'Under the Oaks'
"The eloquent and fervid call went out, circulated through the state, and was signed by more than ten thousand names, including a great percentage of the vigorous, active young men of Michigan.
The convention met (6 July 1854) at the day appointed, and as no place of assembly in the town of Jackson could contain the gathering, it adjourned to an oak grove, on 'Morgan's Forty' in the southern edge of the town, and there 'under the oaks' was held that historic convention, which gave a being and a name to the Republican Party.
Winning an overwhelming victory in the elections of 1854, the Republican party went on to dominate national parties throughout the nineteenth century."
-Michigan as a Province, Territory, and State,
John F. H. Claiborne
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