. 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 . he Legislaturein 1846 he urged the extension of the elective franchiseto Two years later he joined the FreeSoil party. Blair was a free thinker in religion andfavored the doctrines of the Unitarian Church. Christiancy, chairman of the Free Democratic com-mittee of sixteen, withdrew that partys State ticketand the Republican ticket was placed in the , the candidate for Governor on the FreeDemocratic ticket, was nom
. 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 . he Legislaturein 1846 he urged the extension of the elective franchiseto Two years later he joined the FreeSoil party. Blair was a free thinker in religion andfavored the doctrines of the Unitarian Church. Christiancy, chairman of the Free Democratic com-mittee of sixteen, withdrew that partys State ticketand the Republican ticket was placed in the , the candidate for Governor on the FreeDemocratic ticket, was nominated for that office onthe new ticket. Two other Free Democratic candi-dates were also given places on the Republican ticket was composed of four Free Democrats, fourWhigs and two Democrats. The party was namedin the following resolution:64 That in view of the 60. Livingstone, History of the Republican Party, I, 37. 61. Michigan Biographies (1888), pp. 105-107. 62. Detroit Advertiser, May 6, 1846. 63. Pontiac Gazette, July 8 and 15, 1854. The committee on nominations agreed on Binghams name by a vote of69 to 17. 64. Ibid, July 15, KINSLEY S. BINGHAM the oil portrait in the Capitol, Lansing. KNOW-NOTHING AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES 193 necessity of battling for the first principles of republicangovernment, and against the schemes of aristocracy,the most revolting and oppressive with which theearth was ever cursed, or man debased, we will co-operate and be known as Republicans until the contestbe terminated. The Republican State Committee issued an addressurging their constituents in the congressional districtsto meet in mass conventions and place tickets in On September 20 a mass convention in thefirst district was held at Detroit, and during the falllocal conventions assembled in the counties of Calhoun,Barry, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale and. The conservative Whigs were much displeased withthe outcome of the mass convention at Jackso
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