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Tuesday, June 2, 1840.+-

Springfield, IL.

Delegations from all over state begin arriving for Young Men's Whig convention. "The spectator who looked on and saw the long lines of wagons, canoes, etc., filled with men and the hundreds on horseback, might well have supposed that the whole sucker state had broken loose." IHiā€”Trans., 1914, 160.