Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-09-07

woule be at all beneficial to the people of
this county, since such an acquisition would
probably divert from this section of country
the great internal improvements in roads
and canals now projected through il, and
mix with us a population mostly accustom-
ed to different habits, policy and laws, and
wholly opposed to our interests and govern.
mcnt. We then lose nothing of sufficient
value, by acceding to the terms proposed by
Congress, to tempt us from the path of high
minded patriotism.
But will we not greatly iniure our do.
mestic and internal interests-wil we not
reject many and great state as well as ma.
tional advantages, by refusing assent to the
admission profEered by Congress? Most
assuredly We shall. To CRAFTY our passion,
and to play into the hands of our political
opponents the very card they %artfully desire,
we must resolve to postpone, for an indie
finite period, our projected internal improve
ments, intersecting our country in everv
direction with railroads and canals ; for who
will lend three millions of dollars. the
amount our legislature proposed TO borrow,
for that purpose at their last session, to a
State out of the Union? We must also
abandon for the present, the organization
of that comprehensive and beneficial sys.
tenn ofcommon schools and university educa.
ton which our Legislature have already Ii.
berally devised to promote the knowledge
and prosperity of our posterity for whende
are we, out of the Union, to derive the
authority or means to proceed with it ? To
please our political opponents and to CRAFTY
their insidious and narrow views of policy,
we must also consent to impoverish oursel-
yes by rejecting the magnificent and liberal
donations proflered to us by the u. States.
on our admission into the Union. We
must refuse the sixteenth section of land in
every township for common school purposes,
seyenty-two sections for an university. FIVE
entire sections Of land for the erection of
public buildings, twelve valuable salt sprinos
with six sections of land adjoining. five per
cent OF the nett-procceds of the sales of
public land made within this state which will
probably exceed this year, five or six mil.
llous OF dollars, and a share of the surplus
revenue, amounting to one half q million of
dollars, besides a proposed grant to the new
states OF the Unlon of extensive tracts of
rich public lands. All these sacrifices are
required OF us, by those opposed to our adj
mission. And still more we are asked
with a distorted vision, perversely and sin.
gularly fixed upon the six hundred and ifiv
square miles of the disputed territory oflii.
tie or no use and now irrcvocably lost to us,
to overlook a newly acquired territory ready
for our acceptance containing twenty thou
sand square miles, full of the richest min.
erals, abundant in fisheries, valuable sun
plies OF lumber and water privileges for
manufacturing, aflording 100 miles of adj
dltlonal coast navigation, and embracing ex-
cellent harbours, several large bays, and NOT
less than forty large and fifty small streams.
Certainly in view of all these and MANY
more important considerations, that this
convention mlghs enumerate, did time and
space allow, there is no room for doubt or
difficulty as to the course, which patriotism.
prudence and common sense, alike urge ms
to pursue. If we have been injured, il is
more noble to forgive, than to resent n
wrong inflicted by brothers and friends,
bone OF our bone, and blood of our blood,
whom no one can charge with intentional
malice towards us, but rather with error of
Judgment in respect to our rights. II is
better to consult our honest interests than
an excited passion-better to live in peace
with our neighbors, and enjoy order. quiet.
and security under the settled government
of the laws of the state of Michigan, and
the United States, constitutionally admin.
istered, than to lead a life harrassed by the
agitation, anarchy and confusion of nullif.
cation-far better to glitter a bright, glori-
Gus and distinguished star in the galaxy of
the Union, over flood and field wherever
the battle or the breeze may wave the
standard of freedom, than to glimmer alone
with a gloomy and lurid lustrc.
Fellow Citizens, these are the views of
your convention, and of the great demo-
cratic family throughout the state. The
faithful presses and the regular organs of
your party utter no other tone. 4 The
democratic banner is unfurled, and its
mighty folds stream over you, again to
summon and animate you to struggle in
behalf of principle and duty with your an.
cient adversaries. We have, in the dis.
charge ofthe business intrustcd to us by YOU
nominated for your support a tried, amiable,
capable and honest democrat. If elected.
he will go for the true interests ofthe coun-
try and party, as instructed. He will unite
with his democratic brethren in the con-.
at Ann Arbor in any dignifed.
spirited and manly protest, that may be
necessary to vindicate our rights,
should we ever have a chance or desire to
effect an alteration Of the past legislation of
Congress on our boundary question after
have acquired the station and influence
ofa sovereign and powerful State in the.
councils of the confcderacy. Desert him
not. then-suffer not the democratic flag to-
90 down before the onset of its whig enc.