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How The Two Peninsulas Were Married

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Day
24
Month
August
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Judge Joslyn lias many of the incidents of the former hlstory of our stiiti stored away in liis liead, and occasionallj wlien a reporter finds him in a inooJ therefor, nmeh valuable information i.gathered from Ii is conversations. The fact is quite generally knovrn tliroughout our state that the upper península was given to Michigan as a compromiso, in lieu of a small strip of terrltory on the southcast corner containing the now city of Toledo. But how the idea of the compromise carne to be snggested we ntver knew untll we heard the Judge recite the facts a few days since. It seems that the feeling over Oliio's grab of this strip of Michigan's land ran so high In 1836 that congress nppointed a joint committet! to settle the matter. It was a difflcult thing to settle satisfactory to both parties. The committee met, however, and considered different plans; finally as they were about leaving the committee room one of tlie members glanced up at a map of the Northwest Territory hanging by the door. Tliegrcat sea coaet of the lake impressed him witli the idea that to add to this coast wou ld be ¦ grand thing for Michigan, and that the upper and lower peninsulas were bound togetUer by tiej stronger than ropes of sand. As he stood and gazed at the map other members gathered about him and he nt once made the proposition to gW the territory of Michigan all of that upper country, and let Ohio have Toledo. A merubcr of the committee favorinj: Michigan knew considerable of the richnes of that greit strip of land and jiunped to the conclusión that it was worth far more than the little strip whieh the mudily Mauinee raged througb; so the proposition was made and the joint cominittee of the Sonate and House so reportcd. Uut the luilhorities here didn't like it. The "Toledo war" followed and the "legislatura" rcjected the proposed compromise with contempt. Finally, during tbc mast yi'Hr, ¦ convtntlon was called by the people, and the new territory aoceptd in good fait h. So ended the "war," and so ended a controversy that made Michigan riek '" limilx-r and in mineral wealth, and the grMtMt sea coast state in the 11 ii ion.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News