Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by KEEN & LEE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Dedicated то THE BRAVE AND INDUSTRIOUS CITIZENS OF ILLINOIS, AND TO ALL THOSE WHO INTEND TO BUILD A HOME THERE, MAY THE FLOURISHING AND FERTILE PRAIRIE-STATE UNFOLD, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, MORE AND MORE GLORIOUSLY; AND MAY VIRTUE, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS, FOR EVER HAVE THEIR ABODE WITHIN HER BORDERS. |