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All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm THE TERRITORIAL PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter VOLUME XII The Territory of Michigan 1829-1837 Continued UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1945 _______________________________________________________ For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C. Price $4.50 (cloth) These pages scanned and entered into HTML format and submitted to this Lenawee Co., MI GenWeb Site by Sarah A. V. Kirby skirby@pdq.net Thank you Sarah PAGE 703 RESOLUTIONS AND LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT BY CITIZENS OF LENAWEE COUNTY [LC: HF, 23 Cong., 1 sess: DS] [January 24, 1834] A Meeting of the citizens of Clinton, Lenawee County M T. was held at the School House in said village on Friday Evening the 24th of Jan 1834, At which Sullivan Holman Esqr. was chosen Chairman, and Chas W. Pomeroy and H. N. Baldwin Secretaries, The object of the meeting having explained to be to consider a remonstrance now in circulation, against the removal of the Land-office from Monroe to Clinton, Resolved that a copy of said remonstrance be read, upon the reading of which Resolved, that a letter be addressed to his Excellency the President, and signed by those present, noticing some of the prominent unwarrantable Statements contained in said remonstrance, Whereupon a letter was drawn up and signed by all present Resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretaries, and published together with the letter to the President, and all the signatures thereunto attached, in the Democratic Free-Press in the city of Detroit, The meeting then adjourned S. HOLMAN Chmn CHAs W. POMEROY | Secretaries H. N. BALDWIN To his Excellency, President Jackson SIR We honestly regret the existence of circumstances which impel to intrude upon Your attention at a time when it must be occupied by subjects of the highest importance to our country, Yet we feel called upon to notice briefly the assumptions contained in a circular PAGE 704 purporting to be a remonstrance against removing the Land office from Monroe to Clinton, The circular in question asserts, that the petition to which it refers, originated from "an over anxious desire, on the part of the citizens of Clinton, a small village &c &c" To this we reply, that we were solicited to ask for a removal of the Land office, by the Political friends of our late Delegate, who reside more than fifty miles from Clinton, Truly they have an interest in the Land office, but none in Clinton, of course the project did not originate here, It is also assumed that "with the exception of what signatures were obtained in and about Clinton, and in Adrian, a neighboring little Village in all not exceeding probably 200 adults, the remainder of the petitioners were not residents within the Land District, and even many of these, transient persons in the Territory &c &c" With due courtessy to the source from whence it Emanated, we must pronounce the above statement untrue, And as it has been set forth "without the fear of contradiction", We are ready to meet the issue, "That the remonstrance would comand the signatures of three fourths of the District" is also erronious, It may be well to remark, that the petitioners reside in that part of the District where but little land has as yet been located, while in the vicinity of Monroe, the population is comparitively dense, We do not desire to impeach their motives, but may not objections to a removal arise from the fact, that the Land office secures a certain amount of business to Monroe, and gives it an importance to which it is not entitled by its magnitude, Even when compared with "Small Villages"?, It is urged that "Monroe is the natural landing place, for Emigrants to the Southern Land District" &c, We have reason to believe, indeed we know, that but verry few do land at Monroe, and we are not aware, that it can become a port of much consideration, untill Congress builds a harbor The remonstrance charges, the attempt of the petitioners, to the self interest of a few individuals, Though retort may not be courteous, permit us to ask, whether the same prominent feature in human nature, may not have influenced the recommendation of our late Delegate, We decline selecting Council for Your Excellency, but permit us to suggest, that our present Delegate is recently from the people and is familiar with their present situation and wants, he is entirely disinterested in the matter, And we are not sensible that he is prepossessed in favor of any "interior little village" We frankly confess that we are interested, but we are willing to put our motives in the balance with the motives of the citizens of Monroe, and to rely upon the decission of impartial Men, CLINTON Jan 24. 1834 Verry Respectfully Your Obt Servts, Names- Names- John Tyrrill Joab Currier Howel B Norton Alpheus Kies PAGE 705 Names- Names- D. Hixson Asa Christy D W Owens William Wade U, M, Carter James P Hodstock Alex. Gaige James Pyketts Marcus Carter William Walter James W. King Hugh Hillick B. K. Felton Ebenezer Davis Charles W. Pomeroy John J. Adam Thaddeus Clark H. Owens Benjamin Harris J. F. Schnall Solomon Fenstermacher John Smalley Daniel Beebe E Smith Alonzo Cressy Edmund Giles Geo. R. Crane John Smith Thomas Lazell Elias Scofield L D Smith Tilson Murduck B. L. Skinner Curtis Page G. Carter Saml F Bigelow Joseph A. Fell Lyman Gray E. B. Rickerson Ansel Blossom Jr Pontius Hooper Hiram Dodge Hiram Reynolds G M Mills Moses Bivins Jobn T. Rogers Elisha Graves Samuel F Hooper Asa Gillet Platt Gilbert Isaac Carpenter Allanson Alling Albert Tiffany Edward A Lockwood Cyrus Fisk E. L. Walter Bildad Brooks S. Cobb Denis Lancaster John Valentine Geo. Howe Miller Barker Sullivan Holman Elias G Dilla H. N. Baldwin George Burton E. St John. [Endorsed] Meeting of the inhabitants of Clinton-M. T.- Letter to the President of the U. States noticing some incorrect and unwarrantable statements made in a remonstrance against the removal of the Land Office from Monroe-