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A woman's prayers, a few drops sprinkled on the infant's head by its father's hand, quietly open to it the gates of heaven. The child's name is not inscribed in the register of the city, religion does not mingle its affecting ceremonies with the solicitude of the family.
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Several generations do not assemble round the cradle to utter hopes often deceitful, and rejoicings which the future often belies. Here, man still seems to steal into life. Death has not had time to claim his domain, nor to have his close marked out. No consecrated home even for those who are no more. It contains as yet nothing to remind one of the past or of the future. These venerable relics of our religion have not been carried into the wilderness. On every side the eye searches in vain for a Gothic spire, the moss-covered porch of a clergyman's house, or a wooden cross by the road-side. A plough that had upset, its oxen galloping off by themselves to the field, and a few half-wild horses, completed the picture. Looking whence it came, we discovered the pointed forms of two or three wigwams, which scarcely stood out from the grass of the prairie. A column of smoke was curling towards the sky. On the opposite side of the river stretched the prairie, resembling a boundless ocean on a calm day. Between them, and on the skirts of the woods, two or three log-houses were half hidden in the foliage. A similar dwelling was visible at the other extremity of the clearing. It was the one in which we had passed the night. Near us was a house whose character announced the easy circumstances of its owner. A small, cultivated plain, bounded on the south by a beautiful and gently flowing river on the east, west, and north, by the forest constitutes at present the territory of the embryo city. This was our first daylight view of the village of Saginaw, which we had come so far to see. It may contain outdated ideas and language that do not reflect TOTA’s opinions and beliefs.įrom Memoir, Letters, and Remains by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1862.
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