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Eight of the newer counties with a total vote of only 1,650 
gave Douglas majorities. The rest of the state was Re- 
publican.’^^^ Blair was elected Governor by 20,000 votes and 
the combined majorities of the 4 Republican Congressmen 
amounted to over 22,000. 
The total vote for Lincoln in the Northwest was 716,954 
and for Douglas 594,663. Lincoln’s majority over all candidates 
was 71,722. Southern Indiana and Illinois, Democratic since 
the organization of the party, remained so until the end of 
the period. The population of “Egypt” and the “Pocket” was 
homogeneous, being composed largely of southern settlers, or 
descendants of such, and tho the Republicans claimed that the 
people of these districts were crowded out of southern states 
by the slave system and were more ignorant and slave-loving 
than citizens of slave states, it was not love of slavery so 
much as it was the Democratic tradition which held these 
sections true to Douglas. Tariffs, homesteads, and slavery 
interested them but little and they distrusted Republicanism 
and its consequences even more than they had the party of 
“all the talents” in the preceding period. The very interests 
which were aligned with Douglas aided in his defeat, for the 
Illinois Central had materially aided in the building up of 
northern Illinois and Wisconsin, and these regions, dominated 
by the northern and eastern elements which came in the 
thirties and forties, expressed their faith in the Republican 
party, to which, on the whole, they have remained faithful to 
the present time. 
The vote in Michigan was : Lincoln, 87,457 ; Douglas, 66,163 ; Bell, 373 ; Brecken- 
ridge, 805. Detroit Daily Advertiser, December 31, 1860. 
