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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
From that time until 1864 she had twenty-three electoral votes; and for 1864 and 1868 twenty-one votes; and for 1872 and 1876, twenty-two votes.
The error as to her number of votes in congress in 1825-6 may be deemed of minor importance; for whether she is spoken of as having "twelve votes," or as having "nineteen," as she in reality had at the time of the action on our boundary question, she was comparatively strong and powerful as compared with Michigan, with only a single delegate and no vote in either branch of congress. Still, when allusion is made to the relative political strength of the then great and powerful state of Ohio, and the then voteless and almost voiceless territory of Michigan, it is best to state the facts correctly. Gov. Lucas' boast of being backed by a " million of freemen," if by that he meant to include the whole pooula-tion of the state, was no idle boast, as Ohio in 1830 had over 937,000 inhabitants, and in 1835 must have had considerably over a million; whilst Michigan in 1834, by the territorial census, had less than 100,000. Another error occurs in the Doctor's address, which I was rather more surprised to see, because it related to a matter more at home, and as to which I should have supposed that every old settler in the county would have known the correct state of affairs.
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