" "If our citizens wish to enjoy all the rights and privileges which appertain to FREEMEN, and give to their Territory the attributes of SOVEREIGNTY; if they wish to enjoy the elective franchise without dictation from a superior; and if they wish to enact their own laws independent of a supervisory power from abroad, they must ask for and obtain admission into the Union.

" We have said this much about the former movement in relation to a " Convention" because we were anxious to show that it ever has been disconnected with politics, as gentlemen holding different political opinions acted to- gether on this subject.

And such we may add is the case at present.

Another feeble effort at opposition to the "Convention", has been made by referring to the vote of the people of the Territory in 1840, by which it is endeavored to be indirectly shown that because the citizens were opposed to a State government then, they still hold the same opinion.

This argument, if it be properly so called, scarcely deserves a passing notice.