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A PLOT FOR OBTAINING THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
This formidable title has never turned up since. Whether disgusted with the experience of republics, or some other cause, the Detroit partners in the joint stock company all elected, under Jay's treaty, to become British subjects. The annals of our country have never shown a more extensive or audacious plan of bribery, and the public suffered no great detriment by their defection.
Had the plan of these confederates received the aid of Congress it is difficult to imagine the importance of such an event in its bearing on the future of the peninsula. The circumstances render it highly
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