Pioneer and Historical Society.
into the Union as a State, the reception of the upper peninsula as a com
pensation for the enforced cession to Ohio of the tract on the southern
boundary (which occasioned what is known as the Toledo war), was
regarded with intense dissatisfaction by the inhabitants of the Territory.
The State Gazetteer of that day spoke of the upper peninsula as "A wild
and comparatively Scandinavian tract, 20,000 square miles of howling
wilderness on the shores of Lake Superior, and in one of the Toledo war
songs of the same period, the poet says:
" But now the song they sing to us
Is trade away that land.
For that poor, frozen country,
Beyond Lake Michigan."
