The world: historical and actual . ents of the state have been in theline of political and intellectual superiority. In thecause of human rights and mental improvement ithas always been foremost. Its list of statesmen, fromWinthrop to Sumner, is long, and of its authors andinventors is still longer and more creditable. Bos-ton has indeed been eclipsed by New York in com- niE CITY AND HARBOR OP BOSTON. deaf mutes, the blind, idiots and young home of the Puritans is gradually becomingthe home of the foreigner. The bleak and rockyfarms of Massachusetts are being deserted by theYank
The world: historical and actual . ents of the state have been in theline of political and intellectual superiority. In thecause of human rights and mental improvement ithas always been foremost. Its list of statesmen, fromWinthrop to Sumner, is long, and of its authors andinventors is still longer and more creditable. Bos-ton has indeed been eclipsed by New York in com- niE CITY AND HARBOR OP BOSTON. deaf mutes, the blind, idiots and young home of the Puritans is gradually becomingthe home of the foreigner. The bleak and rockyfarms of Massachusetts are being deserted by theYankees, and going into the hands of Irishmen andCanadians to an almost revolutionary extent. Thereare a few of the original Indians left in the state—not far from two thousand, including the niulattoeswith whom they have intermarried. Shays Rebell-ion was a Massachusetts episode. It occurred in1800. It was a popular uprising against the bosssystem in state polities and high taxes. -^ 606 STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED MICHIGAN. The name of Michigan was derived from the Indianwords meaning Lake Region. The first settlementwas a Jesuit mis-sion at the fallsof the St. Mary,1641. Detroit wasfounded by theFrench in silver andcopper mineswerediscovered andworked as early as1772. Michiganwas regarded as apart of Canada university during the Revolutionary War. Its status after peacehad been declared was uncertain until 1796, whenEngland ceded it to the United States, and it held that position and was also military command-er when, eaily in the war of 1812, the Britishdemanded the surrender of Detroit, to which heyielded, for which he was severely censured, andfrom which the city was rescued by the victory ofLake Erie (Commodore Perry), in 1813. GeneralLewis Cass was soon after appointed governor of theterritory. Michigan was admitted into the Union in1837. Lake Michigan and the Straits of Mackinawdivide the state into two peninsulas, the lower and the upper. Thel
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