The State Convention

The discussiou at the Court House on the evcning of the 22d, upon ihe leading points ufnnti-elavcry action, was animated and tntcreeting. The President, Dr. Pokter oí' Detroit, opencd the exercises of the evening by sume reinarks on the wcreasing power of slavery in the nation, and the necessity oí resisting its encroachments. Ma. Dutton, of Pittefield, spokeofthe necessity of using political means for reuiov ing political evile. Suppose, said he, the party in power should aitempt to enslave the niinonty, tlioir enslavetneot would be both a moral and apoliiical evil. Who then among the minority would think of using moral suasion in order to preserve his liberties, and at the same time vote for (he very men who were endeavojing to enslave them, and Ihus by politica! action confer upon tyrants ihe power of reducing them and their families to servitudi.? The nalion has an intcroöt in preserving inviolale the rights of the meanest citizen. The giea political parties caro not for tiiese rights wheu they come in competiiion vvitli their supposid interests. Our legislators are familiarized with tyrnnny. Thev have no hesitation in depriviwg a colored man of his rights, and were it for Iheir interest they would as Eoon oppreas the white man ;s the jlack.lildcr jMonroe, of Detroit, a coloTd man, and Pastor of the colored Baptist Church in that place, made some reina i-lts which were slened to wiih profound cttention, and caled forth repeaicd cheers. fíe said hc was an American citizen, and as such, lie elaitned his share in that independeneu which our iithers acl.icvetl. He could properly eay ur f;:lhcrs, for his father was oneof that tflorious band of patriots. Some peopJcsay be colored man is not an American. What onstitutes an American? If birth, educaïon and permanent rasidence give a man the right to cali a country his own, then America was the country ofnearly all iho colored population in the United States. - Thoy wtro as mach Americous as tlie white neople.He said that tlie broad foundation principie of our institutions was, that the people are CDmpetenl to govern themselves. The stars and stripes of our nationaJ banner carry this principie over the sea and over the land to the remotest Kingdoms of the earth: and yet the same banner as it floate every where on high, is the standard of a nation that is living down is great fundamental principie. This nation prodaims republicanistn tiirough all the earth, in the ears of despots and tyranls, while it contains within its own bo8OU1 250,000 despots, many oí them as arbitrary, cruel and relenlless as any ihat can be found on the globe. For sceplres, they vvield cowhides; for ornaments, they have chains; for furn:ture,they have rifles to shoot their subjects, and paddlee to flog them.Charles H. Stewart, of Detroit, said that abolitionists had dcferred poiitical ao tion for years - and had deferred it too long. They were wrong in deferriiig it at oil - the dclay had done no good, and had only been the nioans of strengthening the enemica of Liberty. Last fall he had himself used his inflnence at Detroit against a separate nominalion, and he now feit that the course which he then opposed was right. Slavery has now a greater influence at Washington than ii ever had before. He mentioned a varicty of fact3 in confirmation of thisjamong olhers, that the nomination ofRoBERx Stuart, of this State, for Indian Agent, vasnot confinned nntil the very last moment of the seesicn, on account of his abstract opinión on the subject of slavery. He spoke of the condition of the great parties, particularly of the Whigs; divided amon themselves by the clasuing intereets of Clay and Tyler. He asked what we had gained by helping the Whigs thus far? - What have they done for m at Washington, or in Michigan? Nothing. "We havo help. cd them to elcct a Whig President and a Whig Governor, and now we aredenour.ced on every side as "Insïdious Hypociutes." This very language is used by the Whig pa- per in this County. Thia was the reward we received for our assistance. But a great change waa coming over our poiitical prospects, and he ventured to predict that beforeanother ycar should roll aröund, the'ir languago vould boofa different character - tbcir words would have a honied sweetneas, and altliough the paw of the lion might be on us, t would be a paw with thefur on! After some rernarks from Mr. Kenny, of this County, on the resolution dcclaring Sla[very to be a Nationa] Bank, in which lie Ispoke of the value of the 6laves, which were estimated by Mr. Clay to bc worth Iwelve "Tiundred million dollars, and also of the immense power exercised by that prodigious monopoly forthc dcstruction of tho interests of free labor, and the oggrandizement of the southern aristocracy, - the Convention adjourned.