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Result Of The Election

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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In onothei' place will be found the official returns of the President iol vote in Michigan. Prom thero it will beseen, that the Whig vote is 1,285 larger than in 1640; the Democratie vote ie 6.538 larger than in 1840: ond the Liberty vote has gained in the same time, 3,304: making an eggregate increaee on tho vote of 1&40, of 11,127. So far as we have fieard, there was a general attendauce at the polls. The L'berty vote in 1&40 wasSSfï - lastyear, for Governor, 2;775: this year, for Birnev, 3,632, being an inórense on the vote of last year of about 39 pep cent. This is not quite as large as we haé hoped; bat when the fierceness of the politica) centest is consideren, and the unscrupulous f ra mis faleehoods and forgeriea which were brought to bear upon Liberty men by a po werful and desperate paitv, it is as well as could be expected. Smal) as have been our gains since 1840, a proportioaate increase for four years more will give us 39,000 votes in 1848 - more than a mnjority of the whole. There are 31 organized Conti tics in the State, and all but two of these, (Mackinaw and Chippewa) gave Liberty votes. To those who are ngain prophecyiog the dealh of ihe Liberty party, we would cotimend this single fact - that the election has resulted in an increased Liberty vote in every County but one. This general and uniform inciease in all parts of the State, in the midst of the strenuous efforts which were mode to seduce each individual voter, is to us convincing evidence of a general incresse of interest in the antislavery canse. The nnmber of Liberty men in Michigan has multiplied 11 times in four years. In 1840, only one in 135 was found who would bear vitncs3 t bis principies at the polls: in 1844, every. fifteenth voter was found immovably fixed in his principies. The eevere trial to which Liberty men have been subjected wil! tend to give thrm that fnith and confidence in each other, which is indispensable to organize nn efficiënt acsion. We shall also bo lëss subject to tempration from the other partips in rcforence tu the "other great intereste,'1 and can move forward harmoniously and effic:ently towards our common object. We can asfmre our friends and enemies, that we are encouraged by the past to enter on another fonr years' campaign with renewed resolution and ardor. It muiters little to us under what natnes our opponents may ral ly. Weshall neither seek allionce or make acpmpromise, with any party tv halever , but ehall labor for the overthrow of the Slave Power which now rules this nation; and sliall account and treat as Proslavery every party that interposes bet ween us and the accomplishment of our object.

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Signal of Liberty
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