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| That part which retains the name of Saginaw had in 1880 a population of 59,095, Bay 38,081, and Tuscola 25,738, being 122,914 inhabitants for these three integral parts, and were the others subdivisions to be added, with the increase since 1880, it must now show a population of at least 200,000 souls. So it will be seen that were the northern counties called upon to measure arms with the south to-day, we should have a strong backing compared with the forlorn hope that so dauntlessly entered the contest of '47. What would my venerable and unassuming friend, Judge Miller, with his constituency of 1,200 souls, have then thought had he been told that he should meet us here to-day representing in the same territory a population of nearly a quarter of a million, and a salt and lumber production far exceeding any other State in the American union, save Michigan alone ?
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