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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. "
Notwithstanding this objection by Dr. Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature in the heraldry of nations, and was at an early day made the imperial standard of the Romans, and from his aspiring flight and majestic soaring was fabled to hold communion with heaven, and to be the favorite messenger of Jove.
The Tartars have a particular esteem for the feathers of his tail, with which they superstitiously think to plume invincible arrows.
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