PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, IN 1796, ON THE ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE, AS A STATE, INTO THE UNION, UPON A FOOTING WITH THE ORIGINAL STATES, A CASE IN POINT, SO FAR AS REGARDS OUR PRESENT POSITION IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
Detroit: Sheldon M'Knight, Printer to the State, 1835. 15,[1]pp. Dbd. Titlepage lightly foxed, else near fine. An important Michigan constitutional pamphlet. Michigan had a long and difficult road to statehood, primarily due to a long-standing dispute over the boundary with Ohio. Negotiations to bring Michigan into the Union finally came.....