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ment with half the force they employed in getting 

 away, they could hav^e routed a force twice its size. 

 When Congress convened, however, they had the satis- 

 faction of having a favorable verdict pronounced upon 

 their " unlawful act, lawfully committed," although 

 Jackson had previously expressed himself in sympathy 

 with the cause of Michigan. The defeated party, to 

 even up matters, was given the northern peninsula 

 between Superior and Huron, now her richest sec- 

 tion. 



During the course of the "war" Toledo was full 

 of Michigan troops, wlio left many anecdotes behind 

 them and whose generally harmless behavior raised 

 many a laugh among the townspeople. As one of 

 these stories goes. Major Stickney, walking out into 

 his garden one morning, noticed something that 

 looked like a human figure in his potato vines. He 

 called out to the mysterious object and asked what 

 was going on there? The call brought to his full 

 length a soldier in uniform, who stretched up and re- 

 plied : 



" Drafting potato-tops to make the bottoms volun- 

 teer, sir ! " 



And so, half in jest, and half in earnest, the affair 

 continued and ended. 



When the forests were cleared away and the 

 swamps drained, the dread malaria partnership was 

 dissolved ; good health brought good cheer, and pros- 

 perity followed. Very soon after the trouble with 

 Michigan, the Miami and Erie Canal was built, which 

 has been one of the important factors in making the 

 "Corn City" so strong commercially Besides this 

 great inlan^i waterway, eight railways bring into her 



