James K. Polk On Slavery

As a slaveholder, and as a champion of tho 'peculiar insuiiutioii," James K. Pulk occupics na unfortunato a posilion as Ucnry Clay. He ia a tyrant. both n precojn and practico, ond tlie fací thot ho upholde tho vileüt system of oppression the sun everahono upon, provea thai Lis deiuocracy is tbo merest eliam. Will truc-hearted dciuocrats, bo whfppcd or cajoled ituo the suprport of this opprcssor of hia ioLlüv-nion' Nevcr. We subjoin an extract from Governor Polk's Inaugural adihcss, doliverud at Nuslmlle, n tlio Uth of October, 1831). The somiments which.lie Uien avowed. he stilt on'têrtaïns. We a8k do ;j mocrntic tíboÜtionista fa rend ihrm, and judg whetber they i;an promiiuto ihcir suííraes to th olcv.-mon oí Mch.a mnn. We símil havo more i sayof :,Ir. l'olk'a eiavcry. viewe, at our curliea leisure: "it becimes tho dnty of all Iho, State, aiidcunecially ofihose whoeo Constitiuions recognizc tha existenco of domesfic slavery, to look wit!: wnichfutncss to ibenttompts which have been ia cently machio dmurb.lhc rightB ecured tothert by tho Consti tulion of the Unitod Stnies. Tü .ür.ion of the abolitioiiists ran by no posaibilitj produce goqd lo nny poriion o the Union, nni musí, if perfrb!c! in, Icad io iftoilculnblo mischior. Theinstüiition of doirjceticKverysit exisit-u al ;he adoption of the Constiwfion of the United Staiee. and as it eiiü txibis in somc of ihe State, formerf the subject of tlic cornproinisca ofopmion' and of intorest upón tho Bettlemènt of which ail ihe old States pnriies to llio Compact and agreed to. enter the Union. The ncw iStates were admitted nto thoünion pon an equal footingwuh thcold States,, and are equaiiy bound Dy the term-j of the compact. Any attempt on tho part of the Federal Govcrnmont to act upon tho subject of slavcry, n it exists withiu ihe Staten, would bo a cloar infractíon of tho ConetitntJon; and todieturi. nwithiu the District of Columbio, woulu be a palpable violation-of the public faitli, a8 wcll as,of the clcar ineanin;: end obvious irtefiiion of the fratners of the Constitution. They ntended to leave, nnd they did in fact.. Ieavo tho subject to tho exclusive regularon and nction of the States and Territorios within which lovcry exieted or might exiet. They ntended to place and they did in fact placo t bevond the pale ofaction witHirj the cartstiiuiional power of the Federal Government. No power haa been conforrH upon tiio Federal Government, èither hy expresa grant or neecsary nplicaticn, to tako cognizancc of, pr in any marmer, or to any extent, lo interfere with, or to act upon the subject oldomesticelavery, the existence ot" which, in niany of the States., is cjpressly recognizcd by tho Constitution of tho United Staiea. Whetherthongiiation wo havo recenily witneisod upon this delicíate and dist.irbing subject, has.procecded from q mistaken philanthropy, os may have been tho caee whh a ícw misgutidod persons; or ivhat there ie. I regret to say, but too ïftüèb reason to fcar, from a. detire on the part of mnny porsons, Wna manifest by their conduct a reckles diBrogard of tho hormony of the Union, and of the public good, to conven t into a political engine. with a view to control oJecriong, ita progreso should be ñrmly resisted bj all tho constiiiujonnl meana within the power of tho State, The most eüsun! observcrof passirrg erents cannot üil to have seen thé modern Abolitionism, wi tb, rare and few exeeptions nmoog its ndvocatea, has becomo to a-great cxicat, pureïy a poluical queetion. TT.at.mnny oï the k-ading aboÍnioi]8t3 aro activo polmcal parrízana, fully ídeijuñed vv-ith, and eonsrituting no inconüdoreblo part-of one of tho política! pames oí the eonntryy can.no Jonger adm.t of doubt. They addre themeclvea to tho prcpowwaron and projadicea ofthecommunity in which üiey líva, . againat slavery in the abstract, and, availing thomselveer olthe and prepufices, ttre srruggling to can trol political even te. AH the lover f of the üniön of the States, and all pstrioric citi zens, wheihcr of tho Blayeholdiag or non-slava■ holding Stares, vho are ardemiy attnehcd toonr , Tree instimtions, mnat view vriih indignant roprobation the nse mode oi such on unholy agitación with snch objects. Tha atíempts mnde to introduce k Tor discueeion into iho Federal Loielatumre have been met in the proper spirit, not only by Southern Representativos, by a large portion of the Northern delegación ü Congres íí is fortunato for the country, thf, in themidai of tbis cyitation, {bere is a; the head of the Federal Governínént a Gh íef Magietrate wbo, in the Kitriotic diachnrge of hia high durics, h.wphiced !liescalo'"l)Í3unqunfifdcondcmnaton upon any attempted ac:ion by Congres upon the subject of slavery in any moDner, ur to nny extünt,wliethcr ejcisting whhin the States op wnhin tho District of Columbia. Thi! he deserves and will receive the support of tke Siatea, and of tbe p.eo[)Ic, in eyery poriion of the Union, in jnnintnining 'nis orfcórhpVom'ising and publícly declared determination to preserve inviolute the compromisos of the Federa! Constitution and the resérved íi'!)isof tl-o f-Livcholding Stated on this .subject, caijuot bo doubted."