Mr. Polk And His Slaves

Tliéi seems to be, after all,, aomc lilïle shame feJt by the Democratie party nt the utter degradation of the party io laveholdors. Whüe determined to "go the uliole figure," they would vet rnake their disgraceful ncts look as respecteblé as possible. They would have theslaveliolding characier of their President appear as smooth and innocent as may be. The Detroit Fvee Press wns at first 1 póséd to deny thai he held slnves at all: but os thnt most bow be adiriilted, ii 1 témpls to deinde the more conscientiousof the party by represen tiiM thatlie does not hola uny nduit agahist, ikcir tpilï. And how is tuis established? - VViiy, by asking the áavés themselves. and n report from thcmthrough the hcavsay teslimpny of several persons, who have a&ked lbo questir.n líat a recen date'1 - Thai is, since Polk's nominatiou! As to bis not slaves. how dots that correspond wilh the extract egnvej from "Roerbuck's Tuur," wliich welished last week? As to the assernon that none. of liis nriult slaves tvould hnve 1 heïr l'roerty if ofTered to tliem, t will be timo enoügh lo believe il wlien the ofTershalI have been rejecied. But supposing it to be so. is that any e.vcuse for cnsaving helpless children? Is it not as mean to enslave a child as a man' But the ivhole article is too barefaced forn leñgthy notice. It reads in the F ree Press as follows: "Gov. Polk's Slaves. - We cut frotn the last number of the Nasliville Union, thefollowing statement in regard to Gov. Polk's slavehoJding:c;Thc whig papers-lmve slated the truth in assertingihat Gov. Polk is the owner of slaves, though they have magnifiec their nmnbers greatly beyond the truth. The slaves he owns have come ie him bv desceñí, from the parents of himself an'd Mrs. Polk. He has never owned a slave who would consent to be sold or transferred to anoiher masten and he now owns no slave, who is of the yenrs of discretion; who would, on any persuasión, consent to be emancipated &; turned loose into the world, deprivedof iiis constant guardianship and pretection. We say this without his knowledge orauthoritv; but we know it to be true fromtual knosvledge tnrmerly den veel from same of his older servants, and from persons of strict truth and honor, vho have obtained the same information in the same wny at a recent date. He nover has bought, or sold, or exchanged one slave for another, except ai the enfreaty of the slave, and {hen for (te purpose of prevenfing the senaration of families - !msbands and wives, or pnrents and children. In this woy, and to 't his e.fení, ns a ciiizen of a slave Èïstè - wiih sucli ou-nnrship made lawful and proper by the Constitution of his own State - is Gov. Polk the owner of slaves." ! All the sforiesabout Gov. Polk's hirimr out his slaves are sheer falsehoods. coined for the base electioneering uses of whiggery."