Photograph of a broadside advertising a mass meeting in Mason (Mich.) on September 9th, 1854. The sign encourage people to gather at the Court House in Mason to nominate "suitable persons" to fill the County offices, Representative to the state...
American Civil War; Broadsides; Congressional Convention; County Office; state representative; Mason (Mich.);
In 1849, the Michigan Legislature submitted to the voters the question of calling a constitutional convention to revise the 1835 Constitution. The voters approved, and 100 delegates were elected in 1850. These delegates met between June and August,...