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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The [first territorial convention refused to ratify the Enabling Act of
Congress of January 26, 1837, which imposed the upper peninsula upon the
new State: and had they continued of the same mind, these annals would
have fallen in the lines of some other Pioneer Society than that of Michi
gan. But Governor Mason, and a few others who agreed with him, persuaded
the people to call a new convention and consent to the Enabling Act, as
passed, mainly because the State would then obtain a share of the U. S.
surplus revenue, and five per cent, on certain public land sales which
amounted in the aggregate to some $600,000. This trifling inducement of
$600,000 did the business. Michigan was persuaded to put her pride in her
pocket, to accept her boundaries, and to take the despised upper peninsula
to her bosom.
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