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Early Detroit
" the deep chagrin which pervaded every heart and was expressed on every face when the shameful and cowardly surrender was made to an inferior British force, and the joy and exultant enthusiasm with which the victory of Perry on Lake Erie, in the following year, was welcomed as in some measure avenging that base surrender.
" But Peace hath her victories no less glorious than War; "
and the change that has taken place in our city and State within, the last forty years is a conquest over nature better deserving of commemoration than achievements on the battle-field.
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