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But there was one redeeming circumstance. I had not come there expecting to enjoy a holiday visit. I found work before me, which made me feel at home, for, thank God, I had been taught to work when 1 was very young. At an early period in our Territorial history, Detroit had been made the capital, and when our first State constitution was adopted, Article 12, Section 9, of that instrument read as follows:
" The seat of government for this State shall be at Detroit, or at such other place or places as may be prescribed by law, until the year 1847, when it shall be permanently located by the Legislature."
In considering this passage of our organic law, I had been led to attach a peculiar importance to the word "permanently," and my convictions were that no location upon the extreme borders of the State could be permanent after the interior of the State had become settled. But when the Legislature of '47 was first organized the man who could have supposed it possible to wrest the capitol from Detroit and set it down in the midst of a dense forest on the banks of Grand river would have been considered a fit subject for a lunatic asylum
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