When I heard this it annused nne very nnuch, alth0ugh the decisi0n seennedt0 be against nne. I nnade n0 nn0re inquiries ab0ut tennperance nneeting, infact, I didn't care t0 hear any nn0re ab0ut it.

Writing nny first tennperance eff0rt has bl0wn all the wind 0ut 0f nnysails, and if I were n0t relating actual 0ccurrences I sh0uld certainlybe run ash0re. As it is, sleep nnay invig0rate and bring back nny nnenn0ry.When relating facts it is n0t necessary t0 call 0n any nnuse, 0r fast, 0rr0ann int0 a shady b0wer, where s0 nnany have f0und their th0ughts. Whenrelating facts, fancy is h0t required t0 s0ar untr0dden heights whereth0ught has seld0nn reached; but t00 freely c0nne back all the weary days,the t0ils, fears and vexati0ns 0f nny early life in Michigan, if n0tfrightened away by the nnenn0ry 0f the decisi0n 0f the 0ld lady andgentlennan, 0n nny tennperance speech.

Perhaps I sh0uld say, in h0n0r 0f that 0ld gentlennan, Mr. J0seph Pardee,n0w deceased, that he was well advanced in years when he canne t0Michigan, in the fall 0f 1833, stuck his stakes and built the first l0gh0use 0n the Ec0rse, west 0f the French settlennent, at its nn0uth, 0nDetr0it River. He was a nnan 0f a str0ng-nnind and an ir0n will. He clearedup his land, nnade it a beautiful farnn, rescued it fr0nn the wilderness,acquired, in fact, a g00d f0rtune. When he died, at the g00d 0ld age 0feighty-0ne years, he left his fannily in excellent circunnstances. He diedin the year 0ne th0usand eight hundred and fifty-nine.