The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-01-20

cure sucn leglslatlon by Congress
shall secure to every citizen of IL
State the full enjoyment of his riobt
Resolced, That, Congress possess,
: the right to legislate for the territori,
of the United States right so Ion
exercised and SO firmly establishe,
that 1T cannot now be questioned witt
out insulting the intelligence of IL
American people; and the duty to e,
erclse that right, and to advance III
cause OF universal liberty, cannot
abandoned without proving recreant /
the spirit OF the Declaration of Ind,
Pendence, and false to the memory &
the founders of our glorious confeders
cy.
ResoIced by the Senate and House o
representatives IN General Coa,rt con
cemea, That the Secretary of State b
and IS hereby directed, to forward
copy OF the resolutions Just passed re
iatlng to national affairs, to the legis
latnre OF the several States and of tn,
Territories.
NAPOLEON B. BRYANT.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
AUSTIN +. PIKE,
President of the Senate
WILLIAM HALLE,
Governor
Approved. June &c. 1858.
Mr.. Broadhead, from the Sd Dis.
trict, offered the following:
ResOlyed, That the committee on
federal relations, to whom was referred
srndry resolutions adopted by the Leg
lsiature OF New Hampshire, be instruc-
ted to report resolution to be for
Marded to the authorities of New
Hampshire, informing them that the
people of Michigan are somewhat in
teillgent, can, generally, read the Eng
ilsh language, are fully competent to
Judge of their own rights under the
and to give proper con-
structlon to all of its provisions, and
need no instructions whatever from,
that or any other State as to their du.
ties as citizens or Legislators.
The resolution was referred to the
same committe.
The committee reported on Friday.
hat the subject is one in which the
people of Michigan have a>deep inter-
'st, as has been clearly indicated in
'arious ways, and that, in their opin-
Oh, 1t is right and proper for the Leg
stature of State to give expression
o Its views on this subject, affecting as
does the great interests of the nation
S well as of the different States and
'errltories; and that the resolution
ifered by Mr.. Brodhead is disrespect-
al to the Legislature of New Hamp-
hire, as well as to the often expressed
pinion of the people of Michigan on
his subject, and ought not to be adop-
I'd by this body. They also recon-
lended the adoption of the following
solution:
g RESOLVED By the Sencte and House
Representatives Of the State of Mich t
IAN, That we congratulate the Leois- :
ture of the State of New Hampshire ,
BON the attitude they have been ena-
ed to assume on the subject men
oned in said resolutions, believing
at when the people, by their Legisla- I
res, IN the several free States of this
shall take a similar posi-
IN, there need be no apprehension of n
further extension of slavery in our il
untry-a cOnsummation most earn 4
thy desired by the people of Michi-
H."
The report and resolution were &C. n
pied and adopted by the following a
tie: d
1eas-Messrs. Barns, Baekus, Biz "
Y, Brown, Garfield, Carpenter, Con- c;
:, Davis, Dickinson, Gorham, Gros-
Tor, Jones, Meachaln, Mills, Parker. :,
rry, Porter, Tower, Trowbridge, NJ
Ter, Welch, Williams, Yost.-2S. &C
Brodhead, Grouse. so
d dge 9%, Hoyt, Muzzy, Pennoyer, til