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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."