THE STATE-EXTENT AND BOUNDARIES-DECADES-PRODUCTIONS-CIVIL WAR-FREE
AND SLAVE LABOR-DEMANDS OF SLAVERY-LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS
CONTEST-1860-PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST-THREATS OF DISUNION-NO JUSTIFICATION
FOR REVOLUTION-A. H. STEPHENS' SPEECH-MR. LINCOLN'S VIEWS-POWERLESS FOR
EVIL-MR. BUCHANAN-CABINET-SCENES IN CONGRESS-SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDES
-“COERCION"-LINCOLN'S POLICY FORESHADOWED-MAJOR ANDERSON-FORT MOUL-
TRIE AND FORT SUMTER-COMMISSIONERS-GENERAL SCOTT AND REINFORCEMENTS—A
TRUCE-ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION-SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT FACTS-
TERMINATION OF THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION.
HE STATE OF ILLINOIS stretches from 36° 56′ to 42° 30′ north latitude, and is between 87° 35′ and 91° 40′ longitude. Its extent is truly imperial; its length from north to south being three hundred and eighty-eight, and its extreme breadth from east to west two hundred and twelve miles. Its head is as far north as Lowell, Massachusetts, and its foot farther south than Richmond, Virginia. Its area is 55,405 square miles, or 35,459,200 acres. Its northern boundary is Wisconsin; the north-eastern, Lake Michigan; eastern, Indiana, from which it is, in part, separated by the Wabash River; its southern, Kentucky and the Ohio River, while on its western line is the Mississippi River, across which are the States of Missouri and Iowa. It is divided into one hundred and one counties, which are dotted with villages, towns or cities. Its growth has been very rapid, as the statement of its decennial periods from 1810 to 1860 shows: