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THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY

THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.

 

AN ADDRESS BY BISHOP BENJAMIN WILLIAM ARNETT, D. D.

 

WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 11, 1899, AT MUSIC HALL, CHICAGO.

We have been called together by the authorities of the

Autumnal Festival Celebration. First, we are to give thanks

for the achievements of the present century, for the triumph of

mind over matter, as well as the success that has attended the

labors of our workmen, the harvest of our farmers and the divi-

dends that have accrued to our financiers. It is not only to cel-

ebrate the success in the agricultural, the commercial, the educa-

tional and social world, but it is to commemorate certain histor-

ical events that have proven to be the beginning of an epoch in

the history of the country and of the race.

I know of no subject so fraught with interest and so mys-

terious in its workings as the organization and the development

of the Northwestern Territory. To follow the birth, growth

and development of this territory, it is only to set up a true

standard of the progress and development of our whole country.

The country, in fact the whole country, has been one of the mar-

vels of the century. Our fathers who laid the foundation of

our magnificent Republic laid them on true principles, they

were laid on the Christian religion, Christian education, Chris-

tian morality and Christian temperance. The fathers of the

revolution cemented these foundations with their blood and con-

secrated it with their tears. Our fathers, I say, because it was

the Anglo-Saxon fathers, and the fathers of the Negro race,

whose joint heroism and courage won the battle of the Revolu-

tion and since that day the great efforts for the development of

our country, whether north or south, has been the joint work of

the two races.

Whatever is grand about our country, whatever is noble

about our manhood, whatever is progressive about our society,

whatever is beneficent in our institutions, our churches, schools,

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