The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-08-08

Oi lnHnittI1 IuOIO fh'OiSe hSo w uo, 'hoh
are the affairs Of any other State or Ter.
ritory, and the strange infatuation that
has been thrown around and into n ma
jority of the people of this State,
by designing politicians, has served a def
mite and tangible purpose; for while we
have been all agog with gullability, and
our eyes blinded with tears at the imag-
mary " bleeding" of Kansas, Michigan
has been relieved of the last cent in her
Treasury, and our State loaded with
weight of taxes that almost threaten the
sinking OF the Peninsula beneath the lev
el Of the water that surrounds it. This is
n matter that the people Of Michigan
alone can act upon, and as we said at the
opening of this article, the progress of po-
litical liberty is being developed in our
own Statc,and our exchanges indicate that
tie people are determined to regulate their
own domestic institutions az their own
nay.
We have never known Of such an en-
thusiastic reception of nomination as
has that Of JOHN S. BARRY, for the office
of Governor. The people know him, for
they have proved him, and would trust
him with tho keys Of tho State rs they
would st. Peter with the keys of Heav-
en-. In the contest that is before us, and
in which the whole Union is engaged, the
National Democratic Party have present
ed for the suflrages of the people rep
resentativc man. In Judge DOUGLAS we
recognize the champion of the rights of
tho people, in opposition TO the establish
ment of an oligarchy in the Executive or
on the floors of Congress, to legislatc for,
or dictate and control the local concerns of
any community, leaving each State or
Territory TO regulate its own domestic in
stitutions, in its own way, subject only to
TO The constitution. One who denies the
usurpatory assertion that slavery, or
any other domestic institution, the crea-
ture of local law, is carried either with or
against the will Of the people into any
State or Territory "by virtue of the con-
stitution." AS antagonistic to the mad
spirit Of sectional ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, or in
tolerant bigotry upon the subject of slave
ry, which now SO engrosses the time and
attention Of Congress, 10 the exclusion
and neglect Of necessary national legisla-
ton, and for which tho people are paying
millions of treasure in to the Golfers of the
buccaneers of politics, he presents the
principle laid down in the Kansas and
Nebraska bill as its sole ellectual remedy.
In the simple, plain, common sense
democratic principle of "non-intervention
by the Federal Government in domestic
institutions everywhere and anywhere, Mr..
DOUGLAS has as clearly presented the doc
trine of political liberty to the hearts and
minds of American citizens, as the doe
trinc of intellectual liberty was presented
TO the Puritans of New England, by Roc
Err WILLIAMS, in his simple proposition of
"thc sanctity of conscience The intolerant
bigots of Boston heard for the first time
in all its plenitudo, from ROGER WILL
JAMS, the doctrine of the liberty of con
science, and its application has given re-
ligious peace TO This Union. 1t has givon
an equal protection TO every form of re-
ligious faith. With equal potency will
the application of the doctrine of non
intervention" allay the strife and incident
bitterness and alienation Of one portion of
our union against that of another, and
settle definitely and finally this otherwise
interminable agitation of the subject Of
slavery. Non-intervention by the States
Of tho North in the local affairs of tho
States in the South, or the South with
those of tho North, of the States North
and South with the local affairs Of the
Territories. Non-intervention by Con-
gross in the local affairs of State or Tor
ritory, or the attempt, anywhere, to force
upon an unwilling people, any system of
sectional legislation. The people Of and
in each locality of our common country
arc the better judges of what will advance
their general good," aud let each work
out their own political salvation, subject
to the Constitution, within their own par
ticular political jurisdiction, and harmony
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