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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
except as to the ten mile strip added on the north to the Territory of Indiana in 1816, when it was admitted into the Union as a State, they might have seen or known that at the time of the sitting of the Constitutional Convention in 1835 there was no claim, or anticipated claim, to any lands west of the line drawn from the northern extremity of Lake Michigan to the National boundary in Lake Superior, nor was there then desired or asked for by the convention, or by any one else, any such addition to our boundaries as is now embraced in what is known as the Upper Peninsula. It was an afterthought of Congress to compensate Michigan, as it were, for the land on our southern boundary taken from us and added to the State of Ohio, a year or more after the sitting of the convention and the adoption of the State Constitution and the State coat of arms.
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