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Coming to Michigan
BY MRS. RICHARD DYE, OF IONIA.
Pioneers of Michigan, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This hour is to me filled with more than ordinary pleasure, for it gives me an opportunity to look upon the faces of those who, in their youthful days, bade a long farewell to all the privileges and enjoyments of their happy and peaceful homes of the East. It affords me the cheering presence of those whom fortune has in some degree remunerated for the long and weary days of toil and suffering, and whom Providence ordained to be the founders of this great and beautiful State. And among them I am glad to see the youth and maid, who shall love, honor and transmit to future generations the blessings for which their fathers and mothers toiled. But, alas ! the present joys are marred, when I remember that many of those whose names were so dear to us in those days of anxiety and misgiving, have left us; but we are solaced with the hope that they have gone to a haven of unclouded rest. '
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