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Common terms and phrasesAlpheus Felch American appointed banks battle became British brought Cadillac canal Cartier circuit Colonel colony command Company congress constitution convention copper coureurs de bois democratic Detroit dollars early election enacted English established expedition explorations Father forest France French fur trade garrison gave Give an account Governor Mason honor Hull Huron important Indians industry institution internal improvements Island Jackson judges Kalamazoo Lake Erie Lake Michigan Lake Superior lands later legislative legislature Lewis Cass likewise located Lucius Lyon Mackinac Major Malden Marquette ment Michigan territory Michilimackinac miles million mission Morris Canal northern northwest Ohio party passed peace pioneer political Pontiac population President provision Quebec railroad river Salle Sault schools senate session settlement shore slavery sought southern supreme court territory tion treaty United States senate upper peninsula village vote Wayne Wayne county Zachariah Chandler Popular passagesPage 102 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan. Page 206 - ... slavery; but by amendment it became the famous Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which finally became a law 30 May 1854. On 4 Jan. 1854 the Senate Committee on Territories, through Douglas, reported a substitute for the Dodge bill which contained the compromise provision of the Utah and New Mexico acts ; namely, that "the Territory of Nebraska, or any portion of the same, when admitted as a State or States, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe at... Page 144 - ... that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan. Page 90 - We desire you to consider, brothers, that our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country. Page 219 - You need no one to tell you what are the dangers of your country, nor what are your duties to meet and avert them. There is but one path for every true man to travel, and that is broad and plain. It will conduct us, not indeed ' without trials and sufferings, to peace and the restoration of the Union. Page 90 - Look back, and review the lands from whence we have been driven to this spot. We can retreat no farther, because the country behind hardly affords food for its present inhabitants; and we have, therefore, resolved to leave our bones in this small space to which we are now confined. Page 97 - State contemplated by this act, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude otherwise than in the punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted... Page 45 - who will one day have the happiness to possess this fertile and pleasant strait, will be very much obliged to those who have shown them the way. Page 205 - Executive of the moneys hereby appropriated, that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude should ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party should first be duly convicted. Page 145 - State shall be established by, and extended to, a direct line running from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay, after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami river... References from web pagesJSTOR: History of Michigan Bibliographic information
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