Excerpt from Centennial History of Illinois, Vol. 2 of 5: From Slave to Soldier, the Work of Abraham Lincoln But it is equallyl n mistake to regard the victory as on the whole trivial. From the national viewpoint it was momentous. For congress had designed illinols to be a binder state and _had mapped it out accordingly. Reaching as far north_ as Boston and as far south as Richmond. It was to guard the perpetuity of the Union. And the binder state had r_efused to adopt the south ern system in its entirety. So far -ao good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.