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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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olders musthave grown weak through wavering. Most of thesehard times were due to malaria, which was bred inthe neighboring swamps and forests, and which was anever-present menace; yet when the cloud of contentionlowered over the tract of land lying between theterritory of Michigan and the State of Ohio, Toledo,the very centre of the trouble, being claimed by both,was animated enough, although her neighbor, Monroe,was wont to vex her with such taunts as this: The potatoes they grow small, on Maumee,And they eat them, tops and all, on Maumee. Potato-tops must have possessed singular virtue, forthere was no want of spirit when the test came ^ OnMaumee. The Toledo War, much talked of and laughedover in its day, is passing slowly into oblivion, andnow only an occasional grey-beard brings its scenesback with amusing reminiscence. The cause of thetrouble lay in a mistake of Congress, which estab-lished an impossible boundary line between Michiganand Ohio, so that the bone of contention was a
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FIVE DAYS AT TOLEDO. 261 tract of land eight miles wide at the western end,and five at the eastern, which both claimed. Thepeople living in this tract were therefore between twofires, some preferring to be governed by the laws ofthe territory, and the others giving their allegiance toOhio. The respective governors were the principalsin the quarrel, and showed a strong disposition tofight, while the chief executive at Washington, beingunable to interfere, was obliged to assume the role ofa spectator, advising, however, that the interestedparties defer action until the convening of Con-gress. The advantages were pretty evenly divided, exceptthat Michigan, as a territory, in attempting to preventthe State from enforcing her supposed right, aroused astrong State pride among the Buckeyes.^ The mi-litia was called out on both sides and Michiganthreatened with arrest those who should attempt tore-mark the boundary line—the compliment beinggenerously returned by Ohio. In the midst of these

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