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The Toledo War
The legislative council of Michigan on February 12, of that year, passed an act "to prevent the exercise of foreign jurisdiction within the limits of the Territory of Michigan," making it a penal offense for any one to accept or exercise any public office in any part of the Territory, except by commission from the United States, or Michigan. On the 19th of the same month Acting Governor Mason, in a letter of instructions in detail to General Joseph W. Brown, then commanding a division of the Michigan militia, says: "Under existing circumstances but one of two courses is left for Michigan to pursue. If Ohio continues to persevere in the attempt to wrest from us our territory, as she now meditates,—in voluntary submission to encroachment upon our rights, or firm and determined opposition to her,—the latter though painful to us, is preferable to the former, and must be decided upon.
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