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MICHIGAN, MY MICHIGAN MAJ. W. C. RANSOM, 1871
Then came McClelland, afterwards secretary of the interior under Pierce; and later still, Bingham, and Blair, and Wisner, and Baldwin, in all of whom the State may well feel emotions of honest pride, as sons entirely worthy her confidence and regard. Nor should I forget to mention, as among the tried and trusted of Michigan men, Elon Farnsworth, Digby V. Bell, John J. Adams, Charles G. Hammond, the Wings, the Whip-pies, and a score of others, not the less worthy that they are not named in this connection, with that of Lewis Cass, who, but for the simple circumstance of his not receiving quite votes enough, would have been president of the United States. Michigan, in all that pertains to a well organized State, is not behind any other in the union. Her humane institutions, in all their structures and appointments, are full abreast of the improvement that distinguishes the age; while in the number and extent of its educational establishments, comprising its world-renowned university; its prosperous and promising agricultural college; its efficient normal school; all crowned by that splendid common school system, the benefits of which the poorest and humblest of her children can enjoy, leaves nothing to be done in the way of securing to her people all those blessings that intelligence, enlightenment, and erudition can bring in their train. Nor are her people changeable and mercurial in their dispositions. A thoughtful and reading population, they are generally slow to conviction, but firm in their conclusions. For long years the trained legions of her indomitable democracy stood like rocks against the attack of their determined adversaries, until she came to be the banner State of all.
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