. The Liberty and Free Soil parties in the Northwest . 80216,91422,16731,68250,346 8,1003,018 ?6,929 8,000 ,214(1,665) 2,775 3,632 (3,363) 2,885? 10,389 23,5402,228 6,2737,237 1,954*1,408* 3,570 Wisconsin. Iowa. 4,74815,774 1,073* 8,8099,966 152 450* 790 (60) (215) 973 1,134 10,418 1,126 3,761 564 574 2,904 1,60421,886 This table of total votes does not, however, tell the whole story ; forwithin each State the anti-slavery vote was distributed among strong andweak localities, and in the Ohio River States there was a distinctly sec-tional arrangement.
. The Liberty and Free Soil parties in the Northwest . 80216,91422,16731,68250,346 8,1003,018 ?6,929 8,000 ,214(1,665) 2,775 3,632 (3,363) 2,885? 10,389 23,5402,228 6,2737,237 1,954*1,408* 3,570 Wisconsin. Iowa. 4,74815,774 1,073* 8,8099,966 152 450* 790 (60) (215) 973 1,134 10,418 1,126 3,761 564 574 2,904 1,60421,886 This table of total votes does not, however, tell the whole story ; forwithin each State the anti-slavery vote was distributed among strong andweak localities, and in the Ohio River States there was a distinctly sec-tional arrangement. The following maps indicate the proportional distri-bution of the third-party vote in the three elections of 1S44, 184S, and1852, representing respectively the Liberty party, the Free Soil revolt, andthe rejuvenated Free Democracy. 1 The starred figures indicate incomplete returns; those in parentheses showcontemporary estimates. There are numerous varying figures found in news-papers, but those above appear to be the most authentic. 326 APPENDIX 1% 5% io% 20^^30%MAP OF THE FREE SOIL VOTE OF 1844. [Note.] In this and the following maps the shading indicates the proportionof the third-party vote to the total vote in each county, according to the schemeof gradation shown above.] In 1844 those regions that were destined to be centres of anti-slaveryaction for twenty years, and later to become strongholds of the Republicanparty, had become marked. In nearly every case the political complex-ion of a county may be accounted for by two circumstances, — by theancestry of its settlers and by the presence or the absence of Ohio, as the map indicates, the Western Reserve forms a well-markeddistrict where the New England Puritan blood of the inhabitants hadbeen fired by the words of Weld, King, Wade, Paine, and others. Inthe southeastern counties near Virginia were some New England inhab-itants, some Quakers, and many Southerners who had moved North to DISTRIBUTION OF L
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