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Father Winter
But they lay themselves on the altar, —whether designed or not, —for their children's sake; and the present generation in Michigan are reaping the golden fruits of their self-sacrifice. But for them, —to many in this audience, I might say, but for you, —our State might have been still a wilderness, and the Pioneer Society of Michigan have never been born.
Asa was of that self-reliant class; and knowing of some persons who had settled in western Pennsylvania, in 1810 he left his wife and four children (the youngest of whom died while he was absent), and found his way to that-out-of-the-way part of the world.
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