Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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tary activities, but are there not other equally as interesting histories of flags that can be added to these?
There is some prospects of having the Ingham County Pioneer
History published soon, and everything pertaining to the historic
flags of the county should be found in that book.
Look among your relics, recall the stories told by your grandmothers and grandfathers, and then write them out and send them
to the secretary of the Ingham County Historical and Pioneer
Society, Mrs. Franc L. Adams, Mason, Mich.
Mason, 1919.
At the last meeting of the Ingham County Pioneer and Historical
Society, Clarence E. Holmes, of Lansing, in his address dwelt
largely on these words taken from the Mayflower compact,
"Due submission to the laws as made." Summit R. King
thought there were times when the "submission" should be
modified, and to prove his point told the following story:
"Obey the law? Yes, when the law is right. But there are
exceptions to all good rules. This takes me back to the time
when the South succeeded in getting the Dred Scott decision,
the Missouri compromise, and then loaded on the fugitive slave
law. Would we stand for all that? No. Making every Northerner a criminal who did not help return runaway slaves. We
built the 'underground railway,' and I am proud that my father's
house was one of the stations and I a fireman.
"I want to tell you of one of the passengers that got through to
Canada some time during the '50's. A Kentucky slave had got
into Lenawee county and his master had trace of him and he was
about to be captured. To avoid this the escaping slave was given
a horse and told to flee, then a warrant was sworn out for him
charging him with horse stealing and he was convicted and sent
to Jackson prison for one year.
"When the year was nearly up seventeen Kentuckians, with
revolvers and dirks, came to Jackson and declared they would
have their 'nigger' or wipe Jackson off the map. My father being
a leader, there was a gathering at our house to see what should
be done, some bringing rifles and some shot guns. While they
were still there, there came a man on horseback who said, 'Keep
away from Jackson, and especially bring no guns, for the affair is