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STORY OF ANOTHER PIONEER BY C. B. STEBBINS
June 7, 1882.
But the appetite, always restrained, never left him. He told me he often crossed the street to avoid passing a saloon where he might possibly catch a smell from its infernal furnishing. He acquired a large property, and died several years since, an honored member of society and the church. It is probable that there are gentlemen present who knew him well, who never knew how desperate a battle he so successfully fought.
While in Palmyra I wrote occasionally for an Adrian paper. In an article upon the wild-cat currency, I wrote that we were the scorn of all the Eastern States. When printed, it read: "The scum of all the Eastern States. When we remember the reputation Michigan had so short time previously borne, as the refuge of unfortunate debtors and criminals, we may question whether the error was not an improvement.
Years before my own change of base, there was a man who kept a meat market in Vermont. He was engaged to the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, but- her family were opposed to the match. Finally he became involved in debt, and left for Michigan between two days. He here became, in a few years, a man of wealth and political influence, and in due time returned to Vermont, paid all his debts, with interest, and married the lady. I suppose that also was with interest, for the family were then perfectly reconciled.
Everybody has heard of the Whig campaign cry of 1840, "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!" but none now less than forty-two years of age heard the cry. The enthusiasm of the Whigs in that year has never been equaled by any party, except, perhaps, by the Republicans in their rally for Rocky Mountain John.
Gen. 'Harrison and Francis Granger ran against Van Buren and Johnson in 1836.
Michigan
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