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
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
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...for our national legislature for the next five years, especially, be sounded, pumped, 69. Detroit Daily Democrat, July 13, 1854. 70. Minutes of the General Association (1854), p. 14. 71. Michigan Christian Herald, October 26, 1854. questioned on the subject of their willingness to see oppression's empire ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...for our national legislature for the next five years, especially, be sounded, pumped, 69. Detroit Daily Democrat, July 13, 1854. 70. Minutes of the General Association (1854), p. 14. 71. Michigan Christian Herald, October 26, 1854. questioned on the subject of their willingness to see oppression's empire enlarged."72 This year a paper on the duties of ministers was read before the ministerial conference of St. Joseph County, in which the author said in part:73 "It is their right and privilege as citizens to act and vote on all questions of public concernment; but it is especially their duty to vote and to influence the votes of others on the right side of politics now, when the great political question which agitates the nation is also a great moral question, in whose decision the salvation of the nation and of immortals souls depend. "Not that it is their duty to come down from their high and holy work as ministers of the gospel and become mere political men, but remain in their own sphere, exerting a more potent influence against the aggression of the slave power than they possibly could by becoming mere politicians." During the period of party readjustment in the fifties the Catholics and Lutherans, unmoved by the great agitation which was taking place around them and smarting under the attacks of the Know-Nothings, continued to cast their votes for the party which had befriended them in the early days. This was illustrated by the vote in Detroit and in Saginaw County. In 1856 about one-third of the people in Detroit were members of the Catholic Church.74 A large portion 72. Northwestern Christian Advocate, October 11, 1854. 73. Michigan Christian Herald, October 12, 1854. 74. Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, IV, 583....
Read Less