Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Convention will be notified to-morrow . . .

. . . that the Legislatures of Iowa and Wisconsin will visit your city in a few days and would like to meet this Convention. The idea is to discuss questions of interest to the Northwest, in Bryan Hall – say Treasury notes in payment of State taxes; the ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river; national armory, &c. If this Convention goes up to Chicago, they will have a great time in your city.

The above is from the Springfield (Ill.) telegraph dispatches to he Chicago Tribune of the 10th inst. If our Solons go upon any such excursion we hope it will not be until after their adjournment, and that then they will pay their own expenses.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1

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