Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-11-23
Important 10 the People :!
Michigan may yet come into the Union.
(CIRCULAR)
DErRoIr, Nov. ID, 1886.

DETkoIT, WV. IA, lcoo.
Sir AT meeting of the Democratic Con-
vcntion of the county of Wayne consisting of
one hundred and twenty -four delegates, a resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted, earnestly recon-
mending the immediate call of meetings in every
county, with view to the election Of another
state convention, in order TO effect the admis-
sion of Michigan into the Union in time to &c.
curo the great interests dependent upon that
event The committee appointed by the Wayne
delegates to correspond with their fellow cti-
ms in other counties on this vitality important
subject, have delayed any action until they
could ascereain, from the results of the late egs-
lative elections what the public sentiment was in
relation to the expediency Of acceding to the
fundamental conditions prescribed by congress
for our admission into the union. Tint senti.
lncnt is found to be general and decisive in favor
of the measure
The people Of the county of Washtenaw hive,
at the last election of members of the legislature,
by very large majority of votes, espresso their
sentiments in favor of giving the required assent
of the state TO the terms of admission and have,
subsequently,, held meeting, at which they have
adopted resolutions urging the immediate election
of another convention for that purpose. This is
the county, it will be recollected, the vote of
which, if given in favor of admission at the con.
venton election, as it has since been given,
would have enabled Michigan to occupy at this
moment tho elevated position of a state Of the
union.
Our admission before the first of January can
alone save to tho state her shars of the surplus
revenue and the five per cent. on proceeds of the
sales of public lands, which will amount at
least to six hundred thousand dollars. 1t will
place the character and patriotism of Michigan
ON basis to command respect and credit abroad.
twill secure to her representation in congress-
which may cooperate with effect in the adoption
Of measures calculated to promote the rapid set
Element, cultivation and improvement of the new
states, and insure to them appropriations of
money and donations of lands essential to the
speedy construction of harbors, roads and canals
within their limits 1t will prevent any sue
cessfal effort in congress to send us back into a
territorial government, or to contract still futhcr
the boundaries of the state; and it will keep up,
between the slaveholding and non- slaveholding
states, that equilibrium in the senate, so neces-
sary TO the harmony, safety and perpetuation of
our glorious union.
Upon mature consideration, and taking into
view every circumstance connected with our
peculiar situation, the committee have come to
the conclusion, that for want Of time the only
mode in which the great object can be effected,
before the first of January, is for the people
themselves. without any executive or Legislative
interposition, to elect and call together a con-
vention, to give their assent to the profercd
gressional terms of admission. 1t is their right
to do so. They constitute the source of all
state power, and are the highest authority within
it. The act of congress points to no action of
any intermediate power between that body and
the people, but states expressly that the altered
boundaries established by the act of conditional
admission " shill receive the assent of a conven-
ton of delegates elected by the people of said
state for the sole purpose of giving the assent
herein required" Their assent may, moreover,
be given to the conditions of admission in lam
guage satisfactory to the President and congress,
without compromising any of the constitutional
rights of Michigan.
The committee, therefore, under the authority
ofthe delegates of the county Of Wayne, recon-
mend that the qualified voters Of the several
counties in the state meet on the ffth and sirth
days of December, in their respective townships
and elect a number of delegates, double that OF
their represcntion in the popular branch of the
legislature that the election of these delegates
be conducted with all the legal formalities, and
by the usual officers, prescribed and designated
in the case ofthe annual elections directed under
the constitution that the returns be made to the
comfy clerks i'm like manner and that if any of
the supervisors, or county clerks, shall neglect OF
refuse to perform their appropriate duties on the
occasion, other persons be appointed by the vo.
ters on the day of election, and other individuals
selscted by the acting supervisors on the day fol-
opening and examining the votes, for the per.
Torrance of these duties. The committee also
recommend that returns of the number of votes
pollcd for the candidates in favor of, and opposed
to, a compliance with the congressional terms OF
admission, be transmitted from each county to
the Secretary of State.
The committee further recommend, that the
delegates thus elected, meet in convention at the
Villages Of Ann Arbor, on Wednesday. the four.
| teenth day Of December, and then and there pro-
coed to take into consideration the cxpedency OF
giving the assent of the people of Michigan tc
the fundamental conditions prescribed by con.
gress for their admission into the union reserv.
ing, in the act ofassent, all the rights which APP
pertain to the state under the constitution of the
United States.
1t is respectfully suggested to the convention,
that they recommend the passage, by the lcgisla-
turc, at its meeting in January, of joint resolu-
ton confirming the assent given by the conven.
ton, and pledging the faith of the state TO OBJ
serve it, with the constitutional reservation indi.
Gated in the preceding paragraph.
In addition to the measure recommended above,
it is respectfully suggested that each of the
democratic county conventions, called to nomi-
nate delegates to the state convention, adopt a
memorial to congress, asking that honorable body
to repeal so much of the act of June Is, 1885, as
requires the assent of the people Of Michigan to
the conditions of admission; or, if congress
should not deem it proper to accede to this re-
quest that they would be pleased, until our re-
quired assent be given, to reserve from distribu-
ton, or deposte among the states, so much the
surplus revenue and proceeds of the sales of pub
lie lands as would come to Michigan as a stat
ofthc Union. The memorials should be sent to
the Governor, to be by him transmitted to GU.
Senators and Representative in congress.
DAVID C. MINISTRY, !
MA RSHAL ]. BACON,
ROSS WILKINS, ) Committee.
JOHN M'DONELL,
CHARLES w. WHIPPLE,