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throughout the civilized world. After a tedious voyage round Lake 

 Erie, I arrived iu Detroit, which was then little better than an over- 

 grown village, prostrated by the late speculations and mercantile rever- 

 ses. By the railroad I found iny way to Ypsiianti, and there the railr 

 road stopped, a stage carrying the passengers to Ann Arbor. At thig 

 ,, place I spent a day or two with a friend ; early in the morning took my place 

 • in the stage — for a stage a day was then quite suiEcient for the travel 

 — and late at night, in the darkness and rain of a heavy thunder-storm, 

 thought myself fortunate to get to bed in Mr. Bascom's tavern. In the 

 morning I was up early, to catch a view of my new home; and I con- 

 fess, that as I looked around, my heart sunk within me. It was the 

 ^^ first new village I had ever seen. The scattered houses and shanties, 

 , , of every size and shape, looked as if they had fallen from the clouds, 

 or sprouted, like mushroons, wherever chance might dictate. The 

 ^. aturaps in the so-called street, were only outnumbered by the pools left 

 I,- by last night's rain, and a heavy, white, oppressive fog hung over and 

 y- pointed out the limits both of the river and the marsh, which formed 

 ' QO mean portion of the village site. But when I went out, and look- 

 ^. ©d around, I again took courage, for there was labor, activity, and ener- 

 gy on every side. Men looked like men: independent, determined, 

 . self-possessed; and I knew that though rough might be the foundation, 

 these were minds capable of thinking, and hands capable of effecting 

 },. whatever might be needed for the building. 



Now look around and see what labor and intelligence have effected. 

 • . The child then born, still but a boy, and yet, what has not a handful of 

 men accomplished ? They have built a city, with its goodly stores, 

 churches and dwellings. They have surrounded themsehes with the 

 r luxuries and comforts of the oldest States. They make their influence 

 . ^ felt on every side. This is not the result of money — of coined gold or 

 I bank paper — there was little enough of that. It is the effect of indus- 

 try, labor, prudence; of labor directed by intelligence. All you see is 

 but educated labor in its results; and we may well say that such labor 

 is the crowning glory of manhood. It is because money is the product 

 of intelligent labor that it is in any ways honorable; and he who by his 

 labor — especially the labor of mind and body united — takes Nature in 

 her wildness and compels her to submit to man's rule; who hews the 

 Iree and erects the dwelling ; who causes grain to grow, where nothing 



