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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Notwithstanding the Doctor's learned and able argument to prove and show the importance of collecting the data for history whilst the actors and witnesses of the events recorded were still alive, and his evident desire and wish to have the facts correctly stated in regard to the earlv settlement of the county, or of the Raisin valley, yet I find that by some means or other he made one or two slips or mistakes in his address. In the latter portion of his remarks on the boundary dispute with Ohio, he speaks of Ohio with her twelve votes in congress being politically strong, and in this he is followed, I see, by A. L. Millard, Esq., in his centennial address of July 4,1876, which is being published, in the first volume of the State Pioneer Society's papers. How they should both have fallen into the same error I cannot well conceive, as Ohio never had at any one time an exact " twelve votes in congress." From the time of her admission as a state, in 1802 until 1812, when the apportionment under the census of 1810 took effect, she had one member of the house, giving her three electoral votes. In 1812 she had seven electoral votes; in 1816 and 1820 she had eight electoral votes; in 1824 and 1828 she had sixteen electoral votes; and in 1832, 1836 and 1840 she had twenty-one electoral votes, being nineteen for her members in the house and two for her members in the senate.
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