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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.10
gathered for winter. On a mild, pleasant, autumnal evening in 1829 a stranger on horseback called at a small dwelling in Tecumseh and requested entertainment for the night. He was cordially received, for we were all pleased to take the hand of the pioneers' friend—Hon. Lewis Cass, Governor of the Territory. Quite a pleasant scene was enacted the next day at the house of our late esteemed friend, Musgrove Evans, where the Governor dined with a few pioneer friends. In the afternoon a number of forest choppers escorted the General to
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