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territory than that in dispute; and Wisconsin
may from the same cause be obliged to submit to a
many for want of ability to enforce her rights.

It is also contended by many that the portion
of country set off to Michigan on Lake Superior between
the straits of Mackina and the Montreal river, as a
compensation in past, for the strip of land given to
Ohio from her southern border, should also have constitutes
a portion of Wisconsin; and especially as Michigan
never made the least claim to it, and as the convenience
of the inhabitants (when it becomes inhabited) will
be best countered by uniting them with Wisconsin.
The validity of our claim to this territory however
may well be questioned, for it cannot be made out
as clearly as in the care of the territory given to
Illinois.