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But all were not gone. There were a few stout hearts and strong hands that remained,—and when the almost incredible news reached them that the State capitol was coming to their very doors, and they began to hear in the distance the scream of the locomotive and click of the telegraph, they took new courage and toiled on. Their friends who had deserted came back from the east, and the thousands followed, until " the wilderness literally became a fruitful field, and the desert literally blossomed as the rose." And now need you ask me why I toiled and voted for a capitol in the woods, when all these things had been foreshadowed to me while yet we sat in the old State capitol at Detroit ? It was to galvanize life into the very heart of our wild and languishing State, at a time when we had no money to appropriate and I felt that the capitol was a "boom" worth untold millions. In this I have not been disappointed.
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