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49. The new party did not officially
call itself Republican until 1855. Until then
it was called the Anti-Nebraska or
People's party.
50. Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil
Parties, 285-290; Roseboom, The Civil War
Era, 280-312.
CRAWFORD COUNTY
"EZ TROOLY DIMECRATIC": A STUDY OF
MIDWESTERN
COPPERHEADISM
1. Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads
in the Middle West (Chicago, 1960), 1-39;
see also, for a discussion of Copperhead
counties in Ohio, John L. Stipp, "Economic
and Political Aspects of Western
Copperheadism" (unpublished doctoral dissertation,
The Ohio State University, 1944). For an
updated survey of the reasons for Copper-
headism, see Richard O. Curry, "The
Union As It Was: A Critique of Recent Inter-
pretations of the Copperheads," Civil
War History, XIII (March 1967), 25-39.
2. Population of the United States in
1860: Compiled from the Original Returns
of the Eighth Census (Washington,
1864), 378.
3. John E. Hopley, History of
Crawford County (Chicago, 1912), 541. See also
Wilbur Henry Siebert, Mysteries of
Ohio's Underground Railroads (Columbus, Ohio,
1951), 186-187.
4. Crawford County Forum (Bucyrus),
March 15, 1861. Hereafter cited as Forum.
5. Forum, April 27, September 21,
October 26, November 30, 1860; February 15,
March 15, 1861.
6. The counties compared were Ashtabula,
Champaign, Delaware, Erie, Greene,
Huron, Warren, and Morgan. See Annual
Report of the Commissioners of Statistics,
Ohio, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865. See
also Wood Gray, The Hidden
Civil War (New York, 1942), 16.
7. Bucyrus Weekly Journal, May
10, 1861. Hereafter cited as Journal.
8. Report of the Secretary of State, Annual
Reports, 1858-1865.
9. Eugene H. Roseboom, "Southern
Ohio and the Union in 1863," The Mississippi
Valley Historical Review, XXXIX (June, 1952), 29-44; Joseph Schafer, "Who
Elected
Lincoln?" American Historical
Review, XLVII (October 1941), 51-64.
10. Hopley, Crawford County, 132-133.
11. Forum, July 13, 1860.
12. Hopley, Crawford County, 132.
13. See James C. Austin, Petroleum V.
Nasby (New York, 1965), 29-33. See also
David D. Anderson, "The Odyssey of
Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby," Ohio History,
LXXIV (1965), 232-246.
14. Forum, May 25, 1860; January
11, 1861.
15. Ibid., November 16, 1860.
16. Ibid., December 28, 1860.
17. Journal, April 19, August 30,
1861.
18. Forum, April 19, 1861. The Forum
quoted Orr as saying from the floor of the
House that "The Republican Party,
so called, is responsible for it [the war] before
God, and the civilized world....I vote
for this bill because...I have taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the
United States."
19. Journal, April 26, 1861.
20. Ibid., April 12, 1861.
21. Forum, April 19,1861.
22. Ibid., May 17, 1861.
23. Ibid., May 10, 17, 1861.
24. Ibid., August 16, 1861.
25. Ibid., June 21, 1861.
26. Journal, July 5, 1861.
27. Ibid., August 2, 1861.
28. Forum, August 16, 1861. Also
see ibid., August 2, 1861.
29. Journal, December 13, 1860;
David Ross Locke, The Nasby Papers (Toledo,
Ohio, 1893), 4; Austin, Petroleum V. Nasby, 73.
30. Forum, August 16, 1861.
31. Ibid., August 23, 1861.
32. Journal, August 23, 1861.
33. Ibid.
34. Forum, September 13, 1861.
35. Journal, August 9, 1861.
36. Ibid., August 30, 1861.
37. Ibid., September 6, 1861.
38. Ibid., October 4, 1861.
39. Ibid., September 12, 1861.