Remarks in Illinois Legislature
Concerning a Bill for Completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal1Jump to section
Mr. LINCOLN offered an amendment, allowing the State to pay in Bonds at par for all work hereafter done, and to issue therefor $3,000,000 bonds.
Mr. BISSELL2Jump to section moved to strike out 3 and insert $1,500,000. Mr. LINCOLN accepted the amendment.
Messrs. Lincoln and Dodge3Jump to section supported the bill and Mr. Ormsbee and Kitchell4Jump to section opposed it.
Mr. KITCHELL was surprised at the course of the gentleman from Sangamon (Mr. Lincoln). We were already prostrated by debt, and that gentleman thought it would be for the interest of the State to go still deeper. Mr. K. said it reminded him of an anecdote, which he would relate. A drunkard in Arkansas took so much of the cretur, that he lost his reason and remained for some time in a state of insensibility. His wife tried every experiment to cure him;