”Whiteside county now and as she was when her sons wore Buckskin trousers and Wolfskin caps.—Responded to by Joseph Ware, Esq., in the following neat and appropriate manner: ‘It is useless for me to speak to this audience of Whiteside county as it was. You have all seen it in its original beauty. You have looked upon these prairies before they were marred by the plow, or dotted with buildings, as they lay in green luxuriance—

”Gardens of the desert unshorn,
Fields boundless and beautiful.” ‘ ”

Reference Data:

History of Whiteside County, Illinois, by Charles Bent, 1877, page 518