Chicago and the Sources of Her Past and Future Growth: A Paper Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, January 20th, 1880.
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Author(s)William Bross
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Library
ISBN / ASINB002MKOPIY
ISBN-13978B002MKOPI0
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Excerpt from Chicago and the Sources of Her Past and Future Growth: A Paper Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, January 20th, 1880
Changing the language of Webster slightly tsuit the purpose of this article, I shall enter on no encomium upon Chicago. She needs none. Here she is and here she will remain forever. The past is at least secure, and of this every citizen of Chicago is justly proud: and what she is now and what she is likely to become as time rolls onward, can only he understood by a careful survey of the extent and the character of the country in which are the sources of her past and future growth. Her site was not selected by somegreat conquerer, like that id Constantinople. Palmyra, and Alexandria, with reference to the channels of commerce than existing, and which the capricious changes of the currents of trade have reduced to comparative insignificance. Instead id being merely on one of those channels liable to he diverted by political revulsions and ever-changing natural causes, the channels of trade for the. North American Continent all point to and converge in a focus at Chicago. Her commanding commercial position at the head of the great lakes was known to the Indians centuries before the brave old French explorers found it. Nature, it is believed, or. to speak more reverently. He who is the Author of Nature, selected the site of this great city, not till next May forty-three years old, and hence her future will not be subject to those causes which have paralyzed or destroyed many of the cities of past ages. Let us trace some of the lines of her traffic, especially those from the westward, and note the character of the country from which and through which they come.
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Changing the language of Webster slightly tsuit the purpose of this article, I shall enter on no encomium upon Chicago. She needs none. Here she is and here she will remain forever. The past is at least secure, and of this every citizen of Chicago is justly proud: and what she is now and what she is likely to become as time rolls onward, can only he understood by a careful survey of the extent and the character of the country in which are the sources of her past and future growth. Her site was not selected by somegreat conquerer, like that id Constantinople. Palmyra, and Alexandria, with reference to the channels of commerce than existing, and which the capricious changes of the currents of trade have reduced to comparative insignificance. Instead id being merely on one of those channels liable to he diverted by political revulsions and ever-changing natural causes, the channels of trade for the. North American Continent all point to and converge in a focus at Chicago. Her commanding commercial position at the head of the great lakes was known to the Indians centuries before the brave old French explorers found it. Nature, it is believed, or. to speak more reverently. He who is the Author of Nature, selected the site of this great city, not till next May forty-three years old, and hence her future will not be subject to those causes which have paralyzed or destroyed many of the cities of past ages. Let us trace some of the lines of her traffic, especially those from the westward, and note the character of the country from which and through which they come.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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