chapter.
31st Cong., ist
sess., ch.
Sec also Laws of 61; Private
Laws
Illinois, 1837,
(Illinois), 1851,
121-151 61-74-
;
U.S. Slalutcs at Large,
gf:neral introduction cussion,
and
may
not
xvu
be compared
iinfairl}^
leadership in the struggle against slavery.
witli
Coles'
The work
of
begun by Ford was continued by his successor, Governor French, and the new Constitution of 1848 set its seal on the work by the institution of a two-miU financial reconstruction
tax to be used exclusively for the
The Constitution
of
payment
of the state debt.
1848 reflects in other ways also
the economic and political history of the state.
Large
appointing powders previously given to the general assembly w^ere
withdrawn and
its legislative
authority was sometimes
considerably restricted, especially in the
On
field of
hnance.
the other hand, the governor's position was somewhat
strengthened.
The
and was given a suspensive vote, reversal by a bare majority vote
council of revision disappeared;
to take its place the governor still
subject how^ever to
of the legislature. politics
The
increasingly northern tone of state
appeared in the definite prohibition
in the provision
made
of slavery
and
for township organization/
During the thirties and forties, there emerged gradually from the confused personal politics of the twenties, defmitely organized political parties with their machinery of county and state conventions. The Jacksonian democracy was the first
to take definite shape, followed
tion elements in the
Whig
by the union
of opposi-
party.
Reynold's successor, Duncan, was elected to congress as a Jacksonian democrat, but he voted against Jackson on important issues and was therefore opposed for election
His successors, however, Carlin Ford, French, and Aiatteson were all regularly nominated
by the
radical Jacksonians.
XV.
'
Art.
'
The work
of this convention
is
summarized
in
Greene, Govcmmcnl of Illinois, pp. 37-41
» Ford, History of Illinois, i(;8-2o8; Shcahan, Douglas, Ch. can," in Fergtis Historical Scries, No. 29, pp. 26-32.
ii., iii.,
•
Kirby, "Joseph Dun-
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by the democratic party; and during nearly all the legislature was controlled by the same party.
On the national issues of this period also,
this period
Illinois generally
took the standpoint of orthodox Jacksonian democracy. Its electoral votes were regularly cast for that party from 1832 to 1856. Its congressional delegation was also strongly democratic. By 1850, one of its senators, Stephen A. Douglas, had become one of the recognized leaders of the national democracy; and, in 1852, he was one of the leading
candidates for the presidential nomination.
prominence of
Illinois in national pohtics
based wholly on the personahty electoral vote
went up from
of
was
The growing not, however,
a single leader.
five in 1832 to nine in
Her
1844 and
eleven in 1852,'
On wdth
issues not strictly partisan Illinois stood generall}'
the
western
border
She was enthusiastic
states.
for expansion, north or south,
and ardently supported the
On
slavery as a national issue, a conserva-
tive spirit prevailed.
Abolitionism was discountenanced not
Mexican War.
only by the lawless elements as illustrated in the Alton of 1837, but
by the
riots
responsible leaders of the state as well;
but the northern counties were gradually changing the situation, as shown, for instance,
by the Free
Soil vote of
1848 and the criticism of Douglas for his vote on the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850.^ It is evident
even from
this brief sketch that
Governors
Ford and French had, in the position of chief executive, responsibilities immensely larger and more complex than those of their predecessors of the twenties.
of a '
They stood at
commonwealth, which had not only
Tables in Greene, Government of
Illinois,
279,
and
difficult
the head
problems
Closes, Illinois Historical
and
Statistical, II, 1195. *
Greene, "Sectional
actions (1903), 75-83.
Forces in
TransIllinois," in Illinois State Historical Society,
GENERAL INTRODUCTION wilhin
its
zix
was coming to have a and national forces.
o\vn borders but
in the interplay of state
larger part
Of the four governors who held
office between December, and January, 1853, Thomas Ford has as already indicated been made the subject of a special study. Regarding the others a few personal notes may be of interest. Two
1834,
of
them, Joseph
Duncan
Thomas Carlin Duncan of Virginia
(1834-1838), and
(1838-1842), v/ere born in Kentucky,
parentage and Carlin of Irish stock.
was born
in Pennsylvania,
Ford (1842-1846) but grew up in the distinctly
border-state environment of southern said,
however, that
unlilc:e
many
Illinois.
It
must be
of his southern Illinois
contemporaries, he appreciated the good qualities of his
Yankee neighbors. The first Yankee stock was Augustus
Illinois
governor of distinctly
C. French, a native of
New
Hampshire. In breadth of experience and range of these four
men seems
but Duncan more
nea.rly resembles
an}^ of the others.
interest,
none
of
quite the equal of Governor Coles,
Though
him
in this respect
than
several of his brothers were
Joseph Duncan himself missed the advantages of college training. He found his substitute for con-
college graduates,
ventional academic education during the war of 18 12 as a
young oihcer in the American army. In this service he showed courage and abihty. For his gallantry in the defense Fort Stephenson against the British he received with several of his associates the thanks of Congress and a sword.
of
A
and in 1824 became a member of the State Senate. Then came six years of service as a member of tlie United States House of few years after the war, he came to
Ilhnois,
Representatives.
As governor, Duncan took a conservative '
Kirby, "Joseph Duncan," in Fergus
Ilislorical Scries,
No.
attitude on the
29, 1-2S.
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XX
He favored the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, but urged that other improvements be left so far as practicable, to question of internal improvements.
He
private initiative.
joined with the other
members
of
the Council of Revision in their unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of the so-called '' system" of 1837;
and on the position.
state
He
banking question Duncan took a similar
opposed the chartering
but was again overruled and
shadow
of the State
of the great financial depression
the panic of 1837.
On
Bank,
his administration closed in the
other issues also
which began with
Duncan
displayed
Although condemning the Alton riots of 1837, he thoroughly disapproved of Lovejoy and his abolitionist associates; and on one occasion proposed a conservative temper.
to resign
from the Board
of Trustees of Illinois College,
because he believed the faculty was tainted with abolition-
The most
ism.
his persistent,
attractive aspect of his administration
though largely unsuccessful,
efforts in
was the
cause of public education.^
Duncan's successor, Thomas Carlin, was a man of experience and intellectual outlook. He had seen service in the war of 181 2 and in the Black Hawk
narrower
disturbances and was for several years a State Senate.
He
member
of the
was not only deficient in his early educa-
but lacked the broadening influence of public service outside the limits of his ov^m frontier community. Nevertion,
had a reputation for honesty and practical sense. Unlike Duncan, he was a thoroughgoing partisan democrat theless he
of the Jackson-Benton school.
The period
of Carlin's administration was, perhaps, the
most depressing
sequences of reckless state legislation had been •
The
in the history of state affairs.
Kirby, "Joseph Duncan," in Fergus
II islorica! Scries,
No.
29, pp.
con-
intensified
32-54.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
xxi
a worldwide financial disturbance. The improvement ^^system" was repealed, but its consequences remained in an almost hopeless load of debt. The bank situation went from, bad to worse, and the pros-
by the
effects of
internal
pect of completing the canal seemed very remote.
To
the solution of these perplexing problems, Carlhi and his associates
were clearly unequal, and the task was trans-
ferred to his successor.'
The its
|
story of the Ford administration,
achievements
its
problems, and
the subject of the next chapter and need
is
not be rehearsed here. j
Ford's successor, Augustus C. French, was a lander not only
Coming
by
by
birth but
New
Eng-
early education as well.
young man, he built up a successful and was sent to the legislature in 1836,
to Illinois as a
practice at the bar,
in time to cast his vote for the ''s3^stem'' of 1837. in 1846 as a
Democrat, over a Whig competitor,
Elected
his first
term
was cut short by the adoption of the new Constitution in 1848, but he was renominated and re-elected for a second term of four years, no formal Whig nomination being made against him.^ j
French's correspondence indicates that he was, on the whole, a conscientious and intelligent administrator, carrying forward successfully the work of financial readjustment
begun by Ford.
The most
notable achievement of this
administration was the inauguration of the Ilhnois Central After several years the efforts of the
Railroad.
delegation in Congress, led
by Douglas and
Breese, were
rewarded by the federal land grant of 1850. some discussion about the relative advantages Sec
J. F.
Snyder, Adam-
Post, 131; II.,
s6o.
W. Snyder
Ford, History of
There was of construc-
(Ed. 1906), passim, especially pp. 270
Illinois, 194;
Illinois
Moses, Illinois Historical and
ff.
Statistical,
;
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
xxii
tion
by
the state on the one side and the chartering of a
private railroad corporation on the other;
The
view prevailed. not
made
onl}^
Central
Illinois
but the
Charter
latter
of
1851 possible an important addition to the trans-
portation facihties of the state but also secured a direct contribution from the revenues of the railroad to the state treasury.
^
It remains to indicate briefly the character of the material
contained in the Letter-books.
volume,
many
most meager reference settlement of the
War, and the absence of any
constitutional letters
is,
their expulsion, the Alexican
Convention
of
I^^e
1847.
state banking measures.
all
other topics to a subordinate
Carlin's opening letter of February 18, 1840 dis-
place.
cusses a proposed sale of bonds to the Co.,
untouched or
left
for instance, only the
to 1853, state finance occupies the center of
the stage and relegates
&
the previous
between 1834 and 1840 leaves unand enactment of the disastrous
improvement and
From 1840
this, as in
to such important matters as the
Mormons and
touched the initiation internal
There
mentioned.
onl}^ briefly
In
important questions are
which he at
The tone
first
of the letter
London
firm of Wright
disapproved but finally agreed is
strongly pessimistic.
"I
am
to.
as
clearly convinced," he says, ''that the Canal project will fail
as I
am
of the utter failure of the Internal
Improvement
He
notes a prevailing doubt ''whether posterity will pay the debts" imposed by "the present generation." Notwithstanding Jiis discouragement he stood by the old
System."
Jeffersonian creed, resisting vigorously the proposed federal
assumption of state debts. Even bankruptcy seemed to him infinitely preferable "to plunging the whole country » U.S. Statutes 61-74.
at Large, 31st
Cong., ist Scss.,
cli.
6r;
Private
Laws
(Illinois),
1851.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
3nDii
into that vortex of folly, extravagance,
and ruin to whicli assumption of the State the debts must evidently lead.'" TJirough the remainder of Carlin's administration and
that of Governor Ford, the leading, almost the exclusive, topics are the financing of the canal, the winding-up of the
banking system, and the state debt. Ford's letters of January ii, 1843 a.nd March 7, 1843 a^i'^ typical of the man, msisting upon sound principles of econonty and urging the purpose of the state to deal with its creditors in absolute state
good faith.'' During Frenches administration, the public debt in its various phases continued to be the main theme of the correspondence. There was evidently a decided clearing of the financial atmosphere, in the spring of 1847, after Gov-
ernor PYench visited
New
York;
and on June
3,
JuHus
Wadsworth, one of the financial agents of the state, wrote as follows: "I am happy to find that the impression made by you whilst here is very favorable to yourself and to the interIn fact your course and ests and prospects of the state. pohcy in relation to the financial afiairs of the State have inspired new confidence in the integrity and ability of the State
and her
citizens,
and cannot
fail,
I believe to place
once more, and at no far distant period, on an equal footing with the first states in the Union. "^ There were still knotty problems to work out, of which the princijml Illinois
was perhaps the long-drawn-out controversy regarding the Macalister and Stebbins Bonds. There were also complaints about the delays in the payment of interest. Gradually, however, old claims were settled and
tlie
credit
of the state restored.
There are several *
Post, 5-^-
'Post, 44, 58-62
letters
showing lack
'P0St,2S2.
of
harmony
in
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xxiv
the administration of the canal business.
was
dissatisfied
Governor French with the service rendered by Chief Engineer
Wilham Gooding and
finally removed him. Thereupon the trustees in defiance of French appointed Gooding as secre-
tary of the board.'
An letters
interesting part of the correspondence
is
a series of
from Julius Wadsworth to Governor French about the
construction
of
the
Central Railroad.
After consulting
with Senator Douglas, and apparently acting on his advice,
Wadsworth
issued in October, 1850, a circular letter to the
creditors of the State calling attention to the congressional
land grant which had been
made
He
at the last session.
suggested that they should "adopt some plan of action
which will enable the state to construct the entire hne of road, and secure the same, together with the profits therefrom, to the creditors, for the payment of their claims."^ Governor French did not agree with Wadsworth's suggestion and favored the plan, which was adop)ted by the legislature at its next session, of giving the lands to a com-
pany which should undertake the construction
the
of
railroad.^
Outside of these matters of finance, there are some
side-
and national politics. The thoroughgoing quality of Illinois democracy comes out in such letters as that of Carlin, already quoted, on the prolights
on other questions
state
of
posed assumption of state debts and one Jackson, in January, 1843. tions of the General
of Ford's to
Andrew
Ford's letter inclosed resolu-
Assembly
calling
on Congress
to return
the fine imposed on Jackson in 18 15 by Judge Hall of the
United States District Court
own
of Louisiana.
Fie
added
his
tribute to the old hero '4n the evening of your long,
eventful,
and ihustrious
life."'^
'
Post, 144, 145 "•. 193-
'
^^^^' 369, 374-
•
Post, 352, 355, 357-360.
'
Post, 43, 44-
GENERAL INTRODUCTION The
XXV
slavery issue comes up in some correspondence with Even a state government wliich
the governor of Missouri.
gave httle encouragement to abolitionists was made to reahze at times the difficulties of a Union, ''half slave and hah free." Early in 1843, Governor Ford received from
Governor Reynolds
Missouri a demand for the surrender of Richard Eells, a well-known abolitionist, Liberty of
and "underground railroad" manager, as a fugitive from justice on the charge of stealing a slave. Ford refused the requisition on the ground that Eells had not been in Missouri and therefore could not be regarded as a fugitive from justice in that state. In his long letter to Reynolds, Ford took great pains to make it clear that he had no sympathy with the abolitionist radicals. In his part}'- leader,
opinion, ninety nine out of every hundred Illinois citizens,
looked "with indignation and abhorrence upon the conduct
an incendiary and misguided few amongst us, who have interfered .... with the right of the people of Missouri, to a class of persons there made private property by the conIn that disposition and stitution and laws of your state. feeling, I myself, fuUy participate with the great mass of of
the people here." Ford insisted, however, that though pubhc opinion in Illinois was wholly unfavorable to the "fanatical and misguided Sect called Abolitionists," "a hard case of oppression; the arrest, imprisonment and transportation of an innocent man, under pretence of suppressing or punishing the excesses of a Sect," might create popular
sympathy and thus "add
to their
numbers," and "swell
the inconvenience of their fanaticism to the people of
i\Iis-
iri."^
In the Eells case, the free-state governor had the wliii) hand. In 1849, however, another case arose in whicli the ^
Post, 65, 69-78.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
xxvi
tables were turned.
In this instance, Governor French
issued a requisition on Governor
King of Missouri for the surrender of three persons indicted by the grand jury of Alexander County, on the charge of kidnaping a man named Wade. King replied with the statement that Wade was a slave and that the persons charged with kidnaping were merely aiding the owner in the exercise of his ''unqualified constitutional right'' ''to seize and repossess his slave, and
no state has the power
to
make
it
a felony to do so."
For
the exercise of such a right, King declared he would not
consent "that a citizen of Missouri shall be taken in chains, as a criminal, to Illinois to be tried,"
met with the
rejoinder that
it
This refusal French
would "probably be
difficult
to prove that the State of Illinois has not a clearly consti-
tutional right in the
management
of her internal police, to
punish a person criminal^ for not proceeding according to the Constitution and the public peace
is
Laws
of the
United States, by ^vhich
broken and the quiet and tranquillity
of
the State disturbed."'
Another extradition controvers}^ arose in connection with Mormon settlement. In the summer of 1843, Governor
the
of Missouri issued a requisition for the delivery Joseph Smith on the charge of treason. Ford issued a writ for the arrest of Smith who was duly placed in the
Reynolds of
custody of the Missouri agents. The municipal court of Nauvoo, however, discharged Smith from custody on a writ
Ford was then called upon to use military force, but he refused on the ground that he could not legally do so under the constitutions and laws of the state." of habeas corptis.
In closing, we
may note a picturesque controversy between
the state of Ilhnois and the city of St. Louis, arising in 1848 ^
Fosl, 207, 209, 212-216.
'Post, 94-101.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
XXVM
through the proposal of the latter to improve its harbor facilby constructing a dam, which it was feared would
ities
divert the current of the Mississippi from the Illinois to
the Missouri side, to the injury of the former state. ernor French sent a letter of protest to IMayor St. Louis.
The continuance
of the
work
Gov-
Krum
of
in spite of these
objections led Governor French to propose more vigorous
measures.
In a
letter to the sheriff of St. Clair
County
he declared that the injunction must be enforced, ''let the consequences be what they may." The sheriff was authorif necessary, and the Governor think you have a cannon at Belleville, there "I added, are cannon also at Alton, which 3^ou are authorised also to
ized to emplo}^ the militia,
take,
if
required."
was reached.^ 'Post, 171-173, 177, 178.
In the end, however, a compromise
A STUDY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR THOMAS FORD By CHARLES I.
MANFRED THOMPSON
NOMINATION AND ELECTION
During the first three decades of her existence as an American commonwealth, Illmois may be said to have been in an experimental stage. In common with lier sister states of the Mississippi Valley, she initiated
pubHc under-
takings too costly for her resources and out of proportion to the
needs of a frontier people.
From
the comparatively
thicldy populated Atlantic States, where public enterprises
had been carried out with considerable success, came many of the public-spirited and well-to-do settlers of Illinois. With little regard for the differences in economic envirojiment, the friends of
artificial
waterways argued that the
building of the Erie Canal proved conclusively that such
an undertaking in profitable.
internal
With
Illinois
would be not only possible but
this parallel established, those
improvements and
state
banks had
in convincing the people that they
without delay,
if
must
who
favored
little difficulty
bestir themselves
they expected to put Ilhnois in the front
rank of the newer
states.
Without adequate consideration
for actual needs, railroads were projected across the deserted prairies,
and attempts made
to
as the Kaskaslda and the Little
make navigable such streams Wabash rivers. To support
these undertakings the state entered
ing as disastrous in the end as
it
upon a system of bankwas chimerical at tl.e
beginning. building of internal improvements was not a strict party measure, on account of the unanimity of the people
The
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
XXX
demanding
in
tlicm.
Opposition was personal and secTo be consistent with national
tional rather tlian political
Democrats favored the banks, althougli they legislation and were managed by Whig a^ppointees. As soon as the impracticability of these schemes became e^ddent, political leaders lost no politics,
the
were the creation of Whig
time in attempting to lay their failure at the door of the Each side, however, skilfully evaded the opposite party. displeasure of the people with the result that the relative
strength of the two parties remained practically unchanged.
Although the Whigs had succeeded in dominating a few Assembly they had never been able
sessions of the General
to elect a "Whig governor,
tain
a
critical
attitude
and
their only
toward
their
hope was
to
main-
opponents with the
expectation that some extremely unpopular legislation or executive act might deflect from them the small of votes necessary to
the
change the
political
number
complexion of
state.'
The
smallness of the Democratic majorities in the years
and 1841 cormnced the leaders of each party campaign of 1842 would be a close contest.' The Democratic state convention met at Springfield, December 13, 1841, and without seriously considering other candidates nominated Adam W. Snyder and ^'lionest" John Aloore for the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor respec1838, 1840,
that the
tively.^
A
better choice could not have been made.
Snyder was favorably known as a lawyer and
nel
Colo-
legislator
Democrats, 18,412; Whigs, 15,220. Gubcrnaloriril elecDemocrats, 30,668; Whigs, 29,772. Presidential election, 1840; Democrats, 47,631; Whigs, 45,574.- -i^/z/c Book of Illinois, 1905. Congressiojoal election, 184 1: Democrats, 34.572; Whigs, u,^2>Z.—Niks' National Register, LXl., 1x9. *
Presidential election, 1836:
tion, 1838:
*
Ante, n.
i;
post, xxxv'i.
W. Snyder in llUnois Ilisiory, 384-S5; Niks' National Register, LXII., For a comparison of the Democratic conventions 274; State Register, Decemlier 17, 1841. of 1841 and 1846, sec State Register, January 30, 1846. *
Snyder, Adavt
NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF GOVERNOR FORD of tact
and
ability,
xxxi
and had the faculty of inspiring confidence Mr. Moore was an Englishjnan by
wherever he went. birth
and a
man
of sterling character, which earned for
name "honest " among
the
out
calling
those
who
a convention and by
luiew
him
best.
common
liini
With-
consent,
ex-
Governor Joseph Duncan was selected by the Whigs as their standard bearer with William H. Henderson as his running-mate. The Whigs too made an excellent selection. Governor Duncan's record as a public man was good, both
and in the General Assembly, and as the executive of the state. Mr. Henderson had served in the General Assembly from 1838 to 1842 and, as a conseas a legislator in Congress
quence, was no stranger to the people of the
The Mormons had removed
to Illinois in the winter of
1839-40 and at the next presidential their votes for the cratic party
had
Whig lost
state.
election
had
cast
Meanwhile the Demo-
candidates.
no opportunity
to ingratiate itself in
Alormon prophet, had granted to the ^iormon city, Nauvoo, a charter drawn up in sucli a way that misinterpretation was not only possible but inevitable. Acting under this charter, the Nauvoo city authorities had made ordinances obnoxious to the non-]\'Iormon population of Hancock and the adjoining counties with the result that many people hesitated to vote for any candidate favored by this new sect. The campaign was hardly the good graces of Joseph Smith, the
and
his followers.^
A
Democratic
legislature
under way before the Whig candidate brought the
paramount
issue, the
Mormon
question.
to the front
Astute
politi-
every reason to believe that questions
had fmance and internal improvements would be the As issues upon which the opposing candidates would join. cians of each party of public
' Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints, 133; Lin"> The Story of Reynolds, My Ou>n Times, 576.
the
Mormons,
2,j4;
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
xxxji
far as the political parties were concerned, neither Juul a clean record in the Mormon legislation, each having busied itself in
trying to gain the ]\lormon vote at any cost. The the advantage, however, for they had been an
Whigs had
irresponsible jninority in the legislature and their candidate for governor
private
life
had taken no public
at the time.
part in the
The Democrats on
had overreached themselves
in their zeal to be
affair,
being in
the other
hand
more generous
than their opponents.
As
the
Mormons had
who had been active in securing for them favorable legislation were in danger of being discredited politically and cast aside for less
fallen into disrepute, those
worthy but more available candidates.'
As
the
cam-
paign grew older the situation became more complicated,
no one knew whether or not the fear of Mormon domination in state politics would cause the anti-Mormon Demofor
crats to cast their lot with the Whigs.
The Whig newspapers
were numerous for the time and well
edited,
and
stories
detrimental to the Democratic candidates went the rounds
and suffered no diminution in. their going. ^ In May, 1842, death removed Colonel Snyder from the contest, and awaiting the naming of a successor, there was Party managers knew very well a lull in the campaign. would lessen the weight of the Whig same time give the party a chance to
that a proper selection
argument and retain the
at the
Mormon
vote.
Available candidates were scarce.
PracticaUy every well-known public
an impossibility on account
man
in the state
of his past attitude
was
toward the
Colonel Snyder was chairman of the judiciary committee, from wliich the Nauvoo charter came with recommendations for its passage (Senate Journal ,1840-41, 45). • One report was that the jNIormons had "concluded to have a ticket of their own and had nominated Adam W. Snvclcr for governor and John Moore for lieutenant-governor."— '
Niles' National Register, LXII., 357-
^r. Snyder, in
Adam
IF.
Snyder in
Illinois History,
has analyzed the situation and arrived at the conclusion that any inllucntial Democrat could have been elected. In my opinion, however, his evidence is not so conclusive that the last word on the subject has been said.
NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF GOVERNOR FORD INiorinon
question.
record; lawyers ions publicly
all
xxxm
Members of tlie legislature were on over the state had expressed their opin-
on the constitutionality
of the
Nauvoo
charter;
and more than one judge had been compelled to render decisions in which the authority of the charter was in question. Even in such a crisis several Democratic newspapers groomed favorite sons of their respective localities, and urged their fitness upon the leaders of the party.
Aware which the party would be exposed by an injudicious selection, several of the more influential papers, either by accident or design, united in presenting the name of Judge Thomas Ford for the party's consideration.' The of the
danger
to
a committee''
result was, that
made up
of
Democrats
over the state, met at Springfield, June
all
mously selected Judge Ford
to
fill
7,
frojn
and unani-
the vacancy caused by
Colonel Sn3der's death.
Although the new nominee was a native he had lived in
Illinois since 1805,
Monroe County by
his
having been brought to
wddowed mother
Except for a short residence
at
of Pennsylvania,
at the age of five.
Transylvania University,
Lexington, Kentucky, his only educational advantages were
and close intimacy witli sucli men as his George Forquer, and Daniel P. Cook. Early in life Ford gave promise of a strong and vigorous mind, such as is the product of a pioneer community where selfreliance is learned in the great school of necessity. Mr. the rural schools
half-brother,
and encouraged him to spend liis spare moments in reading law. Later young Ford entered Mr. Cook's law oflice where by close application
Cook took an
interest in the boy,
*
S(a(^ Regislcr,
June
'
This meeting
is
3,
1842,
sometimes called a convention.
» Tliis committee met at the office of the State Register, State Register, Jime 10, 1842. and was careful to avoid mentioning the Mormons, confining itself to stating the supixiscd attitude of the new candidate on the pubhc debt and taxation.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
xxxiv
and honest endca.vor he was able to acquire a.lcnowledge of the subject sufficient to enable him to begin practice in 1823. Ford soon gained local prominence at the bar and six 3^ears after his admission was appointed district prosecuting attorney by Governor Edwards, to whicli ofiice he was reappointed, in 1831, by Governor Reynolds. Wliile filling this ofhce
he
is
said to have instilled in the
minds
of the
roughest frontiersmen a respect for the majesty of the law.
In 1835, the General Assembly appointed him circuit judge, and three times afterward he was selected for important places on the bench once again as circuit judge, once as judge of Chicago, and fmahy as justice of the Supreme Court
—
was serving when the gubernatorial nomination came to him in 1842. The motives that prompted this selection wxre various. Although Ford had been a public servant in several capacities, yet this was the first time that his name had been before All his pre\dous offices had been bestowed upon the people. him by the governor and the legislature, a fact significant when it is considered that his opponent had held more tlian in 1841, in wdiich capacity he
one
office at the
hands
Ford's judicial duties
of the voters.
had been removed from the locality of the Mormon settlements, and so far he was free from any embarrassing entanglements. As a lavv''3^er and a judge he had formed a wide acquaintance throughout the
state,
especially in
the
northern part. Although he lacked the eloquence so much admired in the early pleaders, he won cases and made He friends by his quiet modesty and thorough sincerity.
was
selected because
it
was thought
that he might be able
support of both the northern and southern The southern counties might object sections of the state. to a candidate selected from tlie New Englanders setded in to secure the
the north, but never to Ford,
who had
spent
liis
early
man-
NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF GOVERNOR FORD hood
Monroe County and who knew and
in
sterling
the
of
qualities
the
southern
XXXV
appreciated
settlers.
On
tlie
hand tlie people of the northern counties liad learjied to know Ford and to value his ability and integrity. In every respect he was one of their number and merited their other
support at the
polls.''
At the time of his nomination, Judge Ford, as a judge of Supreme Court, was holding circuit court on the Fox River." Hastening to Springfield, he resigned his office
the
and mxade preparation to enter immediately into the campaign, which was to close early in August.^ As was expected the Vv^higs attempted to
new candidate had
make
the people believe that the
inherited the
Mormon
attitude of his
did
succeed.
The
deceased
predecessor,
Mormons
themselves refused to conceal their position, com-
but
they
not
ing out openly for the Democratic candidate for governor, despite the fact that
by the party.
no new candidate had
The Whig
"^
press
yet been
retaliated
that a conspiracy existed to throw the
named
by declaring
Mormon
vote to the
To make the situation more complex in a published communication, declared himself, Ford Judge that he had no idea of getting the M^ormon vote,^ and at opposing party.
^
another time publicly called the prophet an impostor and a great scoundrel, and pledged himself to support a repeal of the
Nauvoo
charter.'
For history of Ford's early life see John Reynolds, My Own Times; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography; Blue Book oj Illinois, 1905; Snyder, Journal of Illinois State Historical Society, July, 1910; this paper on Ford. '
At this time there were no circuit judges in Illinois. By an act of February 10, 1S41, number of supreme judges was increased to nine, and the business formerly done by circuit judges was given into their hands {Blue Book of Illinois, 1907). »The election was set for the first Monday in August {Conslilulion of Illinois, iSiS, '
the
the Art.
legraph, February
*
Governor Ford delivered the proposition
22, 1845-
to the legislature in a special
\\xHoitse Reports, 1844-45; Nilrs' National Register, *
Ford, History of
Illinois.
390-92
LXVHL.
11.
message found
ILLINOIS
AND MICHIGAN CANAL
hxv
strict justice in financial inattci's. He had giwn them reason to expect much. His reputation as a leader was at stake and he realized it. Should the legislature adjourn witliout making some provision for the rapidly
looked for
accruing interest, he as well as the state would be discredited
home and
both at
abroad.
In the spring of 1845 Governor Ford authorized the subscribers of the to
them by
of
New
army,
loan to elect two trustees as allowed
the act of February 21, 1843.
York, and Captain William
V\^erc
state, for
both
F)a\dd Leavitt,
li. Swift, of
chosen at a meeting held in
This selection
1845.^
their
new
New
the regular
York, I\Iay
27,
w^as satisfactory to the people of the
men had shown an
and
interest in the canal
honesty and integrity were unquestioned.
The selection of a state trustee v/as a more difficult task. The salary was a princely one for a public officer of Illinois, being a thousand dollars a year more than that received by
was manifestly impossible for the governor to avoid criticism, in making a selection. Colonel Oakley had worked early and late for the interests
the highest paid state officer.^
It
and as a consequence his friends felt that tlie place belonged to him by all odds. Ford thought other\vise and selected Jacob Fry, who was quite familiar witli tlie canal and its needs, having been commissioner from 1837 of the state,
to 1843.^
the legal formalities cleared away, iiothing remained except to secure the promised money and begin the work. In
With
•
Report of Canal Commissioners, December
•
For
i,
salaries p:ucl slate officers, see post, 175. n.
1S45; Slate Rcslslcr, February
6.
1S46.
i.
ihc press that the bondlioldcrs hod r.r.];cd 'The report went the rounds caused by the opinion that governor to appoint Colonel Oakley, and that his refur-al was Oakley was too friendly to the stock dealers in Wall Street (•^^^'••^'''"V n' the East tl,at Colonel was even rumored 184s; Alton Tder.raph, June 14. 18.15). It 180). LXVUI., Register, National {Nilcs' of the
Whig
m
Oakley had been appointed
f
Vr inM
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
Ixxvi
June, 1845, the loan was complctefV and work began
lowing September.
on
Former contractors were
their old sections, but the contracts
mates made by the chief engineer. ' ness of
all
llic fol-
given i)reference
were based on new
On
esti-
account of the cheap-
kinds of supplies, the trustees found
compara-
it
tively easy to let the contracts within the estimated cost.''
On
account of innumerable delays incident
to
getting
the machinery in working order and to removing obstacles
must out of necessity have followed the abandonment an enterprise three years before, little work was done during the winter of 1845-46. While little headway was
that
of such
made
in the actual construction of
tlie
canal, the salaries
of the large corps of officials and engineers went on, a fact
which
finally
created
considerable
the people, for the salaries paid
tlie
dissatisfaction
and chief engi-
trustees
neer were enormous, measured by the ideas of
1846/ To make was no legal redress.
Illinois in
there All
the matter
often found
it
peo})le of
more exasperating,
way
The two their
by a
foreign trustees
impossible to attend to canal affairs
and as a consequence delegated this
tlie
matters concerning the canal were decided
majority vote of the trustees.
among
powers
in
person
to others.
In
the state's interests suffered at times, despite the trustees
good intentions of the foreign of the state
trustee.'^
The
go^^^rnor
and the honest
and
efforts
legislature pro-
tested against this delegation of authority to others, Ixit withThe bondholders manifested a desire to deal out effect. upon wliich Citizens of Illinois held old canal bonds to the value of ^$410,000, LXX'UL, 100). subscribed the required 32 per cent {Niks' National KckIsI^j, '
'Laws '
tlicy
of Illinois, 1842-43, 54.
Report of the Canal Trustees, 1847, 26.
IJolh state trustee, $:,5oo. foreign trustees received each sS5,ooo per year; the ^'overnor this discrimination but without cUect Register, June 17, 1847): see also French's letter to E. Riggs, May 24, 1847. found in Stale
lish.
creating tliem, after, in
all
of this belief that a lar^re
number
of a State ])auk there-
And
of the Ivlembcrs of the
it
was
in virtue
General Asscm-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
6o
biy at the late session voted for a repeal of the law extending the charter
Bank
of the
of Illinois.
under
its
Bank
a fact that the
It is also
of Illinois continued to
do business
Territorial Charter until about the year 1821, at which time
it
ceased business, and never had any kind of organization whatever until the year 1835.
Thus time
it
a space of time had intervened of about 14 years, during whicli
was
hiatus in
to
al]
and purposes defunct in point of fact; and this was regarded by many as an efi'ectual cessation
intents
operation
its
leaving nothing to revive or continue by the act of 1835.
of existence;
Others objected to
it
because
it
had been notoriously
insolvent, in
the usual acceptation of the term., for most of the time since the year
1837; having been nearly
all
that time in a state of suspension of specie
payments, and as most of the members of the General Assembly were opinion, in open breaxh of of this State
sion of
its
complain
nois,
This has been the condition not only
and
Bank
of the
and
of Cairo;
of this State, until
and good neighborhood
who
adjacent States and Territories
suffers
banks into an honest and
The
State
of Illi-
endurance
[sic]
to the people of the
equally with themselves,
faithful discharge of their duties;
or to abate altogether the nuisances l^y which they
annoyed.
Bank
this condition
They consequently were bound, not only by the
preservation;
to drive those
tlie
been borne by the people
ceased to be a virtue. self
of
which the people
immense loss and injury from the great CApanand the consequent depreciation of its notes in
of the State Bank,
of things has
laws of
of
of
circulation
their hands.
but
By means
charter.
its
Bank was
brouglit to a sense of
had hitherto been its
duty and under
a law passed at the late session has gone into voluntary liquidation.
The Bank power
the
of Illinois, for
system of banking in which
The Bank
and
had been engaged
it
its
intention to set
to continue die nefarious
for
many
years past.
of Cairo never accepted of its Territorial charter nor
any Stock ever
sul3scribed, or
Thus
about the year 1837.
any
a time, openly declared
of the Legislature at defiance;
any kind
of organization
was
attempted until
a period of 19 years had elapsed without when it suddenly came into being as
visible sign of its existence;
new creature, under pretence had come down to jjut few
a
many
of
of
intelligent persons believed
and continual This
latter
an old Clmrter, the memory of which tlic present generation; and which
was
eniirel)'
defunct by reason of long
no]i use.
bank
also, as I
am
informed, and as
it
was generally
FORD'S LE'rrER-BOOK,
MARCH
1843
61
believed by the General Assembly, never paid specie for
its lia1)ilitics
at
any time.
It
payments and
its
a.vailed itself of tlie general
itself upon an equality means obtained such a
this
expanded
under a general suspension
into operation
put
respect, to
and by
went
discounts that
its
7,
of specie
delinquency of banks in this
as to credit with the best of tlicm; circulation for
its
paper, and so
could never have hoped to have redeemed
it
notes with gold and silver coin. It
was understood,
an assignment directors
and
of all its effects,
officers,
bank of Cairo had abandoned had theretofore laid claim to, by
that the
also,
whatever of a pretended charter
it
and a voluntary resignation
without any elections to
fill
of all its
the vacancies thercl)y
occasioned.
The
could not have been an act of violence,
la^v of repeal therefore
and could only have been intended
to prevent
any future resurrection
of this swindling concern.
Under
these circumstances the Legislature believed that
banks ever had any
if
those
and constitutional existence, the law of their being had been so repeatedly and constantly violated by the banks, legal
that the State as one of the contracting parties
They
the contract implied in their charters.
competent
for the Legislature to repeal a charter
edly and notoriously violated
1)y
believed
when
it
all
the
it
l^y
to be fully
had been repeat-
had altogetlicr was enacted; and wlien its country round, within and without
the corporators; v^'hen
ceased to answer the purposes for which very existence was a nuisance to
was no longer bound
it
it
the State.
You
will therefore
does not at so reckless
all
not
fail to
perceive that the repeal of these charters,
demonstrate that the dominant party
and desperate, and
so
little
in
this State are
regardful of private rights that
they would wantonly and wilfully repeal even the charier of a
[sic]
its
bank
should appear that legal and constitutional charter existed; or unles
if it
the corporation liad
it-self first
openly and jiotoriously
being at defiance; and this power I believe
is
set the
lav\^
of
not only claimed but
exercised by most of the States of the Union.
And
these repealing laws do not at
all
prove that the Legislature
claim to repeal a legislative grant of land;
advanced on the
may
faith of
it
in
works
where money has been
of internal
venture safely to affirm that there
is
improvements
not any one
of Illinois either in or out of the Legislature,
who
man
I think I
in the State
believes or contends
that a legislative grant of lands, or any interest in real estate,
consum-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
62
mated by an advance or expenditure of money, can be repealed or nullified Ijy any power on earth. But further, to show conclusively that the Legislature of this State do not hold to or act upon principles tending to the destruction of private rights,
and
to tlie invasion of private property, 1)ut only intend as a
mat-
power of compelling corporations, as well laws, and so to use their property as not to
ter of police to exercise the
as individuals, to obey the
annoy
their neighbors,
I
have furnished you with true copies of
laws enacted at the late session on the subject of banks.
you
Avill
percieve
to get rid of
all
the
By which
that altlio the General Assembly greatly desired
[sic]
our broken and rotten banking system, yet in accomplishing
that desirable object,
you can not
fail to
discover abundant evidence of
a tender solicitude for private rights, in the
mode adopted
winding
for
them up. You will also perceive, that the law repealing the charter of the bank of Illinois is accompanied by another whicli enables it on favorable terms for creditors, stockholders, and all intei'ested, to go into a voluntary liquidation under the direction of It
may be asked with
is
valuable
officers. [:>ic]
those
?
very fact of hopeless insolvency witiTOut fraud
own
Can it be contended that a franchise for bankproperty when the Bank itself is insolvent, and by the
banks been deprived ing
its
what valuable property has
reason, of
upon
it is
unable to exercise any of
its
fuiictions
my hand and
the great
the vdiole community.
All of which I hereby certify to be true, under
Seal of State the day
and year
first
herein above written.
Thomas Ford Instructions to Elijah Ad/\ms and John M. Kelly 1.
]\Ir.
Adams and Mr.
will take into 2.
Kelly, in estimating the value of the land,
consideration the value of State Ijonds and scrip.
In estimating the value on work done, materials &c. they will take
into consideration the original cost
and subsequent
with the value of State bonds and scrip.
They
deterioration, together
will
provide
tliein selves
with the reports of the Board of Public works, showing the original
and they will take into consideration also, the price at which the work could be done, the materials furnished, and the right of way purchased, according to the present prices of labor, provisions, and lands. railroad at the mouth of the 3. They will begin first on the Central costs,
Ohio, and proceed north, valuing and noting the land along the
line,
MARCH
FORD'S LETl^ER-BOOK,
15,
1843
63
belongbig to the State; and estimating the value of the wovl; done by separate sections of one mile each. 4.
They
advanced
be furnished with one hundred and
will
pay
fifty
dollars each,
expenses and compensation, both of which arc rated at three dollars per day; and they will be required to use the utmost to
their
despatch, beginning at the
mouth
of the Ohio,
on the
ist
Monday
in
May.
Thomas Ford Springfield March 15 1843
Dear
You inform me
you have a proposition
make
to
the Executive Authority of this State for a purchase of rail road iron
&
that
it is
Sir:
your intention
to visit
the purpose of ascertaining the
that
to
Meredosia, Alton and Shawneetown for
amount
at those several places
belonging
to the State If
you do so
I
have to request that you
either of the Messers
the
amount
of rail
At Alton
it is
some
Thompsons
will call
at j\Ieredosia,
on
Mr Conn
and get them
and
to certify
road iron at that place.
my
request that you will call on Col. Buckmaster and
of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary
and
get
them
to certify the
quantity on hand there and also the amount of the same which will be necessar}'" to
be retained
for.
Penitentiary purposes.
At Shawneetown you will please call on j\Ir John Marshall^ and get either him or the Sheriff of Gallatin County to certify the amount on hand at that place. I am most respectfully Yours &c
Thomas Ford Mr. H. Bigelow Springfield March 15 1843
Hon Joel Sir:
chase a
A.
Matteson=
You named lot of rail
to
me
during the Winter that you wished to pur-
road iron belonging
to the State.
Mr. Bigelow has
'John Marshall: June 7, xSi.}, appointed justice of the peace of Gallatin County by Governor Niniau Edward;-,; .Vngust, 1815, appointed judge of the County Court for Gallaun County; January 10, iSj6, appointed judge of the County of Gallatin for three years; April 13, 1816, appointed justice of the })eace of Gallatin County; iSi8--^o. represenlative 1005). in the General Assembly (Illinois illsnu-iccJ Collections, IV.; Blue Book oJJllii:"is, •Joel A. Matleson: born August taught school and engaged in business;
8,
Watertown, New York; began work as foreman on the
1808. at
1S.51,
in
early
lile
la-t railiu.id
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
64
returned here and wishes to buy the v/hole
lot on hand at v$45 per ton in improvement bonds and scrip for the president of the Board of Public Works in Michigan as he says I hope you will let me know how much you want; what price you will give and how soon it can be paid
internal
I
am most
respectfully
Your most
obedicjit
Servant
Thoaias Ford
Executive Department Springfield March
27 th
1843
Thomas Ford Governor of the State of Illinois by virtue of power and authority in me vested, do hereby appoint John Dougherty of the County I
of
Union
to act as
agent of the State of
Illinois,
and as such agent
hereby authorize the said John Dougherty^ in
name leases,
of
my
my
name, and
I
do
in the
successors in ofSce, to sign, seal and deliver any lease or
which may be necessary
to let
such part or parts of the Depot
lands belonging to the State of Illinois at Cairo to
all
such persons as
have, or shall erect buildings thereon reserving a rent therefor payable to
me
or
my
successors in office for the use of the State.
In testimony whereof I have here unto (L. S.) the Seal of State this 27th
By the Governor Thompson Campbell,^
set
my
ha,nd
and
affixed
day of March A. D. 1843.
Thomas Ford Secretary of State
1834, removed to Illinois; contractor on Illinois and Michigan Canal; engaged in manufacturing at Jolict; 1842-53, state senator; January 10, 1853 January 12, 1857, governor of Illinois; 1855, unsuccessful candidate for United States Senate; traveled extensively in Europe after retiring from office; lived iu later life in Chicago; lessee of Chicago and Alton Railroad; died in Chicago, January 31, 1873 (Bateman and Sclby, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, 1905; Blue Book of Illinois, 1905).
in South Carolina;
—
John Dougherty: born May 6, 1806, at IMarietta, Ohio; Cape Girardeau, Missouri; 1812, removed with his mother '
to
180S, taken
by
his parents
to Joiiesboro, Illinois;
read
law under Colonel A. P. Field; 1831, admitted to the bar; 1832-38, representative in General Assembly; 1840-42, same office; 1842-48, state senator; 1858, Buchanan candidate for state treasurer; 1861, supported President Lincoln; 1864, Republican presidential January 13, 1873, lieutenant-governor of Illinois; elector at large; January 11, 1869 1872, Republican presidential elector; August 20, 1S77, elected judge of First Circuit; died at Jonesboro, September 7, 1879 (Bateman and Sclby, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, 1905; Blue Book of Illinois, 1905).
—
* Thompson Campbell: born 1811, at Kennctt Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania; attended school in Butler County; educated at Butler College, Cauonsburg, Pennsylvania; read law in Pittsburg; removed to Galena, Illinois; March 6, 1843— December 23, 1816, secrctarj'- of state; wrote first public school report of the state; 1847, member of the Con-
FORD'S LE^ITER-BOOK, APRIL
3,
1843
65
Hon, John Doughei^ty
As a ney you
qualification of the authorily given
by
tlie
any lease
to
be made by you
will consider that ]j>efore
binding on the
State
it
must be submitted
within letter of attor-
to
the
sliall
Governor
Ijij
for
his approval. I
am
at a loss to determine
most ad^'antageous, be pleased
be
best,
It
would
or
its
also
If
to
whether a long or short term would be
you should be
communicate
of opinion that a long term v.'ould
to
me
the reason for your opinion
be proper to insert a condition in each lease, that the State
grantee, in case a rail road should ever be
remove
his buildings
damages on
made
leading into the
resume and the lessee to and other improvements without any claim for
City of Cairo, should have a right to
the ground,
either side.^ I
am
your most obedient Servant
Thomas Ford Executive Department Springfield Illinois April
3
1843
His Excellency Thomas Reynolds- Governor of the State of Missouri, Sir: I have this day received your communication of Alarch 25 1843
on the subject
of the requisition of the Executive of Missouri,
demand-
1851-53, representaUve in Congress; 1853, removed with his family to California at which place he settled private land claims; 1885, resumed practice of law; 1859, visited Ein-ope; i860, returned to Illinois; i860, elector at large on Breckenridge ticket; stumped Illinois and Wisconsin; 1S61, returned to California where he resumed legal practice; strong supporter of Union; became Republican leader of Cahfornia; 1S64, delegate to Republican National Convention at Balumore; member of General Assembly
stitutional Convention;
of California;
Bateman and
died at San Francisco, December 6, 186S (Palmer, Boich and Bar of Illinois; Selby, Uisiorical Encyclopedia of Illinois, 1905; Blue Booh of Illinois, 1905).
' In selling or mortgaging depot lands at Cairo, the governor was empowered to reserve the right of occupancy to any person resident theron for a period not exceeding three years I\Ir. Dougherty reported that it was impracticable to {La-ios of Illinois, 1842-43, 203). make leases advantageous to the state, and demanded no compensation {Illinois House
Reports, 1844-45, 150).
'Thomas Reynolds: born ]March 12, 1796. Jn Bracken County, Kentucky; 1S17, house admitted to bar; "emigrated to Illinois about same time; 181S-22, clerk of lower Court of General Assembly; August 31, 182-^—January 19, 1S25. chief justice of Supreme Fayette, Howard lUinois; 1826-28, representative in General Assembly; 1828, removed to 1841-44. County, Missouri; member of INlissouri legislature; circuit judge in Missouri; governor of J.Iissouri; Am-erican Biography).
February
9,
1844,
committed suicide
{.Yolional Cyclopaedia of
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
66 ing the arrest
and dolivery
Richard Ecls^ which communication
of
assure your excellency shall receive from
which
ate consideration
be notilicd
shall
to
you
its
at
me
the careful
importance requires; earliest
tlie
I
and
I
dis})assion-
the result of which
momeni.
have the honor to be
Your
Excellencies
[sic]
Alost
Obedient Servant
Thomas Ford Springfield April 17 1843
Messrs Oakley Gentlemen:
& I
Ryan,
have not obtained any money for you as
&
send you a draft on the Farmers I
am
The
just advised
Bank
yet,
but I
of Baltimore
where
by my agent Mr. Levering I have money deposited. drawn before you can draw this.
residue wdll be
I also desire tain
IMerchants
upon
you
to see
Messrs Ruggles
wliat terms they will give
up
to
& Howe you
all
of
N. Y. and ascer-
the papers in relation
to the business of the State in their hands, consisting as I
Bank
of a draft of the City
Bank I
of Tojiaw^anda
of Buffalo
and other papers relatmg
have been informed that
decreed them a
certain,
sum
of
tlie
infoi-med the
to the Delaiield affair.
Vice Chancellor of
money
am
drawn on and accepted" by
for their fees,
New York
has
and that they hold
those papers to secure payment.
you to make an arrangement wdth them to and when you get the Tonawanda draft, get as much of the money on it as you can and pay them the amount of their demand, I hereby authorise
get the papers
* Richard Eells (Eels): bom February 25, 1800, in Barkhamsted, Connecticut; September 4, 1826, married Miss Jane Bestor, at Simsbury, Connecticut; 1830, removed to Quincy, Illinois, where he was actively engaged as a physician; radical anti-slavery man and active in the "underground raihoad"; made defendant for many suits brought against him for aiding escaped negroes; one time, at least, Dr. Eells was caught while conducting a fugitive from his jiomc in Qu'iiQ'- to the next station of the "railroad"; the case was finally settled in the Supreme Court of the United States; many expensive trials and law suits at last impoverished Dr. Eells to such an extent that he even lost his large brick residence in Quincy; persecuted by the radical pro-slavery men, he fled to Chicago in mid-v,'inter; 1846, candi.late for governor of Illinois on "Liberty party" ticket, receiving 5,154 votes; was pronu"nent member of Congregational Church at Quincy; one of the
founders of the Mission Institute near that city; died October, 1S46, while journeying to the East, and is buried at Simsbury, Connecticut (Rev. Dudley Eells, Payson, lilinois, private letter to editor; Blue Book oj JlHiiois; Asburj', Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois). » April ?3, 1839, John Delafield bought 300 $1,000 bonds, upon which he paid $150,000 but refused to pay the balance. In prosecuting the claim a law firm, Ruggles & Howe, was employed by the state. Afterward a misunderstanding regarding the fees arose.
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, Al^RIL
1843
17,
67
and if you cannot get the money immediately, make such an arrant^ement that Riif^^gles and PTowe will l^c sure to get their money when it is obtained; but do not pay them one cent until all the papers in their shah be delivered.
possession
Attorney for the State.
M. Reynolds Esqr empower you to settle Nevins Sz Townsend in relation
Consult
I herein^
Tonawanda
to the
also
residue of the
—
I.
them and also against draft and delivery of the papers. authorise you to make an arrangement
the suits against
I
vritli
authorise and
money obtained on
am informed
to
that draft with Price,
dcposite the
Ward &
King.
Mr. Reynolds has been kind enough to be security for costs for the State and intend enough of that balance to be retained so as completely to secure him his fees, and also to pay him for his services I
that
as the Attorney of the State.
account of
tlie
that there
is
wanda
draft
I
wish Air. Reynolds
me a full am informed
to write
present state of our business in his hands.
I
Tonayou can get the two thousand dollars over and above
now^ ready about $10. or 12.000. to be paid on the
and
if
&
Howe, you may take that money and return me the draft, or if you should deem it advisable to collect the Baltimore draft you can deposite the amount with Mcsser Price, what
will
pay Mess Ruggles
Ward & King, subject to my order. The draft on Baltimore is for New York funds, for in such money the Bank there has engaged to pay. W^hen you receive the money send me your account and receipt for the
same in due form for a voucher
for the Auditor to issue his warrant.
Respectfully Yours
Thomas Ford The President, Directors and Company of the Farmers and I\Ierchants Bank Baltimore at sight will pay Charles Oaldey and J\[ichacl Ryan or order the sum of two thousand dollars in New York funds current in the City of
New York
and charge the same
to
my
account.
Springfield Illinois April 17th 1S43 Tiio:iiAs
Ford
United Statks of America State of
Thomas Ford Governor of me vested, reposing especial I
in
Illin^ois the State of JlHnois trust
by
and conlidcnce
virtue of authority
in the
honor intcg-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
68 rity
and capacity
of Col. diaries Oakley,
Ryan, one of the Senators
and the Honorable
I\Iichael
of this State in the General Asseml^ly,
do by
these presents appoint
them
my
to negotiate a loan of
One
million six hundred thousand dollars at a
agents on behalf of the Stale of Illinois
rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per
and Michigan Canal,
of the Illinois
its tolls,
annum,
on a pledge
solely
revenues and lands belong-
ing thereto, according to the terms and conditions of an act entitled ''An act to provide for the completion of the Illinois for the
payment
of the
in the year of our
and
Lord one thousand
eight
hundred and
pursuance of the following rules and regulations,
The
ist
of
in
and Michigan Canal and Canal debt," approved February the twenty-first
Oakley and Ryan
said
will give the preference to the holders
Canal bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued
pose of completing the said Canal; and for that purpose
Oakley and Ryan of
will
endeavor
to procure a
Canal bonds or other indebtedness, or
New York
forty three;
to wit:
meeting of
for the pur-
tliey,
the said
such holders
all
their authorized agents, either
London; and ascertain the by each, and if it shall appear that there are present at sucli m.eeting a number of holders of bonds and other indebtedness and to such an amount that they will be willing to
in the City of
number and amount
or in the City of
of indebtedness held
subscribe for the whole loan of
One
million six
hundred thousand
dollars,
then the said Oakley and Ryan are to apportion the said loan amongst
them
in proportion to the
aforesaid, held
by each
amount
of
of canal
bonds or other indebtedness
them, and permit and require
to subscribe for such loan according to such proportion 2.
If the
Canal bond holders
aforesaid for
thirt)'
of
shall neglect or refuse to subscribe as
days after notice of their right
scribing, then the said
eo,ch holder
and not otherwise.
Oakley and Ryan
Canal bonds or other evidence
will
to a priority in sub-
permit any
otlier
holders
of indebtedness as aforesaid to sub-
scribe for said loan according to the foregoing regulation;
and
if
such
other holders of Canal l)onds or other evidence of indebtedness shall fail
or refuse to take the whole of such loan within ten days thereafter,
then the said Oakley and
body
Ryan
are to permit any other person or persons,
politic or corporate to subscribe for
loan as
may remain
and take so much
of the said
unsubscribed for by such holders of bonds or other
evidence of hidebtedness as aforesaid. of Canal bonds or other 3. At the time of subscril)ing Ijy any holders evidence of indebtedness as aforesaid he will be required to tile with
FORD'SlLETTER-IiOOK, APRIL
13,
1843
69
and Ryan as agents of the Governor of this State a brief bonds or other evidence of indebte(hiess as aforesaid held by him, by the number, sum, date and time of payment of each, by whom signed and to whom made payable and eacli sul)scriber shall the said Oakley
description of such
be entitled
to
one vote for each share of one thousand dollars of stock
held by him, in the election of trustees. 4.
The money
be required
to
may
subscribed
the United States.
But
pay the
if
be paid at any place in England or in
paid in England, then each subscriber shall
full
amount subscribed,
in such funds as shall
be at par at the place where the same shall be paid, so that the fund
by such loan shall have the benefit of the difference of excliauge between Illinois and England, and in such case all such sums of money shall be repaid in England in funds which shall be at par in England. constituted
But
if
such loan shall be subscribed for to be paid in
a.ny place in the
United States of America or other country, then the same shall be paid in such funds as shall
be
at
par at such place of payment and shall be
repaid in hke funds.
And
I
do hereby
said Agents, recited act,
which
and
ratify
shall
and confirm
be according
the rules
all
the acting
and doings
to the provisions of the
of
my
above
and do
and regulations herein contained;
recognize their said acts to be as fully binding upon the State of Illinois as
if
I
were personally present acting and doing thereof myself. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed affixed the great Seal of the State of Illinois.
(L. S.) in said State this Seventh
day
of
One thousand eight hundred and
March
my name and
Done
at Springfield
in the year of
our Lord
forty three.
TnoMAS Ford
Executive Department Springfield, April
To
13,
1843
His Excellency Thomas Reynolds, Governor of the State of IMissouri, Sir:
A
great press of ofiicial business of an urgent character, has me from answering, at large, the various matters
hitherto prevented
contained in your esteemed favor of
have availed myself of the
communication,
all the;
first
tlie
25th of iSlarch
last.
But, I
interval of leisure, to bestow upoji your
careful and dispassionate consideration wliich
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
70
the importance of the subject, and the high respect entertained for
my
your excellency, demand at
And
me
permit
me,
])y
hands.
no one feels more deeply than and maiiitaining amongst the States Union, the utmost harmony and reciprocal regard for each other's to assure you, that
myself, the obligation of promoting of this
The
rights.
people of this State recognize in the fullest manner, the
perfect right of the people of Missouri, to in relation to persons
make and execute such laws, their own jurisdiction, as
and property, within
may seem good
to themselves, without any interference on our part, making or executing those laws. This is tlie disposition and feeling of nin[e]ty nine out of evei7 one hundred of our citizens; wdio look with indignation and a]:)horrence upon
either in
conduct of an incendiary and misguided few amongst
tlie
interfered,
and
of the people of jMissouri, to a class of persons there erty
by the constitution and laws
feeling, I myself, fully participate It
us, wlio
have
are disposed to continue that interference, with the right
of
your
made
private prop-
In that disposition and
State.
with the great mass of the people
cannot be, therefore, that I could be indisposed to exert
lawful power, which the constitution and
tlie
liere.
all
the
laws have put into
my
hands, to redress any injury which a citizen of this State
may
inflict
upon
a citizen of Missouri, in ]-egard to a peculiar species of property secured to
I I
peo]:)le by their laws. With these principles steadily in my view, and animated, as I think am, by a just appreciation of the rights of the people of both States,
your
now proceed to answer your The document which you
Exellency's communication. are pleased to quote as a proclamation of
mine, was intended merely as a simple statement of evidence sul^mitted to
fully
proved;
of inference,
which
I
am
therein contained
is
to the cliaracter of •justice,
it
is
my
it is
true,
tluit
upon any
which are stated
on by me,
warrant theretofore issued.
And
offensive to any citizen of Missouri;
if
and
as a justi-
any thing
or derogatory
your courts, for a due and faithful administration
wish that such subjects should
of offence, or of controversy.
ences, in
which the
perfectly willing to relinquish;
whicli were not necessary or intended to be relied fication for revoking the
facts,
and was never intended as an
In that document are matters,
argument.
by way
me
Ije
I therefore cheerfully
document, which may be construed
citizen or tribunal in 3^our State.
in
of
no longer a matter withdraw
all infer-
any wise as reflecting
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, APRIL The
case
simply
tlien, is
An
this:
count)/, Missouri, in the montli of
1843
13,
71
indictment was found in Lewis
November
last,
against one Ricliard
Negro slave, from a citizen of your State. It was that Eels was a fugitive from justice, and had escaped to
Eels,^ for stealing a
alledged
[sic]
the State of Illinois.
Your Excellency, being applied
to,
made
a requisition upon the
Executive authority of this State, for the arrest and delivery of Eels, to the authorities of Missouri, to
the requisition;
and
A copy by your Excellency, accompanied
be tried on that indictment.
of the indictment certified as authentic,
in that requisition,
your Excellency
appears by the record of that indictment, that Eels
and that
justice;
it
is
states, that
it
a fugitive from
had been suggested to you, that he had fled to Illinois. tlie accompanying copy of the indictment, were
This requisition and presented to
me by
Col.
James A. Richardson,
the agent of the State of
Missouri, appointed by your Excellency, to receive the person
when he should be
thereafter arrested.
for the arrest of Eels, I interrogated
identity of the person charged
me
And
demanded
before I issued the warrant
your accredited agent, as
and sought
to
be arrested.
to the
lie assured
was one Doct Richard Eels of the City of Quincy in this was not pretended that it was any other person. The warrant was duly issued and put into his hands. But subsequently, I was furnished with a great mass of written testimony, too voluminous to be set forth in this letter, which completely satisfied me; and which in my judgment, was sufficient to rivet conviction in the mind of any that
State.
it
It
other person, that Doct. Richard Eels of Quincy aforesaid, the person
pointed out and identified to
me by
your accredited agent, as the indi-
vidual charged with the offence, and intended to be arrested, was wholly
innocent of the charge;
and that not having been
in Missouri for the
space of two years, and particularly, about the time the offence alledged [sic] and understood to have been committed, he could not have been a fugitive
from
there.
Being, as he was, a practicing physician, and
therefore, being all the time publicly about in the city, your p:xcellency
an
it was no hard matter for him to prove most conclusive evidence; and in the same manner by
not be surprised to learn, that
will
alil.i,
by
tlie
proving himself to have been
all
the time within the State of Illinois,
to establish l)cyond contradiction, that he could not
from
justice in ]\Iissouri.
have been a fugitive
This evidence being furnished me,
1
hesitation in revoking the warrant granted for his apprehension. '
Sec note
i,
aiilc,
66.
felt
no
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
72
In so doing,
it
my
was not
intention to determine the questioji of his
guilt or innocence, except incidently
[sic],
so far as the question of guilt
was
necessarily connected with the personal identity of the individual charged,
and
the evidence to estai)lish the negative proposition that he
witl'i
You
a fugitive from justice.
7iof
Court of
New
York, in
matter of Clark, to prove that
tlie
in Missouri,
an indictment
is,
by
was
quote the decision of the supreme
tlie
tlie
record of
Constitution of the United States,
same faith and credit in the State of Illinois, as it is entitled and from thence you infer, that if Eels had been arrested in Missouri; as no court could have enquired into his guilt or innocence, except upon a final trial; so no court or authority here could enquire into the same facts without giving less credit to the indictment, than it is entitled to by tlie Constitution of the United States. to
have
tlie
to in Missouri;
If
it
were necessary
to controvert
your position,
in
wdnch
it is
would be easy
it
produce another decision of the same court, tho' not
l^y
the
to
same judges,
held that the constitution of the United States in relatioji
to the effect of record evidence,
has no application
to criminal proceed-
ings.
But,
am
it is,
apprehend, wholly unnecessary to discuss
I
perfectly contented with the
between
tion
that
us,
law as you
assert
appears to be, then, simply
Doct Eels was not a
fugitive
from
or disparaging any record of your State
Your Excellency
will
remember
this: I'^Iay
it
this point, I
And
to be.
it
the ques-
not be determined
without contradicting
justice,
?
that the constitution and laws of
the United States, require in a case like the present, not only that a charge
should be made, but that the indi^^dual charged should have
The one
justice.
is
pleased to remcm1)er that you have not furnished
whatever,
from
either this or
tliat
tion
oppears by the accompanying record of
But upon referring to whatever, that any person had
tlie
indictment that Eels
that record I find no hint or insinua-
from
fled
INIissouri.
tlie
further statement, that
it
with which
I
denv then
have been furnished, of the (ruth tliat
Richard
lu-ls,
This l^y
had been suggested
the said Richard Eels had fled to the State of Illinois,
To
be
with any evidence
your Excellency, (which \vas evidently a mistake showji
record) and
from
any other Richard Eels had escaped or fled your Excellency states,
was a fugitive. of
me
fled
will also
It is true, that the requisition of
T\Iissouri.
tliat it
You
just as necessary as the other.
who was
is all
recital
your own
to
you (hat
the evidence
of this imi)ortant fact.
identified to
me by
the agent
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, APRIL of
18^3
13,
73
Missouri as the person charged with the offence, was a fugitive from not to deny the truth of any record of Aiissouri; nor in fact
justice, is
the truth of any other evidence furnished
There may have been two men bidden by the constitution the indictment, the
most
and
this suggestion, I
persons,
was a highly that
he
tlie
may
who found
am
I
for-
that indictment,
designated to to
my
l)y
me by your
that
agent.
was informed by
I
honored predecessor
of
is,
was another
be understood as reflecting
But
your State.
mere statement and assurance
of
and perhaps the proper
upon Cob Richardson, who,
respectai)le citizx-n of
I
in
ofiice,
do mean
to say,
a person, however respectable
upon which a pubHc functionary is great moment to the liberty of a citizen. Nor
be, is not sufficient evidence
such evidence that
The
man
do not wish
and particularly
obliged to act in a matter of is it
if
guihy- of larceny, as chaiged, but tliat he
in the slightest degree
many
your State.
same name and
cliaritablc conclusion,
Richard Eels from the
different
In making
is
me by
United States to dispute the truth
of the
one, in justice to the grand jury
sowe Richard Eels
of the
it
can not be contradicted.
only evidence before
me
to
prove that
this
Richard Eels was the
person wdio stood charged by the indictment, and that he had fled from justice,
was, as I have said, the recital in the requisition by your Excel-
record showed to be a mistake on your
lency,
which a reference
part;
the further statement that
was a
fugitive;
to the
it
had been suggested
Excellency has not declared your
own
you that Eels
to
which suggestion might, or might not be
as your
true;
and the assur-
belief of the fact;
ance of Col. Richardson, that Doct. Eels of Quincy aforesnid, Vvas the
person charged in the indictment and that he had this State.
In
all this I
would be conclusive on the questions
And
fled
can perceive nothing which of identity
and
from
justice to
in adif^puted case
fleeing
from
justice.
yet your Excellency will readily perceive that evidence of identit}-,
in a case
where identity
is
disputed,
is
absolutely essential to
make
tlie
person sought to be arrested the subject matter of the charge; and evidence of fleeing from justice would be just as essential to bring the case within the constitution and laws of the United States.
mean
to say, that
case of a is
no
demand
positive evidence of identity for a fugitive criminal.
But
I
is
I
do not
necessary in every
apprehend that there
(luestion, but that evidence relating to the personal identity of the
accused, would be heard on the return of a writ of habeas corpus, by the courts of both this State,
and
of thj State of :\Iissouri.
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But the question may be asked, why not suffer the arrest to be inadc, and then leave tlie matter to be decided Ijy the courts of Justice on a The obvious answer to tliis, seems to jje, that writ of habeas Corpus ? every executive warrant of arrest contains a
sought to be apprehended courts might have
sovereign
a
discrection
no authority
to
enquire
an
granting
in
State,
—can enquire into nothing;
recital, tliat the indivifUial
tj-uth of
which allegation the
Nor, can the afhrma-
into.
question be maintained, unless
tive of this
of
a fugitive, the
is
we assume
that the Governor
executive
warrant, has no but acts merely in a ministerial
capacity.
The making It
Constitution of the United States the arrest.
is silent,
as to the agent in
does not impose this duty upon the Governor.
It
simply provides that
person charged in any State with treason,
^'a
who shall flee from justice, and be found in anotlicr on demand of the Executive authority of the State from
felony or other crime; State, shall
whicli he fled, be delivered up, to be
removed
to the State
having juris-
diction of the crime."
Thus, the constitution does upon; nor docs
it
impose
rant for the apprehension of
by
tlie
make
after legislation, to
}iot
say
who
as a duty of the
it,
fugitive.
demand
Governor
But
is to l)e
made
to issue his
leaves
it
war-
to Congress,
provision for carrying this clause of the
Congress has done
Constitution into effect.
the
so,
by
their act of Fel). 12,
This act provides that when ever the Executive authority
1793.
any State
of this
justice, of tlie
Union, shall
demand any person
as a fugitive
of
from
Executive authority of any such State, and shall moreo\'er
produce the copy of an indictment found, charging the person so
demanded
v/ith
having committed treason, felony or other crime,
fied as authentic
by the Governor
so charged iled, to cause
&c.
Thus you
an act it
of
from
certi-
Vv'hence the person
or her to be arrested, secured and delivered
see, that this
duty was imposed upon the Governor
JDy
Congress; and that Congress could just as well have devolved
upon some
officer of the
fered to give the of
him
of the State
power
a sovcrign State.
United States Government.
to the
No
But they pre-
Governor, the highest Executive authoiity
doubt, but that Congress well considered the
Constitutional and political character and functions of the oihcer to
whom power was given, They
well
knew
and whose duties were intended to be regulated. and independent,
that the States were sovereign
so far as not restrained ]jy the federal Constitution;
and
that the Cover-
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18^3
13,
75
same, were co-ordinate branches of their respective Govern-
iiors of the
ments, invested with the high power of seeing the laws duly executed;
a power, the proper exertion of wliich must necessarily involve the
and sound discretion in numljcrless instances. And it was the intention of Congress to reduce this high functionary to a mere ministerial automaton, in the discharge of
exercise of a wise is it to
a
be contended that
duty of vital interest to the liberty and happiness of the people over
whom
he
The
is
called to preside
opinion
in selecting the
is
?
exceedingly predominant in
Governor of a sovereign
responsible to the federal
my
mind, that Congress
State, neitlier ajipointed by, nor
Government;
and whose duties frequently
in preference to one of their
in\'olve the highest discretion;
wliom they could absolutely command; intended, that he power, and perform
cise this
political character;
manner
and homogeneous with
This opinion
duties.
this duty, in a
own
befitting his
laiown
the discharge of his other
greatly strengthened, by reflecting
is
oflicers,
sliould exer-
upon
the
nature and character of a State Government, whose highest Executi\'e
not be disputed at this day that the States are sov-
officer
he
ereign
and independent, so
stitution
It will
is.
the United
of
far as tliey are not restrained
States.
would be greatly crippled,
if
by
the
Con-
This sovereignty and independence
not anniliilated
if
Congress, in numerous
instances, should invoke the agency of Governors of the States for the
accomplishment divest
them
and could at the same time reduce mere mechanical, ministeral capacity; and totally judgement [sic] and discretioji in performing their high
of federal purposes:
theiu to act in a of all
behests.
In
all
cases where Congress have conferred jurisdiction upon the
State judiciary, another co-ordinate branch of the State Governments,
Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly decided, that it was optional Vvuth the State Courts, VN^iether they would take jurisdiction or not: and I cannot perceive why Congress has not as much power tlie
to
command
a State Ecgislature, what law to pass in order to carry out
some principle or power of the federal Constitution, as to command the Governor, The two arc equally co-ordinate brandies of the same so\-ereign State Government; neither of them appointed by, or amenaljle to the federal
government; and
tlic
independence of
])oth necessary to
be preserved, in order to preserve the independence of the States, wliose oflicers
and servants Ihey
are.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
76
This however,
The
is
a question which I do not wish to raise or rely upon.
sort of Executive discretion
to set the
law
mine upon the merits iar circumstances,
and
State;
Ijy
me,
is Jiot
to
of each particular case, according to its
whether
a discretion
judge and deter-
own
pecul-
has been brought within the true meanini^ of the Cunstitution of the United States.
spirit
The
contended for
but a discretion to enquire,
at defiance;
first
and
it
and highest duty
Governor,
of a
this position is in perfect
is to
the people of his
own
accordance with the benevolence
and charity which should characterize the intercourse among mankind; that which
is
nearest
and sympathy. is
home having
This
the
first
claim to our aid, protection,
not only a principle of nature and morals, but also the very foundation of our political system. The State Governis
ments were erected upon tered. States,
this principle, and so intended to be adminiswas foreseen that central Government, representing all the would feel no such sympathy for local interests as would insure It
a perfect protection for persons and property in each individual State. For this reason the State Governments have ever been esteemed the
most competent
The Governor of course is Government whose principal do not mean by this that the Governor is to
for local administration.
to act in accordance with the genius of the
Executive
ofiicer
he
is.
I
screen the guilty from punishment.
attempting to punish the guilty,
own
alike call
is
not protection.
But
in
fall
State appeals to
Nature and Morals, and the is,
This
ought to take care that the blow
upon innocence. When [an] innocent him for protection, the principles of genius of the Government whose organ he
intended for crime, shall not citizen of his
lie
on him not
to with hold his hand.
Congress could, undoubtedly, have vested the power of issuing a
warrant for the apprehension of a fugitive criminal in the president the United States;
or in
They have not done
so.
of such a power, in such an officer, would, of
many hard
as
would be
most probably, be productive
cases of injustice and oppression.
avoid this evil no
dou]:)t,
of
some other oflicer of the federal Government. They must have foreseen that the investment
They
therefore to
preferred to give this povrer to such an officer
directly j-csponsible to,
and peculiarly the representative of and who would necessarily feel
the individual sought to be arrested;
a more tender concern for the rights and liberties of the people of his
own State. Upon what
principle then
is it,
the
Governor
is
to be deprived of all
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and judgement
[sic]
in the
13,
performance of
1843
this
77
imporlanl duty
?
made a blind instrument to oppress one of his fellow citizens? To be made a mere tool in the liands of a neighboring State to spirit away an innocent person to l)e put to great expense, to be vexed Plow
is
he to be
harrassed and imprisoned, to be transported al^road from his family and
home, merely that the Courts of a neighboring State may have the faction of declaring
him innocent
Your Excellency complains not been confided in by me. fullest
that the judicial
Permit
me
produced before them, which was furnished if
power
of IMissouri has
to assure you, that I
confidence in the courts of j\Iissouri; and
a moment but that
satis-
?
to
have the
same evidence were me, I do not doubt for
if
the
the case of Eels should be submitted to a trial before
them, he would be instantly acquitted. If I
have succeeded in establishing
my
right to enquire
whether Eels v/as a fugitive from justice or not, to
your Excellency that I also have some reason
and judge
I respectfully suggest to
complain, that your
Excellency has not confided in the decision of the Executive pov^'cr of this State.
Both the Governor and the Courts, are cising their appropriate functions,
by
all
to
be confided in when exer-
other constituted authorities.
would again assure your Excellency, and through you, tlie people and misguided Sect called Abolitionists, meets with no countenance or encouragement from the people of this I
of Missouri, that the fanatical
State.
At the present, there is no sympathy in their favor in the public mind. But a hard case of oppression; the arrest, imprisonment and transportation of an innocent man, under pretence of suppressing or punishing the excesses of a Sect, might, by needlessly and uselessly creating a popular sympathy in their favor, add to their numbers, swell the inconvenience of their fanaticism to the people of ]\Iissouri; and to
more
difficult to
contend with by those here, who are disposed
make to
it
main-
tain the just rights of your State.
I therefore respectfully request your Excellency to enquire particulai-ly
into
the
have described
case it,
of
policy
Doct.
and
Eels;
and
if
you find
justice alike forbid that
it
such
as
I
your Excellency
If, however, you can find should pursue your demands any further. any respectable testimony, that Eels was a fugitive from justice, so as to
make
the evidence already furnished on the other side of the question
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLIGATIONS
78
at all doubtful, I of evidence
may
am
ready
another warranty so that (he conllict
to issue
be judicially determined. I
have the honor
to be, very respectfully,
Your
ol)edient servant.
Thomas Ford Executive Department Springfield, III. 1843 I, Thomas Ford, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby appoint William M. Jackson, ^ of Alclienry County, Ja]nes Mitchell, of Winnebago County, and Gliolson KerchevaV of Sangainon County, as three discreet and skilful persons to go on to the jobs and lettings upon
the Illinois
and Alidiigan Canal, and appraise the actual damage
wliicli
the respective contractors on the said Canal will sustain in being deprived of their contracts;
and
being duly sworn before some justice of
after
the peace, the oath to be endorsed hereon, to proceed in
making
said
appraisal according to such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed
by me, and
shall
accompany
this
appointment.
In testimiony whereof I have hereunto
my hand
and
[c caused
set
the great seal of
Illinois lo be] affixed
TnojL\s Ford
Directions to Appraisers of Damages on the Canal. 3
The 1st.
damages appointed under
appraisers of
Canal law,
late
They
will
observe
will assess
whom
damages
might have made had they finished William
M.
Jrirl;?on:
in favor of
and deliver a writing under
allowing any prospective
tlie
any person
until the
the contract has been regularly trans-
their consent that such appraisal of
'
the 17th Section of
following rules—
no damages
contractors, or person to ferred, shall execute
tlic
damages or
profits
their
shall
be
hand
signifying
made without
which the contractors
their jobs.
1814-46, representative in General Assembly (Blue Book of
Illinois, 1905). * Gbolson Kcrcbeval: May 3, 1832, elected captain of militia of town of Chicago; 1838-40, representative in General Assembly; March 2, 1S.13, received ig votes in joint ballot of General Assembly for auditor (Blue Book of Illinois, 1905).
'This commission was authorized by act of General Asseml)ly, February' 21, 1843 (Laws of Illiuois, 1842-43, 60). Assessed damages to the \'alue of f287,727.43 {Illinois House Reports, i8,j4-45, 150). See on!e, lx\^i, n.
i
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK,
And
also all persons
section of the
contract
last
be
of the
produced.
I
of the case different
Board, yet
rule
'J^his
Winter; and altho'
understand the facts
by the president
claim the benefit of the 16
&
17
in signing such a consent.
are to be assessed in favor of any person unless a
shall
Mr. Morris' report
by
who could
Canal law must join
No damages
written
tors
79
All persons claiming benefit under any contract will be required
2.
to join
3.
1843
am
founded upon
is
aware that the contrac-
from what they are reported
all pul^lic officers
are to be governed
reports of other public officers in preference to information
official
otherwise derived. 4.
and
The damages
5.
after the 6.
the
to
be allowed
will
be for ^Machinery on
tlic
back per centage and scaieage, only. No damages w4il i)e allowed for Alachinery remaining on
Canal,
for
completion of a contract, or wltliin a
No damages
owner
will
be allowed for the
trifle of
the line
being fmished.
value of Machinery unless
full
will first execute a bill of sale to the State for,
and put the
acting Canal Commissioner in possession of the same. 7.
The
Contractors
may have
up
the option to give
may
possession of the Alachinery to the State, or they
the
title
and
retain the same,
damages awarded to them; made up of the difference work stopped and the value of it now. 8. No damages for Machinery wdll be allowed to Contractors who stopped work for any other cause tlian want of payment by tlie
and have
partial
of its value at the time the
State. 9.
In estimating damages for j\Iachinery the appraisers must not
rely solely
on the evidence produced, but must
themselves, and determine according to their all
see the machinery, for
own
best judgment
upon
the sources of information accessible to them. 10.
In estimating the damages for back percentage and scaleage,
the appraisers will judge according to the legal effect of the contracts
produced and the estimates
to
be furnlslied by the Chief J:Lngineer and
Acting Commissioner. 11.
The damages under each
and scaleage, must
head, of Machinery, l)ack percentage,
be sepai-ately stated
by the Appraisers.
12. If any appeal shall be taken, the Appraisers will report
to the 13.
Governor with all The Acting Commissioner
damages on
tlic
same
other proceedings
the part of the State,
will
supciintend the assesstncnt of
and
will
procure
all
the evidcjice in
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL:cOLLECTIONS
8o
power
his
State has
also ^vitncsses in favor of the State.
In important cases, the Acting Commissioner
14.
The.
to appeal.
Hugh Henderson,
of
and
to produce;
no right
whom
Esvq.
I
will call in tlie aid
have requested in such cases to
attend as Counsel for the State.
Tno.AiAs FoR]j>
The
M. B. of
May,
appraisers aforesaid will meet at Lockport on the 3rd
1843, and will be allowed three dollars and
fifty
Monday
cents per day,
each.
Thomas Ford In each case the Appraisers if
any, and also their
own
vv^ill
opinions,
report the substance of the evidence,
upon
view.
Thomas Ford United States of America, State of Illinois.
Know
all
men by
Fund Commissioner^ by the laws
That
these presents,
of the State of Illinois,
I,
one of the United States
of said State, in
Thomas of
pursuance
Ford, Governor
America, and ex-officio
of authority in
me vested
do nominate, constitute and appoint, and by these presents have nominated, constituted, and appointed Col. Charles of said State,
Oakley and the Hon. Michael Ryan
of said State,
my
true
and
lav/ful
and the tme and lawful attorneys of the said State of Illinois, for me and in my name and st3de as aforesaid for the use of the said State, to ask, and demand, sue for and recover of any and all persons whatsoattorneys,
ever in the
kingdom
of
Great Britain, and Ireland, and more particularly
John Wright cS: Co. late of the City money which may be coming to, or due
of the assignee or assignees of
London, any sum or sums the said State of Illinois in the
hands
names he
of
from the Estate
of the said
of the said assignee or assignees
or they
may
be known.
And
I
sary, or required
and
*
of
fully to discharge, acquit
from force,
and other vouchers
by the laws
all
further
payment
4,
to
Co.
all
fully authorize
my
such receipts acquit-
or writings, which
may
be neces-
England, or (he rules of court, effectually
and release the said assignee or assignees
of the
same.
And
I
do here])y
fully authorize
ex-ojiicio fund commissioner by acl of legislature, approved and in 1843 (Laws of Illinois, 1842-43, 147-48).
Governor m;ulc
March
&
by whatsoever name or
do hereby
said attorneys to make, execute, seal, and deliver, tances, discharges,
John Wright
of
MAY
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK,
15,
1843
81
and empower my said attorneys, to settle with and pay all tlic ofriccrs Court in England, for their legal fees and demands properly charge-
of
able against the said State of Illinois, or assignees,
any growing out
if
of
including the said assignee
proceedmgs
in
Bankiuptcy against
John AVright & Co. And I do further fully authorize my said Attorneys to do and perform all such other acts and tilings as may be necessary and proper to be done, according to the laws and customs of England, and the rules of Court, to enable them, my said attorneys, to the said
receive the distributive share
&
John Wright
of
the State of Illinois in the estate of
Co. Bankrupts, as afore-said; and to do and perform
all
other acts and things necessary to accomplish any of the purposes
for
which
power
this
and confirm
all
And
of attorney is m.ade.
the actings
and doings
of
my
I
do hereby
fully ratify
said attorneys as fully
binding on m^e and the said State of Illinois in the premises as acting
and doing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set
my hand
I
were
and caused
Done
the great Seal of the State of Illinois to be affixed. (L.S.) Springfield in said State, this fifteenth of our
if
thereof my-sclf.
Lord one thousand
day
at
of i\Iay in the year
eight hundred and forty- three.
Thomas Ford Governor
Springfield
Messrs. Ryan I send State
you a power
from the
May
15,
1843
& Oakley
estate of
of
may be due
Attorney to receive whatever
Wright
The form which you speak
&
Co.
I
of as having
hope
it
may be
the
proper form.
in
been furnished from England
has never been in any of the offices here, and cannot be found.
If it
Gov. Carlin on that subject. you receive the money under this power, I wisli you
have not time to write
I
to
to dispose of
as follows. I have been infoi-med that tlierc
Messrs. ELope at that time, ])e
&
Co.,
remains unpaid
'
I
a balance of interest unpaid,
due them July ist-iS4T.^ it is
paid, in order to put Alessrs.
creditors.
is still
tlierefore direct,
no more
Hope that
Interest on public debt ceased July
&
any
than justice that
it
interest
due
should
now
Co. upon an equality with other
you cnqinrc
i, 1.8 }i,
If
partial
inU)
tlie
matter, and
payment u-sumed July
i, 1846.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
82
pay
Hope
to Messrs.
and reimburse them State,
I
if
am
on the
cK:
all
Co.
all
due tliem on the
interest
moneys whieh
tliey
may
ist July, i.S^i,
ha\'e advancecl for tlie
any, to pay interest due at that time. also informed tliat Alagniac
ist July, 1841,
and Jardine or
advanced money
AIa^.^niae
to assist in
due at that time, and thus for the time saved the credit you to enquire into the facts of tlx^ir claim, and
desire
above stated, they ouglrl
to
be paid and
I
and Smitli
paying the interest of the State. if
accordin;T;ly
you
llnd
it
I
as
authorize you
pay them.
to
I
am
not aware ol any other claims standing upon the same footing,
and I according direct that you deposite the residue of the money received,
if
remain until it
my
any, to I
credit in the
Bank
of
England, where
can enquire and be advised what ouglit
to
it
he done
sludl witli
consistently with the honor of the State I
am
most
res})ectfully
Thomas Ford
To I,
all to
whom
Presents
tliese
may come,
Tliomas Ford, Governor of the State of North America, send Greeting:
of Illinois, in the
United States
Whereas, by a contract or memorandum of agreement bearing date on or about the Twenty second day of August, one thousand eiglit hundred and thirty nine and made or expressed to be made between Closes Marshall Rawlings
of Shav.-neetow]i in the
State of Illinois and Charles
well in the State of Illinois
Oakley
of
County
of Gallatin in the said
Tj-emont in the County of Taze-
Gentlemen being a majority
Commissioners duly elected
])y
of the then
of Illinois at the Session held for the said State for the years
thirty nine for the
one thou-
and one thousand eight hundred ])urposes declared and set forth in an act of tlie
sand eight hundred and
and
Fund
the General Assemjjly of the said State
thirty eight
Legislature or General Assembly of the said State of Illinois, entitled
"An
act to esta1)lish
ment" and two ther to amend etta Street of
and maintain a general system
of Internal
Improve-
certain acts supplemental to the said act, and an act far-
John Wright of HenriCounty of Middlesex and Kingdom Messieurs Wright and Comi)any Bankers,
the said act of the one part and
Covent Garden
Great Britain of the hrm
in the of
on behalf of himself and copartners
of the other part.
The
said
Moses
FORD'S LETTI-:R- BOOK/IMA Y
i6,
83
18.^3
Marshall Rawlings and Charles Oakley as such niajorlly
Fund Commissioners
of the said
made arrangement \vith the late House or firm of John Wright and Company for the sale of Bonds or Certificates as aforesaid
denominated Bonds Improvement Stock for tiie total sum
of the State of Illinois
Internal
thousand dollars or three hundred and dred pounds Sterling
Britisli
money,
or Certificates of Illinois of
one million
thirty seven
hundred
five
thousand
five
hun-
suljject to the provisions in the said
contract or agreement expressed and contained.
And whereas
[in] piir-
suance of the said agreement, Bonds or Certificates of the said State of Illinois, or Illinois
Internal
Improvement
Stock, to
tiie
amount
afore-
said were accordingly delivered to and deposited with the said Alessieurs
Wright and Company for the sale on account of the State of Illinois as aforesaid and part of such Bonds or Certificates were accordingly sold by the said Alessieurs Wright and Company, And whereas the said Moses Marshall Rawlings and Charles Oakley have ceased to be or to act as
such
Fund Commissioners
Commissioners
Assembly
as aforesaid and the
entitled ''An act to establish
of Internal
Board
of
Fund
elected for the purpose of the said act of the General
Improvement," has ceased
and maintain a general system to exist,
and pursuant
to the
provisions of an act entitled ''An act to provide for the settlement
debts and
liabilities
incurred on
the State of Illinois," the General
Assembly
of the said State,
John Davis Whiteside has been duly of the State of Illinois sole
and whereas a
of
account of Internal Improvements in
fiat in
elected
by
Fund Commissioner
Bankruptcy under the hand
of
the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain has been duly issued against
Anthony George Wright Biddulph[,] John Wright[,] Henry Robinson and Edmund William Jerningham being the persons constituting the said firm of Messieurs Wiiglit and Company under which they have been adjudged and declared Bankrupts, and whereas under or in pursuance an order of the Court of Review in I'mgland bearing date the thirteenth day of January one thousand eiglit hundred and forty two, made in of
Bankruptcy on the petition of the said John Davis Whiteside, a debt of thirty three thousand nine hundred and thirteen pounds nine shillings and eight pence or therealjouts has been proved by or in the name of the said John Davis Whiteside as Fund Commisthe matter of the said
sioner for
and on behalf
of the said
of the said State of Illinois against the estate
Bankrupt.
Now the[se) presents witness that I the said Thomas Ford
as
Governor
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
84
of the said Stale of Illinois for divers
me
good causes and considerations
made ordained constituted and appointed do make constitute and appoint and in my respec-
hereunto moving have
and by these presents tive place
put Col. Charles Oakley and the Hon. Michael Ryan of the my Attorneys for m., in my name as such Gover-
said State of Illinois, as
nor as aforesaid or otherwise on behalf of the said State of
demand
ask
Illinois to
sue for recover and receive of and from the assignee
and effects of the said Anthony George Wriglit Biddulph[,l Jolm \Vright[,] Henry Robinson and Edmund WiUiam Jerningham or any or either of them or of and from any other or assignees for the time being of the estate
person or persons in Great Britain liable or entrusted to pay the same,
all
and every dividend and dividends, sum and sums of money now due or payable or wliich shall or may become due or payable upon or in respect of the said debt proved by or in the name of the said John Davis AVhiteside against the estate of the said Messieurs \Vright
and Company
or otherwise for or on account of the said Illinois Internal
Bonds
or Certificates so delivered
to
or
sold
Improvement by the said i\Iessieurs
Wright and Company as aforesaid and on receipt thereof or of any part or parts thereof to make sign seal execute amd give all necessary and effectual receipts releases
in case of
and discharges wliatsoever for the same and of any part thereof to commence pres-
non-payment thereof or
ent and prosecute or defend any action or actions, suit or suits, petition or petitions or other proceedings whatsoever either in
or in
respect of any of the shall
deem
mise and
expedient.
settle all
Law
or in Equity
by any person or persons whomsoever in matters and tilings aforesaid as my said Attorneys
Bankruptcy against
or
And
also to
examine adjust compound compro-
accounts reckonings claims and demands whatsoever
which are now unsettled Ijctween me or the State of Illinois or the Fund Commissioners or fund Commissioner thereof and the said Bankrupt or their assignees or any of
them
or
any other person or persons
in
Eng-
land touching or respecting or arising out of the said contract or agree-
ment of the Twenty second day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine or the said Illinois Internal Improvement Bonds or Certificates or in
may be
any wise relating thereto and
the l)alancc
if
any which
shall
to
pay or receive as the case
happen
to
be due or payable on
any such accounts and reckonings and to sign and present any petition or })etitions in Bankruptcy and to tender any further or other proof or proofs under the said Fiat or any renewed Fiat against the settlement of
MAY
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, Company
the said Messieurs Wright and
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85
or aj^ainst any oilier person or
persons whomsoever, and also to submit any disputes
may
1843
questions
oi-
v.'liich
any of the matters aforesaid or under the said
arise respecting
contract or agreement of the
Twenty second day
of
August one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty nine or otherwise in relation
to the matters
and things aforesaid or any of them to arbitration if deemed advisable and to abide by and perform or enforce any award or awards to be made under any such arbitration or arbitrations and poses aforesaid to use the to
name
do perform and execute
all
of
me
for
all
or
any
the said Thomas Ford
of tlie pur-
and generally
other matters and things in and about the
premises as fully and effectually to
all
intents
and purposes as
I the said
Thomas Ford could or might do if personally present. And I the said Thomas Ford do hereby give and grant unto my said Attorneys full power and authority from time to time to constitute and appoint and in their place and stead to put one or more Attorneys or attorney to do execute and perform all or any such matters or things as aforesaid and the
same attorney or attorneys
at pleasure to
remove and another or
others in his or their place or places to substitute. I the said to ratify
Thomas Ford hereby ratifying and confirming and
and confirm
all
and whatsoever my
stitute or substitutes shall or
may
la\vfully
agreeing
said attorneys or their sub-
do or cause
to
be done in or
about the premises by virtue of these presents.
In witness whereof I the said scribed (L. S.) to
my name and caused
Thomas Ford have
hereunto sub-
the great Seal of the State of Illinois
be hereunto affixed at Springfield the scat
of
Government
of
the said State, this sixteenth day of ^lay, one thousand eight
hundred and forty
three.
Tpio]\rAs
I,
To all to whom these presents may come— Thomas Ford, Governor of the State of Illinois of
Ford
in the United States
North America, send Greetings:
Whereas by a contract
or agreement in writing bearing date on or
October one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and made or expressed to be made between Richard IMartin Young of Quincy in the said State of Illinois Esquire and John Reynolds of about the
thirtieth
Belleville in the
day
same
of
State Esquire (Agents duly apj^ointed
on behalf
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
86
of the saici State of Illinois to ncgociate lars authorized to
[sic]
a loan of Foiir JMillion Dol-
be efTcctcd by the provisions
of a certain
Act of
[the]
Legislature or General Assembly of the said State of Illinois entitled
''An act to pi-ovide for a loan for Canal purposes" approved the twenty third
the
day
February One thousand eight hundred and
of
manner
m the
said act provided) of the
of Henrietta Street
Kingdom
of
Covcnt Garden
in the
Great Britain of the hrm
of
first
County of IMiddlesex and Messrs Wright and Com-
pany Bankers on behalf
of himself
The
Young and John Reynolds
said Richard IMartin
aforesaid
made an
arrangem.ent with
and copartners tlie
thirty nine in
part and Jolm \A'right
said Alessrs
of the other part
as such agents as
Wright and Com-
pany for the sale of Bonds of the said State of Illinois called the Illinois and Michigan Canal Bonds or Stock for the total sum of One million dollars or Two hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds sterling British
money
subject to the provisions in the said contract or agreement
expressed and contained. tract or
and
agreement Bonds
JNxichigan
And
whereas in pursuance of the said con-
of the said State of Illinois called the Illinois
Canal Stock or Bonds
to the
amount
according delivered to and deposited with the said
aforesaid were
I^Iessrs
Wiight and
Company for sale on account of the said State of Illinois as aforesaid. And part of such Bonds were accordingly sold by the said I\Iessrs Wright and Company A.nd wdiereas a fiat in Bankruptcy under the hand of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain has been duly issued against Anthony George Wright Biddulph[,] John Wright[,] Henry Robinson and Edmund William Jcrningham being tlie persons constituting the said firm of l\iessrs Wright and Company under which they have been adjusted and declared Bankrupts And whereas under or in pursuance of an order of the Court of Re^iew in England Ijcaring date the thirteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty two made in the matter of the said Bankruptcy on the petition of Samuel Jaudon then of Moorgate Street in the City of London, Agent of the Bank of the United States and James jNIorrison of the same place Esquire a debt of Ninlcen thousand seven hundred and seventy six pounds five shillings and eight
pence or thereabouts has been proved by or in the names of the said Samuel Jaudon and James Alorrison as y\ttorneys or Agents for and on behalf of the said State of Illinois against the Instate of the said Bankrupts.
Now
Governor
these Presents witness that I the said Tliomas Ford as
of the said State of Illinois for divers
good causes and con-
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, ^TAY
i6,
1843
87
me hereunto moving Have made ordained consliluled and appointed and ]jy these presents do make ordain constitute and appoint and in my place and stead put Col Charles Oakley and the Hon Michael Ryan, of the said State of Illinois, as ray true and lawful siderations
Attorneys for
me and in my name
as such
Governor as aforesaid or other-
wise on behalf of the said State of Illinois to ask
and receive of and from the estate and effects of
demand
sue for recover
the assignee or assignees for the time being o
the said Anthony George Wright Biddulpli[,] Henry Robinson and Edmund William Jerningham, John or any or either of them or of and from any other person or persons in Great Britain liable or entrusted to pay the same all and every dividend or dividends, sum or sums of money now due or payable or which shall or may become due or payable upon or in respect of the said debt proved by or in the names of the said Samuel Jaudon and James Ivlorrison against the estate of the said ^lessrs Wright and Company or otherwise for or on. account of the said Illinois and Michigan Canal Bonds
Wright[,]
or Stock so delivered to or sold
as aforesaid
and on receipt
sign execute
and
by the said Alessrs Wright and Company
thei-eof or
give all necessary
any part
and
of parts thereof to
make
effectual receipts releases
and
discharges whatsoever for the same and in case of payment thereof or of
any part thereof
to
commence
present and prosecute or defend any
action or actions suit or suits petition or petitions or other proceeding
whatsoever either at
Law
or in Equity or in Bankruptcy against or
any person or persons whomsoever in respect
of
any
of the matters
by
and
And also said Attorneys shall deem expedient. compound compromise and settle all accounts reckonings claims and demands whatsoever which are now unsettled things aforesaid as to examin[e]
between
me
and the
said
my
adjust
Governor as aforesaid of the said State of Illinois Bankrupts or their assignees or any of them or any other person or persons in England touching or respecting or arising out of the said contract and agreement of the thirtietli day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine or the said Illinois and Michigan Canal as such
any wise relating thereto and to pay or receive as if any which shall happen to be due or payable on the settlen)cnt of any such account or accounts and reckonings and to sign and present any petition or petitions in Bankruptcy and to tender any further or other proof or proofs under tlie said fiat or any
Bonds
or Stock or in
the case
may
renewed
fiat
be the balance
auainst the said Messrs Wright and
Company
or against
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
88
any other person or persons whomsoever dispute or question which
may
And
arise respecting
any
submit any
also to
of the matters afore-
said or under the said contract or agreement of the thirtieth day of October one thousand eight hundred ajid thirty nine or otherwise in relation to the matters or tlnngs aforesaid or any of them to arbitration if deemed advisable, and to abide
by and perform or enforce any award or awards be made under any such arbitration or arbitrations And for all and any of the purposes aforesaid to use the name of me the said Thomas to
And
Ford
generally to do perform and execute
other matters and
all
things in and about the premises as fully and effectually to
purposes as I the said
Thomas Ford
intents
all
could or might do
and
perso)ially
if
present.
Thomas Ford have hereunto sul)and caused the great Seal of the State of Illinois
In witness whereof I the said scribed (L. S.)
to
my name
be hereunto afiixed
at Springfield the seat of
day
the said State this sixteenth
hundred and
of I\Iay,
Government
of
one thousand eight
forty three.
Thomas Ford Springfield,
May
i6,
1843
D. H. T. Moss. Esq. I
am
obliged to you for the information contained in your letter of
the twelfth instant;
and
I
empower you
axcordingly
any
to sell
of the
timber, or stone or other materials, on or near the line of the rail road
between to
La
and Dixon,
Salle
your best judgment;
heretofor[e] directed.
who may
persons
liave
I
eith.er at
public, or private sale, according
change the places
also, to
also autliorizc
you
used any such materials; and
and reasonable
in case they refuse to account, at fair
of the pul)lic sales
to settle with
any and
to sue for the
prices,
all
same,
and pay
for
the same. I
am
sincerely yours,
Thomas Ford
Know
all
State of
Elijah
men by
Illijiois
Adams
these presents that I
stone belonging to the Central
and the
mouth
Thomas Ford Governor
of the
do hereby authorize and empower John M. Kelly and or either of them to sell any and all timber and of the Ohio,
Road between the Illinois River demand and receive payment and
P.ail
and
to
sue for any timber stone or any other material belonging to said road
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, JUNE
9,
1843
89
and which ms^y have been taken from the same, by any person or And I do hereby invest them with the same powers in relation to the Northern Cross Rail Road l^etween Springfield and the eastern boundary line of the State. And I do also authorize tlicm or either of them to receive any Instrument or Instruments the properly
persons whatever.
Road System wheresoever
of the State, belonging to the Rail
may be
the
same
found. ^
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Great Seal
(L. S.) the of
May AD.
of State to
set
my hand
be affixed at SpringJicld
and caused
this 26th
day
1843,
Thomas Ford Thompson Campbell
Sea-clary of Slate
SpRiNGriELD June 9 1843
Dear
Sir:
return of the
I
have received since
amount and
Tremont Rail Road I
have to request you
at
my
return from
St.
Louis your
and stone on the Pekin and having passed by in my absence
quality of timber
The day to act as
of sale
agent of the State in selling that property
Tremont
it into such lots as will suit purchasers and give and Tremont and along the line of a time of sale I You are leave it to your own discretion what length of notice to give authorized to receive in payment Illinois internal improvement bonds and Scrip. The I3.W does not authoj-ize the receipt of Canal bonds and scrip Please make a return to me at an early day of an account of
I desire
you
to divide
notice in Pekin
sales
and the money
Sell to as
good
profit as
you possibly can 1
am
most respectfully
Your obedient servant
TuoMAs Ford Middleton Tackerbcrry Esq.^ Pekin
Illinois
' Messrs. Adams aad Kelly reported the Central Railroad and right of way and the depot lands at Cairo to be worth $400,482; Northern Cross Raih-oad from Spnn?;lield to state line, $102,764.73; Northern Cross Raikoad from Springfield to Mcrodosia, §234,515.50 {Illinois Uouse Reports, 1844-45, iSo). An act approved Fcbruai-y 27, 1S41. had authorized the fhiishing of the Northern Cross Railroad by a private concern and gave option on material belonging to state {Laws of Illinois, 1S40-41, 197-204).
'Middleton Tackerberry: (Blue Book of Illinois, 1905).
1S42-44,
1849-51. representative in General Assembly
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
90
Executive Department SpraNGFiELD June 14th 1843
To Messrs. Mitchell, Jackson and
Kerchj^.val, Appraisers of
DAMAGES ON THE CaNAL Gent:
have undcrslood that there
I
is
some
on the
dissatisfaction
part of the Contractors witli the instructions formerly given you; which
me
has caused
I have availed
That
to reconsider the
my
concurred in
officer
matter very carefully and in doing so
advice and opinion of the Attorney General.
self of tlie
my
views in regard
to
back per ccntage and
scale age
I
have however come
])ack percentage
not to
is
to the
])e
thousand dollars and the Attorney General admits that the intention of the Legislature that
demand an
by the
But
exception.
been able to perceive that
sum
conclusion that the principal
of
included within the two hundred and thirty
it
it
may have been to make
on the subject
respects scaleage I have not yet
But as you are instructed damages separately the question is open for
it is
to assess the several items of
as
last act
an exception.
further consideration It is
not material that the Contractors should quit claim their machin-
ery before an assessment shall
insti'uctions properly
requisite to
The men,
in cases
which
have
will
You
in full
understood
to insist
to
their
are not required
upon a
cjuit
claims
by former
claim as a'prc-
not
make
You, Gentle-
i\Iachinery.
is
decide this question for your selves and are the_]only
1)e
to
make
sucli a decision hi tlie hrst instance.
required to have a personal sight of
where ithas1)een distroyed
will
The
be made; but only before
question will frequently arise what
will
You
me
an assessment of damages
competent tribunal
.arc
slrall
be allowed and paid by
it
[sic]
impossiljle to see
tlie
?\Iachinery
or where any other cause exists
it
contracts not in writing alluded to in the former instructions
contracts under what
is
called the
''New
lettings,"
and has no
refer-
ence to any other contracts I
am most
respectfully
Your obedient Servant
Thomas
FoiiD
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, JUNE
i6,
1843
91
Springfield Illinois, June 16
Gentlemen: your claim and have no funds
have
will
at
with the State
I
all
along
felt a
do so as soon as
my command
liabilities.
1843
sincere desire to adjust and
it
be in
shall
for that or
my
pay
But
power.
I
any other purpose connected
you have seen and read my inaugural
If
address and the reports of the officers of State last Winter upon our financial condition
you cannot have
no funds arc on hand and
it
much
labor on
many
frequent statements apparently called for by
From
the tone of your letter
claims on
tlie
some time
my
part in
besides your selves.
would judge that the Tonawanda drafts are desperate and yet I would not dare
to take the responsibility of transferring
it
since I
to
you
in satisfaction of
your
demand
small
have no means
I
why making
failed to perceive the reasons
will save
of raising
money
out of the claims of the State upon
aught that
upon
its
I
can see the matter
New York
of
to its
pay demands
yours except
your claim and the claims
For
of the State
debts will have to rest in their present desperate
condition until the return of Oakley and
mean
like
debtors for State bonds.
Ryan from Europe
time having thus advised you frankly of
my
inability to
In the
meet
3
our
expectations I will be pleased to receive from you any furtlier sugges-
and
tions will
if
I
can be persuaded that any course
be admissible to be taken
authority to close
Vvn'th
I
to
be pointed out by you
will give jNIessrs
Oakley and Ryan
you I
am
most respectfully
Your obedient servant Thoaias Ford Messrs. Ruggles
& Howe
New York
Springfield June 16th
Dear
Sir: In answer to your letter I beg leave to state
been informed that the
Company have been
officers
and agents
of the
Rock
]S.}3
lluit I Ii.inc
river Rail
rc-;i-i
ov.n selling the materials of Ihe road for iheir is a
i;-any I desire you to inform the ]:MesideiU public interests.
and without intending State
and
ILLIONIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
92
and
all
others inleresled that
commenced
here in
it
my
is
intention to ha^•c actions at law
Sangamon County
against
all
persons found com-
mitting those frauds. I
am
most respectfully
Your obedient
servant
Thomas Ford Geo.
W.
Gilson, Esq.
Spiungfield, June
Dear
Sir:
If the inspectors of the penitentiary
20,
1843
consent to the sale
there will probably be from 60 to 100 tons rail road iron to be disposed of
i\ir.
Matteson has spoken
himself to have
August
of
I St.
it
laid
to
down on
purchase a rail
payment
so as to save the
it is
not
I
laid.
of
about $25 per ton duties for
in New Orleans have understood that the time expires in the
which our friends are under bond in case
it at $45 per ton and will bind road in the United States by the
at the
Custom house
month of August next Whoever purchases will have to come under agreement that the iron is to be laid by the middle of August \vith appro\'ed security in this State I recollect having some conversation with you on this subject at Alton and you informed me that some person in Georgia wished information and. v/ould probably want to purchase. But you made me no proposition, nor did I understand you that you were authorized
been very anxious
to sell to the best ad^'antagc at
possible to save the
given
fly]
jNIr.
payment
of duties to the U. S.
Matteson encourageinent
remaining iron
if
any
is to
be
to
do
so.
I
have
an early day so as
if
and have accordinghe could have the
to think that
sold. I
am
most respectfully
Your obedient
servant
Thomas Fokd Long/
jMr.
Alton,
111.
Springfield June 23 1843
Dear
Sir:
20th instant and am much and Rock River Rail Road Co. has been organ-
I received
gratified that the Illinois
your
letter of the
Stephen Haniinan Lon.c;: (probably) born December 30, 178.^, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire; iSoc;. ^-raduatcd from D.irlinuulh Collc.c:c; December, iSi.v, cntereil ihc United StalCb army as licvitcnaiU of En^jiiieers; assistant professor of mathematics at '
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, JUNE
and with the intention of making It appears from your letter that
ized in good faith
wish you success
has been appointed by
am
JNIr. INIoss
1843
93
the roiid this is the
I hcartil)-
day which
for the sale of the timber stone Sic.
you or sojne other person did not write me sooner. did not know wlio the Company were, and from my advices I could not I
I
29,
sorry that
but believe that a pretended company existed who were about to commit great frauds on the State
If
however
I could havel)een furnished
with the information contained in your letter in time I would have ordered
Mr. Moss
to delay
proceedings until the matter could have l)een enquii-cd
Mr. Moss, and he has not yet sold, show him this and recjuest him to desist until I can further enquire into the you
If
into. letter
see
matter I
am
most respectfully
You
obedierjt servant
Thomas Ford H. P. Woodworth, Esq. Springfield, June
N
Col
Sir:
Joel
A
Matteson Esq
$4000. in bonds in
town
way
of Rail
so that the proposition
ered as a bargain of
29,
1843
Buckmaster^ of Juliet^ has this
Road
which he
day forwarded
iron at Meredosia lately
made may now be
I should like to wait longer to hear
your City wlio made enquiries lately in relation
to
me
and Shawneeconsid-
from Mr. Long purchasing for
1816, transferred to the Topographical Engineers with the brevet rank of major; 1818-23, charge of explorations between Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains; 1S27-30, civil engineer on Baltimore & Oliio Railroad; 1837-40, engineer-in-chief
West Point;
of
Western
&
Atlantic Railroad in Georgia;
1838, appointed major of Topographical
of corj^s with the rank of colonel; spent latter part of hfe at Alton, Illinois; June, 1.863, retired from active service; died September 4, 1S64, railroad building in the J^lr. Long vais author of the fust original treatise on at Alton; United States, under the title Railroad Manual, 1829 (Bateman and Selby, Historical
Engineering Corps;
1861,
made
ch.ief
Encyclopedia of JAllmns, 1905). '
Nathaniel Buckmaster:
born
in Calvert
County, Maryland, about 1792; worked
1818, emigrated to Edwardsville, Illinois; 1820-22, representative in General Assembly; 1822-34, sheriff of Tvladison County; capto Alton; lessee of state prison tain and major in Black Hawk W^ar; about 1835, removed postmaster at Alton; founder of at Alton; quartcrmaslergcncral under Governor Ford; "Upper Ferry" at St. Louis and the first successful operator of a ferry at that place; in died at Alton in 1855 (Julia Buckmaster, Alton, Illinois, private
in Charleston, Virginia,
as a Ixick mason;
pontics a Democrat;
Blue Book of Jllinois, 1905; Adjuiant-GcneraVs Reports; Uislory of Madison R. Brink & Co., Chicago, 3.882).
letter to editor;
County,
W.
president of the JuUet incorporated as a village in 1S37 with Joel A. Matteson as (Grmton, Charter repealed in 1841. Joliel iacorporatcd June 19. 1852 Jolict ami Juliet, Joliet, 190.1). »
village board.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
94
some persons
down
in
But as I am anxious to have the Iron payment of duties and as I have not heard answer from Mr. Long and as I must not loose Georuin Islny 2,?, 1813, in Buffalo, New York; worked on a farm; learned printer's trade; jS,v1-35, edited Tlic Buffalo BuUelin; 1836, admitted to bar; 1837, moved west; 1S38, cify attorney of INlonroe, IMichif^an; 1841, editor of Jltc Louis1842, opcni-d law office in Springfield, Illinois; assisted Governor Ford in i8M-.t5. revised statutes of Illinois; 1851-55, solicitor for Illinois Central Railroad; 1855-61, interested in building a railroad from Bird's Point, Missouri, to a ])oint in Arkansas; Aut;ust iq, 1861, mustered in as major of Twenty -ninth Regiment
ville
Advertiser;
Mormon
trouble;
Illinois Volunteers;
took
promoted to the colonck\tember 24, 1862, appoinkil of major-general; August
Fort Donelson and Sbiloh; April 15, 1862, Iwiiity-ninth for meritorious conduct at Shiloh; Sepbri;;;i(licr j;eneral of volunteers; March 3, 1S65, received brevet
i.,irt
in bottles of
of (he
2.1,
1865, mustered out of service;
State Journal; removetl to \\'isconsin;
to Wisconsin;
Bateman and
1872-73, edited Illinois 1S80, returned
1876, appointed governor of Idaho;
died February 27, 1S95, at Kansas City (Palmer, Bench and Bar of Illinois; Selby, Ilisloyical Encyclopedia of Illinois; Adjntant-Gcncrars Reports).
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
96
Executive Departm ent Springfield July 13 I
Thomas Ford Governor
of the Stale of Illinois
and empower Lemuel Andrews Esq.
Sheriff of
to sell at public sale to the highest bidder
and
all
8,-13
Rock Island County
any and
all stone timber ii-on other material belonging to the State of Illinois and pertaining
improvements on Rock
to the
1
do hciel)y authorize
and near the lower Rapids at payment therefor gold and silver coin and Illinois internal improvement bonds and scrip He the said Andrews giving three weeks public notice of the time and place of sale by posting up notices of the same in fouj- of the most public places in said County Vandruffs Island and
my hand
Witness
river at
to receive in
the day
and date above written
Thomas Ford Mr. Andrev/s an account
is
of sales
requested to
make
a return to
me
at Springfield of
and the funds received
Executive Department Springfield, III. July 26 1843
His Excellency Tno:\rAs Reynolds Governor of JMissouri Sir:
by you
The demand to receive
of
Joseph H. Reynolds Esq. the agent appointed
Joseph Smith
Jr. for
a detachment of Militia to assist
in retaking said Smith has been duly considered the earliest
moment
to lay before
The
you the
you
coming
result of
to a conclusion
my
me
at large as
in
coming
soon as
by me and
I
now
at
on the subject, proceed
deliberations
request for a Military force
have infl.uenced to
after
is
to this
declined.
The
determination
I
can obtain
I
have the honor
leisure to to
rt^asons
will
which
be furnished
do so
be
very respectfully
Your obedient servant TiioxiAS
Ford
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, AUGUST EXECU TI VE DePAR
r.\[
1843
14,
97
EN
Springfield, III
Aui^^
14,
1843
To His Excellency Thomas Reynolds Governor Sir:
On
of the State of Missouri
the 26th day of July last I had the honor to inform you by
letter that after full
consideration I have
come
to the conclusion to decline
ordering out a detachment of Militia to assist in retaking Joseph Smith
who was said to have escaped from the custody of the IMissouri Agent and in that letter I engaged to furnish you with my reasons at large for coming to that determination It appears tliat an indictment was found at a special term of the Davis Jr.
circuit court, jNIissouri held the fifth of
Upon
treason
sition to the of Smith.
of
an
Governor
of this State
A writ was thereupon
and delivery
of
June
Smith for
last against
indictment the Governor of Missouri issued a requi-
this
Smith as demanded.
officer of this State to
demanding
duly issued by
the arrest and delivery
me
for the apprehension
This writ was put into the hands
be executed.
The
ofiicer to
directed immediately an-ested Smith and delivered
him
whom
The
Reynolds, the agent of Missouri, appointed to receive him. has been returned to
me
alleged that he
of the City of
Affidavits
and I
also
was rescued from
Mr Joseph
his custody
H. Reynolds,
by the Municipal court
on both
sides of the question have
been
filed
before me,
have additional information on the subject, contained
Mr. Brayman Esq. a investigate and collect facts, in
The undisputed
special agent,
in a
appointed by myself,
relation to the whole matter
facts of the case are that Smith
was arrested near
Dixon, in Lee County; he was immediately delivered over nolds;
writ
Nauvoo
report of to
was
as having been fully executed
After Smith was delivered into the hands of it is
it
Joseph H.
to
Smith immediately brought an action against
ATr.
to j\Ir.
Rey-
Reynolds
for
imprisonment, and had him to bail in the sum of four hundred dollars. Mr. Reynolds being in a strange couiitry, and unable to give false
bail,
was taken by
the Sheriff of
Lee County and held
whilst Reynolds held Smith as his prisoner.
The
as a prisoner;
parties finally con-
cluded to get out writs of habeas corpus and try the legality of the impris-
onment
in each case.
The
writs were accordingly issued returnable
before the nearest judicial tribunal in the circuit in which Quincy
is
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
98
and
situated,
tliLM-cnipon all parties
proceeded
in the direction of
Quincy
custody of Mr. Reynolds and Mv. Iveynolds himself being in the custody of the Sheriff of Lee County. On the road durinf^
Smith
])cing in the
were met by parties
their progress the[y]
some, or most, of
whom
members
of
tlie
Nauvoo;
Nauvoo
no evidence that they appeared in a ]\iilitary There was no exhibition of arms of any description, nor was
though there
Legion;
of the citizens of
are said to have been
capacity.
is
there any I^Iilitary or warlike array
—nor
was there any actual force felt under constraint; and
used; though Mr. Reynolds testified that he that Smith, soon after meeting the
first
parties of ^Mormons, enlarged
Mr. Reynolds also testifies (and there can the that doubt of fact) he was taken to Nauvoo against his will. no be But NN'hether he was taken there by the command of Smith and his himself from his custody.
friends, or
him
by the voluntary act
in custody,
The
Reynolds. there
of the Sheriff of
Lee County, who had
does not appear by any testimony furnished affidavit of the Sheriff
l)y
^Mr.
has not been obtained, though
evidence on the other side to show that the Sheriff of Lee County
is
voluntarily carried
coeision
[sic]
Mr. Reynolds, to of any one
the city of
Nauvoo,
witliout
any
on the part
Nauvoo a
Habeas Corpus was issued by and jNIr. Reynolds was compelled ]jy After aut]K)rity of the court to produce Mr. Smith before that tribunal. hearing the case the court discharged Smith from arrest After arriving at
the
Municipal Court
There is
is
much
other other evidence submitted, but the foregoing
the ^Material part of
Now, MiHtia
Sir, I
it
to
been
be considered on the present occasion^
might safely
to assist in retaking
Stale have
writ of
of that City,
fully
rest
my
refusal to order a
detachment
Smith upon the ground that the laws
executed in the matter
A
of
of
tliis
writ has been issued
for his
apprehension; Smith was apprehended; and was duly delivered
by the
officer of the State to the
to receive hiiri.
No
resisted or interfered with
the law
agent of the State of IMissouri appointed
process officer or autliority of this State has been
—
I
have
fully fully executed the
imposed on me, and have not been
duty which
resisted, either in the writ
issued for the arrest of Smith or in the person of the officer appointed '
Ilcroiofore the facts in (he rase concerning (he release of Smith have not been fully l-ord himself in his llislory of Illinois, 315, says that when the agent started for
known,
Missouri with Smith, a party of IMonnons met them and compelled the olTicer and his prisoner to go to Xnnvoo. Nothing whatever is said about the sherill of Lee County having the oliicer fiom Missouri in custody.
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, AUGUST to apprche])d him.
been
been any resistance
If there lias
Smith came
to the officer of Missouri, after
every thing had been done on
14,
my
1843
99
any one
to
lo his custody,
it
and
part which the law warranted
has
after
me
in
doing
Another objection
to ordering
of the Militia laws of
this
a detachment of Militia arises out
State;
43d Section of which
the
is
as
follows
''Whenever
it
may be
of the Militia of this State
necessary to call into actual service any part
on a requisition
of the executive of the
an actual or threatened invasion
State, or
of this State, or
any
United of the
neighboring States or Territories of the United States, the Commanderin-Chief shall forthwith
demand from each
proportion to the strength
which order
shall
commandants
of
be delivered by a special j\Iessenger divisions,
specifying
the
if
the
States, to
in
to the several
number demanded from
each division; the time and place of rendezvous,
and
detachment
division a
except as hereinafter excepted;
thereof;
ordered to I\Iarch;
if
same be detached under any particular act endorse the same on such orders; Provided
of the
that
United
whenever
the safety of any of the frontier settlements in this State shall, in the
opinion of the Governor, require
it,
he
may exempt
the Alilitia in such
settlements from being called into service and Alake such further provision for their defence as the necessity of the case
may
require; which
exception shall be expressed in his orders to commandants of the divisions,
who, together with the commandants of brigades, regiments, and companies, shall govern themselves accordingly; And
battalions
provided, also, that such Militia
on their
own
emergency battalions
tlie
men may
be required to
ser\'e as spies
and that on actual invasion, or any extreme commander-in-chief commandants of divisions, l.n-igades, frontiers;
and companies, may call on the whole or any part of the commands, as the nature of the case may
Militia under their respective
require, wlio shall continue in service,
can be regularly called out." The Governor has no otlier authority that which
is
contained in this Section.
if
necessary, until the JMilitia
in calliiig out the IMilitia, than
By which
it
appears that there
from the President an actual or threatened invasion, or some emergency to warrant the Governor in exercising this power. No one of these contingencies has arisen. There has been
must be
either a requisition
no requisition from the President; there has been no actual
or threatened
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
loo
invasion of the Stale; nor
templated by the law.
such an extreme emergency as
is this
we allow
If
that
is
con-
was exhibited and prisoner before (he muni-
force
threatened to compel your agent to carry his
cipal coui't of NauA^oo; that the court then took cognizance of the cause
without jurisdiction, and against the consent of your agent,
amount, case,
at most, to
a
and
riot,
and that under color
in
my
opinion, to be
more than a design
To
law and legal process.
of
an extreme emergency, so as
it
would
to a resistance of authority in a single
constitute
to justify a call for the Alilitia, tliere
some thing more than
a
mere
law in a single instance.
to resist the
ought
something
illegal act;
The
design
ought to be general, as in treason, rebellion, or insurrection, in which cases an universality of design If
is
essential to constitute the offence.
a person resist a constable or a sheriff or other officer cliarged with the
execution of process, with an intention to resist the law in that particular instance.
Such an act
a misdemeanor at most;
is
is
indictable as
and may be met by the posse comitaties [sic]. But something more than a mere misdemeanor must have been contemplated by the law.
such,
It
would seem
to
Governor should or sheriff
me call
may be
that
it
could never have been intended that the
out the Militia in every case
resisted;
and even
where a constable
in a case of riotous resistance
it
would not be an extreme emergency without some Alilitary array some warlike show, or some threatened resistance to the Government itself.
In this case there has been no warlike array in the proceedings
of
Smith and his friends; no exhibition
an
illegal character.
He was may have been ment.
jNlr.
of arms,
and no actual force
Reynolds was not subjected
arrested on lawful process,
to illegal
of
imprison-
and although that process
wrongfully obtained, yet his arrest was not riotous or
unlawful, but according to the forms of law.
Mr. Reynolds continued
he was taken Nauvoo; and althougli he was taken to that city against his will, and was by that means compelled to take his prisoner there, yet he was talcen by lawful process, by an authorised officer, who acted, so far as In no one I have any evidence, freely and voluntarily in so doing. in the
custody
of the sheriff ])y
vktue
of that process, until
to
aspect of the case can I consider the present an extreme emergency,
warranting a
call for the ^Militia,
according to the provisions of law in
this State.
Thus, influenced
Sir, I
me
have stated
to
you the principal reasons which have
in refusing to order a call of the IMilitia
To my own
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, AUGUST mind they
are entirely satisfactory,
and
I
hope
loi
1843
5,
tlicy will
meet
willi the
approval of your excellency and the people of jNJissouri I
have the honor
to
hn
Your Excellencys most Obedient Servant
Thomas Ford Executive Department Springfield III. Aug. Sir:
rumor
I
have seen
it
stated in the public prints
and
that the United States Collector at Cincinnati
1843
5,
also learned
had
levied
by
on a
quantity of rail road Iron lately the property of Illinois for the payment
U. S. That Iron was imported to N. Orleans in the and bonds with ample security were given at the Custom House in New Orleans for the payment of the duties. I assert it to be a fact that the State of Illinois has given bond with approved security for the payment of the duty upon all the rail road Iron imported and of duties to the
years '40
&
'41
remaining unpaid. I
am
informed that the time
The
duties.
not
is
3'et
out for the payment of tliose
iron has been sold with the view to be laid
the expiration of the time.
vented from having the
But by
rails laid in
I respectfully request you,
sir,
this seizure the State
down
before
wDl be
pre-
time to save her bond.
to enqui];e into the state of facts con-
nected with the importation and seizure of the Iron; and thai }'0u will
me what right the Collector at Cincinnati had to levy and whether in so doing he acted under authority or direcI have been under the impression tion from the Treasury Department ? that as the Iron has been bonded it is not liable to be seized at any time. The United States cannot it appears to me have a l^ond for the payment
please to inform
on
this
Iron
of duties If
?
and a right
you find
tlie
of seizure both.
facts to be as afore stated,
in this view of the law,
you
oblige the purchaser of the Iron
ruined by
power I
proceeding:
if
who
you
is
if
you concur with
upon
a worthy
this State
man
will at the earliest
and
me also
aiid who will be moment in your
direct the Collector of Cincinnati to release this Iron.
am
just
quanity of pretext
tliis
and
will confer a favor
informed that the Collector at
rail
S.
Louis has levied upon a
road Iron at Aleredosia in this State under the Ukc
and which Iron
is in
every respect situated as the Iron at Cincin-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
I02
nali except that
on hand
Your
has not been sold but has been ordered road in this State.
it
to ]>e ];cpt
to repair the rail
early attention to the subject matter of this letter will oblige
me. have the honor
I
to l^e
Your Obt. servant Tno^iAs FoKD
To
the Secretary of the Treasury,
Washington City Springfield Sept
To
J.
ii
1843
Phipps Esq.
As you was
Wabash River
[sic]
the agent of the State to lease the ^iills on the Little
I enclose
you the account
of
Credited with an order in your favor with the
count on John
Wood amounting
in cash or current funds.
I
to $800.
send them to
Reuben Emerson for $800. sum of $59 62 Also an ac.
These accounts are payable you for collection and request
you will demand payment immediately If not paid I desire suit But the suit will be brought in Springfield If these to be brought accounts are not paid on demand or in very short time please inform
that
me and let me know
the counties where
all
the parties
and
their securities
reside I
am most
respectfully
Yours
Thomas Ford State of Illinois
Whereas a quantity States at the Port of
of Rail road Iron
New
imported into the United
Orleans by the State of
Illinois,
been seized by the United States Collector of the revenue Cincinnati for tity of rail
tlie
non payment
road Iron
of duties
And whereas
at iMcredosia in this Stale
ex-officio
therefore I
Thomas Ford Governor
Fund Commissioner
the
same State do
Esq
of Juliet as
imported in
like
manner
St.
Louis
and and on behalf of
of the State of Illinois
of said State acting for
lieieby fully authorize
my
Port of
another quan-
has Ijcen seized by the Collector of the Revenue at the Port of
Now
has lately
at the
and empower Joel
A
Alatteson
and Attorney in my name on behalf of the seal and deliver any such bond oi- 1)onds as may
aj.^ent
State of Illinois to sign
be jiecessary to procure the release of the said Rail road Iron or any
FORD'S LETTER-BOOK, SEPTEMBER
13,
1843
103
part (hereof from the seizures aforesaid and to have the same again restored to the possession I the said
and control
Thomas Ford Governor and
of the said ex-officio
as aforesaid hereby fully ratifying and confirming
A
by the said Joel
Matteson
in
the premises as completely as
my name on
all tliat
may
Ije
done
1)ehalf of the said State in
were present
I
if
Joel A. Matteson
Fund Commissioner
at the
doing thereof
my
self.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set
my hand and
caused
the great seal of State to be affixed at Springfield this 13th.
day
(L.S.)
of
September
in the year of our
Lord one thousand
eight
hundred and forty three
Ford
Tiioi\iAS
Springfield Septem. 13 1843
Dear
Sir:
hundred dollars
I
have received your demand
for the
for the
reward
of
two
apprehension of John Williams offered in the
proclamation of Governor Carlin dated July 23 1841
That proclamation offers the above reward upon condition that WiUiams should be apprehended and secured by the person apprehending him so that he might be brought to trial before the circuit court of
Clark county.
appears by the papers which you have forwarded me that Vv'illiams was taken before a single Justice of the peace and that the justice permitted him to go at large on bail in the sum_ [of] $150 This I apprehend was illegal and will not bind Williams to appear at the circuit court for trial; as you will perceive by the 3d Sec of the It
act to regulate the apprehension of offenders
221
tliat
Revised laws
a single justice luad no right to take bail in such a case
'33
page
And
if
not you and the juslice together have permitted Williams after his arrest to escape
and go
at large.
The
bind him to appear at court for
proceedings in such a case would not trial
and
of course
you would not be
entitled to the reward. If tlie
Williams had b(>cn
justices
livered
him
committed
Ijefore
would have no right to the Sheriff
How I
to liail is
to the
custody of the Sheriff
him and you ought
to
have de-
diis?
am most
respectfully
Your
o])cdient servant
Thomas Ford Robert
B McCown
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
I04
Executive Departaient October
6 1843
Hon. David TnIarkely^
Dear of
Sir
I herewith transmit
:
you a
list
of lands (47 eighty a.crc
belonging to the State of Illinois and selected under the provisions
tracts)
an act
of
Congress Approved Sept.
4,
1841, entitled
priate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands tion rights"
which
I desire
you
"An
and
to
act to appro-
grant preemp-
and value according
to inspect
to
your
best judgment.
Those lands
W
1
NE
are
Sec IS
E -|NE E ^NW
((
IS
W i SE
a
E iSW
a
W i SW
u
E ^-NE
a
W
u
1
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1
NE
(
(dia
UXTNOIS
3.62
IJISTORICAT. COLT.ECTIONS
You cau inform him
last .letter.
what
at
you
(inic
will
be ready
examination, and the place where you wisli him
nieiice the
to
be
(o coni-
fust, for
this purpose.
With you,
am
I
anxious
day
at the very earliest
which the testimony transmitted
am
Canal
From
be gone through with
sliall
the charges you will readily
which your attention has not been directed and upon
detect those to
I
the matter
tliat
practicaljle.
to
me
lias little l^caring.
highly pleased at the frequent assurances I receive that the
will certainly
advantages of a
be opened so as
to enable the State to derive all the
With me,
spring navigation.
full
important
this
I'esult
outweighs every other consideration.
As
I
remarked above, the time and place
of
examination can be
arranged between Judge Caton and yourself, and sliould soon as convenient, so as not to allow the Canal interest to I
am
]je
very Respectfully Yours A. C.
To
Williami
111.
Springfield Feby
Dr in
Sir:
my
In
letter of the
28th
ult. I
i8,
your hands as might enable
now
requested you to forward
am
me
to
answer your inquiries, and thereby
of collision of opinion betv/een us hereafter.
all possiljility
may
free to confess that
l)e
me
much doubt
Agent
if
tliere
of a State, in the
account of
two years.
its affairs
There
necessary
is
tliat
me
strongly with
its
can be found another instance
am now
desir-
singularity.
I
of the financial
United States, who has omitted
to
render an
in his hands, in a detailed form, for the space of ever}' reason
why
it
was not only proper but
you should render an account
This would
Ikivc
enabled
me
— on the
to give
essen-
of the condition of
the affairs of the State, intrusted to you, at the very farthest, at
each year, and more properly semi annually July.
I
for so long a time, after
ought to have been forwarded, the information which I
tially
am
received here before this reaches you.
your withholding from
ous of ol)taining, has impressed very
I
anxiously awaiting your answer to this request, with the desired
information, which
&
1848
such information of the state of the affairs of the State of Illinois
avoid
it
French
Gooding Escf
Lockport,
me
done as
suffer.
ist
you
tlie
end
of
days of January
at all times,
such
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, 1-EBRUARY become proper
directions as mi^'^ht
I expressly called
your accounts were
to
your
account, and I
full
felt
and found only the most
a
lit lie
184S
163
in cond\icP'nli(. school at. Kingston, New York; studied law; 1831, removed to Alton, Illinois, where he practiced law; first mayor of Alton; was holding that office at the time of the famous Lovejoy riot; 1842, removed to St. Louis, Missouri;
at
Court; 1848, elected mayor of St. Louis; 1S60, delegate Convcntlou; at the beginning of the war, Mr. Krum idcntiliod himself with the Republican inirty; colonel of a regiment of enrolled militia composed of citizens of St. Louis; died September 13, 18S3 {Encyclopedia of the History of Si. Louis). 18
!.^--46,
judge of
to the Charleston
St. Liuiis Circuit
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLLCTIONS
I'/S
Improvement
the
of its ILarl^oi:.
mc
reasons which induced
I
then gave you
to believe
my
it
some
In-icH}'
of tlie
duty to interfere to cause
had been pi-ocured to arrest this work, to l)c had ])cen assured through divers sources that the work was still being pushed forward, in contempt of tl'ie Injunction and the Ci\'il Authority of the State. It seemed to me that the course pursued by the City Council v^'as most extraordinary, as showing the most absolute the Injunction which
observed.
I
disregard of the Civil Authority of Illinois, to give expression coloring,
bear,
and what
manner
the clandestine
is
carried on
would
it
— so as
it
the mildest
form
of
possible gives the whole a worse
if
which
said the
work has been
to elude the observation of the officers
having cho.rgc
of the Injunction.
I
was slow
in
it is
to believe this last,
and
until I learned
by
a direct Telegraphic Despatch from Genl. Cooley that such v/as the fact, I felt inclined to credit the
mon
assurance of the Committee of the
Council of the City, then here, that I had been misinfoi inexl.
remains but one couise to be taken in
this matter,
which
is
autliority
it
necessary in order to enable you to support your
and enforce that
of the State,
you are hereby authorised
call to
your assistance the Militia force of St Clair County
case
may
it
be preferaljle
cannon
also at
to aid you,
and men, tive,
an
and
and
to
I think 3'ou
Artillery force
have a cannon
Alton which you are authorised also
])esides call to
your aid a
sufiu'ient
to
— In which
under
all
the cir-
at Bcllewille, there to take
number
if
required,
of officers
render the object, the enforcement of the Injunction effec-
to sustaiji
you
fully in the
officer of this State.
in tlie
employ the
to
cumstances, to any other. are
tlie
This
consequences be what they may.
let the
you think
If
There
cause
to
Injunction to be regarded Vvithin the Jurisdiction of this State.
must be done
Com-
complete discharge of
you]-
duty as
Such necessary expense as may be incurred
discharge of your duty will
l^e
provided. I
am, Yours
Aug
v^l^-
C. Fricngii
Tlie Sheriff of^ St Clair
County
Executive Department, Illinois Springfield July ]3r Sir: tlie
I
\V.
1S48
wrote you some time since on the subject of the sale of
Canal lands Lois 'David
29,
iSL^\
and referred
Hopkins, shciiffof
St. Clair
to reports in circulation tliat
county. iS;6-5o
FRENCirS LETTER-BOOK, JULY
29,
18.18
179
arrangements were making and combinations formed,, designed monopolise the sale of the choice lands and Lots &*^.
competition
me
circumstances
holders,
to a great degree well
to
any combinations calculated
competition at the
I
sales.
[sic]
ments
lessen the sales or
to
immediate
make
it
tingency alcove referred
a suggestion
that
monopolise the purchases.
to,
I
if
to
me,
I
v/ill
in.
v/hich
it
seem proper
the
shall
be conducted.
shall
i\-[y
in order to avoid the con-
the sale be adjourned to
lay the affair l3efore
for the sales to
not be
some other
felt,
'J"he
be held
at
and the competition
tlie
place,
Legislature for the provision by
some place where
People have been taught to regard these lands as a very impor-
influences were allowed to o])crate to lessen
competition
would be
among
intense.
may make
its
and
purchasers, the dissatisfaction
to i-ender
among
am
any
nine tenths
by the Trustees in any judicious the sales honest, fair and just.^
effort
very Respectfully Yours,
Aug W. IL
if
value or prevent a free
I will stand
I
Capt.
would
the influences
left free.
tant recourse towards the liquidation of the Canal Debt,
they
believe
made on
but prescril^es only when the sales
if it
in
thought proper simply adjourned and the matter being represeJitcd
or
Law
to offer
symptoms of such arrange-
imxperative that the sales shall be
take place and the general order is this^
Bond-
tlie
check free and undisturljcd
there shall be
if
line of the Canal,
suggestion then,
and consequently
to
have taken the liberty
to the matter,
refference
the law does not
Under such
take a decided course or adopt some decisive
to avoid an injury to the State
1:)y
since to satisfy
founded.
matter of the very utmost importance, that the
is
it
Trustees be prepporcd
measures
me
Sufficient information has reached
rumors are
that these
to
down
foiling
I;y
C.
Feencti
Swift
Washington City D. C. When the new loan of s$r,6oo,ooo was authorized in 1843, an act provided tliat the lands of the canal could not he sold until three months after the completion of the canal; all sales to be by public nuclion; sales to be held at least once each j'ear for four years; values to be appraised by three disinterested parties {L.r.vs oj Illinois, 18.12-43, 58). On February 25, iS;;, it was i)ruvidcd that the lands might be sold even before the completion •
of
thccannl.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
i8o
Executive Djvpartment
•
SpRJNGFIJ'LD July 29, 184S Messrs.
Yours
of the 20th inst is received.^
Before Ibis readies you, you
be put in possession of $35,000 more of Interest funds.
The Coupons up and hold them Mr. Webster will probably call upon you and subject to my oider, receive all such Bonds, Scrip, Vouchers and Coupons with sucli other papers as you may think proper to forward by him on his ]-eturn from I want all the securities you may have in possession Boston, as before. forwarded ]:iy him at that time. will
of 1841, July
You
—you
are already authorized to take
will continue to
fund until directed
to stop
that your suggestion in relation to the Foreign out,
and
the
power
in
no Other way that to
You
out your suggestion.
Insolvent Debtors
some
is
in
me
ca^rried
be done, for I have neither
will not
Oath
lately
and
pay any
how
thvrig
Jiave possession of these
it all
to carry
on Coupons prior
to
Tilson could have taken the
no way cleared up and they
satisfactory reason
control to defray expenses
will find the authority
It is still very sino;ular hov/
Jiily 1841.^
it
means within my Enclosed you
one were appointed.
mystery
can
of,
It strikes
appoint an agent to go to Europe for the purpose of
receiving Bonds, nor the if
know
I
by me.
Bonds can be
will
happens
so,
Bonds.
The
not be paid until I have
but
this is
between
us.
Respectfully Yours
Aug ]\fessrs. \\'adsv/orth
The
&
is a copy Mr. Wadsworth.
following
letter to
C.
French
Sheldon.
of the order referred to in the foregoing
Executi\'e Depart]\ient
State of Illinois Springfield
To
Julius
Wadsworth Esq^
You
Sir:
Stock to
all
prescriljed
New Internal Improvement Improvement IndelUcdness as United States upon the follow-
arc hereby autliorised to issue
holders of original Internal
by Law, residing out
of the
'
For
'
Until 1S46, no interesi had been paid on the slate debt since July
letter see post, 2S8. j,
1S41.
FRENXirS LETTEIMJOOK, OCTOBER That
ing conditions.
the
[)ar(iL"S.
25,
holders of such
i8r
i8_i8
indebtedness, l)y
themselves or Agents shall present and deliver up the same to you at
your Office
iji
the City of
sought to be issued, or
New
York, upon which such new Stock
in lieu of the
is
surrender of such original stock,
present you with proof of the kxss of the same in
its
passage fro!n (he
holder to you, and. provided furtlicr that there shall be furnished you
a complete Registry of such Bonds or Indebtedness duly certiiied a Consul of the United States,
together with
enclosed and forwarded the original in a
Bonds
package forwarded and directed
New York
the City of
United States
or Indebtedness well secured
here,
Improvement Debt of the State of be retained by you to be transmitted for upon my order. Witness
(Seal)
my
this 29th
hand and the
day
of
America, Agent for Funding
the Internal shall
Wadsworth Esrf
to ''Julius
of
liy
that he
his certificate
Illinois,["]
which proof
in the proper
file
office
seal of State,
of July 1848.
Aug
Executive Departa!;ent,
C.
French
III.
Springeield 25th Octo 1848 Messrs.
Having past,
may
absent from the seat of Goverjiment for some weeks
l)ee]i
account to you for the delay of
answer
this
to
yours of the
2] st
ult.
In
my
answer
up your various
I will take
subjects of enquiry, in
the order in which they appear in your Letter.
one and a half mill
Tax
Canal as well as others, interest accriicd
The
upon such Bonds they have
provisional
has no reference in
its
Two
^nLII
to the other
Tax
l)ccn
an equal footing
is to
governed by
provided by our
Tax, Imt
is
New
of the
this rule.
Constiiution
wholly independent of
application excludes the Canal Bonds.
understand to be,
The proceeds
by Law, applied alike upon all State Bonds and whatever payments may have been made of are
The
object of
it,
and
this,
I
place the residue of the State Indebtedness up'on
in point of security with the
Canal Debt, there having
already been marie laige provision to meet this latter class.' '
Interest:
on
tlic
lUincis, 1842-13. S/)-
canal debt was taken care of l)y a h-r-jslative art in 1843 (Laias of That part of the constitution of 18 jS, to which Governor French
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
i82
The pro
rata
Dividend
upon Canal Bond?;
of ijilercst payalolc
be applied upon Coupons as they severally become due. give the first sections of the
and the
Shaws Bonds
I
Law
you seem
difficulty
to
you
of July 28, 1847, too restrictive meaninti;,
way
to discover in the
do not conceive
is
I think
to exist.
I
of
exchanging
ls\\-.
can discover no more serious
course of embarrassment in presei'ving the Books in conformity with the
Law
by allowing
his
Bonds
to
be funded than in the case of any
Indebtedness without Coupons. this State generally
The
became
interest
Law
caused a
to tlic interest
Tax
State
and
Bank,
the
accrued.
it
its
So soon as
debt.
of very limited
amount
By
due and accruing.
its
to
means
be levied
virtue of the
same
made, the money when raised was ordered equal Dividends to the interest upon all Bonds outbe applied by requiring the levy to he
From
stamding, in equal proportions.
generally understood that
tlie
superseded
it
date of this
all
not expressly, at least clearly to be implied
this matter, at the request of
at its last session,
v>'ith
Mr
Shaw,
all
has been
its
if
otiiers.
the facts connected with
to the Legislature of this State
a recommendation that
no action was had changing It is somewhat douljtful, I
it
— So then the matter stands
submitted a memorial embracing in detail
however,
Law
others then in existence,
Mr. Shaws Bonds upon the same footing with
at present leaving
I
tlie
promptly as
In
followed by a failure to pay the interest as
whatever on any of
justify, the State
and applied to
Bank was
interest
in
''Wiggins Loan,"^
of the
upon, which v^as also soon follovvcd by the inability of the State
pay any
would
pay the
liable to
failure of the
3.greed
to
gone under the name
early arrangement entered into between
some
the latter
otiier
amount due Mr. Shaw has
I'he
it
be enquired
into,
]mt
relation to other Bonds.
I think,
if
In the meantime Bonds Mr. Shaw \vill
thei'e will be.
assure you that by an exchange of his
—
"Ajjt. XV. Two-Mill Tax. There shall be annually assessed and same manner as other state revenues may be assessed and collected, ;l tux of two inills on each dollar's worth of taxable property, in addition to all other taxes, to be applied as followinayment.
thereupon went to the House of Representatives and with like
unanimity passed up of time to reach
it
to its third
and
but failed for \vant
last reading,
on the regular Calender
owing
of Bills,
to a constitu-
tional restriction in regard to the length of time the Legislature
remain in
I exceedingly regret this failure as I felt so su.re of
had held out from however once move to appeal the hopes I
postponement
the present season
business of
by Executive
am
You
will
New York
City,
Speed
my
your possession, as
it is
almost
convened some time during
order,
to
my
complete the unfinished
assured ample provision vdll be
former request, and
dated
London Dec,
individual States and amoiig the
amount
feel
somewhat
your attention to a
in calling
''New York Journal
of
number
of her debt
is
letter
Commerce," printed
30th, 1848,
which you
Esq^' of Baltimore, in
I observe tliat the entii'c
in
will 1je
expectation so freely expressed to you in
pardon ma
of yours published in the
to J. J.
me
placed under ol^ligation to you for the projnptness
humiliated at the failure of
in
and
your courtesy in requesting a further
Assembly
with whicli you com]:>lied with
Letter.
success, will allow
to
it.
your claim.
to adjust
I feel that I
my
You
you regarding
last session, \vhen I feel
tlie
its
to
Bonds
of the sale of the
certain that the General
made
can
session.
and
addressed
refer to the deijts of
that of the State of Illinois.
set
down
The
at $21,000,000.
debt of the State of Illinois principal and interest docs not reach
means witliin the control of the more than $4,000,000, besides the .Michigan Canal, now compleated [sic], which
$17,000,000, and tins exclusive of the State
and
income is
convertil^le,
of the Illinois
very considerable.
the
amount
sul)ject,
amounting
& I
to
presume the
error originated hi supposing that
of the State deljt usually
em1)raced the principal only,
found in the reports upon
when
in truth they
this
embrace both
principal and interest, and one third of the cnlii e debt existing at present, or nearly so,
is
nuule up of arreared inieiest.
in a feeling of kindness will allow
and
me
in
which
I feel sure
conclusion to express
you
my
I
make
these corrections
will appreciate.
gnatification at the
just sentiments of the letter here referred to,
iji
regard to
And you generous tlie
delin-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
202
quent States of
numbering not upon the eventual
disciiargc
debt wilh the same certainty as of any
common
this
In
Union.
this
State
1,000,000 of inlial)itan(s, the citizens count of our entile State
from
far
occurrence.
Receive assurance of
my
high respect
Aug
C.
French
Springfield April 12th 1849 ]\Icssrs.
Perhaps I owe you an apology for this late answer to your letter of December last. It would h.ave received an immediate answer, but from some cause it became mingled up with other papers and became lost until very recently, when it was casually recovered. I have caused sucli examination to he made 1.)y my Secretary as, from
what he informs me,
&
$3,89,
to
render
$7,00, were paid
quite certain that the
payments
of $3,23,
the coupons to which you refer in your
Bond which must have been (No 303 should be 302) as belong-
9th Decem]3er, except one
letter of the
numbered
erroneously
it
upon
your
in
letter
ing to the party as tliercin stated,
In answer to give
of the
to
your enquiries in relation
you that information
Bank having
ment &^, under them
to fully
the
at present,
to the State
which you
lately l)cen placed in the
Law.
hands
Bank,
be attended
assets
of Trustees for settle-
of the
Bank.
So soon as
can be ascertained I will cause you to be informed, or
will
The
Sufiicient tune lias not yet elapsed to enal:)le
understand the true position
in proper time to
am unable
I
desire.
do so,l3ycalHng
if
I should
this
omit
my attention to the subject, your request
to.
I
am
very respectfully Yours A. C. Fricncii
J.
G. King
&
Son
N. Y.
ExEcu TivE Department Springfield April
Dr. Sir;
1
have just j'eccived your Lclier of April
an extract from a to
Icllcr of directions
Messrs. Ilowland '
J'osI, 7,02.
«I\:
from Matheson
Aspinwall of N. Y.,
tK:
16,
4t]i'
Co. of
in relation to
3849
enclosing
London
Bonds
for-
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, APRIL
203
1849
19,
warded by the former for Fundinj,!;. Since di}^ last letter to you jcfcrring to these Bonds I have examined tlie papers upon record here, which refer to the transactions of the State with Wright & Co. and find myself fully justified in
You
the view of the matter I then gave you.
are
incorrect in supposing that the printed information to wiiich I called
your attention,
is
&
with Wright
embraced
were disposed
pledged in a manner
of or
with
left
in dispute,
him
which were
of
for sale.
to render the State
liable,
home by Oakley
except 722 Canal Bonds, which I learn were ijrought
and Ryan, and these nov/
contract
and the l^onds
pi'evious to that time,
which these in dispute form a part, were those All
The
in Reports earlier than 1840.
made
Co. was
left
with the agents
by Genl. Whiteside, the Fund Commissioner. These Bonds were given up by Wright & Co. or theij assignees, to the Commissioner and Vv^ere never sold or disposed of by any one. You will see of
the State
mention made of
furnished
is
me
Record from which
Tlie
Representatives.
and which
on page 238, last half oi Reports of 1842-3, volume devoted to the Reports of the House of
this fact
or that portion of the
on the
file
this
Report
numbers
of,
as being the £166,950''
is
made
up,
Bonds you have
here enumerates the identical
which the Report
says v/ere deposited with Messrs. i\Iorrison, Jaudon, and Smith, agents
Governor and Fund Com. There surely can be no claim upon these Bonds by any one, as clearly shown by the records, which makes tlieir presentation for funding under
of the
the circumstances, to
me
a matter of utter astonish meilf. I
am
very Respectfully Yours A. C. French
J.
Wadsworth Esqr N. Y.
Springfield April
19, 184.9
Messrs. I have enclosed
Interest
Funds
and forwarded
for July
— also
to
you three
a check for $500
drafts,
—
to
one for $15,000, be carried to the
same account, except $38,00 of it whicli you will carry into tlie School Inmd account, with a draft I send you on same account for $3264,40.= '
Thiy amount as stated in
•
In receipting for these inclosures the amount
tlic
printed Reports
is is
incorrect;
it
should be £214,950.
given as $3,264.46 (see
post, 304).
ILI>lNOIS lIISTOJxICAL
204
word
In a
To To
will stand as follows
it
be carried
account for July instalment of Interest $15,462 School Fund Account, and receipted accordingly
to
ho carried
COLLECTIONS
to
$3302,40 I
suppose the check on the Utica
Bank
to
be same as cash in
tlie
Cily. I
have not hccTcd from Treasury Warrant for $2,000, sent you on
account of School Fund. I observe Illinois
Bonds
are
down
just
now.
may be
It
time to invest.
a good
.
With Respect Yours A. C.
&
Messrs. \Vads\\'or(ii
Fkench
Slieldon
N. Y.
Executive DEPARTiiENT Springfield July J.
Wadsworth Dr. Sir:
New York
I
have received
C. i\IacalJster of Philadelphia suggesting that a
I
from
&
matter. of
tliis
I
fro5n
Ije
Stebbins claims
have ansv/ered him by saying that the matter of
settlement would be turned over to you under such directions as
become proper
Air.
movement may now
preliminary to a settlement of the Macalister
again:^! the State.
letter
a.
visit
when
season, own'ng mainly to circumstaaices not forseeii
I informed such wa^s ray intention.
made
1849
hns become apparent that I shall not be able to
It
tliis
5,
Esq^^
me.
am unvrilling
I to
have therefor[ej
to request
commence again with
claim without assurance that
it
you
may
to act in the
a ^aew to the settlement
can be completed and a final
settle-
would be incurring expense upon contingency I am allowed by law to pay all expense except procuring unnecessarily. Bonds, that is Blanks, for v/hich no provision is made in the Bill, as
ment made, because
you
will
party.
obseiTC It
will
l^y
it
reading
amount
This
it.
to
an
will
have
to
item however,
be paid merely.
furnished before, }-ou will ol)serve are of no account.
l)y
the opposite
The Blanks Mi*. Carj^enter
the Treasurer, being dead, and I have heretofore requested 3a)u lo send
them here with the other Blanks you design forwarding, that they may I Nvil! shortly send you (he form of a Bond to l^c used in I)e destroyed.
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, JULY the settlement, ^vhich 3'ou can
show
to
1840
7,
205
Mr. Macalistcr, and arrangcnicnts
be made to have them struck and sent
to
me
for proper signatures, with
you informed me you intended to send becomes necessary to have the latter sooner
the Blank Certificates wliich
me, for signature, unless
it
The form of a Bond and send you within the coming two days Such directions in regard to the advertisements as may seem necessary will also be sent you soon. The l^asis of settlement and manner of conducting it will than the others, could be prepared ready to send.
—
I will try
be forwarded
at
an early day. I
am
very Respectfully Yours
Aug
French
C.
Executive Department Springfield July
Dr
Sir:
I herewith
send you the form of a Bond
to
7th,
1849
be used in the
& Stebbins. This you can submit to them and should your acquaintance with such matters and its comparison with the Law suggest to you any formal alteration, you can liave it
settlement with Macalister
made
before the
Bonds
embellishments as you I
have caused
session.
to
prefer should
be forv/arded
For the advertisement,
and ma.y be best
to
accompany
will o]3Scrve that I wisli to 1)C
The
printing the
You can
are printed.
may
it
to
you a copy
will
])c
the Bonds.
Laws
of the
me
be best for
to fix
the publication of the law,
of the last it
up
itself.
here,
You
assured that the law will be carried out.
Bonds must be paid by them.
advertisement forwarded so soon as you give
matter will
designate such marginal
accompany
me
I will
have the
understand that the
to
cariied out Ijy Messrs. Macalister
&
Stebljins.
As
I
have heretofore wrote you, you can send these Bonds by express, with others you spoke of forwarding,
together wuth
printed to be used in said settlement. these Bonds.
I
the
Bonds formerly
Printed Blanks
wish these Bonds to rest
upon
the
will
answer for
same fooling
regard to transfer as the others.
Aug J.
Wadswoj-th Esqi' Nev/ York.
C.
French
in
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
2o6
(form of bond referred
No.
on the previous page.)
'j'o
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF ILLINOIS
—
$i,ooo
—Liquida.tion Bonds—Interest yearly men by these presents, —^That due from the State
Six per cent,
Know
all
lialf
tliere is
or his assigns
of Illinois to
One
thou sand dollars with
percentum per annum, payable half yearly, January and July at the Illinois State Agency
interest at the rate of six
on the
first
office in the
The
Mondays
of
City of Nev7 York.
prinicpal of whicli
is
reimburso.ble at the above place at the
pleasure of the State after the year 1865.
For the performance of the
obligation herein created the faith of the State of Illinois,
payment
pledged, and the punctual
out of the
common
Interest
Fund
is
irrevoca.bly
of interest provided for
of the State
pro rata
and the balance out
of the
State Treasury, agreeably to an act entitled ''An act supplemental to
an act
to authorise a settlement
to diminish the State
supplemental thereto, .
This Bond
and
is
tlic
and further and an act
1st 1847,
New
York,
only by appearance in person or by Attorney accord-
and forms
rules
& Stebbins,
recorded in the Transfer Office in the City of
is transferai:)le
ing to
with ^lEicalister
Debt" Approved March Approved Feby loth 1849.
instituted for that purpose.
In testimony whereof
Governor Treasurer of Slaie
Springfield July
Dear
Sir:
I
with copies of papers received from Matheson
Bonds
hands
the
in
matter comes before
more time is
of
Howland
me in such
tlian I feel
Formans *
This
iclU'i- is
1849
I
&
Co. relating to the
New
Aspinwall of
it
York.
The
would exhaust
disposed to spare before writing you, besides it
to learn the amoiinl
claim.
&
a complicated form, that
unimportant now inasmuch as
can be done,
18,
have just received your Letter of July loth^ enclosed
am JuUy
becomes and
Jiecessary before
(rue cliaractcr of
satisfied that the
not found in Lcllcr-Books; probably
Agents
tlic letter
it
any thing
Thompson &
of the State
have
of July 11; sec post, 308.
rV-,?.
FRENCH'S LETTKR-BOOK, JUNE
207
1849
30,
never regarded their claim as luavlng the sh'ghlcst founcjalioi).
why were
&
Go's estate as others in any
However
allowed to do.
&
I
way connected
inform them
&
with the transaction, w^ere
approve your course in writing
Co. to procure the claim, with
man
so
If
they not allowed to participate in the Dividends of Wriglit
evidences on which
tlie
Thompson, and adopt some means to Bonds are allowed to remain
due, provided the
this
fill
and
rests,
it
amount due Foreadjust what is righ.tfuUy
the State will recognise any proper
tliat
&^ Aspimuall
Matlieson
to
can be done
Let
in the
me know
hands
of
Hoidaiid
the suljstance of their
answer when received. TiTily
.
Yours A. C.
Julius
Wadsworth
New
French
Escp"
York.
Executive
D EPARXArENX City of Jefferson AIo. June
30, 18.-19
To His Excellency Go\'R.
French
Dear you
Sir:
setting
have had presented
I
forth
that Benj.
to
me
today, a requisition
Sylm an, Wesley Oaks
stand charged in the County of Alexander State of
crime of Kidnapping,
&
&
from
Larimer, with
Illinois,
requiriiig that said individuals shall
tljc
be arrested
to John G. Sparks who is authorized to receive them. From the indictment which accompanies your rcquisi(ion, I learn that the name of the individual kidnapped is "Wade," and I am left to infer
and delivered up
I also find it charged that said Wade was that he was a colored man. removed to the State of i\tissouri. I learn from your messenger tliat the supposed refugees are in Cape Girardeau County Mo. I cannot
—
at this time
against
cause a warrant to issue for their apprehension.
them may have gro^vn out
of this State, to said
man Wade
as
of a right, asserted a.
slave.
I
am
the circumstances, and your messenger appears lo facts.
—
I stand ready at all
l:)y
The charge some
know
times with great pleasure lo
notliing of the
comply with
Constitution and laws of the \L Stales, in reference to refuges justice. 1
But
in
tliis
case 1 must \vilhhold
can learn whether or not the rights
of
my
some
citizen
entirely ignorant of
warrant for
[sic]
the
from
arrest, until
citizen of this State
may
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
2o8
not
involved in tbc
1)C
I will
be pleased
If it is in the
]-nntfer.
you can have the facts
power
of
your ICxcellency,
of this case furnislied to
me. In the meantime I shall take steps to know, through a friend in Cape Girardeau, if any circumstance transpired there about tlie montli of if
April 1848 calculated to throw any light on the matter.
This hiformation
shall
Kidnappers, they shall
be sought in a way, that
know nothing
of
the
if
tliese
men
are real
and shall
transaction
ultimately be delivered up. I take this occasion to express,
on behalf
of the people of iMissouri,
utmost confidence in those now administering the government Illinois. Yet on this exciting subject I cannot consent to act until
their of
I shall
know
all
the circumstances connected with the case. I
have
tlic
Honor
to
be
very respectfully
Your Obt.
Scrvt.
Austin A. King Gov. A. C. French lUinois.
Executive Department, Illinois Springfield, July
20,
1849
To His Excellency Governor King
Dear
Sir:
I
have the Honor to acJcnowlcdge the receipt of your
Excel lencys Letter of the 30th earlier
day
I learn
l>ut for
and should have replied to it at an my immediate attention.
ult.
other matters claiming
from your communication that upon
my
requisition
you have
resolved to withhold your warrant for the arrest of Sylman,
Larimer and
them
their delivery to the
to this State to ansvvcr a
messenger sent
to receive
no exception
warded with the requisition cases.
upon
I
am
is
Oaks
&
convey
charge of Kidnapping preferred in an
Indictment by the Grand Jury of Alexander County in also infer that
&
taken
this State, I
to the suOlciency of the
papers for-
or their autlicntication, as required in such
not so sure however that I fully understand the reasons
whicii your Excellcncys refusal to grant your warrant in this
instance,
is
l)a5cd, or the true
ground upon which you claim the right
FRENCH'S LETTEPv-BOOK, JULY to institute
an
if
the papers
accompanying the requisition aie
such form as to luring them within
United
case which'lcd to the finding
CDqiiir)' into the facts of the
of the Indictment,
Notwithstanding
States.
209
1849
27,
Laws and
tlie
this
in
Constitution of the
doubt and propriety under these
ciixum stances of waiting until I shall hear further from your Excellency, I
cannot omit expressing the belief that your Excellency could not Inive
me
desired
to
understand from your Letter, that in
this instance
you
claim the right to enter upon an exami)iation of the charge against these
men
in the State of Missouri,
depend upon the
guilt or
and that the issuing
upon such examination, without reference of the
General Government,
restraint
upon
of
your warrant
will
innocence of these Fugitives as made to appear
if
to the Constitution
from punishing crimes committed
the Slate of Illinois
by her
own
means
of evading successfully the criminal
citizens within her
and Laws
sustained, might result in the effectual
own
territory,
and
Laws
afford criminals the
'Fhe
of this State.
claim to such aright would inevitably become the subject of a controversy wJiich
would be coveted by the executive
Placed side
1jy side
of neither State.
as are the States of Illinois
and Missouri, with
incalculable inducements to a continued good understanding betv/een the citizens of each State
without
its
and none
for disagreement,
use to look forward to the results of
closely related to a subject in
which the
latter feels so
and which the former can have neither
way
it
may
not be
a controversy so
deep an
interest,
interest or disposition in
any
to disturb.
Confiding in the he]ici that you premises, I remain
will
do w]iat
is
just
&
right in the
Your Excellencys Obt. Servt. A. C. F^RENCH
Springfield July
27,
1849
Sir: Enclosed I send you aconnnunication which originally appeared in the
Chicago Journal.
of those Vv'hosc
make no
names
I
presume you arc acquainted with many trie bottom of it, and shall consequently them. This is but a sample of the letters
aj)pear at
further reference to
which are constantly being addressed of tlie nian,
supposed
to
to
me
in proof of the utter unfitness
have been so adroitly substituted for a
Cfiief
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
2IO
Engineer, and thus removed Ijcyond the power of discharge the duties of his I
can hardly expect
the Trustees
any
l^y
tlie
Executive, to
office.
produce any impression u]X)n the minds of
to
eiToil I
might
feel
disposed to make, to correct
abuses of this character, since the course taken by them in reference to
Mr. Gooding.
It
bccumes
to these complaints, that
removed.
my
duty however
your attention
to invite
them they may be
there exists any cause for
if
something shall be done, and competent
Uiiless
men
l)e
placed in charge of the w'ork, I shall be compelled to adopt some course
by which the matter may be
of proceedings
This
into.
wall
and
fairly
be due not to the people of the State
the Bondholders.
I
justly inquired
of Illinois only 1)ut
have not addressed Mr. Leavitt upon
as I have no copy of the enclosed communication I
am
befoj'e
vei'y respectfully
this subject
me.
Yours
Aug
C.
Trench
Capt. \Y. H. Swift
Washington City D. C.
Executive Department, Illinois Springfield July, 30 1849
Dear
In my last letter I explained to you tlie reasons wdiy it my power to pay your claim against the State. In answ^er called my attention to a variety of matters entirely new to
Sir:
w^as not within to
at
you
tliis
me.
had never received any intimation from any one that you were
I
any time in the employ
Oakley,
wdiile
you had or were of aiding
it
in
view
correct.
me
power
some
of his wishes, wliich
had
But
upon
tlie
he remarked that
he probably repeated, and for
attention called to
your
tlie
Col.
for the reason
pay you some thing
my
until I received
of passing
at,
a1)out writing to or visiting Col. Abert, with a vi(^w
prol3al)ly
afterwards, or
manner
to
him
would
that he
In a conversation with Col.
of the State.
repeating the expenses he liad been
first letter,
justice of
I
had nothing
to
it.
I heard
no more
by any one or
do not mention
your claim.
would not have been
tliat I
it
any
this with
any
In this you
likely to
do with
of
in
may
l)e all
mention the subject it,
could exercise no
cither in the allowance or the rejection of the claim.
All claims
FRENCTPS LETTER-BOOK, AUGUST arising dkectly or incidentally
Fund, which
of that
is
on account
of
25,
Canal
211
18.19
paid out
affairs are
absolutely under the control of the Trustees.
All
agencies and lawyers fees of this character have been paid in this manner, to the
amount
of thousands, as appears
hy
the Legislature
am
claims I
would do
would provide the means
I have
no power
pay
to
it,
as
and
the Auditor of State.
I referred
whose duty it board, and wlio,
Flon. J. B. Wells, ^
is
them before tlie what is right. Upon enquiry
I
your claim, among his papers
you
of this class of
you certainly ought
his return I
can
find
to the
have no doubt
I find that Col.
hands
in the
no reference I
to
am
it,
me
of
to
know,
allowance
its
Canal State Trustee, the accounts and
to receive these
a careful examination of his letters to
never
they never had and never
without a specific appropriation for the purpose and
by
am
I
the Col. could suppose
meet any
to
He knew
at a loss to discover.
it.
their report,
How
consulted about them in any particular.
will
Oakley
la.y
endeavor to do
left
no minute
of
his Administrator, and from
while in
New York
and
after
either direct or incidental.
very Respectfully Yours
Aug. C. French
John Hogan Esqr Utica N. Y.
Springfield Aug. AIy I
Dear
Sir: I have just recei\'ed your letter of
have consulted the Auditor, Afr. Cainpl)ell, who
School Commissioners, in jcgard
cluded to say
to
to
the
25,
1849
iSth
inst.
also one of
is
tlie
your pi-oposition, and we ha\'e con-
you that althougli we
liave
no authority
of
law
to accept
your proposition, or in fact any proposition of the kind, yet we will in case you shall prove successful in realising an
cent fund due the State, and will unite in
for
in.
ari-ear, in tlie
urging the Legislature
to
make you
amount of tlie three permaimer you suggest, we a most
liberval
allowance
your trouble, de})cndcnt however, upon your success, whicli
no doul}t
You
tlic I^^egislature \vill
requested our
forwarded '
will
I
have
cheerfully sanction.
ansxN'ei-
by Telegraph; the reason why it was not this. If you will undertake upon
become apparent from
Stale trustee of Illinois and ^liduKau Canal.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
212
by Tclcgrapli, and
these terms, answer ^'Yes'^
Mr.
you
Butterfield^ as
I will
writeforthwith to
re(|uested.
Truly Yours
Aug. C. Frf^nch Hon. R.
AI.
Young
Sept ioth/49 by 'Telegraph, was answered ''Yes."-
R.
M. Young
Executive Department City of Jefperson Mo. -
July 27, 1849
To His Excellency Governor French
Dear
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 20th Inst, in It is to
existed
my
Excellency, in
to
mine
the
to
demand
Laramer, three citizens
Wade
kidnapping one
and Missouri should, in any manner, comply with the requisition of your
of Illinois
failing
making
of the 30th ult.
that good understanding, which has hitherto
if
between the States
be disturbed, by
and
answer
be regretted
for Y/esley
Lyman
Oaks, Benjamin
of the State of Missouri, charged with
in the State of Illinois.
I
am
in the possession
show that the man time and now is the
of facts, incontrovertible in tlieir cliaracter, going to
Wade, charged
to
have been kidnapped, was at the
property of one Bettis, and cise of
no
lliat
state has the
power
to
make
unciualified constitutional right.
not consent, by any
will
shall '
men
those
only aided him, in the exer-
a clear constitutional right to seize and re-possess his slave, and it
do
a felony to
A
rvslit for
official act of
tlie
It is
so.
a positive,
exercise of which, I
mine, that a citizen of Missouri
be takeii in chains, as a criminal, to lUmois to be
tried.
Justin BuUorfu'ld: born in 1790, at Kccne, Nov/ Ilampsliire; 1807, entered Williams 1812, licensed to ruacticc law at Watcrtown, New York; 1814, married Miss
College;
Eli7..abeth Pierce of Schoharie, ivS3S, settled in Cliicago;
New
York; practiced law
New York
in
1841, appointed district attorney for
J
llinois
and Nev/ Oi leans; by President Plarrison;
184Q, npi'ointed cojnnii;v>io!\er of Lht; General Land Oiiicc l)y President Taylor; believer in tlie Jllint.is and i\Iicliif;an Canal; trustee of Rush Medical .College;
October,
Cook
i8,s5
(Ijateniau
and Sclby,
Jli.^Uuical
Eiuydopcdia
of Illiiiois, 1905;
a great
died in History of
Coiiniy, A. T. Atldj-eas, Chicngo, 188.4).
Many errors liad been made in paying the 3 per cent school fund to the state by the United States Land Ofike. Mr. Young found upon investigation that there was yet due For his services he received i? 1,000 the state $(3,978,12 {Iloitse Reports, 1851, 488-89). '
{Lavjs of Illinois, 1851, 163),
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, AUGUST not
It is
on which but
my
argument
j^urposc to enter into an
The
I place tliis right.
28,
State of Missouri
to
is
show the ground
asking for nothing,
up
called on, through her Executive, to surrender
is
citizens,
which, under the circumstances, I I
feel
have
it
tlie
my
213
18.19
three of her
duty to refuse.
lionor to be
very respectfully
Austin A. King His Excellency. Govi' French.
Executive Department, Illinois Springfield, Aug.
28,
1849
To His Excellency The Governor of Missouri have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency
I
Letter of the 27th arrest justice
The
in
iilt.
and surrender from
which led
upon
this State,
true,
to the
m}'*
requisition heretofore
summary manner without upon which your
conclusions
handed you.
intimating
one form,
most expedient.
])ut it is
your Letter, that you do not in support of
feel called
from the closing
upon
to furnish
your refusal, because Missouri in
nothing, but only requested through
lier
reasons
This
of putting
not quite so clear that
I h?.ni however,
tlie
refusal rests.
he the readiest way and the inost convenient
to controversy in
the
Oaks,
Letter of your F'xcellency disposes of the question arising out of
this refusal in a ver)''
it is
mc of your refusal to order the Lyman and Laramer, fugitives from
which you inform
of
il is
may
an end always
parr.gi-apli of
any argument
this instance is
asking
Executive, to cause three of
her citizens to be arrested and delivered up for Trial in the State of I miglit imitate
Illinois.
your Excellency's example by repeating that
kidnapping had been carried that the Executive would do
answer
to
to the
towards
all in
his
power
your Flxcellency's Letter would
or inclination, as
be due
to a disgraceful extent in this state,
it
would be wanting
Governor
of JMissouri.
settling a question wlrich
to aricst
1k^
it;
and
but a captious
as unsuited to
my
taste
in tliat respect whlcli I feel to
Besides
c'y' until a settlement
them.
it
&
may be
what has been done
Bonds
any other
the restrictive Legislation in regard to
fact, aiKl
It
b}^ referring briefly to
The Law from which
supplement
to
by the
Slate could
another law based u]3on the same
effected with
Ije
the extract in your letter
is takeji,
The
fact.
is
a
indisposition
manifested by some of the holders of these Ijonds to present them with a view of carrying out the purpose of the law upon terms which appeared just,
gave
rise to this
to confine the
The
supplement.
object of this
was undoubtedly
surrender of these bonds, as a right, to Macalister
&
Stebbins and the arrangement so far as the Stale isconcerened must be
made through them
or their agents. I
am
very Respectfully,
Yours A. C. IMessrs.
Tucker N. Y.
&'
Crops
French
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, DECEMBER Crawford Dr. Sir: Yours
of the 28,
my
arranging
at present
adjournment
after the
iilt.^
The
Co. Dec.
by me
and
shall
217
18. 1S-19
where
here,
I
am
immediately
I left Springfield
of the Legislature,
here a few weeks longer.
probably remain
subject of a chajige in the Constitution
Tax, was by
relating to the 2 Mill
received
is
private affairs.
1849
.18,
me
laid before the
Assembly as talked
over between us, and sanctioned by both branches of the General
Assembly.
So
Assembly.
I
I
gave
and he
inclined to believe
Mr. Moore
dircctiojis to
forward you a
will
come up
subject will
this
am
to
it
before
the
General
next
will ultimately carry.
forward a list of canceled
Bonds
[sic]
of the canceled [sic] Certificates as 3^ou
list
Hereafter he will observe your suggestion in rega.rd to embra-
desire.
cing the latest Assignees' names, of the Bonds. of School
Fund
is
turned the small excellent
Fund
purpose for
known
to ma^ke
No
The Bond on account
word I think you have you on School Fund account, to most the benefit of the Fund, wliich I shall not fail
also received I
2274, and in a
sent
a proper time, to the People of the State.
at
I shall
probably have the amount due from the General Government for 1849, ready to send forv/ard soon or in a few months. At the same time
—
with the above I received 4 Bonds trajisierred to me, which you inform
me was done
by Robbins
&
Sons
that ever reached
me upon
for a
What
nameless person in Missouri.
Mr.
Piatt
I receive
on account
from your
the subject of these Bonds.
of
some
letter is all
I shall
probably
learn something soon fi'om the party interested, and shall hold tlicm for
such purpose.
know nothing
I
of the
Bonds given up by Mr. Macalister
enquiry of Nevins
&
Townsend
Oakley, on what account I \An-ote
Sc^,
Please
of
you that you could inform George Peabody Esq.
that provision
to Col.
make how they obtained them from Col. and let me know.
Oakley,^ but will liereafter enquire into the matter.
had been made
for
of Lonclon,
paying his claim against the State,
Bonds in his possession, placed there by the Cannot Mr. Peabody send the Bonds to Nev/ York and draw upon you there subject to difference of Exchange. I want arrangements for paying his claim and taking up the l^onds, I believe
upon
the surrender of the
State Agents.
16 or
1
7
in
'
Post, 312.
•
Sec
numljcr.
pos(, 313.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLL]£CTIONS
2i8
There of this
v/ill
shortly
forwarded
])e
when matured, you
will
to
you a draft
for $x 5,000,
pay Peabody's claim,
if
the
sum
— out is
not
sooner forwarded to you, and the amount will be shortly replaced,
The warrants
now and I making an unnecessary Carry to J any. 1850 Dividend enough to make the amount sacrifice. agreed upon, v/hcn I saw you, for tirat puipose, I see no necessity of making any change on account of Macalister and Stebbins Bonds until after July, or until after July 1850 The balance after paying Peabody and filling the Janua^ry Dividend, you will please inform me of amount, and I will give direction according to our understanding when you were here. Truly Yours upon
the sale of AA'arrants here.
Fund above
prefer using the
are on the lise
for a short time, to
Aug J.
Wadsworth
N^
C.
French
P^^q^'
65 Ex. Place
N. Y.
ExECUTiv'E Department, Illinois
Springfield Jany.
1850
31,
Dr. Sir: Yours of the 5t1i nil. reached me while absent from Springfield and when my health was such that I found it difficult to give it the This jnay account for the delay of this early consideration desired.
Upon
the passage of the late law providing for a settlement
by was placed in such a train for adjustment that the controversy would be As the Executive of closed without further delay and at an early day. the State I have felt and still feel, a strong and sincere disposition to do answer.
the State with Aiacalister
all
&
that I can consistently vvith
which
shall
be
Stebbins, I supposed that the affair
my duty
that you should suppose that I
you have seen
,
strictly just to all parties
fit
to
make,
after
to effect
had not all
a settlement under the law
concerned.
It is only
reasonable
l)ccn expecting the issue
the preliminaries
on
which
my part had been
and the whole matter upon the eve of adjustment. And this the more especially, as this matter had been previously talked over between us waived upon your part, and no steps taken to bring it for\ifard again, when it could have been made clear in the Law, until the taJcen,
very
moment
of
a final adjustment.
Resting
my
opinion of the
mode
of
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, JANUARY making the
settlcMTicnt
understood
to
upon and
its
it is
upon
plain reading of
tlie
be the design
members
of the
of
31,
tlie
trie
1850
219
Law,, and what I
General Assembly,
passage, I so expressed myself in iny conversation with you,
which
this
have directed
I
much doubt whether
ment, I very
my
agents to observe in
you
if
tlie settle-
put the question, to the
]iad
Lawyers ^vhose opinions you liavc sent me, wliether manner of reclconing payments has not been peculiar to particular States, and whether the practice does not vary in different States and that such difference is recognised in all our courts both State and National, tliey would not have answered as decidedly in the affirmative, as
truly distinguished tlie
they profess themselves satisfied in their opinion of the
Laws
of Pennsyl-
New York, upon which tliey were consulted in connection That there was sojne difficulty in making with a Law of this State. Law conform, the commercial usage of those States owing to its the to vania and
peculiar phraseology
taking
it
ti'ue
it
seems
Law was
language emplo3'ed in
meaning
Law
have been surmounted
to
for granted that the
I consider the
hi the
indicated from the opinion sent me, and the
is
only process by vvhich
Law
of the
it
it
But
in this State.
aside
to refer to a
The
of cash
& M. &
and payments made upon
course of commercial dealing.
few of them
to
make
tlu's
as one solely l)et\veen it,
sumption that
tlie
continued
iii
still
it
and
and in
Txl.
its
securities
&
It will
which
S.^
accompany
it,
according
only be necessary
appear clear and distinguishable.
State of Illinois has invariably insisted
otlier parties to
S.
upon
It lias
legislation has
treating this whole affair
refused to recognise any
proceeded upon the pre-
hypothecated to them upon their advance
their possession
and under
their control.
This fact
]nust be taken in connection with the whole course of legislatioii
the subject.
Each
it.
from what appears
other aiid different features from those which usually
common
to
we)! knovv'n that there are circumstances connected
itself, it is
an ordinary advance to the
was by
as the proper interpreter of the
with the transaction between the State of liluiois give
at last,
framed with reference
Assemldy has the hypothecated Bonds by
act of the General
object the repossession of
upon
for its })rominent
the State,
and in Law,
turn place in their stead, Ncv/ Bonds, whicli as expressed in the shall cover their entire o[ the
npon '
advance
to tlie
time of settlement or to the time
surrender of the hvpotliecated Bonds, with
the same.
MaculIsLer
&
No
possible doubt can exist that
Slobbins.
7
per cent interest
by the Law, upon the
I
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
220
siuTcndcr of the Bonds, would be due in sucli
new Bonds picciscly tlic amount advcanccd by M. &. S witli llie 7 per cent upon the same during the time and no more. Whatever would contriljute to produce any alteration, in this amount or mode of accounting, as distinctly pointed out in the Law, would to tliat extent, effect a change in the legal terms and requisitions return other
of settlement.
Bonds
The
might
fail to
&
M.
privilege given to
in lieu of those they
S.
to
surrender up was
and not designed to modify to any extent law prescribes as the only basis of settlement. To
for their convenience alone,
that which the
present the reason of the Law^ and the relation of the parlies at the time of its passage
The
but few words are necessary, and
may
be stated as follows.
which need not be here icpeated, was with the original arrangement entered into with M. & S.
State of Illinois for causes
dissatisfied
and was led to regard the transaction as unfair towards the State, and by the passage of a Law sough. t to prevent the hypothecated Bonds from This view
passing into other hands.
may
of the transaction
presumption that the Bonds are in their hands and subject
The
&
account
them, proceeds upon the
for the fact that all legislation referring to
to their con-
comply by issuing Bonds in sufficient amount to embrace the principal advanced by them with 7 per cent per annujn on the same, the interest accruing upon sucl) Bonds to be trol.
State then says to
with the terms of
tlie
J\I.
S. that it will substantially
original contract
punctually according to their legal force, provided the
To
cated are surrendered up.
surrender as
you
all
the l)onds, but
state the
amount
upon each
may have
recollected that the S.
is
answered
Bonds hypothe-
V\^e
are unable to
are willing to accept your offer so far
our claim, against the State, provided you
of
dollar for such of the
the time the State
&
it
us to deduct from the amount so specifically stated 26 cents
will allo\v
I\I.
we
this
Bonds
as w^e
may
fail to
deliver,
ol)tained possession of them, for
Bonds taken up by
the State did not
from
will
it
be
come through
but had been previously parted by them and by the State pur-
chased in the market, the larger proportion of which, as high as Forty cents to the Dollar. the exact
seems
mode
to
amount
me
that
of
The State assents to this M. e Wood, nf:ar Palestine,
III.
March 3d 1850
Dear I
Sir:
am
I
still
here awaiting
my
I'eturn to Springfield,
have been detained much longer than I had intended by
state of tlie roads.
inclosing
J\Ir.
forwarded a
five
thousand dollars in
letter to Springfield
am
I
Mr. Campbell
Co.
I
letter.
Also twelve hundred dollars
salary for 1849, besides the two
account.
&
have
with directions to forward you
pay said claim, any balance remaining
to
your hands.
by you on
heretofore advanced
where
impassal^le
letter of the 12th ult.^
Peabody's claim and IMatheson's
just
be retained
have just received your
I
tiie
hundred and
my
to
to
cover your
thirty or forty dollars
account, instead of
interest
tlie
fund
thus specific in stating these several items, that in case
to
whom
I
have entrusted the forwarding the money,
shall
forward a single draft embracing
how
to appropriate
all
these amounts, you will know-
it.
Trtdy Yours
Aug
C.
New
York.
Copy
of a Lei ley fro ui Governor Ford
Peorl\ April His Excellency Augustus Governor of Illinois
Dear to
French
Wadsworth Esq^
Julius
Sir: I this
make a
C.
day received your favor
short reply to
it
17,
1850
FrexNch
immediately.
of
tlie
15th
inst.
Some month
and hasten
or two since
lines from IMr. Brower wlio is the administrator and Son of Col Oakley enclosing a few lines from ISIoore Secy fund comi' &^ making enquiries concerning the same matter to which your letter relates. Mr. Brower re(|uested an early answer which I neglected to send on account of severe and long continued sickness which
I received a
fev\^
also the Step
me to neglect many oilier matters as well as this. now state to you tliat I never heard of tlie transaction
caused I
your '
letter
relates until I received
Po^l, 317.
Mr, B rower's
letter.
to wliich
]\iy
strong
FRENCH'S LETTER-EOOK, APRIL impjTSsioji
bonds or
some
bonds^
letter in
to
If I
The truth know any
is
ever did,
possession of his family.
me, his family ouglit
to
223
Oakley any authority
that I never gave Col.
is
for the State whaJever.
'
1850
17,
be
it
If
al)le to
to receive
can be found on record
he ever delivered these 5 show a rec(u'pt for them.
he never did deliver these bonds
me, and
to
if
I ever did
thing about these 5 bonds, the matter had so completely
my ]-ecoIlcction that when I received Mr. Brov»^er's letter it me to be entirely a new thing. However it is not safe for depend on his memory about transactions which were so multi-
faded from
seemed one
to
to
committed
farious as those
authority
whole I
am
inclined to be
my
to
Oakley had,
Col.
But whatever
charge as Governor.
must be
any,
if
in
Upon
the
was the
step
vvTiting.
on Mr, Brower's opinion,
as he
son of Col. Oakley, as I understand he was, he v/as likely to have heard
something on the subject.
I
have not his
he states in substance that his understanding
bonds as
these this is
pa.y for ''doing
not the true version, and
avow
now
letter
is tliat
Col.
before me but Oakley received
something about the Legislature." it
If
seems that the family do not hesitate
my
Oakley
after
receiving these bonds, (whether witli or without authority,) took
upon
to
it,
then the fact
himself the pov/er of selling to be able to find out in
be glad
will
In of
if
clear in
is
them
again.
New York who
niind, that Col.
It
seems
to
me
that you ought
put them in market again.
I
the result of your enquiries sbaJl justify Col. Oakley.
common
with
all
our friends I desire to express to you
my
feelings
sorrow and regret for the early death of Genl. Cooly late ^Secretary
of State;
and allow
appointment
of Air.
me
you should learn any more
If
be then alive you would I
also to state
how much
Gregg, as his successor in
ol)ligc
have been confined
to
of this Col.
me
my
very
fill
up
a
write
it
over and perhaps I
by the
Oakley
affair,
and
I
should
this letter.
done no kind I
have written you, but I
may
of busi-
cannot say that
am
too
I
am
weak
I
am
)-espectfully
Your Obt.
Servt.
Tno:JAS Ford See post, 313.
to
not be able to-morrow to answer you
at alk
'
it.
house and most of the time to bed for
deed and write
entirely satisfied v;ith wliat I
gratified
much by letting me know about
moi-e than three weeks, during that time I have
ness except to
am
I
office.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
224
Pekin April
]
7 111
1850
His Excellency
Aug
French
C.
Dr
Sometime since I received a letter from Mr. Moore ir Bonds asking information &^. I wrote to Gov. Fore on the subject and have not received an answer, but leo-rn from Capt. Kennedy that the Gov. is too unwell to attend to any business 01 correspondence, and says he does not recollect any thing in relation tc Sir:
relation to Fi\^e
But
these Bonds. I noticed
(if
done for them speak full)
At
of.
in Mess. Macalisters a/c current with
not mucli mistaken) they ga^^e him
at the Legislature, these m.ay ha.ve first leisure
and send you a copy
moment
I
my late
Bonds
five
Father
for services
been the Bonds you
look over the papers (a trunk
v,'ili
of this account.
With sentiments I
of
much
respect
remain Your Obt.
Servt.
P. A.
Brower
Extract of a Idler from Geni J. D. WJiitesidc toucliing the subsfajice of the follo7ving
letter
—
WiiiTESiDES Station I received a letter
account with
of our
May
8th 1850
from you some two weeks since upon the subject ]\iessrs.
was nothing due them ever anxious to furnish
&
Forman.
I
we had
received.
They were how-
Thompson
for the Iron all tlie
can
state there
Iron that they contracted to the State or
w^aitcd
would look to us for damages and upon that suggestion I upon a gentleman from Pennsylvania then in London (Sampson
Tarns)
who was
else they
of Iron,
acting as agent for a ]\ailroad
and ascertained that
I
Company
in the purchase
could dispose of the Iron.
had another interview with Thompso]i
After that
&
Forman, and referred them to a stipulation in their contract which requii-ed them upon a contingency then existing, to receive Illinois Bonds, which tliey declined to
I
and there the conference ended, leaving them no rights or dues from law or equity Had they been willing to have fulfdled their agreement upon the receipt of Bonds as stipulated, I would have do,
Illinois, either in
made
it
with the
—
a profUiiblc contract for the State, by
money
(Signed)
tlie
purchase of Bonds
received for the Iron.
John D. WhitI'Side
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, :MAY
1850
19,
225
Springftkt.I) \[[\y u), ICS50'
Dear
Since I wrote you (o enquire further in relation lo the
Sir:
Thompson
nature of the claim of
hands
in the
come
to
my knowledge
of final adjustment. full for
every
pound
which may
possible to
&
&
the
Bonds
Co. some facts have
some bearing upon
the question
Forman haxe been paid
make any
The
And
claim, arises
by them
the only ground
upon a question
in
to the State
of the State to receive iron
of Iron, contracted for
comply
with.
If they
iron ^i^
would
ha,ve
and give them bonds
influence with
damage
me
i-esold, as
These are
in the final
facts
for default of contract
tended lien upon Bonds which
is
will
they refused to
their contract the
per a conditional con-
which must have a con-
on the part
—but
do
If
of Illinois, I
not through a pre-
utterly groundless.
be placed upon just footing the State
accordance
in e.xoxt
settlement of the matter.
myself to have them remunerated
will exert
upon which it damages only,
which they never
Vv-liich
had gone on and completed
been received and
tract with another purchaser.
they can show
of
agent of the State of Illinois offered to receive the whole
with the stipulations, as seen in their contract,
trolling
upon
to lien
of Railroad material furnished
an omission on the part
furnished.
amount
ha\'c
Wright
That Thompson
by the most conclusive evidence. for
Forman
under the contract can be made clear and unquestionaljle
of Illinois
is
&
of the assignees of Jno.
If this
strict justice.
If
matter can not I shall
take occ3.sion to lay the whole matter before the General Asseml)ly,
with such suggestions and rccommendatiojis as I think nature of
tliis
claim, in
tliis
form, deserves
matter to the Agents of Messrs.
whose knowledge
will at
—-You can
Thompson
tlie
groundless
suggest this
& Forman
in
New
new
York,
once enable them to see the justice of what
here said.
Truly Yours
Aug Julius Wadsv/orth l^sqr
New '
York.
For answer see
post, ^^Q-
C.
French
is
IJ.LTNOJS T-USTORICAT. COLI.ECTIOjNS
226
JJepartm kn't
ExiccuTivi':
SrpJNGFiET.D June 3d 1850^
Dr. Sir: to
me
I
have Just received your Letter of the 22nd uU.^ referring
a question of doubt which seems to have arisen between yourself
and
-iNIr.
istcr
&
from
INIr.
nate to
and much
parties concerned
tlic
difficulty
should start up.
inducements regarded as
be regretted that at every
Law, such as that under what ought to be
the State had, to pass a
Vv-liich
the
issue of
any class
have the whole
affair effectually
them what she has not done
in
of her other creditors,
and
S.
was
thereby
the desire
The Law
finally closed.
any other case, that
&
M.
stock for her entke indebtedness to
a paj:
is if
tenders
they will cause
be surrendered specified ]:!ypothecated stock originally placed in
hands, that
it
shall Ije re]3laced
with promptly paying interest
upon
covering the Original advance with interest
can
and
now
consider briefly that pj-ovision of the
V\-ell
which the difference between of the
from
Law
to aid
j\I,
&
it.
be expected by the parties in
just
iaiv as
5-ou arises.
2'^^^
Sec. of the
was
It
tlieir
Bonds
This seems as interest.
Law
I will
out of
oljviously the design
S. as far as practicable, in extricating
liabilities incidentally
new
have supposed that among the strongest
I
greatly prefcnTng tliem to
to
to
letter
It is surely unfortu-
to close this matter of difference, a
which you are acting, authorising
to
have also received a
Illinois, I
Macalister relating to the same m.atter.3
which has been taken
step
controversy Ijctwcen Macal-
I*,lacalister in tlie s;it(lcmcnt 01 the
Stebbins and the State of
themselves
connected with the transaction, by preserv-
ing the La^v licreioiore e]jactcd, against a specified class of Bonds, in force,
and keeping
ment
of
is
also in view
tlie
proA'idcd tlicn, that a certahi
statement of
M.
& S.
hypotliecated Bonds,
sliall
who
1:)e
number
Bonds
holders of
comply
siicJi
\\\[h the
For answer sec
'See
ol^ject,
Bonds a
within a limited
?\[.
&
S.
post, 331.
letter
.'^oe
It
the formal
be allowed to receive
post, 325.
number
of liquida-
in all cases
where the
certain
and
Bonds refused lime tlie Bonds so
who should luue
posl, 3.? 7.
'For Macalistcr's
be interested.
held sid^ject to the order of those holding
hy]H)ihecaded Stock or
Law
a final settle-
Bonds based upon
so retained for a specified time,
then be returned to *
of
at a specified rate, shall
u])on the surrender of hypothecated tion
one prominent
wlrole matter, so far as the State could
tire
or neglected to set apai't
should
(he privilege of exchanging
FRi!:Ncrrs other tlian
s])eciricd
tlic
can see no cause of the
letter-book, june Bojuls for tliosc so held
for doul)t or
foi-
I find the
Law
I
meaning
to the
second Section, or any want of harmony between
Upon
227
other parties.
misapprehension in regard
material provisions in other sections.
an(] other
it
a vcr)^ careful comparison,
as printed, to be a literal transcript fi-om the original
furnished by Mr. Macalister to Genl Cooly
my
1850
5,
recommendation
of its
who
same
the
laid
witli
passage before the Finance Committee.
In
the progress of the settlement the wliole affair seems to be tending to the very point I to
saw
it
approaching when the suggestion, was
persuade the State to recognise the creditors of
her own, instead of having
to
Jviessrs.
do with her own proper
first
M.
made
8z S. as
As
creditors.
I
have remarked in a previous communication the State can only recognise her
own
the interest
and
creditors in this transaction,
doubly preferred them
Bonds and given jNI. & S. besides drawn from the present Law,
inferences to be
settlement with theix other creditors.
asking rather too
much
creditors exclusively in
has
in doing this she
She has continued the legal ban upon
to others.
the full advantages of all to aid
It really
of the State to release
them
seems
M.
&
to
S.
in effecting a
me
that
and take
it is
their
hand and open a new controversy with a score and proljably for the next quarter
of interested parties instead of one, of a century
possible that
upon
M.
if
the ground of repudiation or
&
S. shall
surrender the
full
its
equivalent.
It is
balance of hypothecated
Stock after leaving out the 176 Bonds and waiting without intimating
any difference generally I
of opinion, that those holding the
come
hypothecated
have no objection upon the payment of
that time shall be allowed to see
what I
effect
am
all
it
such balance by
may have upon
yet
M. &
S.
the parties.
very Respectfidly Yours
Aug J.
may
in.
C.
French
Wadswortli Esqr
N. Y.
Springfield June
5,
1850
to niorrow's mail a Treasury
Dr. Sir: Enclosed 1 shall send )-ou Ijy Warrant drawn u]>on the assistant Treasurer New York for $11,607,78. Out of this sum you will take $65,15 and an amount exactly sulhcient to cover tlie l)alance of School b'und in your hands which is a fev/ dolhirs.
ILLINOIS JTTSTORICAL COLLECTIONS
228
These two you will deduct
ivom. the
The balance
will
Bonds
Diaft
Fund
for the School
amount
I
i )j"af I
be held
]jy
and ca.ny to my piivute account. you to purchase interest payinj^
subject to the following directions.
do not receive a draft from
3^ou
the
of the
me
meet the
to
have been notiiled as issued
of liquidation
If
on $150,000,
interest
Bonds before
which allowing for $900, which will come from the fund, leaving necessary to meet it in full $3,600 you will take
the ist of July,
—
interest
amount
this last
can
for this
then at once
ca.rry
except as above, and
purpose and apply
tlie
balance to the credit of the School Fund,
let the
balance so held in reserve rest until ist
July or until you receive the Draft I design to forward to dation
Bond
interest.
You can
for the School Innid with the
means
in
me on
place in the proper School
its
as above St Louis,
year.
To
arises out of
your hands.
amount
Fund
advances by
and the purchase
meet the
liqui-
use your discretion in purchasing Bonds
sary to use the $3,600, for interest, the
supply
You
to the interest.
it
me
will
If
it
Ijccomes neces-
be soon forwarded to
account.
The amount due
here on exchange on Draft
of a small lot of Scrip for said
Fund
last
arrange as requested above balaiices the account in the proper
Department
here.
Truly Yours
Aug J.
C.
French
Wadsworth Esqr New York
Springfield June
Dr warded
Upon a me of the
Sir: to
Law
1850
reexamination of the account as stated and forcondition of the account between Macallster
Stebbins and the State of attentio]! to the
10,
Ilh'nois, I
have thought
wdiich requires that
upon
it
&
proper to call your
no liquidation Bond can issue
amount of the same relation to the amount of such liquidation Bond, as the actual amount found due to jNIacalister & Ste].)].)ins shall bear to the whole amount of outstanding hypothecated
in
any case
excejit
the actual surrender of such
speciGed indebtedness as shall bear
.securities
tlie
required to be surrendered up.
rests entirely of the al)0ve
The
execution of the
Law
upon the observance of this rule both as respects the issue named Bonds and the siurender therefor of the hypothe-
cated securities.
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, JUNE It is
most
likely that a draft for the
Bonds
liquidation
will
S3600
to
1850
27,
meet
229
interest o)i (he
tlic
reaeh you previous to the 1st of July.
Yours
Aug J.
Wadsworth N. York
C.
French
Esq'"
Executive Department SpRiNoriELDj June
Dr to
In your Letter of the i8th^ inst you say you expect to
Sir:
England soon, and it
even impossible under
difficult
liul
1850
9,
231
an approach can. be made
if
to
settlement.
This Letter in
may
Mr. Dyer or yourself
serve either for
any communication you
may
Forjnan while )ou are in London touching I
am
as directions
&
make Messrs. Thompson
feel free to
matter.
tliis
Very Respectfully
Yours A. J.
C Frp:xch
V/adsworth Esqi"
New York Springfield Aug
Dr. Sir: Your Letter
June did not reacli
of the i8d"i
cause until within the last few days which
and besides
delay, it
in
as full
I
am
an answer as
may
at present so busily
me
1850
some
for
account for any seeming
engaged that
In fact we seem
I could wish.
9th,
I
cannot give widely
to differ so
our construction put upon the Statute which has been the cause of so
niuch controversy, that a lengthened correspondence would seem to
promise no good
result.
If
it
were
me
possil^le for
to
adopt your con-
struction I should certainly give directions to have the matter forthwith settled accordingly, Init really I
Statute you can to
make
object.
come
the Statute inconsistent \^dth Witliouf; quoting
well understand,
we can
cannot see how from the readijig of the
it
may
whether
see
Its first provisions
itself,
its
besides defeating
wliicli
hy
refer to
it
from the act
l)e suliicient to
They seem
you support.
to the conclusion
its
me
time we toleraljly
this
in general terms,
when
provisions and obvious purpose harmonise.
contemplate the eniirc surrender of specified
after crediting the State
to
obvious
a specific
sum
for those already
securities,
redeemed.
The surrender of the hypothecated securities by subsequent provisions is made exclusively su1>jcct to your order and direction, and whether amounts due issue
can
1)e
we approach
to otlier parties arc
made
issued l)y the State
suc^h
Bond.
all
tlie
sworn
to or
not
is
iinmaterial as no
Now
any party witliout your sanction or order.
the point in issue
claim must in
rendered to
to
the relation
v/liicli is
winch every Bond
under your order and towards the settlement
of
cases sustain at the time to the aiuount actually
your sui--
agent of the State as the considciation of the issue of
'ITte
Statute recjuircs that
surrendered the State
may
issue,
but
when sums
it
is
of
even §20,000 are
expressly required that the
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
232
amount issued shall bear the same as the actual amount due sustains
How
Stocks.
meaning
plain
amount so surrencleied amount of hypothecated
relation to the to the entire
then can the law be complied with either
or in
litera,ll_y
its
a greater amount shall be issued by the State upon the
if
surrendered bonds than the whole amount due you bears to the amount of outstanding
Bonds.
manifestly be the case
promptly, and this
?
And to comply with your views, would not The interest on the new issue has been be continued to be projnptly done,
>vili
a ch.ance that the Bonds will ever come forward
You
inducement.
suflicicnt
spea.k
it
seems
to
paid
there
is
this is
a
if
me
such
repudiation and the studious
of
reserve of the State to avoid this charge.
It is
me
very difficult for
perceive a clearer case of repudiation than Vv'ould be effected ing with the construction you give the Statute.
seems to
It
to
by comply-
me
that
every effort to close the miatter betv\'ecn yourself and the State but
complicates the difficulty by creating
upon surrender
offers
of her
bonds
Stock v/orth par, for the o.dvance the same, if
to
be
made
and as
fair,
it
upon a
it
will
I regret
State
paying
her with 7 per cent interest on will willingly
representation of the matter, but I very
much
dou.bt
be arranged according to your construction of the Statute.
it
sincerel}', for after
Bill with the
at last there
the
full
The
I liave often previously ]-emarked
you have been damaged I have no doubt the State
rectify it
which seems
new embarrassments.
to furnish p]-orapt interest
]:>oints of
chairman
a careful and critical examination of the
of the
seemed a prospect
Finance Committee, I
diffeience are wider than
felt gratified that
Instead of this however,
of settlement. l.'cfore.
Hoping
there
may
yet
a v/ay open for the settlement, I
am
veiy respectfully Yours
Aug Cha^
C.
French
]\Iacalister,
Philadelphia.
SnUNGEIELD Aug.
Dr
Sir:
The present is I believe
sioners for Illinois have
the
first
time
all
been present and so much
24,
the School
1850
Commis-
at leisure as to give
the sul)ject of your last communication their joint consideration.
We
we have no by rendered you without
have considered the matter well and conclude
])o\ver to
pay any
specific
the pi-cvious sanctioii. of
sum
Law.
for services
tliat
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, OCTOBER
Wc we
1850
3,
233
prefer tlicrefore to Jet the subject of your compensation rest
at first advised you, that
ages of the School
Fund due
if
you succeeded
we would
the State
unite in urging the Legis-
you adequate compensation, which as you $7,000 we shall most cheerfully do.
lature to allow
We
car witness dial since the action of
Company became
the
could have been suipasscd. consider
-39
Iveu;is]ature, l)y wiiicli
work of examination and survey and energy which I do not think
interested, the
pushed forward wdth a zeal
lias l)een
1851
i,
I therefore
indulge the hope
tliat
you
will
compatil)le with your public duty, to extend the time of the
it
reservation of the sales of land along said lines of road or wherevei-
changes
may be
enable
to con}pIete the surveys
it
required by the
Company, for a short period longci', and make selections of their Lands.
to
and
I am. with respect
Esteem Very Respectfully Yours
Aug
French
C.
Executive Department Springfield D'A. Sir:^
I
have the honor
Letter of the to aid
inst.
acknowledge the receipt
to
in aiding
with you.
riuist rest
your
of
In reference to the employment of assistants
you
Board
are,
as
may
will
tlie
survey,
The appointment
advantage and are qualified.
and preparation
little
and
01
tlie
familiar with
tiie
the analysis of speci-
of either
shall
arrangement of the
Mr. Varner or
Board
The Board
if
Air.
details
Worthing
they can be emplo)ed
only desires that the work
be pushed forward with as mucli zeal
G. Norwood, state geologist.
'
Dr.
'
TJie board
J.
to aid you,
emplo}'ed, the
only in a general Avay take notice of the expense, and the
or both will be eiitircly satisfactory to the
of survey
l)e
The members
by you.
geiicral progress of the worl:, leaving the to yourself.
be employed
readily be supposed, but
character of the labor required in
mens, and
shall
which they may
willing shall be determined
is
Board,-
puq^ose of the survey, much
to carry out the
Whether one or two
as well as the portions of the year,
bUUe
1851
i,
you in your survey and the portion of time they can be profitabh'
employed
to
Sept.
was ex
{La-ios of lUinois,
officio,
consisting of the governor, auditor,
and treasurer
of the
1851, 154).
*Araos Henry Worthcn (Wortlun): born October 31, 1S13, at ]iradfo2-d, \'cnn.>n(; emigrated to Kentucky; 1S36, reniON'cd to Warsaw, Illinois; 1S36-42, taught srhool, surveyed land, and kept a store; 1842-44, lived in Boston, Illinois; 1851-58, assistant geologist in Illinois and Iowa; ]\larch 22, 1858 iMarcli 6, 1SS8, slate geologist of Illinois; died .March 6, i8S8. Professor Worthin was curator of the Natural History ^hipcuni. Jiulhor of several valuable scientific papers, and member of numerous sclentilk societies iu this coimtry and Kuropc (Bateman and Selby, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, u;05; Blue Book of Illinois, 1905). 1S3.1.
—
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
240
and
cnej-gy, as the
means
With a view
at its disj^osal will allow.
the correspondence between us as simple as can well
l)e,
you
to
make con-
will
tinue to address your communications to me, at the request of the
Board. I
am Very
Truly ^\ours
Aug
French
C.
Springiield Nov.
26, 185
Messrs. In order to meet the interest upon the Macalister I ha,ve
upon
The
concluded to give
the,
&
these Bonds, $253,358,79, on the
first
of
Stebbins Bonds,
The amount due
following directions.
January 1852,
$7,600.
is
proportionate Dividend upon them will be $1,773,50, leaving to
To
be provided for $5,826,50.
meet
balance you will take from
this
previous ijistalments as follows— From the third Instalment $500, from the seventh $1500, from the 8th $500, from the 9th $2,000, from the
loth $1,326,50,
making
few days, so soon as
I
sum
the
The
due on these Bonds.
of $5,826,50, to be applied to interest
residue of interest
Vv'ill
go
forvv'ard in a
very
can notify Mr. Dyer.
Very Truly Yours
AvG ISIcssrs.
&
V/adsw^orth
New
C. Fji].:NCH
Sheldon
York.
Executive DEPAiriiiENX
My Dear
Sir:
I
have I'eceived your
letter in
which you
call
my
making a further and stronger effort to procure from the General Government the same per cent upon the sales of Governirjent Lands, for Land Warrants, within this State, as when sold for cash. I have all along insisted upon Ihih as being nothing more than what is strictly just to the State, and obviously within the spirit I have stroiig of the compact under which we come into the Union. doubts if this will be admitted by the Government. Still I would not attention to the propriety of
wilUngly neglect to use
judge rightly
ward
in
this claim.
all
supposing If
I
reasonable exertions to procure
have no authority
however you
will
to
undertake
it,
You
it.
employ agents
and succeed,
to forI
will
l-lU-NCrrS n^-ontmcnd •^afii^fy
any
LETTER-BOOK, DECEATBER
to the Legislature to
you for your trouble
oilier
terms
in
r
make you such
an allowance as shall
would not
feel at liberty to offer
in full.
the absei:ice of
24
4,
I
authoriry to do so.
all
Truly Your Friend
Aug
C.
French
Executive DEPAP.TLfENT, Illinois Springfield, Jany 15th 1852
To Hrs Excellency The Go\^EiiNOR of IsIissouri had transmitted
Sir: I have
me
to
in
answer
to
my
Requisition upon
your Excellency, dated July 19 1851, for the delivery up
Chardy, Boyer with
ilie
&Marcan,
criine of
following
is
fugitives
kidnapping, a
from
letter
justice
from
addressed to
[of]
Messrs.
this State,
charged
my agent,
of
"City of Jefferson Mo. Dec. "Sir:
I
am
directed
by the Governor
ently with his views of his duty,
Excellency Iio}'er
tiie
Governor
to say that
comply with
St
the Requisition of his
Chardy,
me
ot
your
obt. Servt.
EwiNG
Sec. of State.
Vrain."
It will 1h^
by
deserved that
tin's
note
with said requisition—that I'.xcellenc}-'s
refusal
your E.xcellency be ]>leased it
1851
&: Ivlarcan.
'^E. B.
it
4,
he cannot consist-
of Ihinois for the surrender of Messrs.
"Very Respt. your "Mr.
which the
a copy.
be from any defect
for oth.er causes, that
T
in
to
to
it
is
me no
clue to the reasons
comply with my
requisition.
Will
inform the reasons of your refusal, that
the papers
may
addressed to the messenger sent
affords
sciit,
it
may
be
su])j)lied,
liave the [opportunity] of satisfying
or
I'^xcellcncy in the matter. I
am
very ]^espcctfully
Yom- Obdt
Scivt
Aug
C.
if
your
French
ILi;iNOIS
342
HISTORICAL COI>LECTIONS Executive Department, Springfield, Iltjnois,
'
Janunry
Dear DeUer
Sir:
me
honor to acknowledge the receipt of your and shouJd have returned you an answer at an
but have been prevented
Letter.
occupy as a public
have no more
I
])y
ill
And
healtli.
any misconception on your part
to say in order to avoid
the relation I
1852
Ikivc the
I
of the i6th ult.
earlier day,
15,
officer, to the
do with the
to
regard to
subject matter of your
tvvo mill tax to
which you
To
regulate
refer,
any other
either in the dividend or in the distribution, than yourself or disijiterested person.
allow
he]-e
in
and control these is, by the Constiunder the direction
tution
and Laws
of the
Auditor and Treasurer of State, the former
of this State placed exclusively
performing
officer
New
similar duties in this respect, as the Comptroller of the State of
Either or both of these officers could probably furnish you more
Yorlc.
manner
satisfactory reasons for the
than
be able
I shall
in
which they discharge
Yet, while I
to do.
am
j)recluded
exerting any influence or agency over their duties, I
their duties,
by
am
Law from
not the less
sensible, as a State officer, to the discharge of their duties according to the
and Laws.
Constitution
liad the
Ivlessrs.
me
Barings applied to
for
any explanation on account of v/hat appeared strange or unaccountable to
them
any transaction
in
which they had or
in
felt
an interest
in fully
understanding, instead of solely relying upon casual informants and
thereupon grounded their charge of bad faith on the part of the State, 1
sliould with great cheerfulness
[information] in
my
can address
creditor
may have an
mill
Tax
to
])rovision of
case with
is
a
all
interest,
me
si)ecia.l
without receiving an ans\ver.
makes
a,
The
pa,rt of
it,
upon every
was voted upon
and from that time has been
deposited and set aside
in.
(he
distinct
as
is
the
aaid ;idoptcd
by the
in force in this State.
two mills
shall
worth of 'J'axable Property
dollaj-'s
Laws
Constitution and consequently this
})iovision to wliich 1 refer, requires that
collected
The two
by means of an extract from the iMcssrs.
Tax, levied and collected under a
our other taxes.
Pcoi)le in April 1848,
first
a Letter of inquiry upon a subject in which the
our State Constitution, and not by temporary
])r()vision, Nvhich
The
]tic
which you refer
Barings Letter,
No
power.
c]-cditor,
have furnished them the most amjjle creditor of the State or agent of such
be levied and iri
the State,
Treasury from other Revenue, and on the
day of January each year
shall
be divided pro rata upon
all
Bonds
FRENCH'S I.ETTER-BOOK, JANUARY
15,
Law
243
and Canal Bonds
preseiiled at the Ti-easury for that purpose (ScJiool
excepted) and the
1852
and the
requires that the Auditor shall direct
Treasurer pay out accordingly.
In this
way
w^as designed to provide
it
a kind of sinking fund v/hich should operate to this extent, to the gradual
discharge of a special class of the State indebtedness, for which no
means
extraordinary
Under
this pj'ovision,
proper
oJaicers
apply the two mill Tax.
was adopted with I caused a copy of
in
way, and for
this
is
nearly four years since,
to ])e sent to the Messrs. Barings,
it
my memory
by a
does not mislead
communication which
special
this provision to ])e
and many
the State Agencies in
I
fail to tliis
make
interest in being
me
I
practicable
be given, practicable, to
it,
w'ho
is
all
tliose
and you ma,y well suppose
heard the complaint
And
It v/as also sent to
The knowledge of it What more to do so.
now made
of
or that you have
it
you knew
the time v>'hich you could possiljly ask for, since
It nrlglit
desire.
if
very reasonably be asked where
tlicre vrere
cause for
the existence of the Constitution,
is
of l)e
it
tliose
this,
it is
is
Bonds
the cause
having no knowledge of
would seem more appropriate for
male, than those having no cause.
matter to be
of
do not learn from your Letter or that of the Messrs.
of complaint, even
these to
was
want
the fact, to present at (he Treasury of this State any numljer of
you miglit
it
?
who
ignorant of this provision of the
Barings, that either of you were unacquainted with
not had
it
caused
I also
or could reasonaljly be expected to
informed of
tliat I
notice or information.
understood.
it
have been done?
not without surprise
Constitution?
addressed to them,
I
had caused the most ample notice
had an
I also invited their attention to
Country and Europe.
extended as far as seemed to
w-as necessary to
its
others,
provisions.
published in the Nev/ York papers wnth such com-
ments as could hardly
w^as
me
the
So soon, as the Constitution
and which
this provision,
this puijjose,
that they might be fully informed of the Letter and spirit of If
Canal
w^as already provided, as in the case of the
Debt.
I
take the secret of the
generally considered that the
amount
to
be di\'ided
so small that large capitalists will not send forw^ard their large
amount
Bonds, as the sum they might receive by way of dividend would not a suHlcicnt inducement to
make them
fractional.
In this respect
the provision operates contrary to the wishes of our People,
have already been taken
hope the present years
(h'videiul will
be the
therei)y cut off the just complaint, that
holder of
Bonds
and steps
to eilect a cliange in the Constitution
it
ov(n- the larger holder.
last
gives
which
a,n
will
and
I
be made, and
advantage to the small
The amount
of Bon.ds pre-
244
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
sentecl at the
Tieasury
January, the present montli, only amounted
in
If you had sent forward tJie little over. Bonds you refer to, and those of Messrs. King & Son, and Goodhue & Co. had also come in, the dividend would have amounted to the merest
to about $670,000,
perhaps a
It is in this
fraction.
desired by the People,
change
I
have said
tlie
attempt
respect that
and hence
in the Constitution,
it
does not operate as
now making
and place aU holders
to effect a
Bonds upon a more
of
satisfactory equality.
am
I
very Respectfully Yours
Aug
French
C.
Executive Departjient Springfield, Illinois,
Feby
17 th 1852
To His Excellency The Governor of Missouri Sir:
have received your Excellency's answer
I
previous date, in which
my
I refer to
to
my
Letter of a
your refusal to surrender up, upon
Requisition, iMessrs. Clardy, Marcan, and Boyer, fugitives from
justice
from
napping.
this State,
and who stand charged with the crime
taken to the papers forwarded with
proper authentication, or
if
my
But
[sic].
in order to entitle
if
I
my
would not be
understand what
is
Requisition, either as to their
the Indictment were supported
of the facts therein charged, the persons
ahedged
Kid-
of
from yom' Excellency's answer that no exception
I infer
is
by proof
guilty of the crime
required by your Excellency
Requisition to a favorable consideration,
it
is,
that the facts to be proved to sustain the Indictment, shall likewise
be laid before you. acter,
This unusual requirement
under the Constitution and Laws
some
to create
surprise,
and cannot
unexpected embarrassments. all
the facts which
may prove
If
another, to
seems
to
me
excej.)tion
l)e
judged
in.
fail if
in all cases of like char-
United States,
adopted
your Excellency
is
calculated
and upon having
to lead to novel insists
the crime to liave been committed, as
well as the charge ilsclf, laid before
reason for an
of the
you
in all cases,
and
I
can see no
favor of one case which would not be good for
of before
that the constitution
your WaiTant
and Laws
is
allowed to issue,
it
of the United States regukit-
ing such cases will answer a less ])urpose there than has generally been
supposed.
I
am
not aware, as }'our Excellency has not informed me,
FRENCH'S LETTER-BOOK, APRIL by what to
be
title
lield l)y
the person charf^ed to Iiave l)cen
any
Excellency that
I
1S52
Kidnapped
245
is
ci
aimed
your from the most unquestionable evidence,
citizen of Missouri, but I take occasion to assure
am
satisfied
that the person cliargcd to
no person can lay claim
have been Kidnapped
to
him
as such
is
not a slave
—^That
upon any plausible grounds
Charles Bartelle, the person charged to have been kidnapped,
whatever.
was Born
lo,
in the State of llhVjois since the O/'d/iance [sic] of
1787
made
v.'as
"North Western Territory." He is what is usually in this State denominated a "French Negro," whose ancestors came to this State from Canada, with the early ^'French Settlers." He is consequently free by virtue of the Ordnance [sic] of 1787, free by the Constitution of this State, and by the decisions of our highest courts, and the courts of neighboring States. I know of no claim which, can be set up applicable to the
to the services of this
person as a slave, which might not be jnade with
equal propriety a.gainst any citizen of Missouri or
While as the lixecutive
of this State I shall
Illinois.
be ever ready to comply
with the requirements of the Constitution and Laws of the United States, by furnishing all necessary facilities for restoring Slaves to their owners, it equally becomes my duty to insist that it shall not be made a cover to shield persons from the crime of Kidna]3ping to reduce free men to Slavery. I
am
Very Resj^ectfully
Your Excellency's Obt.
Sevt.
Aug EXECUTIV]^.
C.
French
D l':ry\R'J7dEN
Springfield, Illinois, Apr. lo^h Sir:
I liave the
honor
to
aclinowlcdge the receipt of your
ig^'.
letter of
the 26th ult. in which you n^iake mention of certain Bonds, issued the State of Illinois, which are in possession of the Institution over
you
It is not
]3resi(le.
of the
went
manner
in
your Viands.
into
suflicient to say that
Macalister
&
necessary for
me
to enter into
which these bonds were parted This
from the
is
witli
upon
the State, or It is
Steblnns as the only party in the transaclion with
a view to bring ahout a just settlement. tliat
by
the State has recognized Messrs.
Various laws liave been enacted by the Legislature of
hccn
any explanation
as familiar to you as myself.
first
the surrender of the
by
which
A
this State
it.
with
leading feature in each has
Bonds hypothecated
the State
would
ILLINOIS TTLSTORJCAL COLLECTIONS
246 issue"
her Bonds, infercst paya1:)]c half yearly, for
upon
ing interest in the
law of 1851 allowing
Bonds, that
of
is
A
the advance at 7 per cent.
of those
who contributed any to make affidavit of
those
all
who might
hold any of this class
&
hypothecated to Macalister
portion of
tlie
Stebbins, and
funds received of them by the Slate,
sum advanced, and by
the
due Ihem, rccl.on-
all
provision was iiiseried
surrendering up
tlie
hypothecated Bonds they should receive the State Bonds covering their
advance with seven per cent interest upon such advance
The sum
liquidation.
to
to the time of
be issued in Bonds by the State
to
bear the
amount received originally from them with 7 per cent the amount hypothecated, allowing to the State at the rate inteiest, to of 26 cents to the dollar for all such Bonds as it may have already taken T'he greater number of the holders of these bonds came forward, up, m3.de affidavit of tlieir actual ad^^ance, and have received their Liquidare/lation of the
Bonds, the hiterest on which has been promptly paid according
tion
the terms of the Bond.
Other parties holding a.bout $80,000,
in
to
Bonds
out of the original $913,000, have neglected or refused to take advantage of the
Law,
The Bowery
rendered the Bonds held by if
Fire Insurance
upon
it
the
Company
could have
same condition as
a larger compensation was desired the resort could be
ister
&
While
Stebbins.
in
New York
in ICS47, I
siu--
and
others,
made
to
Macal-
had a conversation
with some of the officers of this Institution, and perhaps you wc;re of the
number,
in
which
and what
I
approach
to
I
explained fully the view the State took of the matter,
was disposed
Institution insisted
upon such terms
The law
to accept.
Nothing was done however and no
to do.
a settlement made, and I
left
with the impression that the
as the State
was under no obligation found with Messrs.
relating to this matter will be
Wadswojth & Sheldon, the State Agents in New York. Althoui';h the affair had been considered as closed, in as much as those holding the 80 Bonds ]-efused to come in, yet if the Company wishes to avail itself of the provisions of the law, I will give the necessary directions to
Agent.
I ol)Scrve that
which your
no means
Company
you no where mention originally advanced,
of delectin.g the error
you I
in
your
and consequently
refer to, in case
am
such error
be
mention further that
finally closed,
and
ter, to the full c^xtent,
I
am
shall neglect
I
have
exists.
very Respectfully Yours
Aug 1 will
th(>
amount
letter the
no opportunity
under the law referred
to.
C. Fki-.nch
whole matter
shall
of aiding in this
mat-
an.xious that the
»
»
#
'V'
y*F.^'*
JO£I. A.
MATTESON, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS Fro!;i
oil
pabtliug in Cuy:;oI, Springfield
1853-1S5
IMATTESON'S LETTER-BOOK, APRIL
12,
Spkingfield Ills.
1853^
247
1853
I^/Iarcli S,
His liXCELLENCY
Joel A. Matteson Govr. &c
Dr
am
Sir: T
a citizen of TLardin County in this State, and have
been engaged for the
endeoAoring to prove the value
last ten 3'^ears in
Lead veins passing through that section of country, have spent much Ia.bor and some twenty thousand dollars, the Hmit of of the
my
means, v/ithout accomphsliing the desirable object, having mis-
understood the character of our veins in the early part of our opera-
much mone)^ was
tions,
About
mining.
when
by the improper
lost
five years
course v/e pursued in
ago important changes were made, since
I have been operating
Ys'ith
the necessary fixtures to carry on
the business properly until some time in the Spring of 1851,
when
I
was compelled to stop for the want of means, since which nothing has been done to forward the work, keeping however in order all my fixtures Engine, Pumps, Furnace &c &c and ready for immediate use. Information of the character of our veins is given by our State Geologist Dr. Norwood, and I think his opinions are fa.vorable if a sufficient
Norwood
Dr.
money
aanount of
be obtained
can,
I\iay I therefore ask the favor of
prise.
report in his ficient
No
to furnish
official
amount
of
me
with
my
commenced. Your early attention
if
favorable, to obtain a suf-
to prove ihe veins to
whole object
to permit or instruct
opinion in the form of a special
capacity, to aid me,
money
privaJ:e speculation is
this Report,
liis
to carry out the enter-
you
be either rich or poor
made by a grant of work which has been
sought for or can be is
to this
to carry out the
matter
will greatly
obhge
Your Obdt.
Servt.
J AS. T.
Springfield J.
G.
Barbour
A])ril 12,
1853
Norwood^
State Geologist
We have a letter before who
us from
J.
represents that he has expended
"Hiese two
letters are the only part oi
T. Barbour^ of llarchn County,
some twenty thousand
Governor
dollars
T'Jattcson's correspondence con-
tained in this scries of Letter-Books. •
Dr. Norwood was the
first
state geologist, serving from July 21,
1851— March
22, 1858.
This letter is the lesnlt of a request made by Mr. Barbour upon Governor Matteson (Executive Letter-Book. Vol. VI, MSS). '
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
248
in exairiiDP.tion
he has expended
and machinery all of his
for raising lead in said
success to give a guarantee to capitalists that
way
him more amount so loaned. My. Barbour has asked us in tloe
aid
prise
to
if
you
to permit
make out an
favorable, obtain
a favorable conclusion.
to
safe to
avails to repay the
make
official
means
We
would be
it
upon the
of funds, relying
Survey of his premises and
him that he nught,
County, that
fortune in the attempt, but without sulncicnt
a
full
Geological
report and give to
to prosecute the enter-
are disposed
to favor
Llr.
Barbour's views in this particular and therefore request that at such time as might be convenient for you to do satisfied of
position of
so, and after you ai'e fully your position in the matter you may make out the true his lead mine and give it to him as official from Slate
Geologist.
Yours Respectfully J.
A. M'atieson
REGISTliR OF OFFICIAL LETTERS VOLUIIE VI
CHAPTER
IV
LETTERS OF WADSWORTH AND SHELDON TO
GOVERNOR FRENCH,
1847-1853
New York To
March 22nd 1847
His Excellency
GovR Augustus
French
C.
SpEiNCrjELD Illinois
Dear ill
By
Sir:
it
my
from several of
letters recenlly received
Illinois I learn that
has been proposed that
I
friers
ds
should be appointed
agent for the State of Illinois for refunding the State Debt, and the pay-
ment
Such appointment would be highly
of Interest hereafter accruing.
gratifying to
me
and would
as well as desiriible
ment on
the part of the State tlirough
cai)acity
which
and
State,
my
left
interest
and
and
I
shaJl
the State as a residence,
be happy to contribute
in
wise and judicious.
by the Legislature and
I
you mpvy
fully
approve
Our office And as I
desire.
for the purpose. of I\iay, I
could
you
I
have
trust I
I
I
shall
endeavor
soon
])c in
is
New
of the
llie
ihic
none
my
interests
render you any is
win'cli
ai(i
very
present ollice
is
No
my
purpose.
If I
location to niakc
consistent v/ilh other Inisiness.
at that
53 South
may
ori
it
whiej-,
des!!-a!>ie (lie
first
to this object in the selectic;ii of ainitlier
in selecting
York and
of
recentiy ]>assed
])!i!
measure and object
liere
change
ofrice for llie
I a.iu living at the
acconnnodated
Wadsworth
my
and
pros]'>erity,
but receive an instruction from you that you wouhl desire
and would occui)y
meet you. well
lost
and
further
\v;iy to
convenient to Wall Street shall
would have reference
reference to this as will
any
have examined
contemplates and will on your arrival
aid
citizen
raise the credit of the State whicli those wlio control her aiYairs
deem
and
duly appre-
feeling with the citizens
the interest I have heretofore felt in her general welfare
and
integrity
l)e
a large ])ecuniary interest in the Slate, not-
I ]-ctain
withstiinding I have
esteemed as a compli-
have been for the past ten years a
I
identified in
and whilst
l)e
Executive to
would not be misplaced and would
I trust
ciated and acknowledged. of Illinois,
its
shall
Street.
;\s
it
I
with as
much
understand you
on your arri^al here be happy to
Aslor House and you
House
my
do not hear from
auiy other.
may perh;ips be The office of Gay
as cS:
ILLINOIS IlISTOJUCAL COLIJlCTIONS
252
beg leave
I
to suggest that
would be well for yoU' before leaving
it
Springfield to provide yourself with exact transcri):>ts of the Register of
these
who up
Bonds
and names
the different classes, numbers,
negotiated them, and
all
other records that
aiid canceling those bonds, also for the
may
l^e
of the agents
useful in taking
purpose of detecting counter-
Fac Similes of the Signatures of the Governoj-s and agents who signed them, and such other papers or memorandums
feits,
as
procure
may
if
possible
You
your opinion appear useful or necessary.
in
edly have already furnished yourself with
all
will undouI;t~
these documents, but
T
have suggested them thinking there might be something overlooked
which might delay your plans informs
me
after
you arrived
and
the middle of April
will return as
soon as they can complete the
business there, probably by the middle of
you here as he
is
He
May.
wished
to
meet
desirous of having his accounts of payments of interest
audited and settled.
New York
Mr. Leavitt
here.
that Capt. Swift and himself will leave for Chicago al^out
understand Col. Oakley
I
will also
perhaps not however until Mr. Leavitt I
have the honor
&
soon be in
Swift return.
to be, very respectfully
Your
01)t. Servt.
Julius V\^4dsworth
New York To
June 3d 1847
His ExcisLCY
Augustus
French
C.
SpRINGJ'IELD
Dear
Sir:
Since you
New York
left
there has
what our friend
interest transpired other than
no event
Col.
of stirring
Oakley has advised
you and such as reach you through the public press. I am happy find tliat the impression made b}- you whilst here is \Try favorable yourself
and
to the interests
course and policy
in
and prospects
her citizens, and can not at
no
fail, I
and
ability of the State
believe, to place Illinois once more,
far distant ])eriod, on an ecjual footing with the
regard Illinois as one of
Union.
I
of lands
and
tlic ilrst
ca])arity for cultivation,
))revent her l.'cconn'ng
one of
llie
first
first
have
and and
States in the
States in the Ui:iion in ])oint
and nothing can in
to
In fact your
of the State.
relation to the fmancial affairs of the State
inspired nev\' confidence in the integrity
to
in
])oint of wealth.
advantages and such pros})ects the citizens of
Illinois
my
ojnnion
With such
camiot long remain
LETTERS TO FRENCH, JUNE unable to discliarge fully and ]ionoral)]y
tlx;
253
1847
3,
which have for
liabilities
upon her prospects and her fair fame. That there is a proper spirit existing amongst the influential men of the State there is no doul_)t, and that the great mnss of the inhabitants of the State are actuated by honorable and high minded sentiments is, I believe the last few years been a blight
equally true.
All these circum.stances are sufficient with just
nomical administration of
affairs to
and eco-
guarantee an early issue out of
and embarrassments which they have heretofore labored have not yet entered upon the examination of the accounts
troubles I
Leavitt, but
of
Mr.
has been deferred partly at his suggestion until after the
it
arrival of the English Stea.mer
order to allow
him
this Steam.er.
I will in
I
the
all
\inder.
to
pay
which has arrived
interest on
Boston
at
m
to day,
any bonds that might be sent by
a few days attend to the matter.
spoke with you when you were here on the subject of making some
examination into several claims of the State against some of the Banks
Bonds purcliased, and There are also some claims
in this State v/hich are indel^ted to the State for
which Banks have gone into against individuals. effort to recover
It
lic][uidation.
me
appears to
that
it
might be
something on these debts, and should
v/ell to
])]'ove
it
make some unavailing
the Slate will have the satisfaction of having learned the fact that nothing
could be recovered and the affair disposed
I believe
of.
thing might be recovered, If
you are disposed
to
may
forever after be considered as
should be made that some and the movement cannot be made too soon. give me the necesscary authority to collect and
however
if
proper
effort
fmally settle these matters I will attempt for
you
to give
me
complete authority
to
it.
If so
demand
it
will
be necessary
former attorneys
of the
or agents of the State such papers as niay be in their possession relative to these
matters also to demand, receive and
receijjt
for,
aiid
settle
in full the sevcra.1 claims.
and minutes
I shall v/ant all the records
each matter, as a basis of
relative to
If this shall
meet your views
this
month
cK:
would
I
as early attention as possible, as
my
I
forepart of next to
like to liave
would it.
in possession of the State
efforts.
lilvC
I will
you give the matter
soon attend to getting
three books suitable for record books in the transfer
bonds.
I
remain dear
sir
some portion
to devote
of u})
and exchange
with high consideration.
Your very Obdt.
Svt.
J ULIUS
Wa DS WORTII
of
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
254
New To
York, June
26111
1S47
His Excelcy Aug. C. French
Governor
cvic
SPRINGFI]iLD
Dear
Sir:
You may be
surprised at not having heard from
me
before this relative to the account of David Leavitt, Esq. Agent of the State for the letter of
payment
of Interest.
I
advised you however in a former
one reason of delays and after the time then designated
I
soon
and found it to be much more of a job than I have liad two active men employed for the most anticipated. I had in drawing off and comparing the numbers and vouchtv^'o weeks part of now satisfaction of advising you that the same is comthe ers, and have account current of Mr. Leavitt with a full statement of plete and the
commenced
tlie
I
the examiiiation
payments and vouchers accompanying
my
have attached
showing
in detail the
separate amounts as State in
is
ready for delivery to you.
and account current, amount of money paid out by Mr. Leavitt and in paid upon tlie several classes of the Bonds of the
certiiicates to the statements
—also showing the balances
in his
July 1846, and January 1847.
hands on a/c
^ will
of interest payable
acconijxmy the account and
other papers with a report of the examination and such particulars as
may be I
requisite.
expect to leave for Chicago on the 2Sth
inst,
and hope
to
have the
pleasure of meeting you there arjd will at that time hand you
have come into
my hands
of high coi'isiderLition
for
from Servt.
Julius
New Governor
Dear found
C.
the
I
Your Obdt
To Augustus
all
hand you herewith tv.'o letters that you, and beg that you accept assurances
})apcrs relating to the matter.
Wads worth
York. August 3d 1847
French
&:c
Sir:
I
arrived in this City
your favor of the 30th Junc^
from (he west a few days
and am now
favor of the 27 UKo.'
Ank,
'
Tliis letter is not
252.
found
in the Letter-Books.
in rect. of
since,
and
your esteemed
LETTERS TO FRENCH, AUGUST I
am
about getting up some books for
1847
3,
of recording the
llie })iirposc
exchange of Bonds and have examined the Books of the I
255
Agency.
IiKliiuia
think however that their books are larger and embrace a greater
of matter than
The form we I
necessary for the exchange to be
is
require
hove had the
is I
Law
best to advertise in the
will secure the
think quite simple.
passed by the
tv>'0
good favor
amount
for Uhnois.
published
last Legislature;
Commerce, the Express, and Evening Mirror.
the Journal of it
made
named
last
papers, as a
which
of the publishers,
in
thouglit
such patronage
little
will
1
be well
in
carrying
out this arrangement. I
was not a little surprised this morning to find the article which I hand you, in the Morning Express, and do not exactly know
herevv'ith
where such information was found by the Editor.
have certainly
I
never given such information to any one, and can only surmise that some intimation
and
Law
may have dropped from to the publisher.
moment, but as I
am not
I
the
man by whom
do not know as
it
is
I sent the circular
a matter of great
In reference to the subject of )'Our letter of 27 ulto
be able to fumish you with jnore definite answeres the absence from the City of
disposed to adopt.
from
well as
my own
some
parties
is
whose views
1
oljservation that
customary
it is
sell
sorry not to
consequence of
would be most have made as
I
pay detached and I learn that
to
aiid signatures
not an unusual thing for holders of Bonds to
especially
yet.
am
I
[sic] in
however from the inquiry
I leani
coupons having the proper date number it
made
regret that such notice should have been
aware that any appointment has been made as
and
the coupons
detach them, even before they become due. Li reply to your second inquiry "Whether you would be compelled to receive
say that I
I
Bonds without
all
the unpaid coupons attached,"
have not from the nature of the subject been able
tangible
manner
disposed to give
full
weight
to,
but
I
am
examination
Law
exchange for the interest
to
sh:ill
be issued
in arrears.
authorised to receive a
I
it
1
in a
very
would be
an exchange eveji without I
have however from an
adopted a different opinion.
provided that Certificates
]je
can only
inclined to think that holders
Bonds would think themselves entitled the Coupons for the unpaid instalments. of the
to present
any one whose views
for the opinion of
of
would
I
have not obtained any satisfactory opinion on the subject.
(//
ilic
iinic
Lt Sec. 2 oj
ruakhig
cannot therefore sec that
Bond and
it
is
iJie
)'ou
issue a Certificate for the
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
256
same without at the same time Jiaving all the Coi]])0]is which liave become due surrendered and granting certificates thci^efor. This may not be a correct view, and I liave no doubt there will be a diversity of opinion on the subject, but if you will examine the bonds and the coupons you will see the great liability and hazard in pursuing a different course. If I can get the views of some other parties experienced in these matters within a few days I will write you f urllier on the subject. remain dear
I
Sir
Your Most Obdt.
Svt.
Julius Vv^adsw^ortii.
New A^ORK
October 21st 1847
His Excellency Augustus C. French Springfield Illinois
To
Dear
Sir:
I
have delayed writing for the reason that nothing has
transpired since you of
which
left
The exchange
your notice.
your departure and up to
Bonds and 454 you
left v^as
but
fev/
this
Interest Bonds.
that the business
have been brought
I
have considered particularly worthy
of
Bonds has progressed slowly since we have issued but 1004 Principal think the prevailing impression when
time I
would be discontinued and
in.
I
in coiisequence
have thought of giving notice further
but have not done so for the reason that you thought not
l)cst to do so. Oakley mentioned to one of the Editors that the exchange was still made b}'- me and suggested that he make some notice of it but no such
Col.
notice lias appeared.
Messrs.
Rowland
None
as soon as I can get the
books of Blank Bonds,
and
I
hope they
will
minds.
Blank Bonds. to
I
be forwarded to you as soon as practicable,
it
shall occur to cause
think a considerable
amount
of
expected by the next two or three Steamers.
day evening the 19th
inst.
delay as
little
advisable to be prepared whilst parties are
and before any thing I
Bonds have been offered but what they have sent by Col. Oakley the two
are ready to exchange
be executed and returned with as
possible, as I consider
inclined
of Ihe Sterling
& A spin wall
them to alter their Bonds may be
Sterling Col.
Oakley
left
on Tues-
and Mr. Lcavitt and Ca])tain Swift
left
the
day previous for Chicago.
You
will
probably be informed by Col, Oakley that they had
a stormy meeting on
tlie
rSth.
What
it
may
ratltcr
result in I cannot predict.
LETTERS TO FRENCH, NOVEiMBER but Col. Oakley told
me when
he
left
18^7
23,
that he should
make an
have Mr. Leavitt disconnected as far as possible from the
effort to
affairs of Illi-
by the prominent men
of Illinois
have Mr. Leavitt removed from the agency for the payment
of Interest
nois to
257
and should get a
petition signed
and have me appointed
in his place. ^
I
wish to say in relation to this
happy to have this Agency conferred upon your judgment deem such a course wise I shall
that I shall be extremely
me and
should you in
under many obligations.
feel
The
entire
agent with
agency
trifling
if
is
very desirable and can be attended to by an
any additional expense, and such
think best to operate as a check could be adopted. to the State
is
concerned
I believe I
plan, as
you might
So far as security
could satisfy
my
parties that
all
personal character and other security which I could give would place it
to
in as secure a position as
any that might be adopted.
urge Mr. Leavitts removal or
that for the
payment
of Interest
my
appointment, but
on the
New
I it
do not desire
me
appears to
Issue of Stock, a system
should be adopted vdiich shall be permanent and prevent any confusion hereafter. I still
refuse
And
I
do not think Mr. Leavitt
think as
payment on
will
adopt such a plan.
before remarked to you that
I all
Coupons not attached
understood early, otherwise parties
will
it
to bonds,
keep back
would be wise
and
many
to
this
should be
of the
Coupons.
hand you herewith numbers of Bonds surrendered and canceled siiice you left. Also receipts for subscription to '' Democratic Review" ''Weekly Herald" and ''Courier & Enquirer." And remain with sentiments of high regard Your Very Obt. Servt. I
Julius
New Hon Augustus
C.
French Governor
Wadsworth
York, Novr. 23d 1847
&
SPRINOriELD
I
Dear Sir: I last had this pleasure on am without any of your esteemed favors.
expecting the Blank
This
letter is
I
have been for some days
Bonds which you took out with you
' Mr. Leavitt was also one of the by the subscribers to the new loan of •
the 21st Oct.^ since which
Irustces of the Iliinois Sx, 600, 000.
not found in the Letter-Books.
and
to sign
and
ISIichigan Canal, ck-cicd
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
258
Several parties have receutly iiK|iiired wlien
return. to
get
should he ready
There are also ]:)a.rties holding Scrip in siuns not now sufficient to two new bonds who will expect nie to give thein New Boiids for the
amount
of principal
This
$500. I
I
exchange Sterling Bonds.
think
it
is I
will
to
come
in slowly
but there are several large
held here which I think will be presented soon.
inchned
to over
meet with your approbation.
with the recjuirements of the Law.
will agree
Bonds continue
same amounts
wlicn the interest on the
presume proper and
to delay a little.
I will
The
lots
parties
now seem
report to you as frequently as appears
numbers of Bonds surrendered, and herewith hand }-ou statement of bonds surrendered from Octo. 19th to Nov. 13th this statement having been pre})ared at the last date but I have delayed sending I will have another stateho])ing to get some coniJiiunication from you. I have got the Stock Ledger all posted ment made out on ist Deer. up and every thing is ready for transfers as soon as you send the transfer Bonds. A number of persons are waiting to have transfers made, until I will write again on receipt of 1 shall receive those bonds from you. advices from you, and remain dear Sir Your Mo. Obt. Svt. ]jroper the
Julius
New York Hon, Augustus
C.
Wadsworth
December 2d 1847
Frkncr
Springfield
Dear
Sir:
Your much esteemed favor
of
nth November came
hand on the 27th and your several favors of the i8th, 19th, Novem. were received on the 30th Nov. and their contents are noted.' for
tlie
I will
I
have made no mention of the
JXIacalister
tS:;
to
&
20th
all
duly
Stel)bins matter
reason that nothing whatever has occurred in relation thereto.
agreeably to your request have a transcript of the Register of old
Bonds surrendered embracing all the necessary facts to make a complete Record lo file in the proper department in SpringfR^ld. This will be the labor of some days, and cannot be commenced immediately as I It shall howshaJl have to procure some paper ruled in proi)er form. ever be accomplished as early as possil)le and transmitted (o you. '
None
of these letters arc found ia the Letter-Books.
You
LETTERS TO FRENCH, DECEMBER do not mention that you I
completing the
and send
as soon as
all this will
1847
259
dcsii-ed a similar transcri])t of the Scrip Register.
presume however you
after
2,
will require
Bond
it is
it,
register will
and
I shall
You must
completed.
prepare paper and
go on with the Scrip register
aware that
of course be
require considerable labor and require
some
time.
In relation to the two Swords^ spoken of in 3^our letter of 18th
have made inquir)^ and find that such swords are manufactured by
I
J\icss.
Tompkins & Black of tins City. I have examined two swords made by them to be presented, one to Genl. Wool, the other to Genl.
Bail,
Worth, the former
at a cost of $800. the latter $400.
that so expensive swords
would be desired
1
me
that they cannot get
presume swords
at this cost
up any thing
The
less
inscriptions
it
refer to,
than about $250-
would be considered
you desire procure those swords or aid you your convenience.
not probable
you
The Manufacturers however
but something in proportion to Rank.
inform
It is
for the object
in
suitable:
I will
such manner as
would be necessary
may
for
Sz if
suit
you
to
furnish.
In relation to your remarks in your letter of 19th
ult.
respecting the
money received from jMr. Leavitt, I have looked into the matter and find we received $1558. of this amount $50. was taken to amount pay us
of
Money lent you a few days previously and $100. was Bank Bills at the time you gave us Mr. Leavitts check, which we credited the State and furnished you the account
(G&W)^
given to you in this left $1408.
I presume upon reflection you will remember the remember well sending to Bank to get small ])ills at The lost Bond 2449 of Alexander Brand the time we gave you the $100. ISIr. Brand having 8z Co has had our ol)Scrvation for some v/eeks. written us on the subject. I am anxiously looking for the Blank Bonds to issue for the Sterling, and odd amounts of Scrip, also the transfer Blanks. I hope there will be as little delay as possible in sending them as there arc parties waiting to make the exchange.
of items to balance.
circumstance.
On to
I
the subject referred to in your letter of 20th Nov.
say that whatever you desire can probably be done, but
I it
have only will
make
would gladly avoid and errors or misunderstandings in making entries may arise which will ])roduce confusion. It undoubtedly would be veiy convenient for some ])arties an irregularity
in
our Books wliich
1
'These swords ^Ycre for LicufciKints Joliu Pope and Alason Scanilt For biographical sketch see poit, 270.
iS.17, 26). '
Gay & Wadsworth,
53 South Street,
New York
City.
{Soiafi'
Journal,
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
26o
tlic exchange made theni and it would be desirable to accommodate them. I think however it may be done with out adopting the plan you suggest. For instance let the parties thus surrender their Bonds or Scrip to be canceled by you and you cause a record of the same to be sent to me to be entered upon the Books the same as if the Bonds or
thus to have
had been surrendered amounts in principal and
here.
interest as stated
by mail
to
you or
and
entries
issue the
&c
complete and
bonds consecutively
by you
as suggested
I
vv'hich
which would appear to
all
I
\vithout omitting
time and miglit be
may
the plan of taking in the old
all
Si
to the
necessary
it
Interest
my plan
I
as
one agent.
until
up
am
entirely
extremely
single num-ber omitted
from
^Vhole No.
it
I
would only
be extremely glad to have the two agencies united in
I sliall
some way
take
Bonds
done properly and that there may
In referoice to a change in the Interest paying agency say that
The I
or give
Scrip there.
by no means appear duplicate numbers or a 1
Blank
either adopt
Bonds
desirous of having this business
No.
some numbers
difficult to explain.
you think
if
the liberty of omitting to send the
hear from you hoping you
would enable
in direct continuation of
might by some mistake cause a discrepancy
course you speak of can be adopted
however
for
by you and enclose them
to the parties themselves as directed, this
us here to enter the Bonds
Bonds
w^ould then issue the
Scrip the
can be done better and with
After the
first
of
January
I
less la.l)or in the
hands
of
have made arrangements for
another partner a Mr. James O. Sheldon a highly respectable & Vv^orthy young man, the firm will be AVadsvv^orth & Sheldon. Why I speak of this is that if you tliink some check necessary you might make Wadsworth & Sheldon the Transfer Agents and myself the Interest paying agent. This would enable me as Interest Agent to check a.ll transfers and probably aaiswer all i>ractical purposes. You miglit if you prefer appoint James O. Sheldon Transfer Agent but I think if you appoint Wadsworth
&
Sheldon
for
me
you
to
interest If tlie
it
would answer the required purpose. Would
it
send on a commission as transfer Agent, and then
not be well if
you make
paying agent, send on the commission for that?
change
in the interest
is made I would like it to l)e done Books in complete readiness before payment might be deferred for a few
agency
as early as possiljle in order to get the
paying any
interest.
days after the in readiness as
i.st
of
True
the
Jimuary but
it
soon as practicable.
would be well
to
have every thing
Should you make any remittances
LETTERS TO FRENCH, of ijioney to
})a3^
interest everything sball liave
prompt attention. Bonds arc not coming
in
my
care and most
Ijcst
plenty of time,
is
liowever in
tliere is
opinion no doubt that before the time expires most of the
Should interest only be paid on the
be surrendered.
will
January
after
this
would cause parties
to bring
them
You may
advisable to adopt that plan after the January payment.
v.'hen
you
you was here that
would be
well
think
I suggest[ed]
and perhaps indispensable that
paying agent to pay interest on Coupons only
direct the interest
when they accompany
made
it
Bonds
New Bonds
in so that they
might get the instalments of interest as they are paid. it
261
1847
9,
very freely for exchange and parties are
deferring for the reason that there
my
DECEIVI.BER
tlie
Bonds
which they belong as otherwise
to
and not surrendered Coupons might draw interest on the old Coupons & on New^ Bonds. I presume you have already seen the force of this and
parties havijig
the exchange for Nevv^ Boiids
the whole of the the
will take the
I
necessary precautions to guard against such occurrences.
am Dear
Much
Sir with Sentiments of
regard
Your Mo. Obt.
Svt.
Wadsworth
Julius
New York
Decemljer
g,
1847
His Excellency Augustus C. French Springfield
Dear
Sir:
I
of the several classes of ist inst.
I
inst.^ and have not since that hand you herewith tlie numbers have been surrendered up on the
wrote 3^ou on the 2nd
date any of your favoj's to answer.
am now
Bonds
I
wdiich
engaged
in miaking
an entire transcript of the
Bonds and Scrip surrendered and will after it is completed forward the same to you. It will occupy some days in preparing & when com]:)leted will furnish an exact record of every thing done. This will extend to 1st Decern] )er, and I will furnish you hereafter at stated Unless Boiids come times with transcrii)ts of the Records in my office. Register of
in
more
freely I
presume Monthly
will
be
sufficiently often to furnish
returns.
Frequent inquiries interest, '
Auk,
a.re
being
particularly as to the
made
New
relative to the next issue.
payment
'
2sS.
of
Also as to the probable ..
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
262
The
amount; of the paymeiU.
hope arrangements
promptness as possible on the to discredit the
Bonds such
will
New
to
New
January
is
near at Jiand and
Stock, as a failure to do so will tend
am
I
Old
to indicate that the
to corne in pretty freely, a,nd I
have no doubt
be the case as soon as money matters improve
will
advances.
I
much
have interest paid with as
Things now seem,
issue.
soon begin
of
first
be made
will
&
the price
looking anxiously for the Blank Bonds to arrive for
&c
transfers
Very Respectfully,
I
remain
Your Obdt
Svt.
Julius
New
Wadsworth
VoiUv December T3th 1847
His Excellency Augustus C. French Springeield
Dear
Sir: I duly received your valued favor of 25th Nov.^ acknowl-
edging receipt of a letter from
me "Enclosed
mans plan
I
of a Lottery &:c."
of the Italian
Gcntlcmans plan your
ever had respecting
1
it.
I
me
that
all
to the
by me.
vouchers you refer
the vouchers relative to the
January 1847, and July 1846, accompanied
est for
And if my memory
I
in the
ha.ve discovered.
have called upon Air. Leavitt relative
and he informs
entirely ignorant
being the hrst intimation
letter
presume there must be some mistake
may
matter which ere this you
with an Italian Gentle-
must confess myself
serves
me
his
payments
to,
of inter-
account as audited
right I believe such to be the case.
had supposed you had reference to other subsequent vouchers. I package I sent you from Chicago in. July last contaiiied the vouchers in question, a( least if they relate to the two pa.yments named. I
believe the
With regard adopt
in
to
prescribing the
paying interest on the
a very dehcate matter.
1 will
New
method which Mr. Leavitt
however do what you require, that
proper Books i)repared and make such suggestions to him business as I
may seem
regret exceedingly
'
tliat
the circumstances
is
it is
have
doing the
nol found
in (be,
would not warrant you
my hands commencing
for the reason that there are a
This IcUer
in
is
necessary in order to avoid confusion in the matter.
placing the entire Agency in
payment
shall
Stock you must be a ware that
Lcdcr-Eooks.
number
in
with the January
of things to be observed
LETTERS TO FRENCH, DECEMBER
13,
263
1847
making this payment which will be important in the future management of the business. First with regard to paying on cou})ons only when accompanying the Bond, of which I have before spoken to you. Second, with regard to the proper manner of paying interest on the New in
which
issue,
be almost impossible for
will
it
I^Tr.
Leavitt to do under-
standingly Nvithout having constant reference to m}^ books.
which may
third difficulty I wish to call your attention to special instructions to
Mr.
But a your
recjuire
Leavitt, I think in ])aying interest on the old
Internal Improvement Bonds and aJl others except the Canal Bonds, the amount paid should be stamped upon the Coupon falling due January
The New
ist 1848, for the following reasons.
interest
upon
from July
issue all bear date
ist 1847, therefore the interest
interest accruing since that date in order to leave the
of interest
up
on the Bonds not surrendered as
to July ist
and
paid should be applied
same arrears
is
put into the
Bonds surrendered. If the next payment of interest is stamped upon the same coupon as theretofore it v/ili make tlie arrears to July is(/47 as much less as the amount paid, and when these bonds come in for exchange, the New Bonds being dated July 1st would be entitled to draw interest for Jany. ist 1848, the same as those '^
Interest
Bonds"
for old
exchanged before the Jany. payment, but if the endorsement is made upon the Coupon due Jamy ist 1848, when they come in for exchange I
should issue
in interest
Bond
the
same amount
arrears as heretofore,
then charge against the Stock issued for those old bonds the
amount
the January interest, by doing which
New
it
will tlien place all the
on the same fooling and avoid confusion
New
there will be
sufficiently clear to you, I
am
any confusion or
ment all
appears
to
me
of interest in
I
submit
in as
and
irregularity
that
it
London
to
mc
is
only by
for the libei'ty I
I
have made the matter your consideration and
to
some extent
which
may
would be good it
subsecpient payments.
This
it
good shape as possible as
way
I
have become
stand respon.sible
sliall
creep into the business.
])olicy to
discontinue the pay-
not for the January payment at least for
It will
save iniich tj'ouble and will be an
additional incUicement for holders to put Stock.
Stock, otherwise
exceedingly desirous that matters relating to these
identified in this refunding
It
do not know as
I
but
Bonds should be preserved for
New
Stock out on which interest for January /48 has been
paid as well as not paid.
directions.
in the
of
issue
tlieir
of suggestion
have taken.
and
Bonds
into Transferable
I trust
you
will i)ardon
I
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
264
from Col. Oakley by Express the Box Bonds for transfer, and for irregular amounts to use in taking up Sterling Bonds and amounts of Scrip which cannot be made into even 1000 Dolls. I shall commence to number them after I
have
this moi-iiing received
containing the Blank
those which you left signed already
Inasmuch as recjuested, I will
do I
in
my former
know your
have so
I
now
numbered.
delayed sending you the Interest Bonds
far-
delay until I ]iear from you as suggested I would I
lettcj*.
hope
it
may not cause particular inconvenience
desire to preserve perfect regularity in the
excuse this delay,
the
at
same time
wish
I
to
Books
will easily
be understood as
being entirely under your directions in the matter and ready to act fully in accordance with your positive instructions.
from you soon touching the matter referred of
my
I shall
be happy to hear
and beg
to,
to assure
you
high regard, and remain
Your Mo. Obdt.
Svt.
Julius Wadswortti Will send transcript of Books in a few days.
P. S.
New York Hon. Augustus
C.
December
21
1847
French Governor &c
Springfield
Dear
I hand you herewith a transcript of the register in my Bonds and Scrip surjcndered up to the first day of DecemThis has been delayed longer than I hoped but it is now com-
Sir:
office of all the
ber
inst.
plete
and
is
in the foiin of our register here.
the register of
I will
have a transcript of
''New Internal ImjKovement Bonds"
soon I have thouglit best
to give that to
you
issued,
in exactly the
Register here, and on sheets complete so that when they are
department
at the
hi Springfield the sheets
This would save much
laljor at Sprijigi"ield
Tlie sheets will have to script, filled
and then
I will
without reference
I have been
Ijc
piintcd l^efore
all
may be bound and
out
of our
received
complete.
will be no more labor here. we can commence that trans-
and
only send the sheets forward as fast as they are to the time.
exchanging .some Sterling Bonds, and have issued there-
for the $1000, Bon'hich
Bonds up
I will 1 think
I shall charge
(as I
thx undeistandi3)g) $1200 per year for the transfer Agency,
and such amouiit
for
seem
"^
to warrant,
tlic
If I
refunding as the trouble, responsibility
'
For Governor French's answer sec
*
Sec anlc,
i().[.
(S:
had the Interest Agency with a salaty ante, 150.
labor, of
say
LETTERS TO FRENCH, JANUARY
267
28.JS
13,
much
($1200) 1 sboulcl probably be willing to do the refunding without if
any charge as
fers
&c.
I
labor, care
and
acct.
conform
charge to
to
attends to trans-
present time, the
tlie
been very considerable as you are aware,
liave
ever submit the wdlling to
know how much
hardly
*S>:c
who
could be done by the same Clerk
it
if
you sliould think
shall be
your views
to
With much
respect, I
am
Yours ^x
truly
Wadsworth
Julius
New York Hon Augustus
how-
I will
way,
out of the
it
January 13th 1S48
French
C.
Springfield
Dear Sir: I have to day mailed the transcript of ''New Internal Improvement Bonds" and ''Interest Bonds" issued up to the hrst of December. The transcript of old Bonds surrendered was forwarded some time
and
since,
Mr. Briggs has had you know ing
have been unable
to
send the tran-
tlie first
to attend to has
rendered
it
will
And
impossible.
as
January and the few days preceding and suceed-
of
New
always very busy times amongst ]\ierchants &c In
it aj-e
This
I regret that I
New Stock before this time, but the variety of other matters which
script of
York.
complete the entire transcript of our registers of bonds sur-
rendered and issued up to December
iirst,
and
I will
have prepared as
soon as I can the transcript for the ]\Ionth of December and Jajiuary
and forward you.
There has nothing
of particular interest transpired ]-ecently concern-
Mr. Leavitt has not yet commenced the pay-
ing matters of our State.
ment
of interest
nished him
and
awaiting further advices from you.
is
with, all the
necessary Books and numbers of
surrendered also a complete with the
of the
list
names
very
much
old bonds
New
of holders of
He complains
Numbers and amounts.
have fur-
I all
Stock
of the great
trouble attending the whole mailer and has repeatedly said that he should
have
to give
it
up
or
and yesterday said
would be better
to
employ some one to
me
have
that I
all
the
much
to give their
must attend
Agency
whole attention
to the
whole of
in the ^Matter united.
and
to
him
1
should have to employ some one to do the Inisincss.
that he
that I luid al)Out as
is
very
as I could attend to
much occupied and has
it
to
that
it,
it
I replied
that in such case
The
truth
not the time to de\otc to the
is
Inisi-
h
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
268
and was
ncss,
the transfer
take
it
not for
tlie
him he would
useful to
fact tliat the iDOiiey in bis
give
up
it
considerable both for
is
Me &
the old ones to him. to cancel every
all
to the
New issue,
some
a.nd in fact not a
The
at once.
him
it
lumds
complete check.
do not speak
I
now
being necessary to
morning and get
his approval
very well in theory but in practice
this is all
just
is
trouble attending
is
trouble-
of these things
with a vicv/ to inducing you to change any thing, and certainly should
not wish you to change
tlie
paying agency unles[s]
interest
with the cutke appi-ol^ation of Mr. Leavitt.
would
certainly suspect that Col.
in inducing your Excellency to
Oakley
make
&
the change.
have seen a Card or Circular recently signed by the
I
you have
ere this seen
Dickey.
The is
me
has attached to
from any knowledge
Illinois
soraev/hat. it
I
sub-
presume
a certificate of judge
am
Circular contains some statements that I
the signers cannot state
brother
It
it.
removed he
myself had been instrumental
scribers to the C?vnal Loa.n, v^'hich surprises
my
could be done
it
Sliould he be
of their
own.
confident I observe
one of the signers, but under what influence he has been
induced to sign
it
do not
I
I believe
Isuov/.
him
to
be entirely friendly
and cannot conceive any object he should have
to Col. Oakley,
to
misrepresent any parties concerned.
In what position has the investigation had opposing parties
am
I
at
Chicago placed the
?
without any recent advices from you. I
remain Dear
Sir
Your Most Obdt Svt JULIUS Wadsw^orth
New York Hon. Augustus
January 17th 1848
French
C.
Springfield
Dear
Sir:
Your favors
of 22rid
and 31 st^ Ulto. together with my to hand on Saturday evening
commission as ''Transfer Agent" came the
J
5th inst.
of 1st inst.^
INIr.
which
I
Leavitt also received on the same day your favor
have just seen.
relative to the dividend
that *
it
will
These
due the
He still remains in
first
^londay in
be charged upon him that he
letters urc not
is
found in the Letter-Books.
this
the
same dilemma
Month and
fears
causing the delay for the
LETTERS TO FRENCH, JANUARY purpose of using the money.
do
otherwise, as
him
of the debt to
therefor[c] deferring the
payment
doing, which of course m.eets
much
remain suspended
do
which
my
if
applied on the
to
assent.
me
much
date to another
payment
for
to
it
from you
Jany
if
interest
the
New
accrue on the
New
the
New
will
be entitled from
January 1848^ but
paid)
is
of course
Stock so issued until next July,
are given that
New Bonds had
could
if
plan, of
you
see
fit
all
Month.
not
when
the instalment
This plan v/ould make
it.
it
necessary
amt. for which ''Interest
to the
the arrears on the old bonds from July last
is
to the ist of the present
your
cannot be
This could
paid upon, should bear date Jany
add the further arrears of interest
Bonds"
Stock will
July ist 1847, as then there would be no interest
could be regularly paid upon to
for the reason
will leave the arrears of
Stock issued in exchange for such Bonds as the
(Now being
ist 1848, instead of
in so
will not
you take the view you
paid as there are no funds provided for the purpose.
be obviated
is
in reply to
concur with him
and and
less,
issue in exchange, bearing date July ist 1847, its
\vell
He
be applied.
to
on the old bonds,
same coupon as before
Interest to July ist 1847, just so
could
lie
how much to pa}^ money to be applied,
hope the matter
I
I regret that
longer.
relative to the application of interest
that
it is
until he hears
and appeals
his letter of the 29th Decr.^
269
determine
to
on each bond unless he knows the exact amount of
and the whole amount
1848
do not however see how
I
impossible for
it is
17,
all
I
been
should think
filled
this the best
up with July
order the alteration to be made.
stamping on the Coupon due Jany.
plan
ist 1847.
if
You
This plan or the
ist 184S,
seems almost
imperative. If
however you think
diilerently the thing
ner as you advise and I hope relation to stampiiig the
must have misunderstood
it
will
amount paid on )ne, as
must be done
in such m.an-
not produce any great confusion. the
New
In
Stock, I think you
such would be impracticable from the
and and new ones issued for them. Besides it is always customary interest to be collected on transferable Stock without presenting the
fact that those certificates of Stock are constantly being transferred
canceled, for
Certiiicatcs.
I
hand you
hereAvith the account complete as requested
by you cov-
ering the whole $1558. which was the amount of Mr. Lcavitt's check which you handed us. '
Sec an If, 150.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
270
inorning called upon IMessrs. Ball Tompkins & Black manufacturing the two Swords for Lieutenants Pope^ (Sc
I have
tliis
relative to
They
Scarritt.
draw
will
row or next day with however that
it will
be unable to give solid
The
sufficient.
think $250 a small su]n, and fear they
scabbards
for that
money.
Swords
I think
it.
There
of that cost
device and inscription will also be
[sic]
should
drawn up and
Tliey think you should have mentioned
Probably the Arms
the device and written the inscription.
word
They say
silver
fo]-warded to you io a few days.
with the
give the estimates to-mor-
They
estimates will however determine
be
them and
not be possible to complete them before ist March.,
and perhaps not so soon. will
drafts of
the time they can probably be done.
''Mo}ifer[e]y'^ in a
kind of
scroll, v/ith the
of Illinois
words inscribed
John Pope by the State of Illinois in considerahowever after seeing the i\Ianufacturers again, write
''Presented to Lieutenant tion it
I will
(S:c."
out and send you.
Very
little
has been done for a month past
We
in.
opening books for transfer,
in trancribing
So
to transfers.
month
has been done
iii
to this time.
as I
much hope
refunding and for some
exchanging Bonds for the past
December
as I have been obliged for
this will
at $1.00. per J\Io.
from
&
want
January
in
my
of time to defer
be satisfactory to you
Sept. ist.
his duties for tlie post four
make
in
our registers and attending
have settled with Mr. Briggs for his services
I
to
Jany
ist as
agreed
His services are $1200 per year, and
Months
been very arduous.
ha^^e
I
will
out ray account in a few days and send you, with accounts of some
transfer books
and
in
that 1 have concluded to include
next report, it
little
in
have how ever been very busy
days past nothing has come
Siiall
tsic.
I
hardly
know what
confoiin to your wishes.
It
1
am
entitled to for .services
has occupied a good deal of
time and attention, v;hich together with the responsibility, use of
my
office
'John Pope: born March 12, 1823, at Kaskaskia, Illinois; entered West Point in 183S and graduated four years later; 1842, appointed second lieutenant of topographical engineers; August, iS.;6, joined General Taylor's army iji INJexico; distinguished himself at the battle of Monterey; 1849, conducted exploring expedition into what is now Minnesota; 1853, began surveying route for Pacific Railroad; 1854-59, explored in the West; 1S5Q, ni.irricd daughter of Congressman V. B. liorton, of Ohio; in Lincoln's escort (o Washington; May, 1S61, made brigadier-general of volunteers; assigned to command in Missouri; assisted in capture of New Madrid and Island No. 10; promoted to rank of major-general of volunteers; commanded the Army of Virginia in batlle of Cedar Mountain ancl in the second b;ittle of Bull Run; at his request was transferred to the department of the Northwest January 30, 1S65, appointed to the command of the Military Department of Missouri; October 16, 1882, made major-general in regular army; 1886, retired from service; died September 23, 1892 {The National Cyclopaedia of J mcn'can Biograpliy).
LETTERS TO FRENCH, FEBRUARY &C
proper to charge.
is
i(
When
out the account soon and send
you was under date of Jany
last letter to
remain Dear
I
&
both Transfer
Interest Agencies
done without much charge.
are united, this refunding can be
iMy
make
I will
3^our appi-obation.
you for
13.
Sir.
Your Most Obedient
New York
Servt.
Wads worth
Julius
Hon. Augustus
271
1848
i,
February
1848
ist
French Govr &c
C.
SrRrNGElELD
Dear
&
Sir: Herewith I send you transcripts of the register of
from the
Scrip surrendered
first
December
of
showing but a small amount for the time. received nearly
to this date.
Bonds have
I
have, however to day
I
Three Hundred Tliousand Dollars
refunded belongirig to James Holford Esq. and as
of
JNIr.
Bonds Leavitt
be
to is
now
paying interest and stamping payment on the Coupons of Jany 1848, I
many
think
of Interest.
reason
I
will
1
bring in their
Bonds before
do not send you the transcript
The
before gave you.
New Bonds
transcript of
and answers
getting this instalment of
Bonds
issued for the
bonds surrendered actually purposes for examination.
sliows
all
I will
send the transcript of Issues as fast as the sheets are
last letter to
issued,
you was under date
as directed in your letter of
The form
The
we
of 28th Jany. enclosing the
issue the
Scrlj:)
3''ou
you hercwitli
and send forward
surrendered
is
will serve for
for entry
l)y
you
to enter
on our books
B. Cole on the i6th Deer, as is
of doubtful character
counterfeit, but not exactly certain.
examined by Mr.
My Stock
at
New Stock.
observe by reference to the transcri]it fearful
full.
New
i5th.^
of the sheets I send
Scrip surrendered to the time
Jany
all
Bri.^gs
who
did not suspect
It it,
you will and I am
was taken in and upon examining
))ut
was led to suspect it. Under the cirdo and I only called upon (he party surrendering it and said to him that I thought the Scrip was not good. I also said to Mr. Leavitt that I thought he had better for the ])resent
it
for the
purpose of canceling
cumstances
I
hardly
I
know what
to
suspend paying any interest u[)on the Stock issued for '
Tills letter is not
found
in the J^etter-Books.
it,
and
I
as trans-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLJ.ECTIONS
272
fcr agent will of
way and
refuse to transfer
v':oiirse
would
it.
The
matter stands
your instructions as to what course
in tins
had better Should you think best I would leave the matter open until you ado])t. come on here and then 3^^ could examine the Scrip and deterjnine vv^hat should be done. I have not and shall not cancel the scrip until the matI
like
ter is finally adjusted eitlicir for the
party to surrender
I
Stock or other-
tlie
wise as 3^ou direct.
have nothing of particular interest to advise you
I
The
of.
Five
Dollars for subscription to Hunts Merchants Magazine was paid as directed and
we have charged
the
remain Dear
I
same Sir,
your account,
to
with mucli regard
Your Obt.
Scrvt.
Wadsworth
Julius
New York Hon. Augustus
French Govr.
C.
March
18,
184S
^:c
Springfield
Dear
Sir:
I arrived in this City last
having been absent twent^'-eight days. Feby. nth, 14th, i6th, 17th, 19th,
answers made by firmed. I
very
my
much
pa,rtner Air. Sheldon, all of
regret the occurrence
of
Scrip taken in will ])rove
the Stock
as the distinction b,etween the
understood by Mr. Briggs.
numbers occupied by
letters of
which
fully con-
is
my power
will use every effort in
Scrip.
hope no more
I
bad but such a thing
is
not impossible
good and spurious was not
sufficiently
In relation to supplying the places of the
the Stock issued to B. Cole as suggested in your
letter of 28th, I Vvould
it
and
and return the counterfeit
up
numbers
your several
28th/ and have obseiTed the
In relation to the Stock issued to B. Cole I can only say that
to get tlic
&
evening from Ne^v Orleans
I find
suggest the propriety of omitting to
until the Stock issued to B. Cole is hiken up,
need not cause any intcrru]3tion
in
and
in
fill
these
doing so
your record as you can leave their
numbers without carrying out tlie name to whom issued or amount, and it can be filled in when other stock is issued besides we have only blank Stock that is numl)e]-cd and in order to fill in for these numbers we sliall have
to strilcc out tlie
not be better to '
Oaiy the
fill
numl)ers of the blanks
in tliese
letter of the ig!h is
made
use
of.
numbers some time vvhen you found
in the
Letter-Books.
Would
are here.
See ante, 164.
it
It
LETTERS TO FRENCH, MARCH me
appears
to
of your
leltc]"s
no
l.hat
inconveJiiePiCe
1848
i8,
273
can arise from, the delay.
In orte
observe that your remark that one of the returns
I
is
evidently full of errors or so transcribed as to baiHe the ingenuity of
your Clerk.
I
am
very sorry that 3'ou should so readily discover that
the errors were so numerous, and
you
tion to
have
will find that
such
I trust after
not the case.
is
more complete examinahave taken great pains
I
done with great accuracy and notwithstanding the
this lousiness
peculiar nature arid various kinds of Stock, Scrip I
had hoped and
still
&c
with as fevv^ errors as could possibly be expected, and
ances will be
done if I
made by
satisfactorily
received and issued
think that the whole business will prove to be done
and
yourself. in
I
hope
to
a manner to give
cannot I do not by any means wish
to
I
be able
do hope some allowhave the business
to
no cause
of complaint
have the business
to attend to.
little
or
Your remarks per yours of 19th Feby.^ relative to my account are duly noted and I have only to say in reply that whatever }^ou may think proper to allow
will
be
satisfactory^, I VN'ish
however
to
observe that you
have entirely underrated the amount of labor which had been done,
your remark that clerk, for I assure
it
would be hardly necessary
you that from the time you
left
up
uary most of Mr. Eriggs time had been occupied
in
keep a continuous
to
to the first of Jan-
in receiving in
and
issuing Bonds, in transcribing our registers sent you, in o])ening the in furnishing Mr. Leavitt with the necessary numbers &c &c. The amount you propose to allow for the transfer agency &c is as I suggested and was as I supposed In relation to the interest Agency I luive only to before understood. say that vv'hatever compensation may be deemed suitable to fix for that service, I should be willing to accept, either by a fixed salary or by using I h.'id supposed that a salary of the money which remains on hand. 1200 Dollars a year for each the transfer and the interest agency would be about such a compensation as would be suitable, this v,-ould allow
transfer Ledgers,
and
transcripts, copies of
$1200 pr year for clerk use, responsibility
rehend
1
do
some
ILLINOIS ]]ISTORICy\L COLLECTIONS
3o6 action It
may
nia.)^
at
have (o be luxd
in
order to procure the surrender of Ib.em.
some time be necessary
a final settlement of the
affair.
to
send some one to London to make
Your
letter to
George Peabody Esq.
has had due course.^ I
remain Dear
Your
Sir
AIo. Oht. Servant
Julius
New York To
Wadsworth
June
26,
1849
His ExcjlLleiXcy
Aug. C. French Springfij:l]3
Dear
Sir:
We
received a few days since a remittance of Eighteen
Thousand Dollars from Messrs. B. C. Webster & Co. in a one day sight draft on ]\Iessrs. E. W. Clark, Dodge &" Co. for account of Illinois Iiiterest.
We
have
tlie
same.
We
have advertised the payment of Five Dollars on each one thou-
for
to
day collected the draft and herewith hand you our receipt
sand, and commence the payment on Monday
The whole amount we have Instalment Dollars,
is
few days
in a
or nearly
We if
tlic
Seventh
Thirty three 'Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty two
and we divide upon $55,000
balance soon.
next.
n.ow received from you for
—We
therefore hope to get the
shall remit to iNlatheson &: Co. for this instalment
we get further remittance from }'ou. We think the whole amount now received will be required here in the first
all tlie
two weeks.
We
i-emiain
Very truly
Your Obedient SeiTants
Wadswortji
& Sheldon Interest
'
A nte,
200.
Agents
LETTERS TO FRENCH,
JUI.Y
ii,
1849
New York To
307
July
ijih
1849
Excellency Augustus C. 1'rencii liis
Springeield
Dear
We
Sir:
duly received your fa^vors of the 26th
ulto.^
covering
Twenty four Thousand Dollars on account of Illinois which we herein enclose you our receipts for accts. as
a remittance of Interest, for
follows
— Seventh Instalment payable July '"
July
1,
1849
$21,538
I,
1850
2,462
$24,000
We make &
remittances by the Steamer of the
nth
inst.
to ]\Iessrs
Co. of London, for payment of this instalment.
Matheson
Also
further remittances on a/c of former installments, they having advised
us that the funds already forwarded had become exhausted. repeat our desire to ha,ve
Jardine
&
all
the accts.
Co. and Messrs. Matheson
We
and vouchers of Messrs. Magniac,
&
Co. on account of their interest
we may make up complete accounts. We are examn'ning some papers and letters from Messrs Matheson & Co. relative to the Bonds sent jMessrs. Howland and Aspinv^all for funding, and when we have completed the examination will forward them to you for your instructions in the premises. The writer hopes agency, placed in our hands, that
to be able to mail the
papers to day.
We
are dear Sir
Your Mo. Obt. Svts
&
SriiCLDON
July
nth 1849
WaDSWORTTI
New York His Excellency
Augustus
French
C.
Springfield DiiAR Sir: advising
tlie
We
have duly received your
f:ivor
of
the 2nd inst.=
transmission by the next mail of draft of E. Vv^ Clark
'
This
'
Probably the
letter is
not found in the Letter-Books. letter of
July
5.
See anie, 204.
&
ILLINOIS rnSTORICAL COLLECllONS
3o8
Brothers on E. \Y. Clark the
said
The
draft
Dodge
draft has been presented,
&
&
Co. for $10,000 at 70 days date, and
has come to hand under envelope of E. Afoore Esq.
and accepted by Messrs E. W. Clark
due on the 7/10 September, and when paid we forward you our receipt for the money on account of the January
Uodge will
1850
Co. and
falls
Interest.
We
wrote you yesterday^ enclosing receipts for your
Also relative to
tiie
bonds
in
hands
of
Kowland
&l
last remittance.
Aspinwall, with papers
&
which had been received from Messrs Matheson
Co. and their letter
relative to the same.
We We
regret to be advised that
shall
however attend
to
you
will
not
visit
New York
such business as you
may
this season.
require us to do
to the best of our ability,
and
which were struck
the Macalister 8z Stebbins settlement, with the
blank to
off for
will
forward as you desire the blank jjonds
certificates for transfers very
send thein, but hope to in a
soon
—have as yet had no opportunity
fev/ days, otherv/ise will
send them by
express.
We remain
dear Sir
Your Mo. Obt.
Svts
Wadsworth & Sheldon
New York Aug
29,
1849
His Excellency Augustus C. French, Gov. Springfield Illinois.
Dear
Sir:
sight for Twenty-five
whicli
draft
of the 2isP^ came duly W. Clark Dodge & Co.
Your esteemed favor
day advising draft on
Alessrs. E.
Thousand Dollars
interest account for
January 1850, and we
form. '
Thiri letter
(say 25,000$)
has come duly to hand, and when paid
is
not found in the Leltcr-lJooks.
will
to
hand
at
60 days
to
due Octo. 19/22 will
send receipt
be credited in
our usual
LETTERS^^O FRENCH, SEPTEMBER
We
ha.ve received Jaii)^
i8$o.
iron
12,
3^9
184.9
3'ou for 8th in^'talmcnts Interest
In casli
2,462
Draft due ringfield.
first
I
think
it
will
will
tlie
be forwarded by the
come
more
in
freely
after ist Jany.
Nothing
as yet been
lias
Holford and
I\Iacalister
done with Mr. Macalister but
have arranged to attend
I believe
immedi-
to the business
ately after the ist Jany.
have
I
letters
Would ment
])cen
and
to
looking for
letters. from
it
I
want
in reply to
some
of
my
former
not be well to have a copy of the law to pro\^ide for the pay-
Mr, Peabody
sent to
me
for reference, as 1 shall probably
next Steamer get letters from Matheson
son
you
hear from you.
shall daily expect to
&
Co. relative to
also to get your viev/s relative to the account of Alessrs.
& Forman,
and what policy
will
be pursued relative
by the
it.
to
Thomp-
an adjustment
of tluit matter. 1
remain Your Mo. 01_)cdicnt Servant Julius
New York
Wadsworth
Jany.
i6t]i
1S50
His Excellency Augustus C. French Springfield
Dear I
have
to
Sir:
I
duly received your esteemed favor of the i8th U[1]lo.2
day received from
?\ir.
Moore tlie list of ''Interest BojkIs" make the necessary entries upon
surrenderred and canceled and will the transfer books. '
Sec
Tor
a}ift,
who
descriptive of the
tlie
how
assumed
may
be proper
facts
be submitted
May session,
30U might
will
as yet to
I
have
tliink
will 1)e
You
come
&
proper to suggest might be taken.
and a balance
stand after
of
payments
all
each dividend showing
The
made.
are
amts.
be paid are I think rather below the actual amt. out-
Dollars of Inlk Imp.
should
Matheson
your Excellency and the Trustees,
standing which liave not been p]-esented, as there
funded
writteii
to
herewith a carefully prepared statement of the
several dividends of interest,
the funds
it
and advise that the
sul)nn't the case to
will also find
Lea\-itt
some memo-
at the time of subscription,
bonds was made that
of Trustees, at the
would
so tliat such action as
You
if
registiT of the bonds,
board
Co. that I
have submitted the matter to Mr,
I
say that
«fc
is
from
5 to
600,000
Canal Scrip remaining unfunded vvhich when
in for all tlic
dividends since July 1847, and consequently
provided for by a fund held sacred for that purpose.
v;ill
ol)Scrve that for the 4th dividend $7,915,49 will be required
to cover all the Stock,
but as there
will
be some excess on other dividends,
have as you see deducted those amounts and show that $6,443,47 will be sufficient to make the whole dividends complete, not however pro-
I
viding for expenses and exchange on remittances.
The amount recei\ed for the 4th dividend was $55,945,40 and the amt. divided was $63,000, whicli leaves this dividend deficit $7,054,60. Which amount
I trust
your Excellency
of the $15,000, remitted
some time
will authorise to
since
be retained out
and due on the 23d iMarch.
The amount divided for the eighth dividend was $60,375,00, the amoimt remitted was $57,012,52, or $3,362,48 short of the amt. divided. T would therefore suggest that you direct the $15,000, applied as follows,
$7,054,60 to the 4th Dividend, $3,362,48, to the 8th Dividend, and the balance $4,582,92, to the 9th or next July Dividend. This will in my judgement [sic] place the dilterent funds for each instalment on the proper footing and preserve each di\idend to
ment when cahed
for.
No
1)e
applied to
its
appropi-iate pay-
other course can be pursued without at
some
LETTERS TO FRENCH, future time causinp; diflicuK)', as
it
upon
ing to one dividend to pay
^lARCIT, 1850
cannot be just
and
anothei-
to
319
apply
fiincls bclon^i^-
a deficit in the
tlnis leave
fund taken from
remain Your Mo. Obt.
I
Svt.
Wadsworth
Julius
New York To
Alar, 1850
His ExcilLlency
Augustus
C.
French
Springfield
Dear
I returned last evening
Sir:
been spending about two weeks, and 7th Feby.^ i-elative to
Peabody,
die
and
tlie
am
from Washington,
am
Vv'here I
have
hi receipt of your favor of the
settlement with Macalister
also in receipt of a
copy
&
Stebbins, Geo.
of the letter written
by
your F^xcellency to Mr. Macalister, and shall follow out your directions same, hoping soon to get defmite directions
relative to the settlement of the
about
tlie 5
Bonds
received from
M. &
S.
by
Col. Oakley, I enclose a
& Co. received per last Steamer, relative to the account of I\Iagniac, Jardine & Co. Herewith you will receive the Abstract of Registers of Bonds & Scrip surrendered and New Internal Impt. Stock & Interest Bonds issued to
copy or duplicate of a
letter
by Matheson
the ist M^arch 1850.
The Canceled Bonds &
Scrip are packed
up ready
to
be forwarded
by the first opportunity. I also hand you herewith a l)rief statement of Bonds & Scrip outstanding, ^^hich yet remains to he funded, and presume most of these amounts will come in within the year, as I am advised in whose hands to Springfield
considerable of
it
parties can fund.
now
rests,
I very
awaiting sundry settlements before the
much wish
—
the
Bonds of $300 as that would hokling single Bonds to fund them.
Interest
I
Law
authorized the issue to
enal^le
remain Dear
a numljer of parties
Sii-
Your Mo. Obt.
Svt.
Julius '
Ante,
'221.
Wadsworth
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
320
Statement of Illinois Bonds & Scrip Funded M/VRCR 1ST 1850 Impi. Bonds signed by
Intl.
Fund
Whole amt. outstanding May Amt. funded from
Amount
still
May
Outstanding
Convnirs. ist
1849
ist
&
1849
$383,000
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Amt
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issued to Jas. Holford rcsei*ved for
$150,000.00
non assenting cred44,168
itors
.
1 1
194,168,11
96,597.00 Int.
on balance
to
Jany
i,
6 ,761,79
1851
$103,358,79
Amt. " ter
of Liquidation
"
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Bonds "
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$103,358,79
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
382
New York His Excellency Augustus Springeield
C.
April 21st 185
French
Dear Sir: Your favor of the loth inst.^ is just received, covering Thomas Dyer Esqr. for Tvvcnty four Thousand Dollars, and
draft of
we
herein enclose you our receipt for said amount, carried to the respec-
accounts as directed by you, as follows
tive
Account of Eleventh Dividend Interest " " Liquidation Bonds Int. Jany 185 " *^ Salary and Contingent expenses for 1850
$19,314,09 3,600,00 1,085,91
$24,000,00 All of
which we
trust will be
found correct and
We
satisfactory.
remain Your Mo. Obt.
AVads^vorth
New York
Svts.
& Sheldon
April 24, 1851
To
His Excellency Augustus C. Frex\ch Springfield
Dear
Sir:
We
for the receipt of
enclose herein our receipt for $18,500,^ in exchange
Thomas Dyer Esqn
from Mr. E. Moore under date 12th
dated April 5th and received
inst.
This remittance together with former remittances on a/c eleventh Dividend makes the sum of
leaving to be remitted to
make up
of the
$67,814.09
a dividend of
$ 9,185.91 $77,000,00
We ^
remain Very Respectfully
Your Mo. Obt.
Svts
Wadsworth & Sheldon •
Atite, 236.
*
Uid.
LETl^ERS TO FRENCH, JANUARY
New York Dear
At
Sir:
22,
3S3
1853
City Jany
the request of Gov. Wells I have
examined
21, 1S53 tlie
accounts
Wadsworth and Sheldon and send Wells could not attend to it, as he said, and
of the State of Illinois with ISIcssrs
you by mail the requested
me
results.
to act in his place
occupy but a very short time.
and represented the matter such as
He
said nothing to
me
to
of the character
and I had nearly completed it before I discovered was necessary for me to have some authority from you to act.
of the examination
that
it
I
have com])leted the examination
ness, received
would be
If I
satisfied.
Wadsworth
made
in full
and receipted for the vouchers
&
certificates of correct-
in the expectation that
have done right you
you
forward to Messrs.
will
letter stating to them tha.t I have full power to and Mr. Wadsworth very properly suggests that such letter of authority be dated at some period before the close of your adminisI have found the examination a very different affair from what tration, I expected when I agreed with Wells to attend to it and I am very certain
Sheldon a
act in the premises
that I should not have undertaken
it
had
length of time and the labor to complete
it
I
known
or anticipated the
fully.
Yours &c J.
Calhoun
Hon. A. C. French
New York Hon Augustus
C.
Jany
22, 1S53
French
Springfield
Dear
Sir:
Hon John Calhoun
the accounts of Interest
payments
has just closed the examination of
for the year ending ist July last,
and
has forwarded to you by mail the accounts complete with his certificate, and has sent by express the parcel of vouchers canceled coupons and other papers, and
I
now
enclose the Express receipt there for.
]\Ir.
Calhoun has audited the account at the request of Mr. Wells who had not time to attend to it and 1 wish you would forward to me a letter of authority to Mr. Calhoun, makiiig him your agent for auditing the a/c of Wadsworth & Sheldon Interest Agents. This letter of autliority should be dated back
to a time prior to
your going out of
tion required several days constant attention on
and was done
in a
olfice.
tlic
The examina-
part of Mr. Calhoun,
very compk*tc and understanding manner.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
384 1
have to
clay niailcd to
tainiiig the cariceled
your address
at Springfield a
Bonds, Scrip, Coupons &c funded
report with transcripts of Registers to
Deer
ist 1852,
package
coii-
i)rior to the Jast
which
I trust will
be examined and found correct. I
have
which
I
ho}:)ed to
hear from you rehitive to some of those measures
have heretofore urged upon your attention for the action of the
Legislature.
The
passed v/ithout
fail,
bill to settle
fers so as to consolidate certificates interest, is also important.
and
to
Thompson & P'orman
with
and the authority
and
I shall
render you any service
in
to the
my
Governor
to
should be
arrange trans-
issue certificates for arrears of
be glad
to
hear from you often
power. I
am
truly
Yours
Julius Wadswortii
LIST OF LETTERS
LETTERS OF THOMAS CARLIN (CHAPTER
T)
1840 PAGE 1.
To
Richard M, Young, Fcbriiaiy
and expenses
instructions about salary
18:
in negotiating a loan for the state;
concerning the
assumption of state debts 2.
5
To
Richard M. Young and John Reynolds, March 12: concerning canal bonds to be sold for benefit of contractors; drafts drawn
Company
against Poughkeepsie Locomotive Engine 3.
To Richard F.
Barrett,
made by
State
Bank
4.
To John
Siddall, casliier of
5.
To
6.
To
7.
To
8.
To
March
16: state
bonds
to
protested ...
11
Bank
of Illinois, April 4: draft protested
by Poughkeepsie Locomotive Engine Company Richard
M. Young and John
13
Reynolds, April 30:
delivery of
eleven hundred canal bonds to William F. Thornton
13
William F. Thornton, April 30: sale of canal bonds for benefit of canal contractors to depend upon sales made by Messrs. Oakley
and Ryan
14
William F. Thornton, April 30:
sale of canal bonds;
needs of
the canal
To
10.
To
11.
To
12.
To
15
Richard M. Young,
Wright 9.
May
i:
confirms sale of bonds to Messi's.
& Co
16
Jacob Fry and David Prickett,
canal lands
and
ISIay
i
:
concerning the sale of
lots
Jolin Reynolds,
17
June
9:
sale of state bonds;
interest
on
state
debt
19
Richard M. Young, June
bonds
to
Wright
&
previous refusal to confirm sale of
20
Co. due to influence of the legislature
To Richard M. Young,
To
22
emission of canal bonds signed
contract with Wright 14.
14:
William F. Thornton (probably), June 25: contract between Richard M. Young and Wright & Co. accepted and confirmed;
new 13.
8
be sold; advances
the Senate,
&
July Co.;
December
i:
notified of the acceptance of the
2:
payment
of interest
on state debt
..
23
acknowledges receipt of a resolution
concerning the sale of state bonds 387
25
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
388
1841 15.
To
the Speaker of the Senate, January 2:
relating to the failure of 16.
To
Wright
House
the Speaker of the
&
transmission of letters
Co
26
January
of Representatives,
17.
To
18.
To
the Speaker of the Senate, January
2:
trans-
& Co
mission of letters relating to the failure of Wright
26
transmission of letter
7:
from A. H. Bangs
27
House
the Speaker of the
January
of Representatives,
7:
trans-
mission of letter from A, H. Bangs 19.
27
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
January
15: trans-
Speaker of the House of Representatives, January
18: trans-
mission of letter from A. H. Bangs 20.
To the
mission of letter from. Richard 21.
To
the Speaker of the
House
mission of letter from 22.
To
23.
To
24.
To
M. Young
28
of Representatives,
January
18:
trans-
Fund Commissioners
the Spea-ker of the Senate, January 22:
Commissioners
28
28
list
of letters
from Fund
laid before the Senate
the Speaker of the
House
29
of Representatives,
January
5:
trans-
mission of a memorial from the Territory of Iowa
a
29
the Speaker of the Senate, Januaiy 5: transmission of a copy of
letter
from Samuel Allinson
30
25.
To
the Governor of the state of Missouri, January 5:
for
Edward W. Thomas, John Lowery, &c
26.
To
the Speaker of the
House
requisition
30
of Representatives,
January
5:
trans-
mission of a copy of a letter from Samuel Allinson 27.
To
mission of a letter 28.
To of
30
House of Representatives, January 29: transand petition from New York Historical Society
the Speaker of the
Richard ^L Young, agent for negotiating loans for the
Illinois
and
Michigan Canal 29.
To
31
the Speaker of the Senate, February 3: transmission of a report
31
the Speaker of the
House
of Representatives,
mission of a report of Richard
M. Young,
February
3:
trans-
agent for negotiating
loans for the Illinois and Michigan Canal 30.
To
31.
To the Speaker of
the Speaker of the Senate, February 4:
of the
annual report of the the
Illinois
House
31 transmission of a copy
Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Representatives,
February
4:
32
trans-
mission of a copy of the annual report of the Illinois Mutual Fire
Insurance
Company
32
LIST OF LETTERS ^2
To
the Speaker of the
House
^^.
To
letter
tlic
from the governor of the same
the Quartermaster General of the
To
6:
trans-
Legislature of Alabama, state
32
February
iNIililia,
information concerning the arms belonging 34.
February
of Rcpicsciita lives,
mission of report and resolution from
and a
389
16:
requests
to the state
32
our Senators and Representatives in Congress,
:
transmission of copies of a memorial of the General Assembly of Illinois
^^
35.
To
the Speaker of the
36.
To
the Speaker of the Senate, February 22:
House of Representatives, Februar>' 22: transmission of a preamble and resolutions concerning the *' Protective Policy," passed by the General Assembly of Alabama from the Legislature of Alabama concerning the
lutions
tion of the decisions of the
mends 37
To
Supreme Court
of that State;
distribu-
recom-
that the Senate pass a similar resolution
House
the Speaker of the
34 February 23: Michigan, relat-
of Representatives,
transmission of a memorial from the Legislature of
ing to the building of a ship canal around the Falls of St. jNIarie
38
To
House
the Speaker of the
^^
transmission of reso-
of Representatives,
.
.
34
February 23:
transmission of a series of resolutions from the Legislature of
Maine, concerning the Northwestern boundary 39
To
series of resolutions
the public 40.
41.
34
the Speaker of the Senate, February 23:
To
from the Legislature of
transmission of a
New
York, concerning
domain
35
the Speaker of the Senate, February 23:
transmission of a
series of resolutions
from the Legislature of Connecticut, concern-
ing the public lands
and
To
the tariff
35
House of Representatives, February 24: report and resolutions from the Legislature of
the Speaker of the
transmission of
Indiana, concerning the public lands 42.
To
transmission of a series
House
35
February 24: of resolutions from the Legislature of Penn-
the Speaker of the
of Representatives,
sylvania, concerning the distribution of the sales of public lands,
and 43.
tlie
To
revision of the tariff
^6
the Speaker of the Senate, February 26:
transmission of the
proceedings of a meeting of canal contractoi-s held at Lockport, on the subject of bonds sold by their agents 44.
To
the delegation in Congress from Illinois,
of a
memorial from the
legislature,
a Marine Hospital at Chicago
36
March
5:
transmission
concerning the establishment of
37
LETTERS OF THOMAS FORD (CHAPTER
11)
1842 PAGE 45.
To
December
the Senate,
14:
nominates Solomon Parsons
to
be
M. Hatch,
notary public for the town of Griggsviile, vice Ozias resigned 46.
To
47.
To
38
the Senate,
pubhc
December
nominates Ralph Hamlin
17:
House of Reprcsentadves, December from London
48.
Cerdficate of the
49.
To
50.
To
Senate,
December
the Senate
the Senate
39 United States 39
of Representatives,
and House
December
John Pearson from the
20:
noti-
state Senate.
40
.
December 20: notiSupreme Court, caused by United States Senate, and
of Representatives,
Sidney Breese being elected
To
39 transmission of a
19
and House
ficadon of vacancies existing in the
Thomas
17:
of Sidney Breese to the
electiorj
fication of the resignation of
51.
be notary
at Peoria, vice William Mitchell, resigned
the
letter
to
to
the
Ford's elevation to the governorship
the Speaker of the
House
41
of Representatives,
December
21:
transmission of the seventh annual report of the commissioners of the Illinois 52.
To
and Michigan Canal
the Senate
and House
41
of Representatives,
December
22:
trans-
mission of correspondence concerning the dissolution of the relations
between the banks and the 53.
To
the
House
resolution 54.
To
41
state
of Representatives,
December 24: transmission of Vermont
of a
from the General Assembly
December
the Senate,
27:
nominates Oliver Whitaker
to
42
be
notary public of Stark county, vice Christopher Sammis, resigned 55.
To
the Speaker of the Senate,
December
30:
.
.
42
transmission of the
seventh annual report of the commissioners of the Illinois and
Michigan Canal
42
1843 56.
To
ex-President
tions passed
Andrew Jackson, January
8:
enclosing resolu-
by the General Assembly, regarding the fme imposed
upon him by Judge Hall
43 390
LIST OF LETTERS 57.
To
and House of Representatives, January 11: attention manner of procuring sup})lies for the State House
the Senate
called to the $8,
To
59.
To
60.
To
61.
To
391
—
the Senate,
January
nominates
13:
De Grass
notary public for Bureau county, vice John H. Br}'ant, resigned the Senate, Januaiy 13: nominates
Henry W. Moore
to
.
.
46
the Senate, January 13: nominates Joseph Filkins to be notary
public for Virgil
January
Cook county
17:
House
the
47
Norman H. appoints these men
Hickox,
Bank
accounts of the State
To
Purple and Heniy G. Cotton, as a comniittee to examine the
of Illinois
of Representatives,
47
January 21: report of the lands
selected by the state, agreeable to the act of Congress of
March
19,
1842 6^.
To
46
be com-
missioner of the Gallaiin county salines
62.
44
Salsbury to be
48
the Senate, January 23: nominates
Samuel
F. Piice to be public
administrator of Alexander county; William G. Gofort to be admin
Theodore Engelman (Englemann)
istrator of St. Clair county;
be notary public for 64.
To
65.
To
to
Clair county
St.
48
nominates
the Senate, January 25:
Norman H.
Purple
to
be
bank commissioner
pubhc 66.
To
48 nominates Henry Brown
the Senate, January 26:
be notary
to
be notary
Walter Kimball, resigned
for Chicago, vice
the Senate,
to
January 31: nominates James
49
McCoy
public in the county of Whiteside 67.
To
theSenate, Februaiy
2;
49
nominates Lewis B.
Wynne to be public
administrator of IMenard county 68.
To
the
House
lutions
of Representatives,
from the Legislature
relations
and
the tariff;
of
49
Februaiy
6:
transmission of reso-
South Carolina, concerning federal
from the Legislature
repudiation, assumption of state debts,
of Georgia, concerning
and the imprisonment
of free ;
negroes 69.
To
50
the Senate
and House
of Representatives,
mission of letter from ex-President letter sent in 70.
To
February
Andrew Jackson
6:
trans-
j
in reply to the
56 above
|
i
50
|
the Senate, February 6: nominates Albert E. Smith to be notary j
public for
McHenry
at Pleasant Groves, 71.
To
county; Charles D. Pulver to be notary public
McHenry
county
sion of
and House of Representatives, Januar}' 6: transmisa letter from Governor Carlin, concerning the negotiation
of state
bonds
i
51
the Senate
5
|
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
392 72.
To
and House Representatives, February
the Senate
delivery of
bonds
to the
73.
To
74.
To the Senate, February
House
the
concerning
8:
governor by the State Bank
February
of Representatives,
51
transmission of a
9:
report from the board of auditors 10:
53
Adams Dunlap
nominates
be notary
to
public of Schuyler county 75. 76.
To To
the Senate, February 10:
53
burning of canceled state bonds.
the Senate, Februaiy 11:
nominates William B. Parker
...
to
be
to
be
notary i^ublic for the town of Tremont, Tazewell county 77.
To
pubhc administrator 78.
To
for
Hancock county
the Senate, February 16:
nominates
pubhc and public administrator 79.
To
letter
80.
House
the
To
54
nominates John P. Haggard
the Senate, February 16:
for
of Representatives,
the Senate, February 20:
54 S.
Robbins
to
be notary
Grundy county February
from Governor Carlin, relating
20:
55 transmission of
to selection of lands
nominates John McDonald
55 to
be
public administrator for Calhoun county 81.
To
the
Senate,
February
20:
55
Bryan
nominates
Shawneesey
(Shannessy) to be notary public for Alexander county 82.
To
83.
To
84.
To
the Senate,
85.
To
the Senate
the Senate,
the Senate,
notar}'^
86.
87.
public for
to\\ii
to
be
to
be
to
be
Lake county
55
February 21: nominates William B. Doolittle of Pekin
56
February 23: nominates William B. Doolittle notary public for town of Pekin
and House
of Representatives,
March
2:
56
certain state
indebtedness to be burned
56
March 3: nominates B. K. Hart, Peter Merrill, and William Montgomery to be inspectors of the penitentiary at Alton; Thomas INIorris, William H. Bissell, and Murray T\lcConnel to be bank commissioners for Bank of Illinois
57
To
the Senate,
To
the Senate,
and 88.
55
February 21: nominates Lansing B. Nichols
public administrator for
To of
March
3:
nominates James C. Sloo, John Crenshaw,
Orville Sexton to be directors of the
Charles Oakley and Michael Ryan,
bank charters
argument
to
of the
Bank
Bank
March
of Illinois
of Illinois
7:
57
defends the repeal
and Cairo Bank; furnishes
support the good intentions of the state respecting
its
58
debts 89.
54
Instructions to Elijah
Adams and John M.
value of railroad matenal belonging to slate
Kelly in assessing the
62
LIST OF LETTERS 90.
To IL
Bigclow,
March
393
instnictions about the purchase of rail-
15:
road iron 91.
To
63
March
Joel A. jNIatteson,
15:
purchase of railroad iron belong-
ing to the state 92.
Power
93.
To
94.
To Thomas
63
John Dougherty, March
of attorney to
leasing of the
27:
depot lands at Cairo
64
John Dougherty,
.
.
.
instructions about the leasing of the
:
.
depot lands at Cairo
65
Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, April 3:
acknowl-
edges receipt of the rcquisiton for Richard Eells (Eels) 95.
To
96.
Draft on Farmers and jNIcrchants' Bank of Baltimore
97.
Power of attorney
65
Charles Oakley and Michael Ryan, April 17: instnictions con-
cerning the claim of Rugglcs and
to
Howe
Charles Oakley,
of
New York
March
7:
66 67
negotiating the
new
canal loan of $1,600,000 98.
To Thomas
67
Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, April 13: reasons for
refusing to honor the requisition for Richard Eells (Eels) 99.
Commission
to
who were
Kercheval,
69
William M. Jackson, James Mitchell, and Gholson to assess
damages
suffered
by the canal con-
tractors
78
100,
Directions to the above commissioners
loi.
Power
of attorney to Charles
to act for the
Wright 102.
To
&
governor
in
78
Oakley and Michael Ryan, May 15: the bankruptcy proceedings against
Co
80
Charles Oakley and Michael Ryan,
money
received from the estate of Wright
103.
Power
of attorney to Charles
104.
Power
to act in the
May
&
15:
distribution of
Co
81
Oakley and IMichael Ryan,
bankruptcy proceedings against Wright
of attorney to Charles
&
May
16:
Co
Oakley and IMichael Ryan,
82
May
16:
similar to 103 105.
To D. H.
85
T. Moss,
May
16:
power
to sell railroad materials
belong-
88
ing to the state 106.
Commission
to
John
IM. Kelly
and Elijah Adams
to sell
timber and
other railroad materials belonging to the state, IMay 26 107.
To
108.
To James
Middleton Tackerberry, June
materials at
June
14:
9:
Tremont
Jslitchell,
88
concerning the sale of railroad
89
William M. Jackson, and Gholson Kercheval,
concerning the assessment of damages claimed by canal
contractors
90
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
394 109.
To
Ruggles and Howe, June
for
money due
no. To George \V.
concerning a claim u[)on the State
16:
for legal services
River Railroad
Company
91
bad
Gilson, June 16:
To H.
113.
To
Woodworth, June
P.
Rock
hinted at
in. To Stephen Harriman Long, June 112.
faith of the officei-s of the
91
20: sale of railroad iron
further light on the
23:
92
Rock River
Company
Railroad
92
Nathaniel Buckmaster, June 29:
instructions concerning the
sale of railroad iron
114.
To
jNIason
of Joseph 115.
93
Brayman, July
3:
asking information about the release
Smith
94
Lemuel Andrews to sell all material belonging pertaining to the improvement of the Rock River near
July 13: authorizes to the State
Va.ndrufT's Island 116.
T'o
Thomas
answer
96
Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, July 26: promises
in a short time
Governor Reynold's request
to
for a military
force to aid in arresting Jose^Dh Smith 117.
To Thomas
96
Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, August 14:
gives
reasons for not ordering out the militia to aid in the arrest of Joseph
Smith 118.
97
To John
C. Spencer, Secretary of the Treasury, August 5: asks that
railroad iron seized by the collectors at Cincinnati
and
St.
Louis be loi
released 119.
To
Phipps, September 11:
J.
Wabash 120.
Power
River;
concerning mill leases on Little
instructions as to collecting overdue accounts.
of attorney to Joel A. Matteson,
September
13:
.
.
getting the railroad iron released by furnishing proper bonds 121.
To
Robert B. McCown, September
offered for the apprehension of
13:
refusal
102
pay reward
John Williams
122.
To David Markely
123.
John M. Kelly empowered to sell materials on IMt. Cannel Railroad, October 30
(Markley), October
requests that they be examined
to
6:
102
provides for
103
submits
list
of lands
and
and valued
104 line of
Alton and
106
1844 124.
Statement, February 9:
refusal to receive iSIacalister
bonds from James Dunlap acting
Bank
of Illinois
&
Stebbins
for the private directors of the
106
LIST OF LETTERS 125.
To
ex-Governor John Davis, January
to the
126.
To
new
3:
395
answers questions relating
canal loan
107
Jacob Fit, March
4:
scrip sent to canal contractors;
about injunctions against governor; form of receipt
to
notice
be given by
canal contractors
119
Ryan, March
127.
Power
128.
Agreement between Governor Thomas Ford and James Dunlap, October 9: Macalister and Stebbins bonds received conditionally.
of attorney to ]Michael
powers given
in loi, 103,
similar to those
22:
120
104
120
1845 February 25
129.
Receipt for $4,565 .43, given to
130.
Proclamation authorizing the election of two trustees for the
131.
To John
and Michigan Canal by
132.
134.
the subscribers to the
Davis and David Leavitt, March
suggestions
made by
To John D,
Whiteside,
of a suit to 133.
J. Bcall,
these
new
10:
122 Illinois
loan
men
May
123
18: requests evidence in
contemplation
be brought against state by Michael Kennedy
To James 25: Adams presented for ratification To James Shields, Noveml)er 25: Shields,
November
122
discusses certain
list
124
of lands selected by Elijah
126 list
of
seminary lands presented
128
LETTERS OF AUGUSTUS (CHAPTER
C.
FRENCH
III)
1846 PAGE 135.
To Major J.
December
E. Jackson,
10: orders forces at
Nauvoo
to
be disbanded
131
136.
To Major
J.
supplies at
Nauvoo
137.
To
138.
To Major J.
December
E. Jackson,
the citizens of
disposition of military
10:
131
Hancock county, December
asks their aid in
12:
restoring order
Nauvoo 139.
To
140.
To
December
E. Jackson,
12:
a private
letter to arrive at
before the letters 135, 136
133
Captain Aiken, December 21:
affairs in
Dr.
Massac county;
W.
J.
Governor Ford 141.
132
To David
to call
asks information concerning
out militia
Gibbs, December 21:
for investigating troubles in
Leavitt,
December
25:
133
suspends order given by
Massac county
Mr. Leavitt asks
to
135
continue as
interest-paying agent of the state
135
1847 142.
To 11:
Magniac, Jardine
&
Co.,
state trustee for the Illinois 143.
To
Silas
Wood, March
trustees too high;
144.
To
Baring Brothers
&
General Assembly of
To
146.
To
&
February
Co.,
and Michigan Canal
18:
shows the Co.,
136
considers the salaries paid the canal disability of the state trustee
March
Illinois;
state to repudiate debts;
145.
and Baring Brothers
announces that Colonel Charles Oakley has been appointed
19:
137
transmits resolution of the
denies a desire on the part of the
asks for an exchange of bonds
William A. Denning, INIarch 27: concerning trouble
139 in
Massac
county
141
Charles IMacalister (probably), July 16: advises against making
a new claim on state; regrets that negotiations had not been carried out according (o the plan of the General Assembly 147.
To
Baring Brothei-s
governor 148.
in the
To William
&
Co., September
28:
defines the
142
power
of the
conversion of the Internal Improvement Bonds.
.
.
Gooding, November 30: charges against Mr. Gooding 396
143 144
LIST OF LETTERS 149.
To Governor Young of New York, Andrew
tion for
:
Piingle, Joseph Thornton,
397
refuses to
honor requisi-
Samuel Stead, and John
Davidson 150.
To James and
151.
146
collector of
To David on
interest
November
Sykes,
30: appoints
Mr. Sykes
to
be assessor
Highland county
Leavitt,
December
147 establishes
16:
new
rule for paying
state debt
147
1848 152
To William
Gooding, Januaiy
6:
procedure indicated
in investigat-
ing the charges preferred against Mr. Gooding by the state
153.
To David Leavitt, January
154.
To
of interest
on
155.
Silas
power
payment
state debt
150 to
send commissioner
line of the canal to take testimony in the case of the trustee
against Mr.
To
149
14: instructions concerning the
William Gooding, January 24: proposes
on the
tixistee
Oakley
of the canal, Colonel Charles
Gooding
152
Wood, January
canal affairs unsatisfactory; lack of
28:
of the Executive in canal affaii-s;
beginning of the payment
of interest 156.
To David
157.
To
158.
To
159.
To
152 Leavitt,
January 28: instructions regarding the payment
of interest; series of questions submitted
the charges preferred against
Magniac, Jardine
payment
ing the
&
Co.,
154
manner of taking testimony in Mr. Gooding by the state trustee ....
William Gooding, February
5:
February
11: asks for vouchers
156
show-
of state debt
158
George Peabody, Febniary 11: agreement of Mr. Peabody and the agent of the state; Mr. Peabody 's claim to be presented to the
legislature
159
To
160.
Judge J. D. Caton, February 14: encloses charges against William Gooding; instructions for taking testimony
161.
To
160
Charles Oakley, Februaiy 14: concerns the taking of testimony
in the
Gooding
certiiin
testimony
162.
To
163.
To David
case;
gives
Mr. Oakley pennission
to
withhold 161
William Gooding, February 16: urges the closing of the case; canal soon to be completed
making
Leavitt, February
18:
reports; interest to be paid
diate report
161
censures Mr, Leavitt for not
on $8,000,000; asks for imme162
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
398 164.
To
Julius
Wadsworth, Februaiy
new
allowed for clerk;
concerns clerk hire;
19:
$1,200
interest-paying agent to be appointed
&
164
165.
To
McDougall, February claim against Mr. Shenvood
21:
166.
To Peck and McDougall, March
makes
167.
To David
168.
To David
169.
To T. W. Ward,
debt contrasted; no European agent })rovided to exchange bonds.
.
169
170.
To
.
171
171.
To John M.
Peck
i:
gives pennission to settle
165 specific offer for collect-
ing Sherwood claim
166
March
Leavitt,
12: ;/]4,ooo to
be forwarded
to
England
to
apply on semi-annual interest
March
Leavitt,
167
21:
holdci-s of
to receive interest; surpluses to
April 9:
May
P. B. P'oukc,
bonds must present them
be applied
to
next interest payment
attitude of Illinois
15: injunction against the city of St. Louis.
Krura, mayor of
Louis,
St.
May
168
and Indiana toward
calls the
iS:
mayor's
attention to the action of the city council in building a wall in the
Mississippi river 172.
To 22:
172
William H, Benneson (Bennison),
To Wads^Yorth &
May
clerk of Quincy,
acknowledges receipt of resolutions of the
Quincy regarding the damming 173.
city
city
council of
of the Mississippi river at St. Louis
on state debt
174
174.
To W. H.
175.
To Hope &
176.
To John M. Krum,
July i8:
controversy w^ith
Louis
177.
To David W.
Swift,
June
15
difference in the salaries paid the different
:
canal trustees
to
pay
174
Co.,
June
shows the advantage
15:
new bonds;
of
tax
interest
175
St.
declines a conference regarding the
177
Hopkins,
sheriff
authonzes the calhng out of
of
St.
Clair county,
July
damming
militia to prevent the
26:
of the
Mississippi river at St. Louis 178.
To W. H.
179.
To Wadsworth
tsi
and coupons
be given
Swift, July 29:
177
monopolies formed
to
buy canal
lots
and
lands
180.
181.
178
to
Sheldon, July 29: ordei-s bonds, scrip, vouchei-s, to
To Julius Wadsworth, July To James G. King & Sons,
Mr. Webster; provides 29:
for funding
copy of the order referred
October 25: the two
to
.
.
above
To John M. Krum, Mayor of tation to visit St.
Louis
180 180
mill tax not appli-
181
cable to canal debt 182.
173
Sheldon, June 15: $60,000 available for payment
St.
Louis,
November
2:
declines invi-
183
LIST OF LETTERS
184.
To N. Niies, To Wadsworih &
185.
To
1S3.
-:
not to be destroyed
ferries
November
Sheldon,
399 183
urges the prosecution of
4:
funding the public debt
186
Charles Macalister,
November
Macalister
17:
regarded by the legislature as the only creditors certain
in
&
Stebbins
the matter of
bonds
187
186.
To
187.
To Hope &
Co.,
bonds
United States from Europe
president of
the
Bank
the United States,
of
November
29:
forwards law concerning payment of interest
188.
to the
December
To Wadsv/orth &
December
Sheldon,
187
assumes
state
i:
risk in transporting
189 $50,000 available for
11:
semi-annual interest 189.
To
190.
To
191.
To
190
Baring Brothers, December 12:
the canal Silas
and
calls attention to the
work on
the salaries paid the trustees
Wood, December
190
change of law concerning payment
14:
of interest
T.
192
W. Ward, December
bad been appointed secretary 192.
To
Charles Macalister,
laments the fact that Mr. Gooding
14:
of the canal board
December
14:
193
hypothecated bonds; other
claims to be presented later
194
1849
To Wadsworlh &
Sheldon, April
2:
investment of the state school
6:
funding of state debt.
195.
Sheldon, April To Wadsworlh To Thomas W. Ward, April —
196.
To
197.
To George
198.
To James
199.
To
193.
fund 194.
195 Sz;
:
attack of Mr,
196
Gooding on
the
governor; Mr. Swift imposed upon president of the
refuses to
certain
give
197
Coming Bank, New York,
comply with the
state funding act
199
Peabody, April 11: asks postponement of the sale of
200
bonds G. King
&
Sons, April 12: payment on coupons;
can
no information about the State Bank
Julius
Wadsworth, April
16:
202
refuses to consider certain
said to have been deposited with ^Morrison, 200.
bank
April 7:
To Wadsworth &
bonds
Jaudon and Smith.
.
.
.
203
interest
201.
202
Sheldon, April 19: enclosure of drafts to pay
To Julius Wadsworth,
July 5
:
new bonds
for Macalister
&
Stebbins
204
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
400 202.
To
Julius Wadswortli, July
enclosure of bond fomi
7:
205
203.
Bond fomi mentioned above
204.
To
205.
Austin A. King, Governor of Missouri, to Governor French, June
206
Julius Wadswortli, July 18:
Thompson
claim of
&
Forman.
.
.
206
30: withholds warrant for aiTcst of certain fugitives claimed to have
committed a crime 206.
To
A
Austin
promises an investigation
in Illinois;
governor of Missouri, July 20:
Eling,
207
concerning a
208
requisition for parties charged with kidnapping a negro
207.
To W. H.
Swift, July 27:
enclosure of a clipping from
tlie
Chicago
Journal, showing Mr. Gooding's unfitness for his position 208.
To John Hogan,
209
July 30: concerns a claim against the state by
M'.r.
Hogan 209.
210
To Richard M. Young, August
25: arrearage of the three percent
211
school fund 210.
Governor Austin A. King, claim
made
that
of j)iIissoun, to
Governor French, July 27: his runaway slave
any slave holder could capture
wherever he could find him ijii.
To
212
Austin A. King, Governor of Missouri, August 28:
questions
the right of the governor of Missouri to refuse to honor a requisition 212.
To Tucker &
Crops, September 20:
negotiability of the Macalister
213.
&
213
explains the arrest of the
216
Stebbins bonds
To Julius Wadsworth, December 18: bonds provisions for paying the Peabody claim
given to Mr. Oakley;
217
1850 214.
To
Charles Macalister,
Illinois
215.
To
Julius Wadsworth, February
ister
&
To
218.
Mr. Brower;
P. A.
the
Brower
to
7:
attitude
of
& Stebbins
218
relates to the claim of INIacal-
Peabody claim
Wadsworth, March Peabody claim
Ex-Govcmor Ford of
to
Julius
to settle
217.
explains
31:
declines to change terms of settlement with
Stebbins;
them; law refening 216.
Januar}^
regarding the bonds hypothecated to Macalister
to
to
222
Governor French, April
states that he
is
a sick
17:
concerns claim
man
Governor French, April
the late Colonel Oakley by Macalister
at the legislature in Springfield
221
be sent
3: remittance to cover salaiy; also
&
17:
222 five
bonds given
to
Stebbins for sersace done
224
LIST OF LETTERS
401
219.
John D, Whiteside to Governor French, I\Iay 8: nothing is due Thompson & Forman for railroad iron
220.
To Julius Wadsworth, May iron entered into with
221.
To
222.
To
claims that
224
19: concerning the contract for railroad
&
Thompson
Forman
225
Julius Wadsworth, June 3: funding hypothecated bonds held by Islacalister and Stebbins; misunderstanding between this firm and Mr. Wadsworth Julius
Wadsworth, June
makes remittance
5:
state debt
223.
To
Julius
227
Wadsworth, June
to Macalister
&
10: liquidation
bonds not
to
be issued
Stebbins until hypothecated bonds have been sur-
rendered 224.
To
228
Julius W^adsworth, June 27: relates to claim of
Forman; Mr. Wadsworth asked
Thompson
&
attempt settlement with above
to
229
firm 225.
To
Charles
INIacalister,
August 9: explanation of the law by which
the Macalister-Stebbins claim might be settled 226.
To
226
payment on
for
Richard M. Young, August
231
securing the arrearage of
24:
school funds for the state
232
227.
To Wadsworth &
Sheldon, October 3: spurious scrip discovered,
233
228.
To
November
Sidney Breese,
i:
asks that the matter regarding the
railroad contemplated by the Cairo
Company be
left to the legisla-
234
ture 229.
To D.
B. Holbrook,
tion of the railroad
November
i:
advises the delay of
tlie
construc-
by the Cairo Company
235
1851 230.
231.
To Wadsworth & E.
Moore
receipt 232.
To
233.
To
to
Sheldon, April 10: encloses draft for $24,000.
Wadsworth
&
Sheldon, April 12:
.
from Thomas Dyer
236 purchase of
Julius Wadsworth, Afay 19: provement stock; purchase of bonds Julius
Wadsworth, ^May
20:
New fund
for school
encloses
list
Internal Im-
of
236
bonds paid at the
treasury; school fund 234.
To
Tulius
Wadsworth,
237
May
26:
interest
bonds
to
be issued
to
Mr. 238
Ridgely ^35.
To
236
enclosure of a
Millard Fillmore, President of the United
asks for an extension of time in which
States,
September
to select railroad
lands
i:
238
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
402 236.
To
Dr.
G. Norwood, state geologist, September
J.
i:
concerning
state geological survey
237.
To Waclsworth &
238.
To
239.
To Governor of
239
Sheldon,
bonds held by Macalister ,
&
sale of
:
November
26:
interest
on hypothecated
Stebbins
240
government land
for warrants
and cash
240
1852 Missouri, January 15: asks reasons for refusing to
honor a requisition
for certain fugitives charged with the crime of
kidnapping
241
240.
To
24T.
To Governor
,
January
15:
the two mill tax provided by the Constitu-
tion of 1848 explained
242
February
of Missouri,
17:
affirms that a certain
negro claimed by citizens of Missouri as a slave
is
a free negro of
244
Illinois
242.
To Bowery
Fire Insurance
Company,
April
surrender of bonds hypothecated to Macalister
10:
&
concerning the Stebbins
245
1853 243.
James T. Barbour
to
Governor Joel A. Alatteson, March make a survey in Hardin county
8:
asks
that the state geologist 244.
Governor Joel A. Matteson 12:
to J.
247
G. Norwood, state geologist, April
authorizes sun^ey for lead in Hardlnty.
.
coun
247
LETTERS OF WADSWORTH AND SHELDON. TO GOVERNOR FRENCH (CHAPTER
IV)
1847 PACK
245.
March
expresses interest in Illinois;
22:
Sheldon soon 246.
June Cit)';
in
to
3:
Wadsworth
&
be formed
251
Governor French makes good impression
in
New York
the credit of the state improved; action against debtor banks
New
York urged
252
247.
June 26: an examination made Leavitt and the state
248.
August papei-s;
3:
has law relating
payment
to
of the account
between David 254
funding published
of detached coupons;
unpaid coupons attached; issue of 249.
firm of
receipt of
in
New York
bonds without
certificates for deferred interest
October 21: progress of funding; dissension among canal
Mr. Leavitt's removal
a,s
interest-paying agent mentioned; interest
on detached coupons 250.
November 23:
251.
December
issue of
256
bonds for deferred
interest; delay in present-
ing bonds to be funded 2:
257
IMacalister
&
Stebbins claim; register of surrendered
bonds; swords for Lieutenants Pope and
bonds
to governor;
change
Scarritt;. surrender of old
in interest-paying
agency contemplated;
few bonds exchanged.
payment
258
252.
December
9:
253.
December interest in
13: payment of interest; London be suspended
December
21:
254.
255.
January
3:
254
trustees;
261
of interest
issuing of
suggests that payment of
262
new bonds
264
surrender of sterling bonds by Ilowland, Aspinwall
&
Co.; delay by Mr. Leavitt in payment of interest; salary as transfer
agent $1,200 per year;
offers to take interest-paying
agency for
same amount 256.
January
13:
265
payment
by Mr. Leavitt still delayed; agencies be placed in one ofiice
of interest
suggests that the various state
403
—
267
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
404 257.
January
17:
payment
of interest
by Mr. Leavitt
furtlier delayed;
swords for Lieutenants Pope and Sea rritt; few bonds refunded. 258.
February
i:
.
.
$300,000 of bonds received from James Holford;
suspects counterfeit scrip 259.
March
271
18: salary for transfer agency; use of
money
to
compensate
interest-paying agent 260.
261.
262.
Pope and Scar-
surrender of old bonds
James Holford bins bonds
to Julias
274
Wadsworth, April
4:
Macalisler
&
Steb-
276
Wadsworth
Julius
any 263.
272
April i: counterfeit scrip; swords for Lieutenants ritt;
James Holford, April
to
of the Macalister
&
5:
declines to fund
Stebbins bonds
276
&
Wadsworth
April 12: counterfeit scrip; security to be given by
Sheldon
277
&
Stebbins bonds
264.
April 29: Macalister
265.
May
9: settlement of state's
266.
May
18:
counterfeit scrip;
account
payment
paying agency in London, Matheson 267.
June
v/ith
Gay
& Wadsworth new
of July interest;
281
interest-
& Co
acknov/ledges appointment of
9:
279
281
Wadsworth
&
Sheldon as
interest-paying agents 26S.
June
269.
July
I
:
270.
271.
New York
283
City; July interest
surrender of old bonds; $60,000 available for July interest;
payment; coupons of 1840 outstanding
of
284
July 3: dividend of $6 on each $1,000 declared for July July
7:
agents; 272.
283
deposits of state funds in
12:
manner
268
acknowledges receipt of $30,000;
many new coupons
remittance to
285
London
presented; foreign exchange
July 13: $18,000 to be sent to Matheson
&
286
Co.; deplores expected
suspension of interest payment for lack of funds; receipt of vouchers
from Matlieson
& Co
287
273.
July 20: payment on coupons of July, 1840, and July, 184 1, refused;
274.
July 20: foreign bondholders refuse to send bonds to
275.
August 2: sends vouchers received from Matheson
remittance of /^2,ooo to Matheson
j^i,5oo to 276.
Matheson
&
& Co
288
New York
&
.
.
289
Co.; remits
Co
290
August 21: 21,000 Internal Improvement bonds presented by Mr. Mathers of
Illinois
291
^'-f.
LIST OF LETTERS 277.
November
405
acknowledges receipt of draft for $4,000; interest
24:
on canal bonds of 1847; coupons of 1840 and 1841; January
inter-
est
278.
292
Governor Augustus C. French, per E. Moore, to Wadsworth Sheldon, August 24: asks for a receipt of above draft
279. September
money
11:
received v/ithout instruction as to
its
& 292
disposi-
tion
280.
293
December
amount
2:
of
New
Internal
bonds issued; parties owning
interest
recommends
Improvement stock, and bonds wish to fund;
single
that time for funding be extended; urges that at least
$55,000 be sent for Januar}'- interest; feeling against the two mill tax provided by the Constitution of 1848; suggests that to Constitution
281.
amendment
be made
December 29: $50,000 to Matheson & Co
293 remittance
available for Januar}' interest;
296
1849 282.
more than $1,000,000 Matheson & Co
Januar}^ 10:
bonds ready for funding;
of
;^2,ooo remitted to 283.
:
Macalister
& Stebbins
297
bonds; disability of small holdings
in funding; school funds
284.
March
298
supposed expiration
15:
of
time for funding
Internal
Improvement debt; total amount funded; protest against manner of funding by Silas Wood; bonds and scrip held by James Holford protested; Macalister 285.
286.
Stebbins bonds
299
24:
April 4:
& 287.
&
leams that time for funding had been extended; canceled bonds given to Mr. Webster; school fund
March
bonds presented by Howland
& Aspinwall;
302
Co. failure
Julius
301
echo of Wright
Wadsworth
to
Howland
&
Aspinwall,
March
10:
acknowl-
edges receipt of certain bonds "left in hands of J. Wright & Co."; refuses to issue new bonds for them; refei-s the matter to Governor
303
French 288.
Extract of a Aspinwall,
letter
New
York, I'^ebruary
of convei-sion into 289.
May
i:
from Matheson
new
&
Co.,
15, 1848:
London,
bonds sent
New
Howland
&
for purpose
304
stock
acknowledges remittance of $18,764.46;
market price of
to
Internal
Improvement stock
school fund;
304
ILLINOIS_HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
4o6 290.
May
acknowledges instructions relating
i:
to claim of
IJowland
&
Aspinwall 291.
June
292.
July 9:
305 acknovv'ledgcs receipt of $18,000; July interest
26:
306
acknowledges receipt of $24,000; vouchers of iSIagniac, Jardine & Co., and Matheson & Co.; bonds held by Rowland &
Aspinwall
307
293.
July 11: bonds for Macalister
294.
August
295.
September state's
&
acknowledges receipt
29:
counterfeit
12:
Stebbins settlement
307
of $40,462
308
comprehensive statement of
scrip;
indebtedness asked for
296.
September 28:
297.
October
298.
November
299.
November
300.
November
309
Ho wland & Aspinwall claim;
MacaHster
& Stebbins
bonds
310
acknowledges remittance of $4,565 .52
2:
310
acknowledges receipt of $2,985
13:
&
Thompson
13:
Forman
311
understanding
account;
between Charles Macalister and James llolford 28: school fund; transfer of
311
New Internal
Improvement
stock; five bonds given to Colonel Oakley 3CI.
December
12:
Thompson
&
312
$150,000 funded since January
1;
Peabody claim;
Forman claim
314
1850 302.
January
school fund;
16:
ered by James llolford; 303. January 29: January
Islacalister
five
&
Stebbins bonds suirend-
bonds given Colonel Oakley
Peabody claim; Macalister
304.
February
305.
February 21:
12:
314 316
interest &l
Stebbins claim
bonds held by Lord Gardner;
deficit in
317
interest
•payment 306.
March
317
—
Peabody claim;
:
Macalister
&
Stebbins claim;
bonds given Colonel Oakley; suljmits statement
of
five
bonds and scrip
outstanding
319
307.
Above statement
320
308.
April 9:
Peabody claim; no progress
in settlement of Macalister
acknowledges receipt of $5,000
309.
April 22:
310.
April 27: Macalister
311.
April 27:
& 321
Stebbins claim
&
Stebbins settlement
acknowledges receipt
of
$954.54
322
323
324
LIST OF LETTERS
313.
May May
314.
Charles Macalister to Governor French,
312.
10:
Peabody claim
10:
Peabody claim
407 324
settled
325
May
21:
Macalister
&
Stebbins claim 315. 316.
May May
22:
325
Macalister
Stebbins claim
&:
327
acknowledges receipt of $1,000;
23:
statement of funds
received for July interest
328
& Fonnan
318.
May May
319.
June
11:
Macalister
320.
June
20:
acknowledges receipt of $30,000
321.
June 27: acknowledges
322.
July 9:
317.
28:
Thompson
claim
329
31: certificates of indebtedness sent to governor
Thompson
Macahster
&
&
&
331
Stebbins claim; July interest
331
332
receipt of time drafts for $3,600
Forman
332
claim; no progress in settlement of
Stebbins claim
333
323.
July 9: disposition of funds in state treasury
324.
July 20: transmission of funds from Illinois to
325.
July 20: attitude of holders of Macalister
326.
July 20: transmission of funds from Illinois to
&
333
New York
334
Stebbins bonds
335
327. July 23: acknowledges receipt of $11,300;
New York encloses
336
credits
to
ninth dividend
336
328.
July 24: acknowleilgcs receipt of $580
337
329.
July 26:
330.
July 26: transmission of funds from Illinois to
331. August
Thompson
19:
August
29:
333-
September
334-
September
335-
338
&
New York
339
11:
bonds parson ted by Alton acknowledges
13:
receij^t
at
of
New York
3.10
Sangamon Railroad
$49,700;
school
..
&
Alton
]
34^] |
341
Sangamon Railroad;
|
funri;
of Illinois securities
21:
j
\
339
&
\
|
bonds
Sangamon Railroad
books and accounts of agency
market value
September
Forman claim
agents for Mr. Peabody claim $71.91 yet due;
presented by Alton 332.
(S:
market value
\
of |
3\^
Illinois securities
|
336.
September
23:
interest
payments audited; school fund;
market
adjustment of Thompson
Fonuan
value of Illinois securities;
.
;
;
INDEX 98, n.; manuscript of, placed in hands of J. Shields, cxvii; mentioned, Iviii, n. 5, Ixxx, n. 2, Ixxxiii, n., Ixxxiv, n., Ixxxv, n. 2, xciv, n., cxii, cxii, n. 2, cxvii; quotation from, 135, n., 1S2, n.; referred to, xvii, n. 3, xxi, n., xxxvii,
437
work on dam
in .Mississippi
River,
178.
House
of Representatives,
tion
to,
communica-
from: Governor Carlin, 26,
27, 28, 29, 30, 3T, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44,
Governor Ford,
Ixxiv, n. 5, Ixxix, n. 3, Ixxx, n. 2, Ixxxi,
50, 51, 53, 55; resolution of, sale of state bonds, 5 ; transmission to, of: letter, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 39,
n. I, kxxiii, n., ixxxiv, n., Ixxxv, n. i,
memorial from: Iowa,
2, Ixxxvii, n. 3, xci, n. 3, 5, xcii, n. i, xciv, n., c, n. 7, cxvii, n. 4, 94, n.,
34,
n. 2, 3, xlii, n. 2, xliii, n. 3, xlv, n. 2,
48,
liv, n. 2, Iviii, n. 5, Ixvi, n. 3, Lxix, n. i,
on
98, n., 135, n., 182, n.
Hogan, John, claim against state of, 210, 211; in employ of state, 210. scrip signed by, 320. Hogan, Hoge, Joseph P., candidate for Congress,
—
,
elected to Congress, Ixxxv; opinion of, on Nauvoo charter, Ixxxv. Holbrook, D. B,, letter of, to Governor French, (mentioned), 234; letter to, from Governor French, 235.
Ixxxv;
29, Michigan, 31, canal report, 41, insurance report, 32, report on public
petition,
works, 53, resolution from: Alabama, 33, 34, Georgia, 50, Indiana, 35, Pennsylvania, 36, South Carolina, 50, Ver mont 4 2 Sec General Assembly State Senate. House Journal, referred to, xxxviii, n. 2, .
,
liii, n. 2, 3, liv, n. 4, Iv, n. i, 3, 4, Iviii, n. 4, lix, n. 2, 3, Ixvi, n. 5, Ixvii, n., Ixviii, n. 3, Ixx, n. 2, Ixxii, n. 2, 5, n. 2, 6, n. 2, 10, n. 2, 16, n. 2, 26, n. i, 43,
n. I, 159, n.
bonds funded for, 271; bonds presented by, 300; characterization of, by J. Wadsworth, 355, 365; circular on building of Central Rail-
House Reports, referred
road issued by, 369; In-pothecation bonds to, 124; itemized statement bonds and scrip surrendered by,
Howland & Aspinwall (New York
Ilolford, James,
of of
380, 381; letter of, to J. Wadsworth, 276; letter to, from j. Wadsworth, 276; liquidation bonds issued to, 326,
379; ISJacalister & Stebbins bonds held by, 196; money paid on liquidation bonds to, 371, 372; payment of interest to, 368; refuses to submit Macalistcr & Stebbins bonds for examination, 277; surrender of ]Macalister & Stebbins bonds by, 315, 326; understanding of, with C. jNIacalister, 311; writes Goveriior French on subject of funding, 2S0. Holford, Bunker & Co. (New York City), purchase of foreign exchange of, 276; h>'pothccation of bonds to, 276.
Holstein
Canal,
estimated
cost
of,
kxii, n. 3.
Hope &
Co. (Amsterdam), bonds for-
to Nev.- ^'ork by, iSo; compliance of, with law, 18S; holdings of, lxix, n. 3; interest due, 81, 82; letter
warded
to, from Governor French, 175, 180. witness in Kennedy claim, Hopkins,
—
,
124.
Hopkins, David \V., letter to, from Governor French, 177; ordered to stop
to,
xlv, n.
3,
n. I, Ixv, n. 2, Ixvi, n. 4, Ixx, n. 3, Ixxiv, n. 4, Ixxvii, n. i, 2, 65, n. i, 78, n. 3, 89, 11. I. liii,
City),
bonds held by, 206; bonds sent to, 305; bonds presented by, 303; exchange of bonds by, 256; funding of sterHng bonds by, 265, 302; letter of 202; letter to, from: Co., 304, J. Wadsworth, 303; lien on bonds held by, 338; presentation of bonds for funding by, 348; J. Wadsworth advises cancellation of bonds held by, 311. Howley, M. J., private letter from, referred to, 55, n. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, subscripdirections
Matheson
to,
&
tion to, 272. article in Nr.u York Evening Post on, 20S; aspirations of, xyi; claims of Wisconsin for counties in, xxxvi; critical period in history of, electoral vote of, xxxvii, xxxviii; for Democratic candidates. cast xviii; experience of, in: banking, xvi,
Illinois,
improvements, xvi; internal great problems for the executive of, xviii, xix; homogeneity of the people xli,
of,
XV
;
immigration from
New
Fng-
land and New York to, xv; influence of, in national affairs, xix; D. Leavitt's connection with affairs of, Ixxiv, n. 2, 257; many settlers in, from Atlantic
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
438
states, xxix; native state of: P.
B.
reported back to Senate,
Fouke, 172,
D.
of canal
n., J.
Pope, 270,
n., J.
Whiteside, 126, n.; number of counties in, xv; personnel of settlers in, xxxiv; political situation in, xxx, xxxi, xxxii; population of, xv, xv, n., ex, n. 5; public debt of, xxxix, n, 3, liii, n. i; stand of, with western border states, xviii; state of, in an experimental stage, xxix; stimulated to large undertakings, XV, xvi; territorial expansion favored by, xviii; J. Wadsworth visits, 360; wealth of, 252. See State Bank; State Bonds, etc. Statutes of, 1833, referred to,
Illinois^
Ixiv, n. 2.
As
Illinois
quotation
It
Is,
by Fred Gerhard,
from,
referred
xlix;
to,
xlix, n., Ixxx, n. 3, xcviii, n, 3.
Illinois
Central Railroad,
M. Brayman,
solicitor for, 95, n.; ciiarter for, xxii.
See Central Railroad. College, Governor Duncan, a trustee of, xx; T. Mather, a director of, 24, n.; R. Yates, attended, 133,
Illinois
and
Moses,
Statistical,
by
J. referred to, xviii, n. i, xxi, n.,
xxxvii, n. 3, xxxviii, n.
i,
n.
lii,
2,
n. I, Ixxvii, n. 1, 2, Ixxxvii, n. 1,3, 8, n. 2, II, n. I, 14, n., 17, n. i, 38,
liii,
3,47,n.
I.
Illinois-Michigan Canal, of,
Ixiii,
acts of General Ixiv,
Ixv,
abandonment
account
Ixiv;
of,
Ixii
Assembly on,
Ixvii,
Ixxii,
Ixviii,
li,
ff.;
Ixiii,
Ixxiii,
Ixxvi; cost of, Ixxii, n. 3, 210; cost of, compared with other canals, Ixxii, n. 3; damages allowed contractors for change in construction of, Ixvii, Ixvii, n., 78, n. 5; debt of, estimated, Ixxi, n. i; delay on, 137; demands upon, to pay interest on canal debt, 7; difficulties of work on, Ixxvii; difficulties surrounding,
tractors,
income
of, Ixxiii;
discussed in Congress, Ixii; dissatisfaction with engineer of, 144, 145, 145, n. I, 149, 152, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161; dissension among the friends of, xxiv, 149, 152, 157, 158, 160, 161, 162, 209, 210; economic influence of, Ixv; economic value of, Ixxvii; election of .rustees for, Ixxv, 122, 123; enemies of, Ixxii; engineering force on, too large, 145; estimated cost of, Ixiii, Ixvi,
n.
examination
appointed,
Ix;
of:
authorized, H, begun, Ixv, railroad to, 357; contracts on, let to former con-
116, 117, 118, 122, 123, 153, 190, 191; for,
board
abolished,
depends upon interest legislation, condition of, kxvi; construction
Ixiv,
Ixiv; amount expended on, xl; appraisement along, 78; appointment of trustee for, Ixxv; arguments used
Ixi;
posed, xl; charges against W. Gooding examined along, 152; claims for, made by Governor Ford, substantiated, Ixx; commissioners for, appointed, Ixiii; completion of, xvi, Ixxvii, 137, 175, 201; completion of,
5, 6, 9, 12, 58, 68, 78, n. 3, 86, 90, 107, n., loS, n. I, 109, 113, 114, IIS)
acting commissioner
for,
Ixiv; bonds for, issued, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixvi, Ixxv, Ixxvi, 23; building of, stimulated by success of Erie Canal, xxix; change in plan of construction of. pro-
20; disbursement of
n. I.
Illinois Historical
n.
commissioners
Ixxii,
4,
Ixxii,
n.
3,
Ixxvi, 7; estimated tolls of, xl, n. i, 7;
H.
of,
by
J.
Davis and W.
Swift, Ixx; expense of: construc-
tion, Ivi, Ixv, Ixxvii, operation, Ixxvii,
4; failure of, predicted by Governor Carlin, 6; feasibility of, Ixii;
n.
to prevent the completion of, Ixxii, S8> 59> 60, 61, 62; assistance given to, by D. Leavitt, 136, n. 2; attack on, met by Governor Ford, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62; attitude toward, of: American creditors, Ixix, Chicago, Ixv,
friends of, Ix; granted to creditors, 108, n. i; holders of canal bonds
Congress, Ixii, Ixiii, Democrats, Ixvii, Governor Ford, Ixix, passi7n, foreign creditors, Ixix, Whigs, Ixvii; authoriized to be built by Cicncral Assembly,
campaign
n- 3>
Ixxiii;
basis of
new
loan
for, Ixxi, n. i;
beginning of, xvi; l)ill for completion of: defeated in Senate, Ixi, Ixi, n. i, introduced in the House, Ixi, passed House, Ixi, passed Senate, 1x1, hi, n. i.
given preference in subscribing for new loan of, kviii; importance of, Lxii,
Ixvi,
136;
income
Indian claims along,
of,
Ixxvii;
issue in xxxvi, xxxvii; lxii;
of 1842, itemized statement of receipts and
exjicnditurcs of, Ixxvii, n. 4; lack of money for, Ixv, Ixvi; lack of confidence of state in, Ixiv; land granted by U.S. government for, Ixiii; letters of General Assembly on, 153, 190; letter to appraisers of damages on, 90; loan for: authorized, Ixiv, Ixv,
INDEX negotiated,
Oakley,
C.
b}-^:
Ixviii,
M.
Ixix, Ixxiii, J. Reynolds. Ixv, 19, Ryan, Ixviii, Ixix, Ixxiii, F. Thorn-
ton, 16, 17, 18, R. 16, 17, 22, 23,
W. M. Young,
Ixv,
managed no; money
for,
24, 31;
benefit of creditors,
money
for
completion of, Ixxiii, hxiv, Ixxv, 21?; mortgaging of, Ixxiii; national importance of, 7; needs of, 15; new estimate of cost of made, Ixiii, Ixiv; new loan for: apportionment of, 68, 69, deficiency in, li,
c,
5;
for
109, mode of payment of, 69, negotiated, Ixviii, Ixix, Ixx, bcxiii, ixxvi, 68, rate of interest on, 153, repayment of, 69,
secured by revenues
of, Ixviii,
58, status of, 107, 108, log, no, in, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, T18, 119;
new survey of, made, bdii; not a part of internal improvement system, li, n. i; obstacles in construction of, xvi, Ixxvi, 137; opening of, anticipated, 162; opposition to the completion of, be, Ixviii; original plan of, abandoned, Ixvi; payment of claims against, Ixvii, n., 78, 79, 80, 90, 210, 2n;plan to turn over to United States, liv; power of governor in affairs of, 153, 209, 210; progress of construction of, xl, Ixvi, n. 4, Ixxvi. Ixxvii, 48, 139, 153, 162; railroad to be substituted for, Ixiv; reduction of work on, recommended by Governor Carlin, 16; report on, promised by board of public works,
25; revenue from, xl, Ixxvii, n. 2, 7, 170, 210; resolution of General Assembly on, 197, ig8; resolutions of trustees of, 174; salaries of trustees of,
Ixxv, Ixxvi, 174, 175, 175, n, 2, 190, 191; sanguine expectation of, xl;
"shallow cut" plan Ixvi, revived, Ixvi;
of: objected to,
thrown upon
its
own
resources, 7; tolls of, Ixxvii; trustees of, provided for, Ixxiii; ultimate provision for payment of, 58; work on: almost ceased, Ixvi, ceased,
See Canal Ixvi, hindered, Ixxvii, 190. Board; Canal Bonds; Canal ComCanal Lands; Canal missioners; Trustees; J. T3avis; J. I'Vy; W. GoodImijrovements; D. Internal ing; Leavitt; New Canal Loan; C. Oakley; J. Reynolds; U. Ryan; W. IL Swift; State Bonds; R. JNL Young. Canal Association, Illinois-]\Iichigan act of General Assembly on, Ixiii; capital of, l.xiii;
Ixiii;
failure of,
charter of, repealed, Ixiii; incorporation of,
Ixiii;
439 opposition to, by Illionis delega-
tion in Congress, Ixiii. Illinois IMutual Fire Insurance
Com-
pany, report of, transmitted to General Assembly, 32.
improvement
Illinois River,
of,
li,
n. 2;
sale of railroad materials along, 88. Illinois Rock River Railroad, good
&
intentions of officers of, 92; sale of materials along, 92; threatened action against, 92. lUinols State Historical Library, Collection of, referred to, 8, n. 2, 39, n. 2, 63, n. I, 126, n.; Publications of, referred to, xviii, n. 2, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxii, n, 5, Ixxxvii, n. 3, xciii, n. 5, xcviii, n. i,cii, n. 5, 133, n. 2, 141, n. 3. Illinois State Journal, edited by M,
Bray man,
95, n. in
Mexican War, at: Vista, cviii, Cerro Gordo, cviii,
troops
Illinois
Buena
El Paso, cix, Fort Leavenworth, cix, Tampico, cix. Vera Cruz, cix; dissension among, cvi; enthusiasm of, cv; mustered in at Alton, cvi, cix; mustered out at: Alton, cix, Camargo, j\Iex., cviii. New Orleans, cviii; number of, cv; officered, cvi, cix; participation of, at Beuna Vista, Cerro Gordo, Vera Cruz, cviii; praised by Generals Scott and Twiggs, cviii;
rejection of, cvii, cviii; rendezvous of, at Alton, cv, cvi; second call for, cix;
transportation
cix;
cviii,
command
under
Taylor,
of
of,
cviii,
General
cviii.
Immigration into
state,
xv, xxix, ex;
tide of, 211.
Income bonds, payment
on, 378.
Indiana, attitude of, toward: creditors, 169, 176, repudiation, lix; resolutions
from
legislature
of,
35;
state
debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Insolvent debtor's oath, taken by Mr. Tilson, 180. Insurrection, Mormons not guilty of, 100. Interest on state debt, accumulation of, 17; acts of General Assembly on, Ivi, n. 5, bci, Ixix, Ixxii, 9, 10, 20, 136, n. I, 148, 255; aggregate surpluses of, 156, 279; amount of, 16, n. 2, 176, 228; amount of money available for, 174, 197, 261, 262; arguments against payment of, lix; arrearage of, 200,
House,
Ixi,
payment
defeated in introduced in passed House, Ixi, passed
294; bill for Senate, Ixi,
Ixi,
n.
i,
of:
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
440
Senate, Ixi, Ixi, n. i, reported back to Senate, Ixi; canal lands the only source of funds for, lo; certificates issued for arrearage of, 255; complaints about delay in payment of, xxiii; condition of different instalments for, 352; caution required in payment of, 149; delay in payment of, 260, 267; difficulties in payment of, 266; dissatisfaction in paying of, 376; due on internal improvement debt, 25; funds for, 163, 164, 236, 293, 318; funds in state treasury for payment of, 349; funds transmitted for, 336, 356; inability of state to pay, 200; instalment of, 156; instructions from
Governor French about pa3^ment
of,
147, 14S, 149. 154, 155, 156, 167, 168, 169, 174, 182, 1S6, 190, 196, 228; interest bonds exchanged for arrearage' of, 263; itemized statement of money paid out for diilerent instalments of, 353, 354; lack of information about, 25; lack of money for, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22; letters relating to, transmitted to the Senate, 29; liquidation bonds entitled to, 328; manner of payment of, 278, 283; money in state treasury available for, 136;
no provision by General Assembly
payment payment of,
opposition to paid by hypothecating state bonds, lii; payment of, for
lii,
lix,
of,
Ivi;
Ivii;
ex, 28, 192, 229, 253, 286, 304,
payment of, advocated Governor Ford, Ivii, Northern European houses, 82, Illinois, Ix,
316,
375;
by:
payment
of:
ceases, hi,
180, n,
2,
confounded with payment of debt, discontinued in London, 263, lix, endorsed in conventions at Fairfield and Marion, Ixi, favored by a few Whigs, Ixxiii, in bonds, 170, not debonds,
coupons only under certain conditions, 261, detached coupons, 255, internal improvement bonds, 263, liquidation bonds, 232, ISIacalister & Stebbins bonds, 240, old bonds, 300, transferable stock, 269, oijposcd by \\'hig party, Ixxiii, provided for, Ixxiii, to J. Ilolford, 368; plans for payment of, Iviii; presentation of bonds not necessary for, 151; promptness in calling for, 298; i)rovisions for payment of, Ivii, n. I, Ixi, 170; rate of, 141 remittance of funds for, 163, 180, 203, 292, 306, 307, 308, 310, 316, 322, sirable, lix, on: canal
;
6,
328, 329, 382; resumption of the pay-
ment
of, 81, n.; rules for
payment
of,
147; state constitution (1848) provides for, 176, iSi; suspension of the payment of, lii, Si, n., 288; surplus of money sent for, 156, 163, 165, 16S, 254, 318; tax for: repealed, 28, n. 5, voted, Ixi, Ixi, n, i; transmission of funds for, to Europe, 154; various
amounts of unpaid, liii, n. i; vouchors for: payment of, 156, 262, to be returned, 158, 159. See Dividends; Interest-paying Agent; D. Leavitt; J,
Wadsworth; Wadsworth
&
Shel-
don. Interest bonds, aggregate amount of, 293, 300; cancellation of, 313; date of, 269; distribution of, 328; arrearage of interest on, 263; exchange of, for liquidation bonds, 328; held by Alton & Sangamon Railroad Co., 339; issue 275, 319, 331, 338; list of surrendered, 314; minimum amount of, to be issued, 319; plan for issuing, 260; purchase of, for school fund, 313' numbering of, 274, 275; quotations on, 342, 344, 353, 355, 372, 375; signatures on, 275; surrender of, by: Macalister & Stebbins, 380, 38 1, Thompson & Forman, 345; transmission of, 264; Wadsworth & Sheldon directed not to receive, 340, 341, 342. Interest certificates, receivable for state of,
lands, 192, 200. Interest fund, investment of, 344; interest on liquidation bonds paid out of, 362. Interest-paying agent (New York City), accounts of, 162, 163, 164; advice of, 158; appointed by whom, 156; appointment of, 135, 164, 280; appoint-
ment of new, contemplated, 257; appointment of, proposed, 251; asks for instructions,
150, 151, 263, 264, 269, 272, 273, 275, 290, 296, 303, 309, 313, 327, 346, 357, 362, 365; l^ond
251, 25S, 2S2, 280, 3 28, 330, of, 27S;
change in, 154; commission of, 260; compensation of, 278, 280, 37S; de-
payment
267; 200; dissatisfaction with, 256, 257; duties of, performed by: exchange a-ent, examina260, transfer agent, 271; tion of the account of, 253, 254; information desired of, 154, i55, ^S'^' 162, 163, 164; instructions to, 147.
lay of, in
difilcultics
of interest,
encountered
by,
INDEX 148, 149, 154, 155, 156, 167, 168, 169, 186; D. Leavitt: complains of the work as, 267, requests that he be relieved from duties of, 275; new arrangements with, 378; proposal to make J. \Vadsworth, 260; security of, 257, 273, 274; surplus in hands of, 159; J. Wadsworth offers: services as, 266, 267, to act as, for interest on balance,
work
273;
for,
257.
See Financial
Agent; Interest; D. Leavitt; J. Wadsworth; Wadsworth & Sheldon. Internal improvements, account of, 1 fF.; act of General Asscml.'ily on, li, lii, 5, 6, n. 2, 82, 83; appraisement of, 62; attitvide toward, of: Governor Carlin, 7, Council of Revision, li, Governor Duncan, xx, ii, n, 3, General Assembly, h, lii, people of state, Ix, bd, 10; beginning of the agitation for, xxix; bill for: passed a second time, li, lii, passed by pohtical subterfuge, refused indorsement by Council lii; of Revision, li, bonds for: interest ceases to be paid on, lii, issued, liii, building of, in Mississippi Valley, xxix; called chimerical, liii; demanded by every section of lUinois, xxix; expenditures on, 6, n. 2; extravagance of, xvi; failure of, xxii, xxx, lii, 6; folly of the plan of, xxix; considered political issue in campaign of 1842, xxxi; Illinois-lNIichigan Canal not a part of li, n. i; impracticability of Hi; inception of, 1; indorsement of, by people, ii, infatuation of, xlii, issue in campaign of 1842, xxxvi; lesson learned from the failure of, Ixii; magnitude of, Ixii; manner of carrying them on, lii; not a strict party measure, xxix; opposition to, sectional, xxx; out of proportion to needs, xxix; prompted by speculative spirit, xli; sale of railroad materials n. I
;
,
used
transfer
of,
181 ;' transmission
of,
from Europe, 304. Internal improvement debt, act of General Assembly on, 140. Internal improvement scrip, funding of, 3x5, 320; signed by: jNI. Carpenter, 321, J. Shields, 321, L. Trumbull, 321. Inter-Ocean, established by J. Y. Scammon, 119, n. i. Iowa (Territory), memorial from House and Council of, 29; visited by Mor-
mons when Nauvoo was founded, Ixxix.
Ireland, immigration into Illinois from, xv; B. Shawneescy, a native of, 55, n.; J. Shields, a native of, 127, n. Iroquois County, state lands in, 104. Island No. 10, J. Pope assisted in capture of, 270, n. Ivins, Charles, interested in publication of Expositor, Ixxxix, n. 4.
"Jack-]Mormons," election of, in Hancock County, xcix. See J. B. Backenstos.
Jackson, Andrew, characterization of, by Governor Ford, xxiv, 43; fine imposed upon, by Judge D. Hall, 43, n. I, 2, 50; follov.-ers of, oppose election, of Governor Duncan, xvii; letter
Governor Ford, 50, n. i letter from Governor Ford, 43; pleased with action of General Assembly, 50; poHcies of, opposed by Governor Duncan, xvii; public record of, 43, 43, n. I, 2, 44; resolution of General Assembl}'- on fine imposed by Judge
of, to
;
to,
Hall on, xxiv, 43, n. i. Jackson, Andrew, Life of, by James Parton, referred to, 43, n. 2. Jackson, J. E., letter to, from Governor French, 131, 132; military commandant at Nauvoo, 131; ordered to sell military stores, 132, 133; orders to, 131, 132, 133.
in, 88.
improvement bonds, act of General Assembly on, 175; circular issued on, by J. Wadsworth, 355, 357;
Internal
143; delivery of, to Wright & Co., 83; deposited with INIagniac, Jardine & Co., 348; forwarding of, 181; funding of, 175, 180, 181, 291, 320; holdings of, in l^ngland, 289; interest on, 192; payment of interest on, lii, 263; presentation of, for funding, 348; provision for, 188; receivable for: railroad materials, 89, state materials, 96; registry of, 181;
conversion
441
of,
Jackson,
Thomas
J.,
J.
Shields
de-
feated by, 127, n.
Jackson,
William
i\I.,
appointed
to
assess
damages due canal contractors,
Ixvii,
n.,
78,
n.
i;
78; biographical notice of, letter to, from Governor
Ford, 90. Jacksonian Democracy, growth
of,
in
Illinois, xvii.
Jacksonville, rendezvous of militia, c; residence of: J. Dunlap, 106, n. 2, M. ISIcConnel, 57, n. 2, R. Yates,
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
442
Jacksonville Daily Journal, referred to,
io6,n.
2.
Jaudon, Samuel, asked
for certain in-
formation, 302; attorney for state, 86; exchange of bonds by, 143. Jefferson College, attended by L, Davis, II, n. 2.
Bissell, 57, n. i.
Edmund William, member of firm of Wright & Co., 83, 84, 86,87.^ residence of: Jo Daviess County, Hickox, 47,
n. i;
V. strength of mihtia 64,
n.
2,
in, xciii, n. 2.
Johnson & Co., commission paid to, 337. Johnson, Allen, Stephen A. Douglas, a Study in American Politics, by, referred to, 235, n.
Johnson, Andrew, L. Trumbull voted for, in
impeachment
Johnson
County,
Regulator-Flathead
W.
J.
Gibbs, 135. Joliet, incorporation of, 93, n. 2; residence of: D. L. Gregg, 233, n. i, J.
Joliet
2,
G. D, A. Parks,
and Jidiet, by William Grinton,
ferred to, 93, n.
R.
]\I.
re-
2.
Jonesboro, residence of: 64, n. 1,
Reynolds,
Young,
J, Dougherty, 8, n. i.
Journal of Cojnmercc, Illinois statute published in, 255. Journal of Political Economy, referred to, Ixiv, n. 3, Ixvi, n. i, Ixxvii, n. 3, 4. Journal of State IJistorical Society, re-
ferred to, XXXV, n. I, cxvii n. 3. Norman B., activity of, in canal legislation, Ixi, n. i; biographical notice of, 373, n.
Judd,
Judge-Advocate, Reynolds, 8, n.
office
of,
held
by
J.
2.
Juliet, incorporation of, 93, n. 2; residence of J. A. Matteson, 93, n. 2, 102.
2,
T. Reynolds, 65,
refund part of salary,
lix;
salary
of, 175, n. I.
Kamehamaha, D.
Gregg, minister
L.
Kaskaskia, residence of: S. Breese, 39, n. 2, P. B. Fouke, 172, n., T. Mather, 24, n., J. Pope, 270, n., J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2, J. Shields, 127, n.
Kaskaskia River, improvement of, !i, n. 2; to be made navigable, xxix. Kelly, John j\I., authorized to sell materials of Central Railroad, 88, So, 106; expense m.oney for, 63; instructions to, 62,
Kendall County, residence
by D. L. Gregg,
233, n- IJustice of the peace, act of General Assembly on, 38. Justice of Supreme Court, asked to refund part of salary, lix; member of Council of Revision, li, n. 3; oflicc of, held by: S. Breese, 39, n. 2, J. D. Caton, 41, n. 2, 161, n., W. A. Den-
of
J.
H.
2.
Kennedy, Michael, act of General Assembly on relief for, 315; debt owed to, by state, 125; payment to, 221; serves notice on Governor Ford, 124; testimony
of, 126.
Kcntuck)', native state of: Governor Carlin, 13, n., Governor Duncan, xix, Dunlap, 106, n. 2, W. L. D. lowing, 26, n. 4, J. Fry, 17, n. i, T. Reynolds,
J.
65, n.
2,
R. Yates,
M. Young,
8,
n.
i;
133, n. i, R. state debt of,
xxxix, n. 3.
Kercheval, Gholson, appointed to assess
damages due canal contractors, n.,
biographical
78;
n. 2; letter to,
notice
Ixvii,
of,
78,
from Governor Ford,
90. of General Assembly indictments in Alexander
Kidnapping, act on,
214;
County
for, xxvi; requisition for
men
Negro; with, See 241. Slave; State Soverignty. Killpatrick, Thomas j\L, activity of, in canal legislation, Ixi, n, i. charged
Kimball, Hebcr
See Joliet. Juliet Courier, edited
n.
8,
n. 2, J. Shields, 127, n., L. Trumbull, 40, n. i; R. M. Young, 8, n. i; refusal
Collins, 119, n.
trial, 40, n. i.
difficulty in, 142; residence of
A. Matteson, 63, n.
n.,
of, 233, n. I.
Jerningham,
Thompson Campbell,
A. Douglas, 235,
I, S.
Governor Ford, xxxiv, G. Koerncr. XV, N. H. Purple, 47, n. 2, J.
of, to
County, residence of S. H. Anderson, 26, n. 2. Jefferson Medical College, attended by Jefferson
W. H.
ning, 141, n.
C, member
of
Ma-
sonic fraternity, Ixxxvi.
from Kimball, Walter, removal of Chicago, 49. King, Austin A. (Governor of Missouri), acknowledges receipt of letter iiom Governor French, 212; attitude of.
toward fugitive slave law,
207,
-'oS,
213; letter of, to Governor French, 207, 212; letter to, from 212,
INDEX Governor French,
208, 213; presumption of, xxvi, 212, 213. King, James G., approves railroad bill of J. Wadsworlb, 368; circular on building of Central Railroad sub-
mitted
357; manifests strong interest in state finances, 369; recommended as agent to consult with foreign creditors, 365. King, John F., private letter from, referred to, 39, n. I. King & Co. (Son), (New York City), bonds held by, 244; letter to, from Governor French, 181, 202; opinion of, on foreign transfer agency, 289; suggest that transfer agency be established abroad, 289. hypothecation of bonds Kingsford, , to,
—
to, 124.
Mrs. Julia Duncan, "Joseph Duncan," by, referred to, ix, n.,
Kirb^',
xvii, n. 3, xix, n. 2, xx, n. i.
Knox, John Jay, History of Banking in the
United States, referred to,
xli, n.,
Knox County,
represented
Mormon m^ass meeting,
in
anti-
c, n. 7.
Koerner, Gustav, brother-in-law of T. E. Engelmann, 48; election of: as lieutenant-governor, xv, to supreme bench, xv; selection of, to settle dispute between Colonels Hardin and
Baker, cvi. Kreigh, Mr., arrangements with, for forwarding funds to New York, 333; draft from, 341, 342.
Krum, John M. (mayor
of St. Louis), biographical notice of, 177, n.; letter of protest sent by Governor French xxvii;
to, 106; office of,
held by, Governor
Carlin, 13, n.
Land Warrants, payment
for land with,
240.
Languedoc Canal, estimated
cost
of,
Ixxii, n. 3.
—
Larimer, charged with kidnapping a free Negro, 207, 212; requisition for: ,
made by Governor
]7rench, 207, re-
fused by Governor King (Missouri), 208, 212, 213.
La
Salle, sale of: canal lots at, xl, n. i,
railroad materials near, 88. La Salle County, public office in, held
by H. G. Cotton,
47, n. 3; residence
D. Caton, 161, n., IL G. Cotton, 47, W. H. W. Cushman, 233, n. 5. Lawrence, Abbott, J. Davis and W. H. of: J.
Swift selected to investigate IllinoisMichigan Canal by, Ixx. Lavjs of Illinois, quotation from, 59, 99, 107, n. I, 108, n. 1, 113, 114, 115, n. 2; referred to, xvi, n., xxii, n., xli, n., xlii,
n. I, 3, xliii, n. i, 2, 3, xlvii, n., 1, n. 2, 3, li, n. 2, Ivi, n. 3, 5,
xlviii, n.,
xliii, n. 4.
to,
443
letter
to,
from Governor
French, 172, 177, 183. interested in pubhcation of Expositor, Ixxxix, n. 4; opposition of, to J. Smith, IxxxLx; swears out warrant for arrest of councilors and mayor of Nauvoo, xc. Law, Airs. William, refuses to practice
Law, William,
spiritual-wifeism
with
J.
Smith,
Ixxxix.
Law, Wilson,
interested in publication of Expositor, Ixxxix, n. 4. Lake County, public office in, held by L. B. Nichols, 55; residence of L. B. Nichols, 55. Lake Michigan, terminal of canal, Ixii. Land Office, commissioner of, office held by J. Shields, 127; register of: notice
n. 2, 3, Ixiv, n. i, 3, Ixv, n. I, 3, 6, Ixviii, n. i, Ixxvi, n. 2, Ixxx, n. I, xcii, n. 3, 5, n. 3, 6, n. i, 10, n. i, 78, n. 3, 80, n., 89, n. i, 107, n., 108 n., lix, n. I, Ixiii,
115, n. 2, 122, n. 2, 139, n., 147, n., 159, n., 175, n. I, 181, n., 195, n. 2, 196, n. 2, 212, n. 2, 239, n. 2, 361, n. Laws of Illinois Territory, referred to, xlii,
n.
I.
Lead mines,
in
Hardin County,
247, 248.
See Geological Survey; J. S. Norwood. Leavenworth. See Fort Leavenworth. Leavitt, David, accounts of, with state, audited, 2 84; aids state agent in negotiating nev/ canal loan, Ixiv, n.
2,
136, n. 2; asked b}^ Governor French to continue as interest-paying agent, 135; asks for: clerk, 155, instructions
from Governor French, 150, 151, 163, 263; awaits advice from Governor French,
267;
connection of, with conversation
officers of Illinois, 257;
of
Governor French with, 155; copy
of contract sent to, 123; criticism of, by Governor French, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 164; delay of, in payment of
267; dissatisfaction wilh, elected canal trustees, Ixxv; examination of the accounts of, 253, 254; free services of, 164; indifference of, in submitting account to Governor French, 163; influence of, in Mew York, Ixix, Ixxiv; instruction to, by
interest,
257;
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
444
Governor French, 147, 148, 149, 154, i55> 15^, 167, 168, 169; interest-paying agent, 163; investment of, in
canal bonds, Ixix, n. 2; letter to, from: Governor Ford, 123, Governor French, 135, 147, 150, 154, 162, 167, 168; matter of Lord Gardner bonds submitted to, 318; money received by J. V/ad3v>orth from, 259; opposition to, by members of General Assembly, Ixxiv; payments of, to state, Ixxiv, n. 2; purchase of coupons by, 289; questioned by Governor French, 155; remittances made by, 159; requests: that he be relieved from
duties of interest-paying agent, 275, that J. WadsvYorth take over interestpaying agency, 267; services of, Ixxiv, n. 2; settlement of, 283, 284; state funds in
with state,
hands of, 284; threatened with law suit by General Assembly, Ixxiv, n. 2; visits: Chicago, 256, 277, 278, Europe, Iviii,
131, n.
Lee, John Doyle, The Mormon Menace, error in, noted, Ixxxv, n. 3; referred to, Ixxxv, n. 3, Ixxxvii, n. 3, Ixxxviii, n. 2, Ixxxix, n. 3, xcviii, n. J.
Smith,
Mormon literature, Ixxviii,
Holford, 315, 326, 379, Stebbins, 326, 328, 335,
J.
&
379, Thompson & Forman, 345, 347; money paid on, 371, 372; payment of interest on, 232, 332, 354, 368, 379, 382; rate of interest on, 232, 246.
Holford; C. Macalister; MacStebbins Claim. Lockport Canal, office at, 136; election of canal trustees at, 122, n. 2; meeting at, of: canal appraisers, 80, canal
See
J.
alister &:
contractors,
36;
Gooding, 145,
n.,
residence
n.; sale of canal lots in, xl, n.
Logan,
S. T., licensed J. practice law, 161, n.
&
of:
W.
G. D. A. Parks, 149, i.
D. Caton to
Co., draft of, 281.
London, payment of interest in, 263, 282; rate of commission charged by bankers of, 325. London Times, referred to, xxxix, n. 3, Iv, n. 5, Ixviii, n. i, Ixxi, n. 3, 26, n. 3.
Loomis, H.
G.,
purchase of interest
bonds and new internal improvement
Thompson & Forman Thompson & Forman Claim. Forman, 329.
See
;
Lieutenant-Governor, XXX, xxxi; office of,
candidate for, held by: S. H.
Anderson, 26, n. 2, J. Dougherty, 64, n. I, G. Koerner, xv, T- Moore, 42, n., J. B. Wells, 383. Lincoln, Abraham, S. A. Douglas, defeated by, 23s, n.
Hatch
to:
with, at Alton, 92; inquiries of, 93, 94; letter to, from Governor Ford, 92.
I.
Lincoln
of,
Macahster
City), re-
Leod, A. M., claims of, 119. Lien on state bonds, held by Thompson
&
paid out of state treasury, 349; issue
in,
arrested
Lenox Library (New York n.
228; blanks for, 310; dating of, 312; exchange of, for interest bonds, 328; form of, 206; interest on: 229, 236, 338, paid from interest fund, 362,
Long, Stephen H., biographical notice of, 92, n.; Governor Ford converses
i.
Ixxxiv, 97.
pository of
&
of,
Loker, Renick
Springfield, Ixxiv.
Lebanon, residence of Governor French,
Lee County,
issued, 331; aggregate of Macalister Stebbins to deliver, 276; amount
Monument Association, a member of, 38, n. 2.
O.
M.
Linn, William Alexander, authority on
stock by, 364.
Lord High Chancellor, declaration
of,
83-
Lottery, plan of, proposed to Governor French, 262. Louisiana, state debt of, xxxLx. n. 3, Louisville Advertiser, The, edited by M.
Brayman, 95, n. Lowery, John, arrest of, demanded, 30. Lyman, Benjamin, charged with kidnapping a free Negro, 207, 212; requisition for: made by Governor French, 207, refused by Governor King (Missouri), 208, 212, 213.
Mormonism,
Ixxviii, n. i; letter of, to editor, Ixxx, n. 2; Story of tlic Mormons, by: error in, noted, Ixxxiv, n.,
referred to, xxxi, n., Ixxviii, n. i, 4, I, 2, 4, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxiv,
hxix, n.
n., Ixxxvi, n. 2, Ixxxviii, n. i, xcii, n. 2,
xcvii, n. I, 5, xcviii, n. i, c, n. 7.
Liquidation bonds, act of General Assembly on, 228; aggregate amount of,
]\IcClernand, John A., attack upon,
by
Trumbull, xlix; H. W. ]\Ioore read law with, 46, n. 2. McConnel (ISIcConncll), Murray, biographical notice of, 57, n. 2; nomina-
Lyman
tion of, 57.
ISIcCown,
oHercd
Robert B., claims reward apprehension of J. Wil-
for
INDEX Hams, 103; letter to, from Governor Ford, 103. McCoy, James, biographical notice of, 49, n. 2; nomination of, 49. ^McDonald, John, nomination of, 55. ^IcDonough County, anti-j\Iormon mass meeting held in, c; represented in anti-Mormon mass meeting, c, n. 7. McDougall, James Alexander, biographical notice of, 166, n. 2; carries conditions to anti-Mormons, ci, n. 2; compensation for, 165; offer made to, 166, 167; offers to collect Sherwood claim, 165. McHenry County, residence of: W. M. Jackson, 78, C. D. Pulver, 51, A. E. College, A. C. French, pro-
fessor of law in, 131, n.
I.
McLean County, mobilization of for Mexican War in, cv, n. 3.
troops
McMurtry,
William, activity of, in canal legislation, Ixi, n. i. Macalister, Charles, bonds surrendered by, 379; charges state with repudiation, 327; claims of, ignored by J. WadsN\orth, 328; claims that Governor Foid ordered five bonds given C. Oakley, 313; complains because J. Wadsworth did not fund bonds held by Macahster & Stebbins, 326; disapof, 317; exchange of bonds with, 311, 312; five bonds given to C. Oakley, by, 217, 313; letter of, to Governor French, 325; letter to, from
pointment
Governor French, 142, 187, 194, 218, 231; sends bill to General Assembly, 227; understanding of, with J. Holford, 311; urges settlement of Stebbins claim, 204. alister
Mac-
&
Macalister
&
226; inability of, to surrender bonds, 220; interviews of J. Wadsworth with, 310; issue of hquidation bonds itemized statement of ^^) 335; 3 79 bonds and scrip surrendered by, 380, 381; liquidation bonds for, 312; owe for state bonds, liii, n. 2; payment of interest to, 354; purchase of foreign exchange by, with state bonds, 276; requirements made of, 326, 327; rule for funding of bonds held by, 228; scrip surrendered by, 320. Macalister & Stebbins Bond-:, accepJ
tance
by General Assembly, 1; General Assembly on, xlix,
of,
act of 277,
attitude
312;
of
French toward funding
Smith, 51.
McKendree
445
Stebbins, account of, exJ. Wadsworth, 310; ad-
amined by vised by Governor French
to settle
claim against state, 143; agreement to dehver liquidation bonds by, 276; due, 220; bonds hypothe-
amount
cated to, by J. D. Whiteside, liii, n. 2, 315; bonds in possession of, 216; claim by, that they gave five bonds to C. Oakley, 221, 222, 223, 224; considered by General Assembly as real owners of I\Iacalister & Stebbins bonds, 220; creditors of, not recognized by state, 227; damages resulting to, 220, 221; delay of, in presenting bonds for funding, 323; hypothecation of bonds by, 276; funding of bonds: held by, 219, J^3i)othecatcd to,
Governor
246; controversy about, xxiii; definition of, 300; disabihty of, 148; exchange of, of,
Bank of Illinois stock, 1, 106, 107, 120, 121, 122; expiration of time for
for
funding
of,
327; Governor Ford re-
fuses to receive,
from Bank of
Illinois,
funding of, 246; held by Bowery Fire Insurance Company, 246; interest on, 240, 323; obstacles in funding of, 335; question of ownership of, 276; refused payment by General Assembly, xHx; rehypothecation of, by Macalister & Stebbins, 245, 246; sale of, 276; secured by Bank of lUinois, xhx; sketch of, 106, n. 3; surrender of, by J. Holford, 315, 326. Macalister & Stebbins claim, act of General Assembly on, xliv, 121, 122, xlix;
142, 148, 187, 194, 206, 216, 218, 219, 220, 227, 231, 245, 246, 325; adjusted by General Assembly, 220; amount of, 312; attitude of Governor French to-
ward, 218, 219, 220, 227; difficulties of setthng, 330; final settlement of, 379; form of bond for, 206; mention of, 258; obstacles to settlement of, 333; opponents to, 142, 143; peculiarities of, 219; plans for setthng, 194; printing of bonds for settlement of, 308; settlement of, 194, 205, 221, 313, 331, 332; settlement of, interrupted, 226; settlement of, in hands of J. Wadsworth, 204; status of, 21S, 228; statutes relating to, 231; substitution of securities in, 1S7.
Madison County, mobilization of troops for Mexican War in, cv, n. 3; pubHc oflice in, held by: N. Buckmaster, 03, n. I, J. (A.?) Miller. 30, D. Prickctt, S.
17,
n.
H. Anderson,
2;
26, n.
residence 2,
of:
N. Buck-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
446
master, 93, n. i, G. T. M. Davis, cxii, L. Davis, II, n. 2, J. M. Krum, 177,
H. Long, 92, n., J. (A. ?) Miller, 30, D. Prickett, 17, n. 2; strength of militia in, xciii, n. 2. n., S.
Madison County, History
&
Brink 30, n.
2,
of,
Co., referred to, 93, n. I.
by W. R. n.
17,
2,
Jardine & Co. (London), of, 321; amount of money sent to, 156; asked to make account-
Magniac,
accounts
irig, 158, 159; attitude of, toward dissension on canal, 153; bonds deposited v/ith, 348; funds forwarded to,^ 155; holdings of, Ixix, n. 3; in-
quiry about compensation of, 156; letter to, from Governor French, 136,
Lodge of Illinois, 1840750, referred Ixxxvi, n.
Massac
County,
141, 142.
Massachusetts, native state of: J. H. Bryant, 46, n. i, W. H. W. Cushman, 233, n. 5; state debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Mass I\leeting, held by anti-Mormons, xcix, c, cii, ciii; held to protest against harsh measures of anti-Mormons, n. I.
ciii,
Mather, Thomas, biographical notice 24, n.; guarantee of interest by, 24; opposes pro-slavery constitution, 24, n. i; president of State Bank, 22; promises to provide for interest, 22. of,
& Co. (London), accounts of, 317; asked for statement of claim, 310; bonds received from, 302; copy
Matheson
159; remittance to, 163, 167; vouchers received from, 290.
warded
&
Co. (London), letter from, transmitted by governor to General Assembly, 26; money advanced by, 82. Maine, native state of: E. Peck, 166,
Y. Scammon, 119, n. i; resolution from legislature of, on northwestern boundary, 34; state debt of, n. I, J.
xxxix, n. 3.
Manegle, Mrs. Catherine, wife of J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2. Marcan, charged with kidnapping,
—
,
241.
Marine Hospital (Chicago), memorial eral Assembly on, 37.
of
Marion, convention endorsing canalinterest legislation, held at,
Ixi.
Maritime loans, status of, 211. Markley (Markely), David, asked to value state lands, 104, 105, 106; biographical notice of, 104, n.; letter
from Governor Ford, 104. Marquette County. See Highland County. Marshall, mass meeting in which Governor Ford was denounced, held at, to,
cvii;
troops from, rejected,
Maryland, native state master, 93, n.
I,
of:
L. Davis, 11, n.
N. H. Ridgeby, 352,
n.; state
debt
2,
of,
xxxix, n. 3.
Masons. See Nauvoo Lodge U.D. "Masonic Lodge" (building), at Nauvoo, Ixxxv, n. 3. Procccdiiigs
{Masonic)
of letter
counts
from Governor French for330; examination of ac-
to,
303; letter of, to Aspinwall, 304; letter from, 202, 222; papers from, 206; payment of interest in London by, 282; remittance of interest money to, of,
Howland
302,
&
190, 287, 289, 291, 296, 297, 306, 307; financial responsibility unknown to J.
Wadsworth,
286;
tlie
Grand
re-
Matteson, Joel A., appointment by, of Governor French, 131, n.; biographical notice of, 63, n, 2; copy of contract sent to, 123; funds with which to pay for railroad iron forwarded to Governor Ford, 93; letter of, to J. G. Norwood, 247; letter to, from: J. T. Barbour, 247, Governor Ford, 63; nominated for governor by convention, xvii, xviii; offers to
buy
railroad
iron, 92; power of attorney granted to, 102, 103; purchase of railroad iron
by, 63; railroad iron sold to, 194; requested to instruct J. G. Norwood to furnish official opinion on lead vein in southern Illinois, 247. Memorial, of General Assembly, sent to congressional delegation from Illi2>2>i
n-j
37;
o" Falls of
Ste.
Marie, from Michigan, 34; submitted to General Assembly, 182. Menard County, militia of, called out, c; public office in, held by L. B. Wynne, 49; residence of L. B. Wynne,
Meredosia, railroad iron of
vouchers
ceived from, 288.
nois, 33,
cvii.
N. Buck-
Regulator-Flathead
difficulty in, 133, 133, n. 2, 134, 135,
158; lien on bonds in possession of, 229; money advanced by, 82; money due, 317; payment of interest in London, by, 282; questions asked,
Magniac, Smith
to,
I.
loi;
residence
of:
at, levied
j\Ir.
upon,
Conn,
63,
INDEX Messrs. Thompson, 63; sale of railroad iron at, q^, 94; seizure of railroad iron at, 102; terminal of Northern Cross Railroad, lii, n. 3, 89, n. i; visited by H. Bigelow, 63. Merrill, Peter, nomination of, 57. Mexican War, account of, civ If.; attitude toward, of: Democrats, civ, Whigs, civ; eHecL of, on Mormon difficulty, ciii; enthusiasm for, cv; meager accounts of, in Letter-Books, xxii; participation of Illinois troops in, cviii, cix; second call for troops for,
447
Bloody Island dyke controversy, 172; anti-Mormons in, invited to join vv^olf hunt, xcviii; attack from, on Nauvoo, xcvii; authorities of, make requisition for J. Smith, Ixxxi, Ixxxii, Ixxxiv; claim of executive of, 71, 72; in
confidence of, in Governor French, 208; Democratic administration of, Lxxix; R. Eells indicted in, 71; effect in, of Bennett's exposures, Ixxxiii, Ixxxiv; feeHng in, against Mormons,
cviii; ser\'ices in, of:
95; governor of: criticized by Governor French, 213, 214, letter to, from: Governor Carlin, 30, Governor
57, n. I,
Ford, 65, 69, 96, 97, Governor French,
W. H. BisscU, H. P. Boyakin, 141, n. 2, A. Dunlap, 53, n., J. jMoore, 42, n., N. Niles, 183, n.. J. Shields, 127, n.; supported by Illinois, xviii; troops for, rejected, cvii, cviii;
swords pre-
sented for valiant services
in,
270,
270, n., 361, n.
Mexico, discharge of
241, 244, presumptions of, xxvi, 72, 73, 207, 208, 209, 212, 213, 244, refuses to arrest kidnappers, 241, re-
Governor Ford to call out imprisonment at Nauvoo, of agent of, 95 letter from quests
state militia, Ixxxv, 96;
;
Illinois troops in,
cviii.
Mexico, Gulf
of, transportation of nois troops across, cviii.
Illi-
governor governor
208, 212, 213; letter to of, 208, 213; persecution of Mormons in, Ixxviii, lxxix; requisiof,
tion from, for: R.
Michigan, memorial from legislature of, 34; state debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Michigan Central Railroad, G. D. A. Parks, an attorney for, 149, n. Michigan City Branch Bank, arrangements with, 36S; receipts upon, 334. Middlebury College, attended by: M. Skinner, 278, n. i, J. T. Temple, 119, n. 3.
Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts),
esti-
mated cost of, Ixxii, n. 3. INIiller, John (Andrew ?), warrants
to be
assess
damages
lakes, Ixxii. ^lississippi Valley, internal improvements of states of, xxix. Missouri, action of the authorities of,
for canal contractors,
Lxvii, n., 78; letter to,
from Governor
Ford, 90. Mitchell, William, biographical notice of, 39, n. i;
sent to, ;^o. Mills, on Little Wabash River, 102. Mill sites, on state lands, 105. ;Milne, George, counterfeit scrip surrendered by, 309; funding by, 282. Mission Institute (Quincy), R. Eells a founder of, 66, n. i. Mississippi, state debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Mississippi River, action of Iowa Territory regarding rapids of, 29; crossing of, by Mormons, Ixxviii; dam in, 171, 172, 173; dam in, ordered to be stopped, 17S; Illinois troops transported: down, cviii, up, cix; movement of channel of, 171, n.; navigation of, 172; site of Mormon city on, Ixxix; terminal of a water-way to
Eells, 65, 71, J.
Smith, Ixxxi, Ixxxii, Ixxxiv, 94; J. A. Richardson, an agent of, 71; rights of, 70; ringleaders of "wolf hunt" flee into, xcviii; state debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Missouri Reporter, referred to, xcix, n. 5. Mitchell, James, appointment of, to
Money
in xxxviii.
resignation of, 39.
hands of people, lack
Monroe County, Bissell, 57, n. i. J.
residence of:
W. H.
Governor Ford,
D. Whiteside,
of,
xxxiii,
126, n.
Tslonterey, services at, of J. Pope, 270, n.; to be inscribed upon swords, 270.
Montgomery, William, nomination
of,
57.
Enoch, letter of, to: P. A. Brower, 224, Governor Ford, 222,
Moore,
Wadsworth list
&
of cancelled
Sheldon,
236,
292;
bonds forwarded by,
217; sends law relating to Peabody claim, 221. Moore, Henry W., biographical notice of, 46, n. 2; nomination of, 46. Moore, "Honest" John, biographical
notice of, 42, n.; characterization of, xxxi; nationality of, xxxi; nomination of, for lieutenant-governor, xxx. Morgan County, militia of, called out.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
448 c;
public office in, held by S. A. 11.; residence of: S. A.
las, 235, las, 235,
n.,
J.
M. McCoimel, 133, n-
DougDoug-
xciv, xcv, xcvi, xcvii, xcviii, Missouri, Ixxviii, Ixxxiv, Ohio, Ixxviii opposition
Dunlap, 106, n. 2, 2. R. YaLcs,
to, ceased, civ; origin of, Ixxviii; out-
57, n.
1.
Morgan Journal, charges against Governor Ford made by, cvii, cviii. Mormons, account of, Ixxviii ff.; act of General
arms
Assembly on,
xxxii, xxxiii;
delivered up, ciii; assemat command of Governor xcv; attitude of, toward: Democratic party, xxxv, Governor of,
blage Ford,
of,
Ford, xxxv, A. W. Snyder, xxxii; attitude toward, of: Democratic party, xxxii, Governor Ford, xxxv, cxv, cxv, n. I, 95, Whig party, xxxii, xxxv; beginning of opposition to, xl, n. 2; belief of,
in spiritual-wifeism,
character of opposition to, ciii; charges of depredations against, ciii; conmiittee waits upon, ci; conciliatory spirit of, c; conditions submitted by, ci; convention of, Ixxxvii,
Ixxxix;
Ixxxvii, n. 3; xl,
danger in legislating
for,
delivery of state arms deof, xciv; deserted by John C.
xli;
manded Bennett,
Ixxxiii; dislike of, for
Demo-
cratic party, Ixxix, Ixxx; domination of, in state politics, xxxii; effect of Governor Ford's dealings with, cxi; effect of assassination of H. and J.
Smith
on,' xcvii;
emigration of, to: Missouri, Ixxviii,
Illinois, Ixxviii, Ixxix,
Ohio,
escort J. Smith to Ixxxiv; feehng in IMissouri
Ixxviii;
Nauvoo,
against, 95; finally crushed, ciii, civ; good-will of, to be retained by Demo-
homes ignore Democrats and
crats, xxxii; grovv'th of, Ixxviii; of,
Ixxviii;
Whigs,
ixxxvii i;
illegal
voting
of,
xcix; inactivity of the, explained, xcvii; in poUtics, xxxi, xxxii, Ixxxiii, hxxv, Ixxxviii, xcix; justice for, sought by Governor Ford, 95; leaders of, cii; leaders of, in jail, Ixxviii;
leaders of, break jail, Ixxviii; literature of, in Lenox Librar}^ New York, Ixxviii, n.
i;
meager accounts
of, in
Letter-Books, xxii; migration of, westward, led by B. Young, cii; national convention of, held at Baltimore, Ixxxvii, n. 3; newspapers of, Ixxxvi, Ixxxvii, xci; not guilty of treason, insurrection, or rebellion, 100; opposition to, in: Illinois, Ixxx", Ixxxii,
n.
Ixxxviii,
2,
Ixxxiii,
Ixxxix,
xc,
Ixxxv, xci,
Ixxxvi,
xcii,
xciii.
'
;
rages against, Ixxix; persecution of, in Missouri, Ixxix; petition of, presented to Congress, Ixxix, n. 5 preparation of, for war, xcii; property of: ;
offered for sale, c, purchased by citizens," ciii; question of: not
"new men-
tioned by committee that nominated Governor Ford, xxxiii, n. 3, paramount issue in campaign of 1S42, xxxi; ranks of, joined by John C. Bennett, Ixxx; reception of, in Illinois, Ixxviii, Ixxix; relation of A. W. Snyder to, xxxii; removal of: demanded, ci, to Illinois, 1839-40, xxxi; rctahation by, expected, xcvii; seism among, Ixxxix; select village of Commerce as home, Ixxix; spread of, Ixxx; success of, in election, bcxxii; suspicion against, xcix; suffering of,
cii;
;
sym-
pathy
for, Ixxix; sympathetic attitude of "New Citizens" toward, ciii; terms of removal submitted by Mormons, ci, n. 3; ticket of, xxxii, n. 2; ultimatum delivered to, ci; unpopularity of, xxxii; visit of, at Carthage jail, xcvi; vote of: cast in 1S40, for Whig candidates, xxxi, Ixxx, for Governor Ford,
ixxxii;
xcv;
warning to, by Governor Ford, weakness of, ciii. See Anti-
Mormons; Jack-Mormons; Nauvoo; Non-Mormons; J. Smith; SpiritualWifeism. of the, by W. A. noted, Ixxxiv, n.; re-
Mormons, The Story Linn, error
in,
ferred to, xxxi,
n.,
Lxxviii,
n.
i,
4
4, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxiv, n., Ixxxvi, n. 2, Ixxxviii, n. i, xcii, n. 2,
Ixxix, n.
I,
2,
xcvii, n. I, 5, xcviii, n. i, c, n.
Mormon church, organization of, Ixxviii. Mormon cjuestion, discussion of, xl; importance
;
7.
of, xxxiii.
\
I
Mormonism, denounced by John C. Bennett, Ixxxiii. Morning Express, article in, 255. Morris, Thomas, nomination of, 57. Morrison, Eliza, wife of S. Brecse, 39,
!
|
!
!
n. 2. [
Morrison, James, attorney for state, 86. Morrison & Sons (London), bonds held b}"", 159, n.; bonds exchanged for, 143. Morrison, Jaudon, and Smith, bonds deposited with, 203.
Mortgage on, canal Moses, John,
lands,
Illinois
| '
no, n6.
Jlistorical
;
and
Statistical, by, referred to, xviii, n. 1,
INDEX
449 meaning of
xxi, n., xxxvii, n. 3, xxxviii, n. i, Hi, n. 2, liii, n. i, Ixxvii, n. i, 2, Ixxxvii,
agent of Missouri'
n, I, 3, 8, n. 2, IT, n. i, 14,11., 17, n. i, 38, n. 3,47, n. I-
appeal to Governor Ford for j)rotection, civ, attacked by anti-jNIormon forces led b}' Colonel Brockman, civ, buy ]\Iormon property, ciii, sympathize with sulTering Mormon, ciii; ordinances of: distasteful to non-Mormons, xxxi, quotation from, xc, n.; residence of: John C. Bennett, boix, H. C. Kimball, Ixxxvi, William
Moss, D. H.
T., authorized to sell railroad materials, 88; letter to, from Governor Ford, 88; sale of railroad
material by, 93.
Mt. Carmel, Governor Ford makes public
address at, xxxv, n.
7;
terminal of
proposed railroads, li, n. 2. Mt. Vernon, residence of Z. Casey, 33, n. Mundy, Samuel, comjnissioner of Wabash improvements, scrip received from, 122.
Court (Nauvoo), habeas corpus power of, illegal, Ixxxi, n. 2; discharges J. Smith on writ of habeas
Municipal
corpus, xxvi, Ixxxi, Ixxxiv, Ixxxv; illegal act of, 97, 100; powers granted to, Ixxx; pretentions of, Ixxxi, Ixxxi,
Times, by
J.
Reynolds, pub-
lished, 8, n. 2; referred to, xxxi, n., xxxv, n. I, liv, n. i, Ixv, n. 7.
Naples, act of General Assembly on election of justice of peace at, 38. National Domain, resolutions on, from
New York, 35.
at, 95;
"New
Ixxix;
Citizens"
of:
Law, Ixxxix, Wilson Law, Ixxxix. H. Smith, Ixxxvi, J. Smith, Ixxxi, B. Young, cii; J. IL Reynolds taken to, 100; statistics of, Ixxx, n. 3; surrender of, to anti-Mormons, led by
Colonel Brockman,
committee Quincy, c,
by
visited
ciii;
non-AIormons from warrants sworn out
of ciii;
for councilors of, xc. Nauvoo charter, act of
sembly on,
n. 2, 98.
My Own
name,
General As-
xxxi, Ixxx; constitution-
ality of, questioned, xxxiii; discussion
General Assembly, xl; misinterpretation of, inevitable, xxxi; peculiar powers granted by, Ixxx; recommended by judiciary committee of Senate, xxxii, n. i; repeal of, urged of, in
by Governor Ford, xxxv, Ixxxii. Nauvoo Legion, act of the General As-
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, referred to, xxxv, n. i, 13, n.,
sembly on, Ixxx; authorized to assist mayor, xcii; efficiency of, xciii, xciii,
40, n. I, 57, n. I, 63, n. 2, 65, n. 2, 127, n., 131, n., 133, n. i, 235, n., 270, n.
n. I, 2, 3; illegal act of, 94, 98; or-
Natural History Museum, Worthen, curator of, 239, n.
A.
H.
3.
Nauvoo, activity in, preparing for westward migration, cii; administrative machinery of, Ixxx; arrival and burial of the remains of H. and J. Smith at, xcvii, xcviii; attack on, from Missouri, xcvii; John C. Bermett first mayor of, Ixxx; M. Brayman sent by Governor Ford to, to investigate release of J. Smith, 95; comparative size of, Ixxx, n. 3; convention of Mormons at, Ixxxvii; city council of: destroys Expositor plant, xc, meeting of, xc; councilors of, give bail on charge of destroying Expositor, xciv; counterfeit money thought to be made at, xcv; disposal of military stores at, 132, 133; force of state militia at, disbanded by order of Governor
131, 132, 133; growth of, Ixxx; hostile movement against, ciii; illegal acts of citizens of, 94; illegal voting at, Ixxxviii; imprisonment of
French,
ganization
of,
arms
state
strength
of,
mand of
xcii;
in
powers
possession
xcii,
xcii;
xcii;
under com-
xciii;
governor,
of, of,
xcii.
Nauvoo Lodge U.D. (Masonic),
char-
ter for, refused, Ixxxvi; dispensation demanded, Ixxxvi; instituted, of, of, ordered, investigation Ixxxv; Ixxxv; irregularities in, bcxxv; members of: declared clandestine, Ixxxvi, refuse to give up dispensation, Ixxxvi; personnel of, hxxvi. Nauvoo Mansion, funerals of H. and J.
Smith preached Negroes,
danger
ment
at, xcviii.
capture in
of
Illinois
runaway, of,
215; xxvi; indict-
on charge
of R. Fells
of steal-
ing, 71; kidnapping of, under protection of fugitive law, 207, 212, 213,
244, 245-
Neighbor, quotation referred to, xci, n.
from,
xci,
n.
i;
i.
Nevins & Townsend (New York City), bonds obtained from C. Oakley by, 217; letter from, transmitted to Gen-
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
4SO
Assembly, 26; order on, 315; brought by state against, 67. Newark Academy, attended by Levi Davis, II, n. 2. Newby, E. W. B., commissioned colonel of "Fifth Regiment," cix. New canal loan (1845), act of General eral
suit
Assembly on, vantages
of,
Ixvii, Ixviii, Ixxiii;
ad-
to bondholders, Ixviii;
amount of, Ixviii, Ixxiii; apportionment to American bondholders, Ixx;
battle of, action of A. Jackson after, 43, n. T, 2,44.
New
York, claims of Illinois against banks in, 253; decision of Supreme Court of, cited, 72; decree of vicechancclor of, 66; immigration into Illinois from, xv; native state of,
W. H.
Bissell, 57, n. i, M. Brayman, 95, n., S. Brecse, 39, n. 2, J. D. Caton, 161, n., J. H. Collins, 119, n. 2, PI. T.
basis of apportionment of, Ixxi, n. i; circular signed by subscribers to, 268;
Dickey, 278, n. 2, W. Gooding, 145, n., D. L. Gregg, 233, n. i, V. Hickox, 47, n. I, N. B. Judd, 373, n., J. M.
completion
Krum,
of, Ixxiii, Ixxvi; eligibility
to subscribe for, Ixviii; influence of D. Leavitt in negotiating, Ixix; negotiations for, Ixviii, kxiii; part subscribed for by citizens of Illinois, Ixxvi, n. i; preference given to holders of canal bonds in subscribing for, Ixxiii; subscribed for by foreign creditors, Ixxi,
Citizens" (Nauvoo), appeal to
Governor Ford for protection, attitude of, toward Mormons,
ciii; ciii;
attitude of anti-lNIormons toward, ciii; increase in number of, ciii.
New
England
states,
immigration into
from, xv, xxxiv. Ham^pshire, native state of: J.
Illinois
New
Governor French, 131, n., O. M. Hatch, 38, n. 2. New internal improvement stock, act of General Assembly on, 219; advantage to holders of, 170; aggregate Butterfield,
212,
n.
i,
amount
of, 293, 300; cancellation of 312; dividend on, 296; examination of, 310; exchange of bonds for, 304; inquiries about interest on, 261;. instalment on, 291; interest on, 148,
261; issue of, 314, 319, 331, 338, 348; of interest on, 150, 151, 155, 261, 262, 263, 295; preference for, 299; principal holder of, 360; purchase of, Governor French, 236, 361, for: school fund, 305, 354, 362; quotations on, 342, 344, 353, 355, 372, 375; sur-
payment
render
of,
by: Macalister
&
Stebbms,
380, 381, Thompson & Forman, 345; transcript of registry of, 264, 267. "New Lettings," contracts on canal under, 90. See Canal Contractors.
New
Madrid,
J. ture of, 270, n.
New
Pope
assisted in cap-
Orleans, attitude of people at, to-
ward A. Jackson, Illinois troops
43,
43,
mustered out
"•
i, .2;
at, cviii;
M. McConncl,
57, n.
2,
Purple, 47, n. 2; payment of claims under laws of, 219; resolutions from requisitions from state agents in, debt of, xxxix, n. 3; trans-
legislature of, 35;
governor
bcxvii.
"New
177, n.,
A. McDougall, 166, n. 2, J. A. Matteson, 63, n, 2, N. Niles, 183, n., W. B. Ogden, 21, n., G. D. A. Parks, 149, n., J. Pearson, 40, n. 2, N. H.
J.
of,
Ixix; state
146;
fer of stock of, 143.
New York City, active business in, 267. New York Evening Post, article on Illinois in, 298.
New York
Historical Society, petition
from, presented to House of Representatives, 31.
New
York Joiirnal of Commerce,
of G. Ixii,
Peabody
in,
letter
201; referred to,
n. 2.
Nichols, Lansing B., nomination of, 55. Niles, Nathaniel, biographical notice of, 183, n.; letter to,
from Governor
French, 183. Niles' National Register, compliments Governor Ford, Ivi, n. i; error in, noted, xciv, n.; quotation from, Ivi, n. I,
ciii,
n. 2, cxiv; referred to, xxx,
n. I, 3, xxxii, n. 2, xl, n. 2, xHv, n. 2, 1, n. 2, Ivi, n. I, 2, 4, 5, Ivii, n. i, Ixii, n. 4, Ixviii, n. i, Ixxi, n. i, Ixxii, n. i,
kxiv, n.
4, Ixxv, n. 3, Ixxvi, n. i, Ixxix, n. 2, 4, 5, Ixxx, n. 2, 3, Ixxxii, n. 2, Ixxxiv, n., Lxxxv, n. 3, Ixxxvi, n. 2, Ixxxvii, n. 2, 3, xc, n., xci, n. 2, xciii, n. i, 2, 3, 4, xciv, n., xcvii, n. 3,
4, xcviii, n. 2, 4, xcix, n. i, 4, ci, n. 5, ciii, n. I, 2, cxiv, n. 3.
amazed by Nauvoo,
Non-^Mormons, claimed
at Ixxxi,
powers Ixxxiv;
belief of, in spiritual-wifcism, Ixxxviii; consternation among, xcvii; Gov-
ernor Ford supported by, cxiii, cxiv, cxv; reign of terror among, xcvii;
INDEX women and
children of, sent away,
See Anti-?viormons. Northern Cross Railroad, bonds of, surrendered, 56; completed by state, lii, n. 3, 8g; construction of, 57, n. 2; xcvii.
repairs on, 94; sale of materials on, 89; value of, 89, n. i.
Northern
development of, Governor Ford in, XXXV members of General Assembly from, support canal and interest Illinois,
Ixxvii; strength of ;
legislation, Ix.
Northwestern Boundary, resolution on, from Maine, 34. Northwestern Territory, ordinance of, cited, 245.
Norton, Henry 0., charge H. and J. Smith, xciv.
of,
against
J. G., letter to, from: Governor French, 239, Governor Matteson, 247; special report on a lead vein in southern Illinois called for, from, 247.
Norwood,
public, acts of General Assembly on, 38, nomination of, 38, 39,
Notary
42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56; removal of, 38.
68;
451
position to, Ixxv, n. 3, 136, n. 3; j^ower
attornev given to, by Governor French, 67', So, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88; supports canal legislation, Ixxiii; state bonds: (5) given to, by Macalister & Stebbins, 217, 221, 222, of
223,
224,
W. and
I.,
bonds and new
ment stock by,
purchase of interest internal improve-
364.
Oakley, Charles, administrator of estate of, 211; affidavits in Gooding charges allowed to be kept back by, 160; agreement of, with: J. Ilogan, 210, G. Peabody, 159, n.; aided by D. Leavitt to negotiate new canal loan, Ixxiv, n. 2, 136, n. 2; appointed: agent to negotiate new canal loan, Ixviii, canal trustee, 136; asked to consult with Ruggles & llowe, 66, 67; attitude of, toward: D. Leavitt's connection with aflairs of Illinois, 257, repudiation, 137; authority not given to, to receive bonds from Macalister & Stebbins, 223; authorized to settle
&
Townsend, 67, 67; blank bonds received from, 264; characterization of, b)' Governor French, 136, 137; charges against, by Whig press, Ixxv, n. 3; charges against \Y. (jooding by, 144; claims of, concerning Illinois-Michigan Canal substantiated, Ixx; expenses of, relating to negotiation of bonds, Ixviii, 210; fails to be appointed canal trustee, Ixxv; instructed to hold meeting of state creditors, suit against:
Ruggles
&
Nevins
Howe,
313, 315,
319,
323,
327,
obtained from, by Nevins & Townsend, 217, returned to state by, 203; transaction of, with Wright & Co., 302; visits: Chicago, 256, Furope, Iviii,
Ixix, Springfield, Lxxiv.
Oaks, Wesley, requisition
for:
made,
207, refused, 208, 212, 213. Ogden, WilHam Butler, biographical notice of, 21, n. Ohio, native state of J. Dougherty, 64, n. i; state debt of, xxxix, n. 3; transfer of stock of, 143. Ohio canals, estimated cost of, Ixxii, n. 3. Ohio River, sale of materials along, 88,
"Old Citizen" (Hancock County), meaning of the word, Lxxxviii. "Old Ranger," name sometimes applied to J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2. Co., basis of
OHverson O'Brien,
from: Governor Ford, Governor French, 161; op-
letter to,
58, 66, 81,
&
Thompson
setthng claim made
& Forman
out by, 346. One-Mill Tax (one and one-half mill tax), act of General Assembly, on, 136, n. i; referred to, lii; use of, 181, 295. Onondagua Bank, drafts drawn on, by Governor Carlin, 10, 11.
Ordinance of 1787, cited, 245. Ottawa, authorization to lay out, kiii; residence of: J. D. Caton, 16 j, n., H. G. Cotton, 47, W. H. W. Gushing, 233, n. 5; sale of canal lots at, xl, n.
i.
Paine, S., claims of, 119. Palestine, residence of Governor French, 131, n.
Palmer, John M., Bench and Bar of Illinois, by, referred to, 11, n. 2, 46, n, 2, 47, n. 2, 3, 57, n. i, 64, n. 2, 95, n., 127, n., 166, n. i, 2.
Palmyra,
N.Y.,
home
of
J.
Smith,
Ixxviii.
Paris, public office at, held by ]\I. K. Alexander, 122, n. i; residence of: M. K. Alexander, 122, n. i, A. C.
French, 131, n. Parker, William B., nomination of, 54. Parks, Gavion D. A., biographical notice of, 149, n.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
452
Parsons, Solomon, biographical notice
nomination of, 38. Parton, James, Life of Andreiv Jackson, of, 38, n. i;
by, referred
39, n.
W.
to, 43, n. 2,
Peabody, George, act of General Assembly on claim of, 159, n., 201, 324; advances made by, 200; agents of, claim small balance, due from state, 340; balance due, 337; bonds hypothecated with, 317; bonds surrendered by, 217, 325; claim of, against state, 159, 160, 222; copy of account of claim of, 324; difficulties in settlement of claim of, 330; estimates state debt, 201; funds for payment of claim of, 221, 222; funds remitted for paj'ment of claim of, 218, 337; inquiries about settlement with, 315; law relating to claim of, 221; letter of, addressed to J. J. Speed, 201; letter to, from Governor French, 159, 200; loan by, to agents of state, 159, 159, n.; payment of claim of, 324, 325; provisions made for paying claim of, 217, 218; remittance for, 321; requested to retain certain bonds, 200; settlement of claim of, 314; statement of claim of, 317. Pearson, John, biographical notice of, 40, n. 2; opposition to, led by J. H. Collins, 119, n. 2; resignation from State Senate of, 40. Peck, Ebenezer, biographical notice of, 166, n. I compensation for, 165; offers to collect Sherwood claim, 165; offer made to, 166, 167. ;
Peck & McDougall, letter Governor French, 165, E. Peck; J. A. McDougall.
to,
from
I,
N. H. Purple, 47; terminal
of
proposed railroad, li, n. 2. Peoria County, public office Mitchell, 39, n. 1;
Governor Ford,
W.
cxvii,
Mitchell, 39, n.
i,
in, held by residence of:
R. Hamlin, 39,
N. H. Purple,
47.
Peoria Press, referred to, cxvii, n. 4. Perry County, residence of T. H. Campbell, 233, n. 2, Peru, scrip sent to, 120; railroad terminal at, Ixiv, 366. Phillips,
Richard, steamboat captain,
125.
Phipps,
J.,
agent of state, 102; letter
to,
from Governor Ford, 102. Pierce, field,
Elizabeth, 212, n. 1.
wife
Pike County, mihtia
of
J.
Butter-
of, called out, c;
public office in, held by: S. Parsons and O. M. Hatch, 38; represented in antiMormon mass meeting, c, n. 7; resi-
dence of: J. A. McDougall, 166, n. 2, A. Starne, 38. Pinkneyville, S. Breese died at, 39, n. 2. Pioneer History of Illinois, by J. Reynolds, published, 8, n. 2; referred to, cxvii, n. i, 13 n.
Pittsfield, residence of O. j\L
Piatt,
Hatch, 38.
Mr. (New Haven, Conn.), bonds
purchased under direction bonds transferred for, 217.
of,
313;
Pleasant Groves, residence of C. D. Pulver, 51. Poems, by J. H. Bryant, published, 46, n. I.
See
Poems Written from Youth to Old Age, 1824-84, by j. H. Bryant, published,
Pekin, notice of sale of raihoad materials at, 89; residence of W. B.
46, n. I, Political parties in Illinois, relative strength of, in campaign of 1842,
166.
Doolittle, 56.
Pekin
&
Tremont Railroad, materials
along, to be sold, 89. Penitentiary, State, N. lessee of, 93, n. i. Penitentiary inspector,
Buckmaster,
nomination
of,
57; sale of railroad iron by, 92. Pennsylvania, native state of: T.
11.
Campbell, 233, n. 2, Thompson Campbell, 64, n. 2, Governor I'ord, xxxiii, J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2; payment of claims under the law of, 219; resolutions from legislature of, 36; state debt of, XXX ix, n. 3. Peoria, residence of: Governor Ford, cxvii, R. Hamlin, 39, W. iMitchell,
XXX. Polk, James K., call of, for troops, cv. Poll tax, proposal of, 139, n. Pontiac, state lands near, 104. Pooley, William Vipond, The Settlement of Illinois from 1S30 to iSjO, error in, noted, xciv, n.; referred to, xciv, n. Pope, John, biographical notice of, 270, n.; sword ordered for, 259, 270, 275-
Pope, Judge, discharges J. Smith, Ixxxii. Pope County, Regulator- Flathead difficulty
in, 133, n. 2.
Population of
Illinois, xv, xv, n., ex, n. 202; homogeneity of, xv.
5,
Portage, between Lake IMichigan and
INDEX Mississippi ]liver, known to early explorers, Ixii. Fosse comilatis, use of, loo. Post-office Department, ruling of, 45. Poughkeepsic Locomotive Fire Engine Co., negotiations of, with J. Reynolds and AI. Rawlings, 11; owes for state bonds, liii, n. 2; protests draft drawn by Governor Carlin, 13; refusal of, to pay for state bonds, 12. Prentiss, scrip signed by, 320.
—
453
amount held by
state, xl, n. i; dis-
tribution of proceeds from sale of, 22; granted for building railroads, 238; in Illinois, Ivii, n. i; resolution on,
from: Connecticut, 35, Maine, 35, Pennsylvania, 36; sale of, 240; selection of, in Illinois, 48, 55. See Canal Lands; State Lands, Pubhc works, acts of General Assembly on, 53. Sec Illinois-Michigan Canal;
by, 364. Prickett, David, biographical notice of,
Internal Improvements. Pulver, Charles D., nomination of, 51. Purple, Norman H., appointed to investigate State Bank, 47; biographical notice of, 47, n. 2; nomination of,
17, n. 2; canal commissioner, 17; letter to, from Governor Carhn, 17.
Purple Statutes, by N. H. Purple, com-
,
Enoch, purchase of interest bonds and new internal improvement stock
Price,
Prince, Ward & King, deposit of money with, 67. Princeton, residence of J. H. Bryant, 46, n. I.
Princeton University, attended by J. Pearson, 40, n. 2. Principal bonds, issue of, 256, 275; numbering of, 274, 275; plan for
48. piled, 47, n. 2.
Putnam,
J.
W.,
An
Economic History
of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, referred to, Ixiv, n. 3, Lxvi, n. i, Ixxvii, n. 3, 4,
Putnam County, pubhc by J. H. Bryant, J. H. Bryant, 46,
46, n.
held residence of
office in, i,
n. i.
issuing, 260.
Pringle,
Andrew,
requisition for, 146.
Private rights, upheld by General Assembly, 62. Procecdiugs of the House, referred to, 9, n. I.
Backenstos to Hancock County, xcix,
Proclamation, by: citizens
of
J. 13.
Carhn on arrest of J. Williams, 103, Governor Ford, calling for volunteers for Mexican War, cv, Governor French to citizens of Hancock County, 132, J. J. Hardin Governor
to
citizens
Mormon ci,
n.
of
western
leaders,
cii.
Illinois,
on Rcgulator-Flathead
5;
ci.
Major Warren, dif-
culty, 141.
Property valuation,
Ixi, n.
176, n. Prophel of Palmyra, The, referred to, Ixxxix, n. 3.
2,
ex, n. 4,
by T. Gregg,
PubHc administrator, nomination
of,
48, 40, 54, 55-
Publicdebt.amount
Duncan
Quincy, anti-Mormon mass meeting held at, c; attitude of people of, toward improvement of St. Louis harbor, 171, n., 173; peace committee from, visits Nauvoo, ciii; pubhc office at, held by W. IL Benneson, 173, n. 2; residence of: W. H. Benneson, 173, n. 2, Governor Carlin, 13, n., Eells, 66, n. i, R. M. Young, 85; resolutions passed by city council of, 173; J. Smith, starts for, Ixxxiv, 98; terminal of proposed railroad, h, n. 2. Quincy Herald, referred to, Ixxxii, n. 2.
R.
Asbury, referred
of, by to, 66, n. i.
Henry
Railroad, act of Congress on building
Alton to Mt. Carmel, Alton Shawneetown, Belleville to Mt, Carmel, Branch of Central, Cairo to Illinois-Michigan Canal, Lower Alton to Central, Peoria to Warsaw, Quincy of, Ixiv,
to
33.
Pulilic education,
195, n. 2; letter to, from Governor Carlin, 32; resolution sent to, 32.
Quincy, Reminiscences
Pro-slavery men warned by Governor Ford, 77. ^c^; jMissouri, Governor of; State Sovereignty. Protective policy, resolution on, from
Alabama,
Quartermaster-General, asked to report number and kinds of arms belonging to state, 33; office of, held by: N. Buckmaster, 93, n. i, H. S. Cooley,
of,
liii,
n. r, ex, n. 3.
efforts of
Governor
for, xx.
Public land, acts of Congress on, 48, 104; act of General .Vssembly on, 55;
to Indiana state line, li, n. 2, building 234, 235, 238; built where not needed, xxix; cost of, in Illinois, 358; delay in building, xvi; projection of, of,
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
454
rapid development of, superiority of, over canals, Ixiv. xxix;
^
Alton
& Mt.
Carmel; Alton
&
xvi;
See
Sanga-
Central; Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago, Paducah & Southwestern; Galena & Chicago Union; Internal Improvements; Michigan Central; Northern Cross; Southern Cross;
mon;
Union
elimination of, 133, n. 2; report on, 135; for sketch of, see 133, n. 2. Religious tolerance, marriage vows broken under cloak of, Ixxxviii.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, attended b}'- J. H. Bryant, 46, n. i. Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Illinois, published by S. Breese, 39, n.
2.
by
Representative (U.S.), office of, held by: W. H. Bissell, 57, n. i, Thompson Campbell, 64, n. 2, Zadok Casey, 33, n., S. A. Douglas, 235, n., J. Duncan, xvii, P. B. Fouke, 172, n., N. B. Judd, 373, n., J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2, J. T. Stuart, 33, n., L. Tnmabull, 40, n. i, R. Yates, 133, n. i. Repudiation of state debt, action of other states on, xxxix; agitation for, xxxix; approval of Ford's opposition to, Ixi, ixii; attitude toward, of: Governor Carlin, Iv, Democratic party, Iv, Governor Ford, liv, Iviii, C. Oakley, 137, people of state, 169, 176, M.
United States custom officer, loi, 102; shipment of, 230; tarifl on, 92, loi.
Ryan, Iv, n. 5, Ixxii, n. i. Whig party, liv. Governor Whitcomb (Indiana),
Pacific.
Railroad iron, bond given for paj^ment of duty on, loi; calculation of price Forof, 346; claim of Thompson man for, 229, 338, 344; contract for, by J. D. Whiteside, 229; for penitentiary purposes, 63; levy on, by United States collector, loi offer of Governor Matteson to buy, 92; pa>Tiient for: by Wright & Co., 230, with state bonds, 224, 225; price of: contracted
&
;
by
J. D. Whiteside, 347, (1850), 347; purchase of, 224; refusal of Thompson & Forman to furnish, 230; sale of,
63, 92, 93, 94, 224;
seizure
of,
Railroad lands, sale of, 358, 359. See Canal Lands; Federal Land Grant; Public Land; State Lands. Railroad Manual, hy S. H. Long, published, 92, n.
Railroad rates, influenced by Michigan Canal, Ixxvii.
Randolph County, residence H. Campbell, 233, n. 2,
Illinois-
T. B.
of:
P.
Fouke, 172, n., T. Mather, 24, Pope, 270, n., J. Reynolds,
n., 8,
J.
n. 2, J. Shields, 127, n.
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch
&
Edson,
bill
of, 337-
Rawlings, Moses Marshall, contract of, with Wright & Co., 82; negotiation of, with Poughkeepsie Locomotive Fire Engine Co., 11; transactions of, & Co., 302. Rebellion, Mormons not guilty of, 100.
with Wright
Redmon, William
B., collection of divi-
dend on slock held by, 363. Register of bonds, transcript
of, 252.
Rcgulalor-Flatbcad difficulty, act General Assembly on, 141, n.
of 3; n.;
action of state militia in, 135, attitude toward, of: Governor Ford, 133, n. ?, Governor French, 133, passim, General Assembly, 133, n. 2; compilation of matter on, 133, n. 2; drastic measures in, advised, 142;
lix;
danger
of,
xxxix, xl; feeling in
Europe about, xxxix;
made by
charges of, C. Macahster, 327; denied
by Democrats and Whigs, liv; discussed in London Times, xxxix; gains ground, ILx; Illinois stigmatized vrith, 140; misunderstood by people, liv; opinion in Europe about, Iv, n. 4; opposed, Ixxiii; "repudiated," by Governor Ford, Ivi, n. i; results of a refusal of, ex; resolutions of General Assembly on, 139, n.; stigma of, to be avoided, Iv; tendenc)'- of the state to, xA'i; transmission to Lower House, General Assembly, resolution from Georgia on, 50. Requisition, from Governor of: Missouri for R. Eells, 65, J. Smith, Ixxxi, Ixxxiv, New York for J. Davidson, A. Pringle, S. Stead, and J. Thornton, 146; on Governor of Missouri for W. Larijner, 108, Oaks, 108, IT2, 113, 112, 113, J. Lowery, 30, B. Lyman,
—
108, 112 113, E. Resolutions, from
W. Thomas, city
30.
council
of
Quincy, 173; of General Assembly on: burning of state bonds, 54, Cumberland road, 33, 33, n., fine imposed upon General Jackson, 43, re-election of president, 33, 33, n., refunduig salaries, lix, state banks, 41; on: from Vermont, 42, exchange of state
—
INDEX publications from Alabama, 34, national domain, from
New
York, 35, Rorthwestcrn boundary, from Maine, 34, protective policy from Alabama, 33, public lands, from: Connecticut, 35, Indiana, 35, Pennsylvania, 36, tariff from: Connecticut, 35, Pennsylvania, 36; sent to A. Jackson, 43, _
455
Ridgely,
Nicholas ,11., biographical notice of, 352, n.; bonds issued to, 238. Rigdon, Sidney, candidacy of, for vicepresident, Ixxxvii; carries petition to Congress, Ixxix, n. 5; councilor of Nauvoo, Ixxx; name of, substituted for that of James C. Bennett, Ixxxvii. Riggs, E., letter to, Ixxvi, n. 4; protest
made by Governor French
n. I.
Revolutionary War, soldiers of, exempted from taxation, 139, n. Reynolds, J. M., attorney for State of Illinois, 67,
Robbins,
S.,
Robbins
&
nomination
of, 55.
Sons, bonds transferred by,
217, 313-
Reynolds, John, action of, in selling bonds approved by Governor Carlin, 22; advised by Governor Carlin to cancel contract with Wright & Co., 10; appointed agent to negotiate loan,
appointment by, of: M. K. Alexander, 122, n. i. Governor Ford, Ixv, 8;
Robinson, Henry, member of firm of \Vright
& Co.,
83, 84, 86, 87.
Robinson, John M., memorial sent
Rock
County,
Island
Andrews,
L.
sheriff of, 96.
Rock
River, improvement
of,
sale of materials on, 96.
with Wright & Co., 14, to hypothecate bonds, 19; biographical notice of,
Rock River Railroad. See Rock River Railroad.
characterization of Governor
Ford, by, cxvii; contract
of,
with from,
Wright & Co., 85, 86; letter to, Governor Carlin, 8, 13, 19; memorial sent
to,
s3j
37; negotiation of,
^'^•j
to,
33, n.
xxxiv; authorized: to close contract
8, n. 2;
to, Ixxvi,
n. 4.
n.
2;
Illinois
&
li,
Rocky Mountain Saints, The, by T, B. H. Stenhouse, referred to, xxxi, n., bfxXj n. 2, 3, Ixxxi, n. Ixxxix, n. I, xcvii, n. cii,
i,
Ixxxv, n.
2,
i,
xcviii, n.
i,
n. 2.
with Poughkeepsic Locomotive Fire Engine Co., 11; ordered to deliver 1,100 canal bonds to W. F. Thornton, 13; Pioneer History of Illinois, by,
Rose, James A., MSS on RegulatorFlathead difficulty by, 133, n. 2. Rosenbaum, H. W., scrip received from,
published,
Ruggles
referred to, cxvii, n. I, 13, n.; urged by Governor Carlin to procure funds for state, 13; visits Europe, \xv] Own Times, by, published, 8, n. 2; referred to, xxxi, 8, n. 2;
My
n.,
XXXV, n.
n, i, Ixv, n. 7. agent of Missouri,
i, liv,
Reynolds, Joseph
II.,
96; arrest of, on vrarrant sworn out J. Smith, 97; indignities heaped upon, by JMormons, 100; sues out writ of habeas corpus, 97; testimony of, 9S. Reynolds, Thomas, biographical notice
by
of, 65, n. 2; cites
71, 72;
complaint
New York, on lack of con-
laws of of,
Governor Ford, 77; letter from Governor Ford, 65, 69, 96, 97; legal arguments of, 72; requests Governor Ford to call out state fidence of
to,
militia, Ixxxv, q6. \\'illiam, letter from, to Mrs. Smith, xcvii; terms of sale of Mormon property by, c; visits H. and J. Smith in Carthage jail, xcvi. Richardson, James A., agent of Mis-
Richards,
Emma
souri, 71.
281.
ment
&
Hov/e (New York), adjustof claim of, 66, 67; attitude of
Governor
Ford
toward
claim
of,
91; claims of, 91; letter to, from Governor Ford, 91; misunderstanding with, 66, n. 2. Rush Medical College (Chicago), J. Butterfield a trustee of, 212, n. i; supported by W. B. Ogden, 21, n.; J. T. Temple a trustee of, 119, n. 3. Rushville, residence of H. C. Cooley, 19s, n. I. Russell, Elizabeth, wife of J. McCoy, 49, n. 2.
Russia, N. B. Judd, minister plenipotentiary to, 373, n. Ryan, Michael, activity of, in canal legislation, Ixi, n. i; agreement of, with G, Peabody, 159, 159, n.; appointed to negotiate new canal loan, Ixviii; asked to consult with Rupgles & Howe, 66, 67; asked for certain information, 302; attack of, on J. Davis, Ixxi; attitude of, on repudiation, Ixxii, n. i; authorized to settle suit against: Nevins & Townsend, 67, Ruggles &
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
4S305i 342,354; state bonds purchased with money of, 195, 196, 217, 237, 304, 305, 313, 315, 344, 353, 354, 356,3^1,362, 367. Schuyler, Robert, president of railroad company, 238. Schuyler County, represented in anti-
Mormon mass
meeting, c, n. 7; residence of: H. S. Coolcy, 195, n. i,
A. Dunlap,
53.
Scott, John, defeated
by
J.
B. Backcn-
stos, xcix, n. 3.
Scott County, militia of, called out, c; residence of S, A. Douglas, 235, n. Scott, Winfield, praises Illinois troops at Vera Cruz, cviii. Scrip, acceptance of, by canal contractors, Ixvi; agreement of canal contractors to receive, 6; burning of, received from state banks, Ivi; exchange
Bank of Illinois stock, xlvii, 107, new internal improvement stock, 258, State Bank stock, xlvii, Ivi; form of receipt for, 120; funding of, 259, 264; in possession of M. Kennedy, 124; issued for: canal bonds, 266, canal purposes, 9; issued to canal contractors, liii, n. i; purchase of, with school fund, 228; received from J. Beall by Governor Ford, 122; receivable for: railroad materials, 89, state materials, 96; surrender of, by: Bank of Illinois, 56, B. Cole, 271, of, for: Ivi,
272,
W. H. W. Cushman,
233,
J.
Holford, 380, 381, MacaHster & Stebbins, 320, 380, 381; transcript of registry of, surrendered, 259, 271, 314, 319, 335; value of, 62. See Bonds. Sears, J"., Jr., claim against state of, 119. Sears, Joshua, interest not to be paid on bond held by, 234; surrender of scrip by, 233. Secretary of State, office of, held by:
Thompson Campbell,
64, n. 2,
H.
S.
Cooley, 195, n. i, D. L. Gregg, 233, O. M. Hatch, 38, n. 2, A. Starne, 38, n. 3, L. Trumbull, 40, n. i; salary
n. I, of,
17s, n. i;
from the
iii,
of:
See Federal Grants; PubUc Lands; State
128; selection of, 128.
H.
to, xxxii, n. i,
Ix, n. 3, Ixi, n. i, Ixiii, n. i, Ixv, n. 4, 5, Ixx, n. I, 36, n., 37, n. 2, 159, n.,
192, n.
Senate Reports, referred
to, lix, n. 4, 5, 26, n. 3, 29, n., 30, n. i, 31, n. i, 50, n.
Settlement of Illinois, l^he, from i8$o to 1850, by V\^V. Pooley, error in, noted, xciv, n.; referred to, xciv, n.
Sexton, Orville, nomination
of, 57.
"Shallow Cut" plan, revived,
Ixvi; cost
of, Ixviii.
Sharon, Vt., birthplace of
J.
Smith,
Lxxviii.
Shaw, Mr., exchange of bonds for, 182. Shawneesey (Shawnessy), Bryan, biographical notice of, 55, n.; nomination of, 55.
Shawneetown, residence of: W. L. D. Ewing, 26, n. 4, J. Marshall, 63, M. M. Rawhngs, 82; sale of railroad iron at, 93; seat of Bank of Illinois, 57; terminal of proposed railroad, li, n. 2; visited by H. Bigelow, 63. Shawneetown Bank. See Bank
of
Illinois.
Sheahan, James W., Life of Stephen A. Douglas, by, referred to, xvii, n. 3. Shelbyville, residence of W. F. Thornton, 14, n. Sheldon, James O., member of firm of Wadsworth & Sheldon, 260. Sheriffs,
authorized to assemble militia,
cv.
Sherwood, Mr., claim against, 165. Shields, James, biographical notice of, 127, n.; letter to, from Governor Ford, 126, 127; manuscript of History of Illinois, by Governor Ford, put into hands of,
cxvii;
receipt delivered to, 125;
scrip signed by, 321; sword presented by state of Illinois to, 361, n.
Siddall, John, letter to,
from Governor
Sistaire (Sistare), George K., of interest bonds and new
from,
S.
xliv, n. I, 2, xlv, n. r, xlvi, n. 2, Iii, n. 3, liii, n. i, 3, Iviii, n. 4, hx, n. 2,
money borrowed
Seminary lands, act of Congress on,
Lands.
Senate Journal, referred
in,
L.Trumbull removed of, by Governor
n. I.
Land
Seminole War, services Anderson, 26, n. 2.
Carlin, 13. Sinking fund, provisions canal revenues, xl.
office
Ford, xlix. Scminar>' funds,
457
for,
out of
purchase internal
improvement stock by, 364; returns stock issued for spurious scrip, 274. Sketches, by J. Reynolds, published, 8, n. 2. Skinner, Mark, biographical notice of,
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
458
278, n. i; surety for Wadsworth & Sheldon, 278. Slave, capture of, 215; R. Eells charged with stealing a, xxv; possession of, claimed by Mr. Bettes, 212; kid-
dom
napping of, 207, 212, 213; right to k dnap, 214. Slavery, attitude of Governor Ford
charge of destroying Expositor, xciv; grave of, unknown, xcviii; in danger, Ixxxi, Ixxxii; indicted for: murder,
toward, 70; conservative spirit of Illinois on, xviii; definite prohibition of, in Illinois, xvii; issue of, xxv. See Negroes; State Sovereignty. James C, nomination of, 57. Smith, Albert E., nomination of, 51. Smith, Mrs. Emma, widow of Joseph Smith, receives letter from prominent Sloo,
corted to Nauvoo by Mormons, Ixxxiv; exposure of, to violence, xciv, •
xcv; flight from Nauvoo of, xcii; founder of Mormonism, Ixxviii; freein jail, xcvi; gives bail
of,
Ixxxi,
treason,
by
desired
Ixxxiv;
Whigs, xxxi; in trouble, Ixxxiv,
of,
and
Ixxxi, Ixxxii,
Ixxxv, Ixxxix, xc, xci, xcii, xcv, xcvi, xcvii, xcviii;
xciv,
xciii,
last
influence
Democrats
both
on
sermon preached by,
name
of, Ixxviii, n.
2;
xciii; legal
letter of, to:
Davis, xcvi, xcvi,
C. Calhoun, Ixxxvi, H. Clay, Ixxxvi; letter to, from: J. C. Calhoun, Ixxxvi, H. Clay, kxxvi; literature on life of, Ixxviii; manner of death of, xcvi, xcvii, xcvii, n. i; meets militia sent to arrest him, xciv; opinions on
jail,
candidacy
unknown,
by William Law, Ixxxix; persuaded to return to Nauvoo, xcii; practices of, exposed by John C.
Mormons, xcvii. Smith, Hyrum, arrested on charge
of treason, xciv; assassination of, xcv, xcvi; death of, predicted by G. T, M. n.; freedom of, in xcvi; gives bail on charge of destroying Expositor, xciv; grave of,
manner of death of, xcvi; member of Masonic fraternity, Ixxxvi; patriarch of Mormons, Ixxxv; remains of: buried at Nauvoo, xcviii, conveyed to Nauvoo, xcvii; suspected murderers of, tried and acquitted, xcviii;
Ixxxvii;
carries
petition
to
Congress, Ixxix, n. 5; charged with crime of: murder, Ixxxi, treason, Ixxxiv, xciv; charges against, by Mrs. William Law, Ixxxix; claims of, Ixxviii; called impostor, by Governor Ford, xxxv; committed to jail, xciv; counsel for, xciv; councilor of Nauvoo Ixxx; death of, predicted by G. T. M. Davis, xcvi, xcvi, n.; defense of, issued, xc; denies existence of spiritual-wifeism, Ixxxviii; denounces enemies, xc; dilemma of, xciii; discharged on writ of habeas cor pus by: S. A. Douglas, Ixxxi, Nauvoo muniy
cipal
court,
xxvi,
Ixxxi,
Ixxxiv,
Judge Pope, Ixxxii; early life Ixxviii; empowered by Nauvoo council
of,
city to abate Expositor, xc; es-
of, Ixxxvii, n. 3;
opposition
to, led
Bennett,
Ixxxiii;
promise
of, to sur-
render, xcii; promised protection by
Governor
Ford,
Mormons,
Ixxviii;
cism
xcviii, xcviii, n. 4; visions of, Ixxxv.
Smith, Joseph, Jr., arrainged before: Judge S. A. Douglas, Ixxxi, municipal court (Nauvoo), Ixxxi, xxxiv. Judge Pope, Ixxxii; arrested on charge of treason, Ixxxiv, xciv, 94; arrival of, at Carthage, xciv; assassination of, xcv, xcvi; attempt to arrest, Ixxxi; avoids arrest, Ixxxi; birth of, Ixxviii; candidacy of, for president of U.S.,
J,
of, xci, n. i;
xcii;
prophet
religious
remains
of:
of fanati-
buried
Nauvoo, xcviii, conveyed to Nauvoo, xcvii; request b}' Governor at
of Missouri for militia to aid in arrest of, Ixxxv, 96; requisition for, on charge of: murder, kxxi, trea.on, xxvi, Ixxxiv, 94; returns to Nauvoo with militia, xciv; sues out writ of habeas corpus, kxxi, bixxii, Ixxxiv, 97; suit brought against J. H. Reynolds, by, 97; surrender of, to state authorities, Ixxxi, Ixxxii, xciv; suspected murderers of, tried and acquitted, xcviii, xcviii, n. 4.
Smith, Samuel N., letter from, to Mrs. Emma Smith, xcvii. Snyder, Adam W., appointment of successor to, xxxii; chairman of judiciary committee in Senate, xxxii, n. 1; characterization of, xxx; death of, xxxii; nomination of, for governor, xxx; relation of, to Mormon legislation, xxxii; successor of, xxxiii. Snyder, Adam W., and His Period in Illinois History, by J. F. Snyder, referred to, xxx, n. 3, xxxii, n. 2, cxii, n. I.
Snyder, John F., analyzes the political s^ituation in 1842, .xxxii, n. 2; criticizes
INDEX History of
1673-1884,
Illinois,
Davidson and Stiive, cxii, W. Sfiyder and His Period History, by,
by
Adam
in Illinois referred to, xxx, n. 3,
xxxii, n. 2, cxii, n. i; and His Famil}'," \n
Historical
n. i;
Society,
"Thomas Ford Journal of State
by,
referred
to,
cxvii, n. 3.
South Carolina, stale debt
of,
xxxix,
459
&
Sheldon at, 336,; terminal of Northern Cross Railroad, Hi, n. 3, 89, n. i. Spurious scrip. Sec Counterfeit Scrip. Stark County, residence of C. Sanmiis and O. Whitaker, 42. Starne, Alexander, biographical notice of, 38, n. 3; certificate of, 38.
State agent, appointment of, Lxviii; attitude of, toward Thompson &
Forman
n. 3.
Southern Cross Railroad.
See Alton
& Mt. Carmel Railroad.
claim, 206, 207; bonds left 203; expenses of, lxviii, 7, 210; negotiation of sale of bonds by,
in
hands
of,
Illinois, effect of canal and interest legislation in, Ixi; Governor
Xxvm,
Ford's acquaintance
report of, submitted, 31; salary of, bonds by, 36. See C. Oakley; J. Reynolds; j\I. Ryan;
Southern
in, ixvii; J.
G.
Norwood asked for opinion on lead vein in, 247; members of General Assembly from: cautioned, Ix, members oppose canal and interest legislation, ix, thought to oppose canal, Lxvii; played against canal, Ix; strength of Governor Ford in, xxxiv, XXXV. South Street (New York City), Gay & Wadsworth located on, 251. Sparks, John G., agent of state, 207. Specie, amount of, in Illinois in 1842,
circulation of, ex; exempt from executions of: Bank of Illinois, held by xlviii, State Bank, lxvii;
xxxviii;
state banks, xlv, n.
amount
of, ex;
increase in
3;
payment
of,
by:
Bank
of Illinois, xlviii, State Bank, xlvii; Shelpayment of, to Wadsworth don, i2>^', put into circulation, xlix; retauied by: Bank of Illinois, xlviii. State Bank, xlvii; scarcity of, compels creation of early state banks, xli;
&
withheld by banks, xliii. Speed, J. J., letter addressed to, 201. Spencer, Augustine, charge of, against II. and J. Smith, xciv. Spencer, John C, letter to, from Governor Ford, 101. Spiritual-wifcism,
mons,
belief
in
of:
Mor-
non-Mormons, Ixxxviii; by J. Smith, Ixxxviii; disNauvoo, Ixxxiii; exj)osure of,
Ixxxix,
denial of,
cussed in
by John C. Bennett,
Ixxxiii; origination of, Ixxxviii; results of, Ixxxviii. Springfield, Democratic state convention at, xxx; meeting of committee of Democrats at, xxxiii; residence of:
W.
II. BisAcll, 57, n, 7,
M. Brayman,
95, n., M. Hatch, 38, n. 2, V. Hickox, 24"", n., N. H. Ridgely, 47, T. Mather, 35 i, n., J. T. Stuart, 33, n., R. Yates, 133, n. 1; specie paid to Wadsworth
Ixix, Ixxiv, 7, 8, g, 10, 12, 252; offer of, to receive railroad iron, 225; lxviii, 5, 7, 10; sale of
R.
M. Young.
State Bank, accompanied internal improvements, xH; account of, xl, ff.; acquiescence of, to will of people, xlvii; act of General Assembly on, xli, xlii, xhii, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, Ivi,
48, 51; act of liquidation of, similar to act for Bank of Illinois, xlviii; agitation for renewal of charter for, xlix; appointment of bank com.missioner for, xlvii; arrangement of state with 52, 53; assets of, 202; attitude of, toward liquidation, xlvi; attitude to-
ward, of: Governor Carhn, xliv, Democrats, xxx, xliv, Governor Ford, xliv, General Assembly, xliii, people, xlii, xhii, Whigs, xliii; bill relating to, attacked by L. Trumbull, xlix; capital of: amount, xli, free from taxation, xh, increased, xlii, overcertificates of insubscribed, xlii; debtedness of, issued to depostors, xlvii; charged with discrimination in making loans, xliii; charter of, xli; circulation of, xhv; condition of, 200; condition of, reported to General As-
sembly, 47; confounded with
Bank
contest for control of, xlii; creation of Whigs, xxx; credit of, xlvi; depositors of, to receive specie and certificates, xlvii; discounts of, xliv; draft on, received by Governor of Illinois,
xli, n.;
Carlin, 5; exchanges state bonds for stock, xlvii; experience of state with early, xli; failure of, xxxviii, function of, xli; funding of xliii;
bank
bonds
of,
320;
V.
Hickox,
a
di-
rector of, 47, n. i; holdings of, xlvi; increased capital stock of, subscribed for by state, xliii; influence of, xhv, xlv,
xlvi;
in
politics,
xhii;
issue
in
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
460 campaign
alistcr
of, xlvii;
to
of 1842, xxxvi; liquidation loans nriade by, xliii; made fiscal agent and public depository of state, xliii; managed by Whig appointees, XXX nonentity of, 1; noteholders of, to be paid, xlvii; notes of: refused by state, xliv, in state treasury, 52, 53; plan for winding up ailairs of, xlvii; president of, T. Mather, 24, n.; D. Prickett, a director of, 17, n. 2; quasi public institution, xli; resolution of General Assembly on, 41, 47; required to pay money to state, xli; settlement with, 52; settlement of affairs of, 202; specie held by, xlv, n. 3; specie of: paid out, xlvii, retained, xlvii; state debt to, extinguished, 52; state to retain stock in, xlvii; suspension of specie pa>'Tnent by, xliii; taxation of capital stock of, xli, xhi; unpopularity of, xliii; urged upon the people, xxix; value of stock of, xlvi, Ivi, n. 2; worn out by opposition, xlvii. See Bank of Illinois. State banking, attitude toward, of Governor Duncan, xx; disastrous experience of Illinois in, xvi; eagerness of the people for, xlii; experience of ;
importance of winding up, xxiii. State bonds, acceptance of, by canal contractors, Ixvi; act of General AsIllinois in, xli;
sembly on, xliii, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixvii, Ixviii, 159; advances made on, Ixvi; aggregate amount upon which payment was made, 150; agreement of Thompson
&
Forman
to surrender, 351; appreciation of, 176, 344; authorized to be burning of, Ivi; sold, 5. 6, 14, 15; cancellation of, 1Q5, 252, 257; change of, into certificates, 294, 295; complaint of holders of, 168; coupons detached from, 25s; dehvcry of, to
governor, 51; deposited with bankers and brokers, xxxix; depreciated values of, xxxviii; destruction of, 51, 53, 54, 56; dividend on, 188, 190; emission of, signed, 23, 174; engraving of, 11, 316; equality of, 181; exchange of, Ivi, 107, 169, 170, 256; failure to make payments on, Ixvi; form of, 206; forwarding of, by: Hope & Co., 189, Matheson & Co., 202, 203, Mr. Webster, 196; funding of, 163, 190, 193, 199, 233> 234, 259, 263, 303; given to C. Oakley by Macalistcr & Stebbins, 222, 223, 224; held as security, 230; hypothecated
by Mac-
&
Stcbbins, 276; hypothecated
pay
interest, xxxix, Hi, 52; hyi)othecated to: Holford, Bunker Co., 276;
&
Macalister
&
Stcbbins, 219, 226; inability to sell, 20; in possession of: assignees of Wright & Co., 225, J. Fry, 51; owed for, by Bank of Commerce, John Delafield, Erie County Bank, Macalisrcr & Stebbins, Poughkeepsie Locomotive Fire Engine Co., Wright & Co., liii, n. 2; illegal sale of, 16, 17; itemized statement of, surrendered J. Holford, 380, 381, Macalister & Stebbins, 380, 381; kinds of, 254; lavish issue of, liii; left in hands of brokers, Lxvi; "left in hands of J. Wright & Co., unsold," 303; lien on, held by: Magniac, Jardine & Co., 229,
by:
Thompson & Forman,
225, 229, 329, 338; loss of, 54; market value of, Ivi, 305, 315; money available for interest on, 136; negotiation of, 11, 51, 252; not to be put on market, xlvi; 1,100, ordered to be delivered to W. F. Thornton, 13; par value of, pre-
dicted, 345; payment of, Ixxiii, 237; paym^ent of interest on, 181, payment for railroad iron with, placed in hands of Thompson &
202,
253; 224;
For-
man, 230; plans
for funding, 68, 69, 141; preference in new loan given to
holders of,
Ixviii;
presentation
by
New York
of,
168;
banks, 253, by state, 196, with school fund, 228; quotations on, Ivi, n. 2, Ixi, Ixii,
purchase
of:
n.
I, lxvi, 5, 17, 326, 342, 353, 372, 375; rate of interest on, 219, 220; receivable in payment for state lands, 188; received from State Bank, 53; recovery of, from Poughkeepsie Loco-
motive Fire Engine Co., 11; registry General Assembly on burning of, 54; returned by C. Oakley, 203; return of, to state,
of, Ixxiii; resolutions of
Ivi; risk
attending forwarding
sale of, xxii,
xliii,
of,
189;
Ixv, lxvi, 5, 6, 9, 16,
117; surrender of, by: Bank of xlviii, 52, 106, 107, foreign holders, 181, J. Holford, 381, 382, Macalister & Stebbins, 326, 381, G. Pcabody, 217, 325, State Bank, xlvii, 52; surrender of, without cou36,
Illinois,
pon, 257; transcript of register of, surrendered, 271, 284, 305, 314, 319, 335, 255; 293; 204,
358, 384; transfer of, 164, 217, transmission of, from Europe, unsalable, lii; value of, 45, 62, 220, 299, 356, 362, 375; value of:
INDEX compared creases,
Vvith
352;
bank
to
stock, xlvi, in-
be preserved,
16;
461
294; confusion of,
liii,
J. Wadsworth advises cancellation of, 311. See Canal Bonds; Fundint;;
xxxiii, n. 3;
Interest-paying Agent; Internal Improvement Bonds; Liquidation Bonds; !Macalister & Stebbins Bonds; New Internal Improvement Scrip; Wadsworth & Sheldon; Wright & Co.
by: Governor Carlin,
State constitution (181S), amendment to, proposed, 139, n.; quotation from, 59; referred to, xxxv, n. 3, H, n. 3; (1848), amendment to, proposed, 217, 294, 295, 298, 312; objections to, 295; provisions of: for interest, 170, 176, 181, 18S, 192, 242, for public debt, xvii, published, 243; quotation from, 181, n.; referred to, reflects
n. 4, Ixii, n. 3; political history
1,
economic and
of state, xvii; (1870), referred to,
1;
n. 5, Ixii, n. 4. State credit, attack on, 58; attitude of. Governor Carlin toward, 19; device to aid, 295; deplorable condition of, 6, 9, II, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 372,
375; improvement
of, 218, 242, 352; interest in, of J. Wadsworth, 251; inviolability of, 252, 253; limits on, 107, n. i; lost, lii; pledged for funds, Iv, Ixiv, 109; restoration of, xxiii, cix, ex; threatened, I. Governor creditors, endorse State Ford's reply to W. S. Wait, Iviii;
letter from, 39; no preference given among, 200; justice to, 186.
State debt, acts of General Assembly on, Iv, Ixi, TO, 12,
20,48,51,182, 277; ag-
gregate amount liii,
of, xxxviii, xxxix, n. 3,
n. I, 174, 201, 210, 211, 312, 316, amount of: uncertain,
323, 329, 360;
n. i, 169, upon which interest paid, 14S; analysis of, 200; arguments against payment of, lix; arliii, liii,
is
rangement for, 147; assumption of, by United States, agitated, 7 attitude toward, of: Governor Carlin, Iv, Governor Ford, Iv, Governor French, 170, ;
people of the slate, 169, 176; binding upon people, liv; cause of, lii; change in character of, 294, 295; compared with public debt of Alaine, IVIassachusetts, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, \'irginia, ^laryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, Mississip{)i, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas, Wisconsin Territory, xxxix, n. 3; condition of, 293,
n. i;
considered in 1S42,
by nominating committee elf ect of
declared inviolable,
stale
la
nds on ,355; liii,
liv;
est! mated
n. i, finance
committee of Lower House, liii, n. i. Governor Ford, liii, n. i. Governor French, 201, G. Peabody, 201; extinguishment the
payment
of,
52; feehng against
of, Ivii;
importance
of,
xxiii; increase of, xxxviii, xxxix, Ivi, Ixi, Ixii, 7, 8;
inabihty of state to pay,
xxii, Iv; inviolabihty of, 58, 112; interest on, xxxix, n, 3, liii, n. i; issue
campaign of 1842, xxxvi; itemized, n. i; methods for payment of, liv; must be paid, Iviii; no help for, in
liii,
payment of, Ixxii, n. i, 150, 151; payment of: confounded with payment of interest, lix, depended upon kvii;
General Assembly, Iv; plan for extinguishing, xl; proposal for eliminating, 140; provided for, ex; real nature of not understood, lix; reasons for, Ixi, Ixiii, 139, 140; reduction of, Ivi; resolutions of General Assembly on, 139, n.; speedy elimination of, 253; supposed inabihty of western states to pay, lix; supposed opposition to paying of, Ivii. State expenses, act of General Assembly on,
Iviii,
ment
5;
committee on retrench-
appointed, Iviii; exceed income, xxxviii; reduction of, recomof,
mended, 45; retrenchment to supposed extravagances, State finances, account of, 1 ditions of, in 1842, xxxvii
of,
due
iviii. ff.; ff.,
con218;
considered political issue in campaign of 1842, xxxi; condition of, 18, 19, 44, 45, 46, 211, 227; ignorance of, 170;
importance
provement
of, in,
1840-53, cix,
ex,
xxii;
253;
im-
money
deposited in East, 66; plans for improving, 45, 46; referred to, by Governor Ford, 91 true conditions of, 1 70. State geologist, asked to make survey See in Hardin County, 247, 248. Geological Survey. State government, function of, defined, ;
76.
State house, acts of the General Assembly on, II, 12; bonds issued for building of, liii, n. i; bonds and scrip burned in front of, Ivi, 53; funding of, bonds for, 320; loan for, transferred to, II.
State lands, aggregate
amoimt
of,
358;
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
462
appraisment of, 62; eiTect of, on state debt, 355; exchange of bonds for, 170; importance of keeping them out of
hands
of
speculators,
location
of,^
104,
interest iq2, 200;
357;
certificates receivable for,
105; mill sites on,
105; sale of, 358; valuation of, 104, 105, 106; selected by: E. Adams, 127, Berr>', 127, [W.?] Greenup, 128, 127, [R. M.?] Young, 127; state bonds receivable for, 188. State militia, accompanies officers to Naiivoo, xcii; act of General Assembly on, 99; action of, in Regulator-
—
Flathead
difficulty,
ment
33;
135,
n.;
arma-
authorized to be assembled by sheriffs, cv; calling out of, of,
xci; called
from Sangamon, Menard,
Scott, Pike, Morgan, and Greene counties, c; call for, by Governor of Missouri, Ixxxv; disbandment of, at Carthage, xcv; forces of,
Cass,
disbanded, 131, 132, 133; Governor Ford: asked to call out, 96, refuses to call out, XXV, 96, 97, 98, 99, ICO, loi, secures pledge from, xci; guard of, at Carthage jail, xcv; invitation to, to join wolf hunt, xcviii; marches: into
Hancock County, cxv, to Nauvoo, civ; Nauvoo Legion, part of, xcii; pledge of, xci; recalled from Nauvoo by Governor French, civ; report on, asked, 33; return of, to Carthage, xcv; sending of, to Nauvoo, xciv; services in, of: M. K. Alexander, 122, n. i, W. L. D. Ewing, 26, n. 4, G. Kercheval, 78, n. 2,
T. Mather,
M. McConnel,
24, n.; to
Mexican War, cv; use of, Island dyke controversy, lator-Flathead
57, n. 2,
be assembled for in:
Bloody
178, Regudifficulty, 142; visit
Nauvoo, xcv; withdrawal from Hancock County, 132, 133. of, to
of,
State politics, sectional aspect of, xv. State Register, attack of, on J. Davis, Ixxi; attitude of, in Smith-Bennett controversy, Ixxxiii; meeting of Democratic committee at office of, xxxiii; referred to, xxx, n. 3, xxxiii, n. I, 3, XXXV, n. 6, xlviii, n., Ivii, n. 2, 2, Ixxi, n. 2, Ixxv, n. i, Ixxvi, n, 4, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxii, n. 3, xciii, n. 2, xcviii, n. 4, xcix, n. 3, 5, c, n. i, 2, 3, 4, Ixii, n.
n. 3, 4, 5, ciii, n. i, cvi, n, n. 2, 4, cix, n. I, 171, n. ci,
2, cvii,
State revenues, adequacy of, ex, cxi; augmented by Illinois Central Railroad, xxii.
State Senate, action of,, on removal of Wm. Gooding, 193; advised to legislate
on distribution
of
Supreme Court
Reports, 34; communication
Governor Carlin,
to,
from:
25, 26, 27, 20, 30,
31, 2>2, 33, 34, 36, Governor Ford, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55j 56, 57; transmission to, of: letter, 26, 27, 30, report, 32, 36, 42, resolution, 31, 34, 35. Sec General
Assembly; House of Representatives. State sovereignty, attitude of Governor Ford toward, 70, 74, 75, 76; exaggerated ideas of, 207, 208, 212, 213; upheld, 74. See Negroes; Slavery. State treasury, accumulation of funds in, 334; bonds deposited in, 237; bonds paid at, 237; certain state officers asked to refund part of salary to, lix; condition of, xxxviii, kviii, 52, 53, T^iS, 378; interest on liquidation bonds paid out of, 349; money in, 280; money paid into, by Illinois
Central Railroad,
—
Stead,
,
Stebbins,
bonds
—
xxii.
requisition for, 146.
Henry,
hypothecation
of
to, 124.
a caveat filed for, 119. Stenhouse, T. B. H., The Rocky Mountain Saints, by, referred to, xxxi, n.,
Steel,
,
Ixxx, n. 2, 3, Ixxxi, n. i, Ixxxv, n. 2, Ixxxix, n. I, xcvii, n. i, xcviii, n. i, cii, n. 2.
Sterling bonds, delivery of, to W. F. Thornton, 13; dividends on, 287;
exchange
of, 256; funding of, 259, 264, 320; inquiries about exchange of, 258; payment on, 297; presentation of, by Ilovvlancl & Aspinwall,
265; transmission of, from Europe, 293, 294. Story's La-ivs, referred to, by Governor Ford, 109. Stuart, John T., memorial sent to, ^;^y n., 37-
Robert, secretary of Canal board, 193. Sturges, William, committee to inlUinois-Iklichigan Canal, vestigate
Stuart,
selected by, Ixx.
Summer
in
Nonvay, A, by
J.
D. Caton,
published, 161, n.
Supreme Court (State), act of General Assembly on, xxxv, n. 2; position of, 75; resignation of Governor Ford from bench of, cited,
of,
75.
xxxv; (U.S.) decisions
INDEX Supreme Court judges. Supreme Court.
See Justice of
by, Ixx; Governor French complains to, 174, 175; imposition upon, 19S; letter to, from Governor French, 174, 178, 209; matter of Lord Gardner bonds submitted to, 318; report on canal of, Ixx, n. 3; selected to examine
Canal, Ixx; visits Chicago, 256. Swords (memorial), cost of, 259, 270, 378; manufacture of, for: Lieutenants Illinois-iSIichigan
Pope and Scarritt, 259, 270, 275, Mexican War officers, 361, n.; payment for, 281; J. Wadsworth expresses, 278.
James, appointment of, 147; from Governor French, 147, Sylman, Benjamin, requisition for, Sykes,
letter to,
made, 207; refused, 208, 212, 213. Tackerberry, Middleton, authorized to sell material along Pekin & Tremont Railroad, 89; biographical notice 2;
letter
to,
of,
from Governor
Ford, 89. Tarns, Sampson, agent of railroad company, 224. Tariff,
on railroad
iron, 92, loi; resolu-
from: Connecticut, 35, Pennsylvania, 36, South Carolina, on,
tions 50.
Taxation, attitude of General Assembly on,
33; certain 139, n.; change not necessary, 170; considered nominating com.mittee in 1842, lix,
citizens of,
by
xxxiii,
Ixi,
Ixix,
Ixxii,
exempt from,
n.
3;
for
"Wiggins Loan,"
1S2; friends of, denounced, Ix; hardships accompanying, Ix; inability of the people to meet, lix; increase of, not desirable, lix; increase in, not necessary, 176, 18S; issue in campaign of 1842, xxxvi; letter on, by W. S. Wait, Ivii; opposition to, Ix, Ixvii; paid by state banks, xli, xlii; provision for two-mill tax, Ixi, n. 2; reduction of, 46; of resolutions General Assembly on, 139, n.; urged by meeting at Chicago, Ivii, n. i.
Taylor, John, visits H. and xcvi,
wounded,
Doolittle, 56, C. Oakley, 82,
W.
B.
Parker, 54.
Swift, William H., elected canal trustee, Lxxv; examination of canal property
89, n.
463
J.
Smith,
xcvi.
John Taylor, biographical notice of, 119, n. 3. Tennessee, native state of S. A. Anderson, 26, n, 2; state debt of, xxxix, n. 3. Terre Haute (Ind.), terminal of proposed railroad, li, n. 2. Territorial expansion, favored
by
Illi-
nois, xviii.
Texan
claim,
justice
of,
proclaimed,
civ.
Theological Seminary (Chicago), supported by W. B. Ogden, 21, n. Thirteenth Amendment, vote for, 57, n. 2.
Thomas, Edward W., arrest of, demanded, 30. Thompson, INIessrs., interest of, in railroad iron, 63. &, Forman (London), account of, forwarded to: Governor French, 311, J. Wadsworth, 329; agreement of, to surrender state bonds, 351; bonds funded for, 348; conference of, with J. Wadsworth,
Thompson
344, 345; contract of J. D. Whiteside, with, 229, 230; correspondence with, submitted to Governor French, 344; damages claimed by, 338; failure of, to complete contract, 225; failure of J. D. Whiteside to fulfil contract with,
345; interview of J. D. Whiteside with, 224; issue to, of: Hquidation bonds, 345, 347, new internal improvement stock, 348; letter of, to J. Wadsworth, 346, 350; letter to, from J. Wadsworth, 348; Hen on state bonds by, 225, 229, 329; negotiations with, advised, 311; proposal of J. Wadsworth that he consult with, 333;
proposal of, forwarded to New York, 346; refusal of, to: furnish railroad iron, 230,
make
sacrifice
proposed by
Wadsworth,
350, receive state bonds, 224; recjuest of J. Wadsworth, acceded to by, 346; submit accounts against state, 346, 347, 351; J. Wadsworth requested to hold conference with, 346; J. Wadsworth urges ac-
J.
ceptance of proposal made by, 362; Wadsworth disavows acting as agent of state in negotiating with,
J,
345.
Taylor, Zachary, appointment by, of j. Butterfield, 212, n. i; Illinois troops under, cviii; J. Pope with, 270, n.
Tazewell County, residence
Temple,
of:
W.
B.
Thompson & Forman ment
of,
General
subject
to
Assembly
344, 345; aggregate
claim,
adjust-
ratification
and
of
governor,
amount
of, 206.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
464
345; attitude toward of: Governor French, 229, people of state, 207, state agent, 207, J. Wadsworth, 311, 345; character of, 206; considered unreasonable by J. Wadsworth, 338; denial_ of, by J. D. Whiteside, 224; directions of Governor French about, 229; different views on, 330; difficulties of settling, 330; disability of, 225; fairness of Governor French toward, 333; Governor French decides to take up, 321; Governor French's opinion on, asked, 314; instructions to J. Wadsworth relative to, 230;
investigation of,
by
J.
Wadsworth,
344, 345; plan for settlement of, 230; settlement of, 229; J. Wadsworth: advises settlement of, 311; recommends that an itemized account be made cf , 330. Thornton, Joseph, requisition for, 146.
Thornton, William
F.,
appointed agent
of canal contractors, 14; authorized: to receive 1,100 canal bonds from R.
M. Young and to
sell
bonds
J. Reynolds, 13, 14, for canal contractors,
14, 23; biographical notice of, 14, n.; canal commissioner, 13; informs Governor Carhn of Wright & Co.'s failure,
26; letter to: from Governor Carhn, 14, 15, 22; transmitted to: Lower
House, General Assembly, 26, Senate, 26; misunderstanding between, and Governor Carlin, 21, 24; sells state bonds, ixvi, 16; visits the East, 17. Thorpe, T. C, charged with the murder of H. and J. Smith, xcviii, n. 4. Tileston, John, coupons presented by, 28s, 289. Tilson, Mr., takes insolvent debtor's oath, 180. Times and Seasons, discusses presidential candidates, Ixxxvi, Ixxxvii; quotation from, Ixxxvii, referred to, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxiv, n., Ixxxvi, n. 2, Ixxxvii, n. 2, xcvii, n. 2, 5; supports J. for presidency, Ixxxvii.
Tonawanda Bank,
Smith
draft on, accepted,
66.
Township organization, provision
for,
in constitution of 1848, xvii.
Transfer agent, account of, submitted, 367; act of General Assembly on, 316; appointment of European, refused, 176, urged, 17s; books for, 253, clerk for, 164; commission of, 268; expenses of, 316; labor of, new arrangements with, 378;
255; 260, 273; pro-
posal to make Wadsworth & Sheldon, 2C0; salary of: 222, 266, 273, 316, 321, 3^7, 374, 377, 37^; remittance for, 382, waived, 378; statement of account of, 2S1; suggestion that there be established a foreign, 289; union of, with interest-paying agency urged, 271. See Funding; Interest-paying Agent; J. Wadsworth; Wadsworth & Sheldon.
Transfer bonds,
J.
Wadsworth asks
for,
258.
Transferable
bonds
stock,
into, 263;
funding of state
payment
on, 269. Transferring, progress
of,
of interest
323.
Transylvania University, attended by: Governor Ford, xxxiii, D. Prickett, 17, n. 2, J. Reynolds, 8, n. 2 Treason, indictment of J. Smith on charge of, ixxxiv, xciv, 94; IMormons not guilty of, 100. Treasurer, money boxes to bear seal of, 378; office of, held by: J. IMoore, 42, n., A. Starne, 38, n. 3, J. D. Whiteside, 126, n.; salary of, 175, n. i.
Treasury. See State Treasury. Treraont, notice of sale of railroad materials given in, 89; residence of: C. Oakley, 82, W. B. Parker, 54. Trumbull, Lyman, attack of, on: Governor Ford, Ixviii, n. 3, J. A. I\IcClernand, xlix; biographical notice of, 40, n. i; mentions claim against Mr. Daniels, 165; removal of, from ofJQce by Governor Ford, xlix; scrip signed by, 321. Tucker & Crops (New York), holders of Macalister & Stebbins bonds, 216; letter to, from Governor French, 216,
Twiggs, General, praises lUinois troops at Vera Cruz, cviii. Two-mill tax, a part of the state constitution, 176; act of General Assembly on, 217; amount of, 170, 18S; change in constitution on, proposed, 217, 298; constitutional provision for, 170; dissatisfaction with, 294; feeling toward, 294; knowledge of, disseminated, 243; misunderstanding of, 294; nature of, 242, 243; proceeds of, not applicable to canal debt, 181; provided by state constitution, 192, 242; regulation of, 242; result of constitutional provision, 188; use of, xvii, 242, 243.
INDEX "Underground
railroad," activity of R. Kellsin, xxv, 66, n. i. Union College, attended by: S. Breese, 39, n. 2, J.
M.
Kruin, 177,
n.
Union County, residence of: J. Dougherty, 64, n. I, R. M. Young, 8, n. i. Union Pacific Railroad Co., \V. B. Ogden, president of, 21, n. United States, aid desired from, for Illinois-Michigan Canal, 7; assumption of state debt by United States, agitated, 7; controversy of, with Mexico, civ; payment of interest by, 168.
Illinois in, cxi, 270, n.
United States Bank, state bonds owned by, 187, 188; letter to, from Governor French, 187.
United United road United
States census, referred to, xv, n. States collector, levy upon railiron by, loi. States consul, forwarding of state bonds for funding, certified by, 290; registry of bonds with, 181. United States law, on fugitive slaves, 207, 245; limitations of, 75; right of capturing slaves under, 213, 214. United States land office, errors in, 212, n. 2. United States senator, election of S. Breese as, 39; office held by: S. Breese, 39, n. 2, S. A. Douglas, 235,
W.
L. D. Ewing,
26, n. 4, S. 37, n. i, J. M. Robinson, 33, n., J. Shields, 127, n., L. Trumbull, 40, n. i, R. Yates, 133, n.
McRoberts,
I,
R,
Varner, Mr., appointment of, 239. Vera Cruz, capture of, participation of Illinois troops in, cviii. Vermilion County, residence of J. Pearson, 40, n. 2; troops from, rejected, cvii,
Vermilion County, History of, by Chapman Brothers, referred to,40, n. 2. Vermont, native state of: S. A. Douglas, 235, n., M. Skinner, 278, n. i, Ixxviii, A. H. Worthen, J. Smith, 239, n. 3; resolution from General
Assembly of, 42. Governor Ford removes
Versailles,
United States army, Illinois troops: mustered into, cvi, cix, mustered out of, cviii, cix; regular soldiers from
n.,
46s
M. Young,
8, n. i.
at Large, referred to,xvi, n., xxii,n. United States treasury, draft on, 283.
United States Statutes
University of
Chicago, supported
W.B. Ogden, University of
by
21, n.
Illinois, J.
H. Bryant, a
trustee of, 46, n. i. "Upper Ferry" established master, 93, n. I.
by N. Buck-
to,
cvii.
Vienna, residence of W. J. Gibbs, 135. Virginia, native state of: J. McCoy, 49, n. 2, J. T. Temple, 119, 3, W. F. Thornton, 14, n.; state debt of, xxxix, n.3.
Vouchers, received from: D. Leavitt, 201, Magniac, Jardine & Co., 290,
Matheson
&
Co., 288.
Wabash River of,
li,
improvement improvement of,
(Great),
n. 2; (Little),
n. 2; mills on, 102; navigable, xxix. li,
"Wade," name
of
to be
made
kidnapped Negro,
xxvi, 207, 213.
Wadsworth, Elisha S., surety for Wadsworth & Sheldon, 278. Wadsworth, Julius, account of, with state, 269;
accounts of
Forman submitted
to,
Thompson & 346, 347, 351;
acknowledges receipt of: blank bonds, 264, commission as transfer agent, 268; advises: cancellation of bonds held by Rowland &: Aspinv.-all, 3ri, settlement of Thompson & Forman claim, 311; appointment of, 2S0; appointment of, proposed, 251; asks for: authority to collect accounts, 253, detailed statement of state indebtedness, 309, Governor French's views on settlement of Thompson & Forman claim, 314, increased compensation as state agent, 330, instructions about spurious scrip, 272, instructions
Ferris,
from Governor French, 251, 258, 263,
referred to, Ixxx, n. 3, Ixxxvii, n. 3, Ixxxix, n. 2, xciii, n. 2, 3, xcvii, n. i, 5. Utica Bank, check on, 204.
264, 269, 272, 273, 27s, 282, 286, 290, 296, 303, 309, 313, 327. 328, 330, 346, 357, 362, 365, law on Peabody claim, 315, vouchers from Magniac, Jardine & Co., 307; attitude of, toward: change in interest-paying agency, 260, foreign transfer agency, 289, minimum amount for certificate, 298,
Utah and
the
Mormons, by B. G.
Vandalia, internal improvement mass meeting at, li; residence of L. Davis, II, n. 2.
Vandruff's Island, improvement
of, 96.
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
466
paying iutcrcst
in Europe, 263, payof interest on old bonds, 300, state constitution, 294, 295, Thomp-
ment
&
son Eorman claim, 311, 345, twomill tax, 295; bonds received by, 155; calls upon Ball, Tompkins Black, 270; characterizes J. Holford, 355,
&
369; character of instruction to, 277; citizenship of, 251; compliments Governor French, 252, 253; conferences
with Thompson & Forman, 344, 345; considers claim of Thompson & of,
Forman
unreasonable, 338; consultation of, with S. A. Douglas, xxiv; correspondence of, with Governor French, on construction of Central Railroad, xxiv, 355, 356, 360, 361, 3^5, 366, 367, 3(^S, 369, 370, 371, 374; criticism of railroad bill prepared by, 376; defends his railroad bill, 370; disavows acting as agent of state in negotiations with Thompson & Forman, 345, 349; draws up Central Railroad bill for General Assembly, 366, 367, 368; endorses D. Leavitt's conduct in refusing to pay dividends, 269; examines: account of Macalister & Stebbins, 310, books of interestpaying agency, 254, papers relating to bonds held by Rowland & Aspinwall, 307; fails to agree with Governor French on construction of funding Central Railroad, xxiv; agent, 164; hesitates to make suggestion to D. Leavitt, 262; ignores claims of C. Macalister, 328; ill health 274; instructions to, relative to: funding of bonds held in Europe, 180, 181, Thompson & Forman claim, 230; interested in Illinois, 251; interview of Macahster & Stebbins with, 310; Forman investigates Thompson claim, 344, 345; laments lack of interest in railroad building in Illinois, of,
&
365; letter
of, to:
Governor French,
251, 252, 254, 256, 257, 258, 261, 262, 264, 265, 267, 268, 271, 272, 274, 277, 279, 281, 283, 284, 289, 290, 293, 297, 299, 302, 30s, 309, 311, 312, 314, 317, 319, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 327, 329, 331, 333, 335, 337, 33^, 343, 344, 357, 360, 365, 367, 369, 372, 374, 376, 379, 383, J. Holford, 276, Rowland & Aspinwall, 303, Thompson & Forman,
348; letter
to,
from: Governor French,
164, 180, 202, 204, 205, 206, 217, 221, 222, 22$, 226, 227, 228, 229, 236, 237, 238, J. Holford, 276, Thompson &
Forman, 346, 350;, not permitted to handle bonds presented by J. Holford, 300; offers: services as interest-
paying agent, 266, 267, to handle interest-paying agency for interest on balances, 273, to resign from transfer agency, 273; opinion of, on salaries for: interest-paying agency, 273, transfer agency, 273; optimistic spirit xxiii; pecuniary interest of, in state, 251 predicts par value or state bonds, 345; preference of Governor
of,
;
French
for, 165; proposal of. that he consult personally with Thompson & Forman, 333; proposal to make, interest-paying agent, 260; proposes plan for: exchange of bonds, 259, 260, transmitting funds, 334; reception of railroad circular sent out by, 361; recommends that Thompson & Forman submit itemized account of their claim, 330; refusal of Thompson & Forman to make sacrifice demanded by, 350; refuses to fund state bonds for Macalister & Stebbins, 326;
regrets: failure of General Assembly to legislate on issuing of certificates, 299; unadjustment of Thompson Forman claim, 348; requested: to devise plan for building Central Railroad, 355, to go to Springfield, 361, to hold conference with Thompson
&
& &
Forman, 346,
to settle IMacalister Stebbins claim, 204, to take over interest-paying agency, 276; residence of at Astor House, 251; salary of, 222; security of, 165; sends transcript of registry of surrendered bonds and ,
scrip,
with
264;
submits correspondence
Thompson & Forman,
344; sug-
gests plan for transferring, 289; suggests that Governor French correspond directly with Thompson I'orman, 330; tenders use of ofllce to
&
Governor French, 251; Thompson
Forman persuaded
to
&
adjust claim
on basis suggested by, 344; transfer agent,
164;
urges:
acceptance
Thompson & Forman speedy settlement of
of
proposal, 262, all
unadjusted
claims against state, 345, 346, that bill to settle with Thompson & Forman be passed, 384; visited by agent of Alton & Sangamon Railroad Company, 339; visits: Chicago, 254, Europe, 229, ss^, New Orleans, 272; vouchers left with, 156, 163;
Wadsworth &
Sheldon
(New
York
INDEX accounts of: audited by J. Calhoun, 3S3, examined by B. C. Webster, 340, 341, 342, 343, with certain banks, 280, with state of Illinois, 329; appointment of, 282; ask for instructions, 284, 285; bank accounts of, 278; bond of: executed, 280, signed by citizens of Chicago, 27S, 279; compensation of, 336; deCity),
cline to assume resf)onsibilities. 286; fault found by Governor French, with returns of, 273; guarantee state from loss in remitting funds, 339, 368, 369; instructions to, 180, 1S6, 240; judgment of, 196; letter of, to Governor
French, 285, 286, 287, 288, 291, 292, 293, 296, 29S, 301, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 31T, 316, 322, 324, 328, 332, 333, 334, 32(^, 339, 34©, 34i, 342, 351, 354, 356, 361, 362, 367, 368, 371, 377, 382; letter to,
from Governor French, 174, :
180, 186, 190, 19s, 196, 203, 233, 236, 240, E. ]Moore, 236, 292; money due, 316; propose to bear risk in transmission of funds, 334, 335, 339; proposal to make, transfer agents, 260; refusal of, to issue bonds to Alton &
Sangamon Railroad Company, 340, 341, 342; remittances by, 287; suggestions made by, 186. Wadsworth, D3'er
&
Co.
(Chicago),
funds to be sent to, 335; transmission of funds (Illinois to New York), by, 377.
Wages, condition
of,
n. I.
Walker, Cyrus, candidate for Congress, Ixxxv; defends J. Smith, Ixxxv; opinion
of,
on
Nauvoo
charter,
Ixxxv.
Wall, Captain, selection of, to settle dispute between Colonels Hardin and Baker, cvi.
Wall Street,
ofllce of
Gay & Wadsworth,
near, 251. War of 1S12, acts of A. Jackson in, 43, n. 2; services in, of: M. K. Alexander, 122, n. I, Governor Carlin, 13, n.,
W.
diers of, 139, n-
Thornton, 14, n.; solexempted from taxation, F,
Ward, Thomas W., appealed
to,
kx;
194;
Governor French referred to, 153; investigating committee selected by,
letter to,
from Governor French,
169, 193, 197. Warren, W. B., carries conditions to anti-Mormons, ci, n. 2; characterization of, ci; patrol commanded by, ci.
Warren County, represented in antiIMormon mass meeting, c, n. 7. Warsaw, indignation meeting at, xci; intense anti-Mormon feeling around, bcxxviii; residence of A. II. Worthcn, 239, n. 3; terminal of proposed rail-
road,
li,
n. 2.
Warsaw Signal, censured by non -Mormons outside state, ciii, n. i; referred to, Ixxxix, n. I.
Washington County, mobilization of troops for Mexican War in, cv, n. 3. Wasp, The, referred to, xxxv, n. 4. Waterloo, residence of S.McRoberts, 37. Wayne County, mobilization of troops for Mexican War in, cv, n. 3; residence of C. H. Constable, Ixi, n. i. Webster, Mr., bonds, scrip, vouchers, and coupons delivered to, 180, 293; bonds forwarded by, 196; receipt given to, 301. Webster, B. C, examination of Wadsworth & Sheldon's accounts by, 340, 341,342, 343Webster, B. C. & Co., draft from, 286, 306, 311.
Weekly Herald, subscription to, 257. Wells, Joseph B., appointment of, 198, n.;
1842, xxxviii.
Wait, William S., letter of, addressed to Governor Ford, Ivii. Walker, Caroline, wife of E. Peck, 166,
467
claim referred
to, 211;
requests
J.
Calhoun to audit accounts of Wadsworth & Sheldon, 383. Wentworth, John, petition sent to Governor Ford by, Ivii, n. i. Western States, supposed inability of, to pay debts, lix. Western & Atlantic Railroad, S. H. Long, chief engineer on, 92, n. West Point Military Academy, attended by J. Pope, 270, n.; S. H. Long, a professor
in, 92, n.
Wetmore & Cryder (New York
City),
attorneys for G. Peabody, 325; statement of Peabody claim sent to, 317. Whig party, alliance of, with Democrats, Ixxxviii; attitude of, toward: canal, Ixvii, civ,
Ixxiii, cxiii,
Mormons,
xxxi,
Mexican War, xxxii,
xxxv,
Lxxix, Ixxx, Jxxxii, n. 2, Ixxxiii, state
banks, xliii, state debt, liv; camxxxv, xxxvi, paign of 1842, by critical attitude of, toward Democrats, xxx; declares against re-
xxxvii;
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468
pudiation, liv; few sessions of legislature dominated by, xxx; ignored by
Mormons, nority xxxii;
in
members
Mormon
mi-
Ixxxviii; irresponsible
of,
Mormon of,
vote
1840, xxxi; elected by,
legislation,
favor canal, Ixxiii; candidates of,
for
no governor xxx;
of
Illinois
opposition
of,
to
canal legislation, Ixvii, Ixxii, n. 3; selection of, in 1S42: Governor Duncan for governor, W. H. Henderson for lieutenant-governor, xxxi; state banks managed by appointees of, xxx; supports state banks, xliii; union of opposition elements in, xvii. Whig press, acknowledgment of, that debt must be paid, Iviii; approval of Governor Ford's first message by, Ivi; attitude of, toward: canal and interest legislation, cxiii, candidacy of Governor Ford, xxxv, Mexican
War,
civ,
Mormons
in politics,
xxxv,
wifeism, Ixxxiii, taxation, Ix; characterization of, xxxii; dilispiritual
gence of, civ. Whitaker, Oliver, nomination
Whitcomb,
of, 42.
Governor
(Indiana), dethat western states could not pay debts, lix. Whiteside, John D., assurance of, on railroad-iron contract, 229; denies Thompson & Forman claim, 224; elected fund commissioner, 83; failure to fulfil contract with Thompson & Forman by, 345; hypothecation of bonds by, 106, n. 3, 315; interview of, with Thompson & Forman, 224; leaves bonds in hands of state agents, claration
of,
203; letter of, to Governor French, 224; letter to, from Governor Ford, 124; petition of, S$; scrip and bonds loaned to, 124, 125, 126. Whiteside, General, D. Prickett, aid-
de-camp
to, 17, n. 2.
Whiteside County, public
by J. McCoy, 49, McCoy, 49, n. 2.
office in,
held
n. 2; residence of J.
Whiteside County, History of, by Charles Bent, referred to, 49, n. 2. Whiteside Station, residence of J. D. Whiteside, 126, n. "Wiggins Loan," history of, 182, n. Will County, public ofiicc in, held by G. D. Parks, 149, n.; residence of: W. Gooding, 145, n., D. L. Gregg, I, Governor Matteson, 63, G. D. A. Parks, 149, n. Williams, John, reward for, 103.
233, n.
n. 2,
Williams, Levi, charged with the murder of H. and J. Smith, xcviii, n. 4; proposition made by Mormons lo, c. Williams College, attended by J. Butter.
field,
212, n.
I.
Willis, John, charged with the murder of H. and J. Smith, xcviii, n. 4.
Wilson, J. D.. claims of, 119. Wilson, Sarah, wife of J. Reynolds, 8,n. 2. Winchester, residence of, S. A. Douglas, 235, n.
Winnebago Countv,
residence
of
J.
Mitchell, 78.
Wisconsin,
claim
of,
Illinois, xxxvi: xxxix, n. 3.
for
counties
"Wolf hunt," abandonment scheme
for
debt
territorial
driving
in of,
of, xcviii;
out Mormons,
xcviii.
Wood, Mr., bonds held by, 196. Wood, John, resignation of, 38, n. i. Wood, John, account against, 102. Wood, Silas, complaint made to,
138,
139; letter to, from Governor French, 137, 152, 192; protest by, 300. Woodbury, Mr., secretary of the treasury, 22.
Woodworth, H.
P., letter to,
from Gov-
ernor Ford, 92. Wool, General, sword presented to, 259. Worth, General, sword presented to, 259.
Worthen (Worthin), Amos H., appointment of, 239; biographical notice of, 239, n. 3.
Worthington, T., activity legislation, lxi,n.
of,
m
canal
i.
Wright, John, member of firm of Wright
&
Co., 83.
Wright & Co. (London), act of General Assembly on contract with, 16; attitude of General Assembly toward sale of bonds to, 20; bonds hypothecated with, 203; Governor Carlin advises J. Reynolds and R. M.
Young
to cancel contract with, 10; contract of, with fund commissioners, 348, C. Oakley and M. M. Rawlings, :
82, J. Reynolds and R. M. Young, 85, 86; contract with, 203; contract with: carried into effect, 14, desired by canal contractors, 10, to be can5; disposal of funds received from, 81, 82; dividends paid by, 207; exchange of bonds with, 23; echo of
celed,
failure of, 302, 329; failure of, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, Ss, 86, 87, 88, 203; news of
INDEX of, transmitted to General Assembly, 26; owes for state bonds,
failure
payment for railroad iron by, power of attorney granted to C. Oakley and INl. Ryan to represent state in bankruptcy proceedings of, liii,
n. 2;
230;
80, 81, 82, S3, 84,_ 85, 86, 87, 88; reasons for failure of, 26, n. 3, 30, n. i; resolutions sent to, 5; sale of bonds by, 83; sale of bonds to, xxii; sale of state bonds to, confirm.ed, 15, 23; state bonds "left in bands of," "unsold," 303; story of failure of, 26, n, 3; trans-
actions of, with: C. Oakley, 302, M. Rawlings, 302.
M.
469
Young, Governor (New York), lettei to, from Governor French, 146. Young, Richard M., action of, approved by Governor Carlin, 22; advised by Governor Carlin to cancel contract with Wright & Co., 10; appointed agent to negotiate loan, Ixv; arrearage of school funds procured by, 233; authorized to: close contract with Wright & Co., 14. hypothecate bonds, 19; biographical notice of, 8, n. i; contract of, with Wright & Co., 85, 86; investigates school lund, 212, 212, n. 2; letter of, transmitted to
Lower House, General Assembly, 29; letter to, fromx:
Yarwood, injunction 133, n-
5, 8, 13, 16, 20, 23,
in case of, 119.
Yates, Ricliard, biographical notice
of,
T-
Yost, Mr., letter from General Davis carried by, 141.
211, 232;
28,
Governor Carlin, Governor French,
memorial sent
to, 33, n.,
37;
ordered to deliver 1,100 canal bonds to W. F. Thornton, 13; proposition
feiting, cii, n. 3; leads exodus westward, cii; terms of sale of
by, 211, 212; presents Mormon petition to Congress, Ixxix, n. 5; selections of state lands by, 127; state agent to negotiate loans, 5; transmission of report from, to Gen-
property by,
eral
Young, Brigham, accused
of counter-
Mormon
c.
made
Assembly, 31;
visits
Europe,
Ixv.