The Southern and Western Boundaries of Michigan (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... STUDIES IN MICHIGAN HISTORY. The Association hopes to publish under this title a few papers that are the result of careful investigation of some phases of the history of the State. The monograph following is the outcome of studies at the University of Michigan. The subject has been examined with great care, and original material and contemporary documents have been sought out with patience. The references to the material used are given with unusual fullness, because this boundary question has been often written about, but at no time after such thorough examination and such a complete reference to authority that one could feel that the basis of judgment was fully given. Miss Soule has cherished the ambition of presenting with clearness an outline of the whole subject, and of making clear the material used and the data upon which statements and opinions rest. The boundary controversy between Ohio and Michigan is a subject of more than mere local interest and curiosity. It exhibits in a vr peculiarly instructive way the sentiment of States-Rights, which I was dominant in the fourth decade of the century, at a period when j the forces of nationalization, too, were working among the people and assuring the indestructibility of the Union composed of inde-i structible states. Only by a study of such concrete examples, as this can one understand the source and force the State-Rights feel-j ing. One sees that the people of each commonwealth were strongly impressed with a sense of the identity and individuality of the State, and that this prevailing sentiment has preserved the States as dignified portions of our political system and kept them from sinking into mere administrative districts or becoming mere political divis-' ions of the Nation for the purposes of ...