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before Richmond and Petersburg, and gallantry on the 2d and 9th of April. The war now virtually at an end, General Osborne resigned at once and returned to Chicago. Here he was received with the warmest applause. The Scottish hero, in the days of Bruce, was not more toasted or lionized by the grateful hearts he led against Edward the First, than was this descendant of stern Old Scotia by the grateful hearts and admiring friends of the "loyal North-west." General Osborne was soon appointed and confirmed as Postmaster, under President Johnson, but he declined to serve under his terms of administration. He has since been elected to the honorable and responsible position of Treasurer of Cook county. Far advanced at an age when most men begin, a natural statesman, possessed of rare oratorical powers, great energy and marked ability, combined with a popular personality and unswerving integrity, there are future honors awaiting Thomas O. Osborne, by which his countrymen can repay in part his noble conduct during the war.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHICAGO AND HER INFLUENCE ON THE WAR.

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In God's World Great Institutions Grow-Progress and Climate of Chicago Spirit of her Inhabitants-Her Grain and Pork MarketsSuccess the Test of Genius-First Shipment of Wheat Statistics Her Railroads-Political Convictions-Would such a Practical City Go to War?-Her Pulpit- Her Press-Tribune-Times-Journal-Republican-Staats Zeitung - Reverend Dr. Eddy - Christian Times Mary Ashton Livermore-Board of Trade-Express Companies-Railways-The War-Built Churches, Schools, and Charitable Institutions-A Future War shall not Blush at Chicago's Record in the War of 1861.

"IF the war comes, what will Chicago do?" was a question asked from one prairie horizon to the other. This city, and all pertaining to it, has been except ional. Planted where nature seemed most niggardly in provisions for a great city, where the deep slough prophesied the impossibility of solid foundations or permanent streets; where the surrounding country for miles was a sterile plateau, there was nothing promising the beauty and power of the great city. There may have been some who then saw that here was the gateway of the North-western trade; but we doubt it. In God's world, great institutions are not made-they grow. So the city grew; it was wanted, though men knew it not. The railway era was to transform every thing, and values were to leap out of the ground; and commerce came with snowy wings, as the great prairies began to bloom into beauty; and soon this, which a distinguished United

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