Lewis Cass

It often required four weeks or more for a letter from New England to reach Detroit, and the postage thereon was twenty-five cents.

General Lewis Cass, Misters Larned, Ten Eyck, Wetherall, Forsythe, John and Thomas Palmer and Judge Woodward, who afterwards made the plat of the city, were among the then prominent men of the territory.

In the same year, 1815, Uncle Harvey commenced blacksmithing on the ground where the Russell House now stands, making steel traps, axes and doing irregular custom work for the inhabitants.

There was but one other shop of the kind in Detroit, which was owned by a Frenchman named Peltier.

He was a member of the Whig Party.

And during the 1848 election, he defeated Lewis Cass.

And he was a free soil candidate.

I'm sorry.

In their efforts in this direction, they often found themselves in conflict with civil authorities who sometimes protected the traitors apprehended in such violations.

the fur trade continued in wisconsin while the population was primarily indian but by eighteen thirty five it was no longer of any significance in this area following the war of eighteen twelve the united states government set up fur trade factories at prairie du chien in green bay hoping by this means to control some of the evils one of the most vicious of which was the peddling of whiskey to the indians the whisky was usually diluted with water and adulterants such as turpentine or even corrosive acids added to restore the bite the government entry into the fur trade was unsuccessful the factors as the proprietors of the trade factories were called lacked experience in dealing with the indians they did not give credit advancements to them as did the other traders and the american fur company applied pressure on congress to end this system gradually this company acquired the fur trade monopoly in this area solomon juno milwaukee's famous founder was one of the american fur company's agents in what is now the state of wisconsin the gradual decadence of the fur trade of course increased the hardships of wisconsin tribes as settlers began encroaching on the indians land conflicts were inevitable john c calhoun the secretary of war in eighteen twenty five sponsored a plan for the removal of eastern tribes across the mississippi to the western plains it was believed that by furnishing them with equipment for hunting and farming they could survive readily and would be safe from further pressure by white homesteaders no one realized at this time how soon these western lands would be overrun by the relentless pressure of the american pioneer the land purchased from the indians was to be made available to american settlers the lands of certain tribes of wisconsin indians were to be included in this overall plan unfortunately for the smooth functioning of this operation the indians did not care to leave the land on which they and their ancestors had hunted for so long a time and travel to new hunting grounds in many instances they were not removed without a show of force sometimes with considerable blood being shed by both whites and indians In 1825, Lewis Cass and William Clark held a conference of Wisconsin tribes at Prairie du Chien.

They hoped to establish definite boundaries for the holdings of the different tribes in order to eliminate friction between them.

This would also facilitate future land purchases from the Indians.

John C. Calhoun, the Secretary of War in 1825, sponsored a plan for the removal of eastern tribes across the Mississippi to the western plains.

it was believed that by furnishing them with equipment for hunting and farming they could survive readily and would be safe from further pressure by white homesteaders no one realized at this time how soon these western lands would be overrun by the relentless pressure of the american pioneer the land purchased from the indians was to be made available to american settlers the lands of certain tribes of wisconsin indians were to be included in this overall plan unfortunately for the smooth functioning of this operation the indians did not care to leave the land on which they and their ancestors had hunted for so long a time and travel to new hunting grounds in many instances they were not removed without a show of force sometimes with considerable blood being shed by both whites and indians In 1825, Lewis Cass and William Clark held a conference of Wisconsin tribes at Prairie du Chien.

They hoped to establish definite boundaries for the holdings of the different tribes in order to eliminate friction between them.

This would also facilitate future land purchases from the Indians.

James Buchanan, a moderate.

Lewis Cass, a general and expansionist.

From Nashville came a dark horse riding up.

He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the stump.

In eighteen twenty-five, when but ten years of age, he feasted his eyes upon Lafayette during the latter's celebrated visit to the United States, and to the last declared that he had a vivid recollection of the lineaments of that distinguished personage.

Lewis Cass, De Witt Clinton, and other celebrities of his youth he also saw and heard at Lockport, while the presence in the village, on various occasions, of the noted Seneca chiefs, Tommy, Jimmy, Major Henry O'Beal, and others were to the young enthusiast in border history like visitations from a realm of fancy.

Lafayette was the subject of young Draper's first school composition.

His earliest article for the press, published in the Rochester Gem for April 6, 1833, was a sketch of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last of the signers.

It was located on Woodbridge Street, immediately in the rear of where the Fireman's Hall now stands.

Oliver Williams kept a tavern of less pretensions on Jefferson Avenue under the old elm tree, and another tavern was kept by the father of the late Judge C. W. Whipple down near the Cass farm.

These were the hotel accommodations of that period of the village of Detroit, then containing about one thousand inhabitants.

Emerson, Mack, and Conant were the leading mercantile house in Detroit at that time.

The mails from the East were very irregular and arrived only semi-occasionally.

It often required four weeks or more for a letter from New England to reach Detroit, and the postage thereon was twenty-five cents.

General Lewis Cass, Misters Larned, Ten Eyck, Wetherall, Forsyth, John and Thomas Palmer, and Judge Woodward, who afterwards made the plat of the city, were among the then prominent men of the territory.

In the same year, eighteen fifteen, Uncle Harvey commenced blacksmithing on the ground where the Russell House now stands, making steel traps, axes, and doing irregular custom work for the inhabitants.

The other one not quite so obvious.

This gentleman here, this sinister-looking character, [laughing] his name is Lewis Cass.

You probably have heard of the Cass Corridor.

Yeah, it's a famous part of old Detroit, and it's now, I think they call it...

In 1825, when but ten years of age, he feasted his eyes upon Lafayette during the latter's celebrated visit to the United States, and to the last declared that he had a vivid recollection of the lineaments of that distinguished personage.

Lewis Cass, De Witt Clinton and other celebrities of his youth he also saw and heard at Lockport, while the presence in the village, on various occasions, of the noted Seneca chiefs, Tommy Jimmy, Major Henry O'Ball and others were to the young enthusiast in border history like visitations from a realm of fancy.

Lafayette was the subject of young Draper's first school composition.

His earliest article for the press, published in the Rochester Gem for April 6, 1833, was a sketch of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last of the signers.