Lawyers--Members Of Congress

The people of Michigan are almost entire]y a farming people. Such they will remain for maiiy ycars to come. We have not tht statistica before us, out about ninetecn in Iwenty of oor population derive their subsistence from the soil, and are identjfied wilh the euccess of ngriculhire. The thcory of our inííitutions, oa well as common sense, wonld teach that those who are most deeply interested in a profesión, and bevst acqnainted wïth its detail?, -would be the best judges of what tvould conduce most to the interests of their profession. Alechanics act. on this principie. íf a National Convention ofshoe niokere and leather deulers should be c illed, to promote thnir peculiar interests, wuld not every one beastonished to learn.that the delegates tvere vatclnnakers, who had beeu selected by the slicemakers to attend to their peculiar interests, beause they did not feel competent to manage them thernselves? Equally absurd ia it when the people generally suffer any particular class of men to monopolize thedireclionand control of their interests.Theee remarks are so com nonplace, it seetns scarcfly wortb while to mnke them, were it not that our Whig friends appear to be of a very differffnt opinión. They think that 250,000 farmers can best be represented in Congress by Jive laioyers. They have nominated none bui lawyers. In ihe first place, we hjtve Judge Woobbridge, a Detroit lawyer, and an old pensioner of the government - a man about as far removed from nll conneciion wilh the every dny interesti? of our farmers as any man in the State. Our oiher Senator is A. S. Portbr, another Detroit lawyrr. The candíate for Congress for the first District, is J. M. How ard, anolher Detroit lawyer. For the Tliird District Üiey have nominated T. J. Drakb, a Pontiac lawyer, while in the Second District Joskph R. Williams, the Whig nominee is a lawyer. This last gentlemen is ?aid to be also a miller and land speen lat or, and may, therefore, be considered as in some measure identifiedf with the hiisiness of the people, a recommendation tha'. cannot be alletlgnd oC the otber gentlemen to any considerable extent.We do not object to the prof ession of these gentlemen; foi, in the preFent state of society, lawyerp nmy he indispensable. But there is no necessity thnt all the members of Congressshould be of the legal profesfion, orany considerable porjion of tliem. it is well tnow that in former years the law has been he high road to ofncc ond politicnl elevotion; nd ever? ai.iSitions futher wished to have t Jprist onc sou in the only Rire road to honrab!e disiincfion. But of a late something of change has come over ibe people. It is ound in making nominations for the Leffisafurp, that more than a certain proportion of an 'idates of the Wal profession endangers íU-+,vt, -oí n.uJei-ifTi OUirid.s. nm i]f: reorm needs carrying tip totf.e Cnngression I Halls. Tliere is no jrood reason why fmr fths of'Copgressshould bo lawyers. A very ew would be sufficient to impart the rpqnisite ïg rc.-iEion :o the &c.U ufCongress; while he remninder, not being speechmakers by rofession, would consume less of the time in iscourses, "for Buncombe."The common idea, that no ene con be fit for Member of Congress, except pnnie dignifieJ, rstocratic, ruffle-shi.-t gentleman, who has ead law, otight to be explodrd with conempt. A member of Congress should have Helliorence, indnstry, probiiy, and eound en-e; and tlipse, the more of a worknjr, practical, evary day man he is, the better Hember he wil I be.In thih respect, the Liberty candidates for ongress are on the right footing. Dr. Porter, of the First District, is a working man in the line of Iris profesión and is era)hatical!y oneof the people. He has an exe'lent education, and extensiva kuowledge. nd is estermed hy nl] who know Jiim as a man f the strictest probiiy and virtue. Dr. Bkment, of the Second District, is a gentleman of excellent abilities and is a popuar speaker. He popsesses good scientific mowledge, nnd is wel) acqnainted with the story of our government, and the politicnl interests of the nation. Dr. Bemest bas been a resident of the State for many years, and was formerly a member of the Legislature. Gen. Canfield, of the Third District, is a ultivator of the soil - a practical farmer. ie is hiprhly psleemed for good judginent and ound undersianding; and he 3 witbal o fo6t nd inflexible advócale of Liberty and Equal R-ghtB.The Liberty condidates are emphntically vorking men, identified vvitli the interets of ie prople, and experimentally arquainted with tlieir condition and ei reu insta nces. Bng every way unexcept innoble, we trust they w;ll receive a liberal and generoiiH support. - )ne word as tolh?ir beinff men of "one itlea." t is true hat they do liold to the JEqual Poitical Righls of all. Th'is muy be sneered t as one ideo, and eo it is; and we ni-k (ir lellow citizens to think whelher it is not n important one - whether it is not the same iat our falliere put forth as the foundation rinciple of the revolution? If this principie wete faithfully cirried out in all our legislation, we ask them if society wonld noL be improved n very many respects, and injured in none? "inally, we ask them if itis not beiter to have ne like this, thar. none at all? What disinguiohing principies do the Whig and Demcrats put forth? They havo none to contend bout; and their stmggle is a mere contesf hetween the ins and outs, in which no important principie can be established by the result, becausc none is jnvolvcd in the íhsuc.