Chicago Antiquities - Comprising Original Items and Relations, Letters, Extracts, and Notes Pertaining to Early Chicago; Embellished With Views, Portraits, Autographs, Etc #226857

If such then are the facts, may it not be a pardonable error, to recall the beginnings, to look after the lower walls, the lines of the trenches, so to speak, indeed, to inspect the quality or peculiarities of the rubble-stone and concrete, the foundations, whereon rests the superstructure, the moral, intellectual, and material fabric of this great western metropolis.