The Dearborns a Discourse Commemorative of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Occ
The Dearborns a Discourse Commemorative of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Occ
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Wm. Whistler in 1802, and that in the summer of 1S03, Capt. Whistler's company was ordered from Detroit to Chicago to occupy the post and build the fort; that she and her young husband and his father and Mrs. Whistler came to Chicago by the U. S. Schooner Tracy, and the company came over- land conducted by Lieut. James S. Swearingen. That the fort was finished and occupied in 1803, is certain from the fact that the army return of December 31, 1803, states the number of officers and men on duty ...at Fort Dearborn Chi- cago, Illinois Territory. See also "American State Papers, " Vol. I. , p. 175.
26 THE DEARBORNS.
commenced public life by superintending the construction and armament of the forts in Portland Harbor.
In 1812, a second war of independence was forced upon us by an accumulation of insult and injury, which drove the people to arms, notwithstanding the protest and oppo- sition of New England. The Jay treaty had failed to bring us anything like fair treatment from Great Britain. They boarded our vessels and impressed thousands upon thousands of our best seamen; they refused to give up the forts within our territories on the Northwest frontier; and made them rallying points for swarms of Indian sav- ages, who plundered, burned, killed, tortured, and scalped men, women, and children with indiscriminate brutality.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Wm. Whistler in 1802, and that in the summer of 1S03, Capt. Whistler's company was ordered from Detroit to Chicago to occupy the post and build the fort; that she and her young husband and his father and Mrs. Whistler came to Chicago by the U. S. Schooner Tracy, and the company came over- land conducted by Lieut. James S. Swearingen. That the fort was finished and occupied in 1803, is certain from the fact that the army return of December 31, 1803, states the number of officers and men on duty ...at Fort Dearborn Chi- cago, Illinois Territory. See also "American State Papers, " Vol. I. , p. 175.
26 THE DEARBORNS.
commenced public life by superintending the construction and armament of the forts in Portland Harbor.
In 1812, a second war of independence was forced upon us by an accumulation of insult and injury, which drove the people to arms, notwithstanding the protest and oppo- sition of New England. The Jay treaty had failed to bring us anything like fair treatment from Great Britain. They boarded our vessels and impressed thousands upon thousands of our best seamen; they refused to give up the forts within our territories on the Northwest frontier; and made them rallying points for swarms of Indian sav- ages, who plundered, burned, killed, tortured, and scalped men, women, and children with indiscriminate brutality.
What to read after The Dearborns a Discourse Commemorative of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Occ?
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