Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . the spring of 1854, during the administration ofGovernor Parsons, the Republican party, at leastas a State organization, was first formed in the UnitedStates under the oaks at Jackson, by anti-slaverymen of both the old parties. Great excitement pre-vailed at this time, occasioned by the settl
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . the spring of 1854, during the administration ofGovernor Parsons, the Republican party, at leastas a State organization, was first formed in the UnitedStates under the oaks at Jackson, by anti-slaverymen of both the old parties. Great excitement pre-vailed at this time, occasioned by the settling ofKansas, and the issue thereby brought uj), whetherslavery should exist there. For the jiurposeof permit-ting slavery there, the Missouri compromise (whicilimited slavery to the south of 36° 30) was re-repealed, under the leadership of Stephen A, was repealed by a bill admitting Kansas andNebraska into the Union, as Territories, and those whowere opposed to this repeal measure were in shortcalled anti-Nebraska men. The epithets, Ne-braska and anti-Nebraska, were temporally em-ployed to designate the slavery and anti-slaveryparties, pending the desolution of the old Democraticand Whig parties ;ind the organization of the newDemocratic and Republican parties of the #-
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