Mr. Polk And The Slave Trade

Detroit, Sept. 22, 1844. Editous of Signal: After I had closed an address, a short time since at Birmingham, a gentleman of the Democratie interrogated me with politeness, and reason, respecting a vote I stated Mr. Polk to have givenon the abohtion of the slave trade. I was unable at the time to give the languageor date of the vote, but promised I would do so through the Signal. The facts are these: On the 13th May, 1831, the following resolution was introduced to the House of Representative3 by Mr. Mercer: "Resolved that the President of the U. S. be requestéd to renew and to prosecute from time to time. such negotiations with the several maratime powers of Enrope and America as he may deern expedient for the efíbctual abolition of the African Slave trade, and its ultímate denunciation as piracy, under the laws of nations by the consent of the civilizêd world." Aves 118, Noes 32. Mr. Polk in the nogative.- Con. Debates, Vol. 67, page 850. I trust some friend will submit the above to the gentleman, whose candor and courtesy on the occasion entitle him to every consideration. CHAS. H. STEVVAT.{L?" The Detroit Advertiser announces that Ex. Gov. Corvvin, of Ohio, vvill visit Michigan. He is to be at Detroit, October 17. Alsq, Mr. J. R. Giddings will be there on the 15th. We trust the latter gentleman will visit us in the interior, even though he come as an apologist of Mr. Clay. He recently visited Mereer County, Pa. in which are several hundred Liberty men, and tried to prevail on them to go for Mr. Clay on the usual grounds - Clay was friendly tp emancipation, opposed to Texas, &c. Among other things, according to a report in the Mercer Luminary, he said "that the Liberty men demanded more purity of character in public rulers than God himself;tor he had chosen David, stained with the crimes of adultery and murder, to rule Israel, and Saúl of Tarsus, a persecuter and murderer, to be the chief Apostle." - Mr. Giddings was not very successful in his mission.