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In my humble efforts to discharge the duty assigned me I shall make no effort to lionize myself, or to make a hero of any particular person, for indeed there was no such hero. Each, as I believe, in his action upon the subject, discharged his simple duty; and if on returning home he failed to receive the applause of his constituents, he had what is worth far more,— the approbation of his own judgment and an approving conscience.
Honored by my friends with a seat in the Legislature of 1847, I timidly took my seat in the old capitol in Detroit, a tyro at the business of legislation ; but I soon had the consolation of learning that I was surrounded by plenty of others of the same sort. My first surprise was to find the Legislature, with few exceptions, a body of plain men. Finding this out, I began to breathe more freely, but through all the early days of the session my fears of violating some parliamentary rule and being brought to order by some of the few old stagers of the house, kept me in a state of needless consternation.
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