Oppression In Michigan

üur íalhera took up arrns lo teatet the power of Britain, because she nsistèd on taxing them without their consent. The coloniste thought that taxation and representation sliould go together. A nother grle vanee was, that they were sent beyond seas for trial. Anolher reason was, that n man y enses they were deprived of trial byjnry. Ccmpare thepe oppres9ioní with those we practice on the coloreó1 people of Miehigan. They are oblige.d to pay highway, town, county , State and school laxes without any representa tion w ha te ver. They may not vote, or hold any office. Whcra the personal liberty is at stalce, ihey may be curried iuto perpetual -slavery, without any form of jury triaJ, by. any person who chooBes to lay claim to thepi as slaves, and who can in any tnonner eatisfy a single justice, that they 'are bis prpperty. - The law does not permit any oppeal, or compelling the süendance of for the defendant; or anyjopportunity for hira to get counsel, or any adjournment of court. The proof may be made and the man may ba taken off to hopeless elavery the same moment. If any opportunities of defence are given, it is through the voluntary kindness of the magistrale. Are the grievanceB inflicted on .the colored people of Miehigan, by our tyrannical Jaws, any less weighty, than those imposed on our forefathers by the British Government? if forcibie "resistance to tyranny" was right in one case, would it not-bef-in the 3ther7=Tg_]írislati!ro oí" Rhdde" IsJand, odjourned lateiy, after a ses?ion of tico daysondahalf. It tvill convene again iu August and sit five daya. T1j3 short session was signalized by calhng a Convention to íonn a State Constitution.