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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
Dear General: —Your letter of the 26th of January last was received here during my absence, else would have been answered more promptly. I was a member as you state) of the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1835, and remember that General Lewis Cass, then Secretary of War, presented to the people of Michigan, through John Biddle, the President of the convention, a device and motto to constitute the seal of Michigan when we became a State. This device with the inscription was promptly and unanimously adopted by the convention. I was not an accomplished Latin scholar, but with some knowledge of the language, I construed the motto " Si quceris peninsulam amcenam circumspice" to mean literally "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you, " and in the limited talk that was indulged in debate on the subject, I remember that General Isaac E. Crary,
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