For over a century the whitewashed cottages of the French settler had dotted the shores of "the straits." where Pontiac. Teeumseh. and other noted Indian warriors had held their councils. and the tribes gathered for their annual tribute. The Indian wars were over. the war of h82bad finally settled in the mind of the Indian and all the world the supremacy of the United States over the vast territory which from the time of Marquetto down had been debatable ground. and now it was open to the peaceable occupation of the pioneer and adventurer. and an immigration began that almost equaled the irruption of the tribes of Central and Northern Europe upon the plains of France. Italy. and Spain. In 1836 this immigration was at its highest. Detroit was filled with men on "fortune bent." Among them came our friend. He found there his peers in culture. his equals in ability to grasp success in the feverish. adventurous life in this new home. but among them all there was tobe found no one his superior in integrity or insteadfastness of purpose.
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