Petitions

Those who inied to circuíate petitions for extending tho righi of SufFrngc should do it forthwith, as the Legislalure meets next Mondny. To be ol use they hould be presented at the commencement of the session. A public meeting lias been held in Detroit on the subject. The Marshall Statesman ( Whig) hns a well wrilten editorial leader in favour of the measure. VVo do not see how nny sensible, well informed man can be opposed to t. The "Freo Stnto Rally and Texan Chain Brenker," is the name of a paper started in Boston to oppose the admission of Texas as a slaveholding Statu. The object is a good one, but its anlicipations of success, trom opposition on this ground, appears to us to be delusive. Florida, a new slave-holding State, was admitted at the last session: how many of , the 52 Senators opposd ils ndmission on that ground? Not one! Of the 223 members in the House, how many opposed it because the Constitution authorized the holding ofslaves? Not one! so far as we recollect. Michigan, certainly,made no opposition on that ground. Neither of our two Whig Senators, nor of our three Democratie Represetatives,took that poition.