. Political parties in Michigan, 1837-1860. An historical study of political issues and parties in Michigan from the admission of the state to the Civil War . r in November was: Democratic20,993; Whig 15,449; and Liberty 1, James G. Birney, who at this time was a residentof the Saginaw Valley,60 took the stump in the cam-paign. In 1843 he was nominated as candidate forGovernor and L. F. Stevens for Lieutenant year the abolitionists nominated candidates inall three congressional districts, six candidates forthe State Senate and at least twelve for The par
. Political parties in Michigan, 1837-1860. An historical study of political issues and parties in Michigan from the admission of the state to the Civil War . r in November was: Democratic20,993; Whig 15,449; and Liberty 1, James G. Birney, who at this time was a residentof the Saginaw Valley,60 took the stump in the cam-paign. In 1843 he was nominated as candidate forGovernor and L. F. Stevens for Lieutenant year the abolitionists nominated candidates inall three congressional districts, six candidates forthe State Senate and at least twelve for The party polled 2,776 votes in years later Birney became an invalid, and sinceMichigan had no other leader to take up his work theparty began to decline. In the above discussion it has been pointed out 56. Ibid, p. 55. 57. Ibid, p. 52. 58. Western Statesman, May 6, 1841. 59. Michigan Manual (1913), p. 422. 60. Birney, Life of James G. Birney, p. 359. 61. Michigan Argus, September 13 and December 6, 1843; Niles Republican, September 2, 1843; Smith, Liberty and FreeSoil Parties, p. 58. 62. Michigan Manual (1913), p. 422. ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT 63. Vote for James for President in 1844in per oent of the total vote fjj Less than & per cent Q 6to6 per oent IP 9 to 16 per oent I | Ho returns. 64 POLITICAL PARTIES IN MICHIGAN that the people of Michigan joined the early abolitionmovement for the following reasons: In the firstplace, the greater portion of the people came fromnon-slaveholding States, mainly from New York andNew England, and therefore they had little first-handknowledge of the true conditions in the South; second,there was unceasing agitation through the organizationof anti-slavery societies, in the Protestant churchesand probably in the schools; third, the people onlycame in contact with the exceptional Negroes in theState and consequently they greatly overestimated theadvancement of the Africans in the slave States;fourth, the passengers over the under
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