The Northern Star, And Constitutionalist

Michigan.—The Convention of the Territory of Michigan, now in session at Detroit, for the purpose of forming a State Constitution, have passed a resolution approving of the measures adopted by the Legislative Council, and Executive of Michigan, for maintaining the integrity of her territorial limits, the inviolability of her soil, and the exclusive supremacy of her laws in and over the same, under the recommendation of the committee to which it was referred. The vote stood, for the resolution 80—against it 4. On a subsequent day, this resolution was directed to be transmitted by the President of the Convention to the President of the United States, together with the following, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That he also communicate to the President of the United States the thanks of this Convention, for his patriotic and firm determination, whenever, in the unconstitutional proceedings of the authorities of Ohio, to extend the jurisdiction of that State over a portion of the territory of Michigan, the crisis shall arrive, in which the civil officers shall be inadequate to the execution of their duties, to employ all the means placed in his hands by the constitution and laws to maintain their supremacy—and for the intimation, that however painful it may be, this is a duty which he is resolved to perform.

Committees were appointed in the Convention to inquire into the expediency of making provision in the Constitution to abolish imprisonment for debt, except in cases of fraud, to abolish capital punishment, and declaring that no man's religious opinions shall constitute a disqualification for office, provided he acknowledge the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments.