James K. Polk

The Democratie papers will have H that tb gentleman is to be our nexr President. We should regret to hxvl him for our chief magistrale. He is e ' dently a bigoted devotee to the systemof slavery, and if elected, will doubtle under the government of such politfcf' tí Calhoüli and McDuffie. As our Td era are bui little acqoainted with the Ie!" Jjmeni.ofMr.Polk.w.hav. i' the first page a Jetter froro him to Hon gress from New Yorï;- noW a , t of the Liberty party. readn;andthenaSkthe,nSe]Vesira displayang such a nar and ffl spint towards the cause of hnman free domnaJlifsaspeccanbeworthyof the votes of free men. y The last mail brings „s the Syracuse Freema. a Liberty paper, with he Iowing communication in it Ta "Demacré read itl LeveryFrom the Democratie Fre.mn„ M, EWTO:-Wfl, yoa Crthe goodness to insert ín yoar paper the fol lowing extraet from Koerbuck's -Tour throagl, the Western and Sootbern state in 1836." Thfs WOr has „JJ approbatjon ofevery American citlc, not of-g-pniccíe.cnptíonsof.cene! :ry, butfor itScandidandimparííaIr mardon men and manners. Amidst the present turmoïl and fanaticé oí polítícs, I woulí furnia dement made befaré the co.oxyreached when there cörfd be no inducemérif tb dfsgDfse ,hé rafh or publish a falsehoöcfrr "Just as vve renched-theDücfí Ríver in? tbeearlygreyofthemomíng, we carne' P w)th singular spectaele, the mosf strifciiig'one of fbe Jdnd have ever wit.nessed It was-atnp of negro sW dri vers, just pacliii p to start. They had about tl)ree hündredslaves withthenV had bivouheftéd rhe preceding nighi'tnehüins m fhe woods; tírese they were' conducüng, to oh the Mississj. pi river, to work upon the sugar planta íioris in Louisiaaa.' It resembles one of the coffJes of sla ves spoken of by Mngy Park, except tbat they fead a caravan of nine wagons ard single hose carriage for the purpose of cbaducting thé' white" people, and any of thé blacks that shoulct fall lame, to which tbèy tvere now put-ting their horses to pursuèf tlieir marclrr The female d.wes, werè sóme of them,' sit.tingon logs-ofwood, whilst Olhersweref standing, and a great many líttle blacú children were warmaigthemselvès by the' fire of the bivouac. In front óf theró al]! and prepared for the march, stood iridoofti Ie file about two hundred male slavev manacled and chained toeach other. l had never seen so revolting a sight be-' fore! black men in fetters, torn from the' landsf where they were born, from thè' ties they had formed, and from the com-' pctratively easy condition. whiclj agricul' tu ral labor aflbrds, and driven by.'ite' men, with liberty and equality. in tlieir' uiouths, to-a distant and unheahhyr ;coun-' try5J périsb in the sugar milis of Lou-' isiana, when . ihe dóiation of life in a su-' gar mil'l slaves does not exceed 7 yearsi' Forty-three of these unfortunate beings had been púrciased, I was informed, of ihe Bon. JAMES K. POLlQke present Speaker of ihe House of Representativa ; THE MARK OF THE BRANDINGIROÑ, W1TH TÍIE I!ITÏALS OP HIS NAMK 6f THEIR SHÓULDÊRS, DISTINGU1SHINO THEM FKÓM THE REST.-