Letter of Lucius Lyon to the Honorable Lewis Williams
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Excerpt from Letter of Lucius Lyon to the Honorable Lewis Williams: Chairman of the Committee on Territories, Respecting Boundary Line Between Ohio and Michigan; Also, the Report of Said Committee on the Subject of Admitting Michigan Into Union In pursuance of this decision of the people, the Legislative Council of the Territory, at their next succeeding session, memorialized Congress on the subject; and, in February last, a bill was reported, which it was hoped and expected would pass, authorizing the people, in the eastern division of said Territory, to form a constitution and State Government. In 1830, when the census was taken, this part of Michigan contained only about thirty thousand inhabitants; but, within the last four years its population, wealth, and resources have increased with almost unexampled rapidity; and, by the very lowest estimate of those having the best opportunities of judging correctly, it now contains a population of at least fifty thousand persons. Even within the last nine months, the increase of population, by emigration alone, has been more than ten thousand, as is proved by the sales of public lands to actual setters. There has been paid into the Treasury, during the past season, from this part of said Territory, more than six hundred thousand dollars - an amount considerably greater, it is believed, than has been received, in the same time, from any State or Territory of the United States. In relation to the justice, propriety, expediency, and even necessity of immediately organizing a State Government in the eastern division of the Territory of Michigan, there is, among our citizens, scarcely a difference of opinion. All are for it. The people of the whole Territory are almost unanimously in favor of the measure; and, knowing their views and feelings in this particular, I felt it my duty to embrace the first opportunity to bring the subject before Congress, and to endeavor to procure the enactment of a law for that purpose, as early in the session as possible. The bill reported at the last session is such an one as will suit the circumstances of the Territory; and the only change I would propose to make in it is to allow a delegate, in the convention to form a constitution, for every seven hundred inhabitants, instead of every twelve hundred, as there provided. It fixes the boundaries of the proposed State so as to agree precisely with the boundaries of the Territory of Michigan, as organized and established by the act of Congress of January 11, 1805. So far as relates to the division line between the proposed State and the territory which will be left west of Lake Michigan, the boundary there fixed is undoubtedly the one that will suit the true interest of the people, on both sides of said line, better than any other. Running northwardly, as it does, through the centre of Lake Michigan, to its northern extremity, and thence due north to Lake Superior, it coincides, through its whole extent, with one of these boundaries fixed by nature which, where they exist, should, in the division of States, always be regarded. The strait of Michilimackinac, being narrow, and settled as it is, and will be, by people of the same habits, feelings, and interests cannot be regarded as a natural division. The people there, insulated as they must always be, in relation to the settlements west and northwest of them, ought not to be separated by a boundary which will compel a part of them to go southward to Detroit, and a part westward to Green Bay or the Mississippi, to their respective seats of Government; and for this reason alone, even if there were no others, the western boundary of the State should be fixed as it was in he a oresaid act of 1805. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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