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Identifier: michiganasprovin01utle (find matches)
Title: Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Utley, Henry Munson, 1836-1917 Cutcheon, Byron Mac, 1836-1908 Burton, Clarence Monroe, 1853-1932
Subjects: Michigan -- History
Publisher: (New York) : The Publishing society of Michigan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he American Fur Company,that the United States furnished a rival capable of com-peting in the markets of the world and of expanding theenterprise to the far-off Pacific slope. Governor Haldi-mand did his best to hold for his countrymen this im-portant trade. He saw what some of his predecessorshad seen long before him, that to let the Americans intothe country to destroy the forests, to build homes, toclear and cultivate the land, meant an early and totalextinction of the fur bearing animals and the consequentend of the trade which they furnished. His policy hada tendency to hold the country from settlement, to turnback the American pioneer. These influences may notappear on the surface and are not distinctly mentionedin the official correspondence, but it seems evident thatthey bad much weight. Governor Haldimand writingto his successor. General Barry St. Leger, declares thathe has thought it his dut) uniformly to oppose the dif-ferent attempts made by the American States to get pos-
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JOHN JACOB ASTOR MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 357 session of the posts In the upper country until his majes-tys orders for that purpose shall be received, and myconduct upon that occasion having been approved, Ihave only to recommend to you a strict attention to thesame. There were some questions of quite minor importancewhich were greatly magnified. The treaty of peaceguaranteed that congress would take under immediateconsideration the full payment in sterling coin of debtsowing to British subjects by Americans. It was claimedthat this guaranty had not been maintained in goodfaith, and that loyalists had been thwarted in all effortsto regain possession of their estates. Hence, the termsof the treaty not having been fully observed by theAmericans, the British, on their part, were relieved fromobligation. It was charged by the Americans that anumber of negro slaves had been enticed away fromtheir owners and carried off by British officers, in viola-tion of the express provisions of the treat

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