Coming By Degrees

The Eilitor of the Indiana Tocsin, a Dem-cratic paper, thu9 expréseos fais anti-slavery futh: to vote for a slaveholder under ' any circumstances ís what we huve never asserted. We did assert however, nnd we ag-ain assert "that we never will vote for a slaveholder" who advocates the doctrine of PERPETUAL SLAVSRJf utherever nd whenever the blacks are the most numerous, as Clay asserle in bis speeches and reiterntes in hi'a letter. Such se.timents are a disgrace to the rnau nad to the party which supports him. With President Polk the oase is dïiferent.He is not ati ultra elaveholoer' bs eilizen Clay is. If sraveholdingr ia, under any circumstincesjjustih'able. theh is ihat of President Polkr asthe fhds relative to wbich, as pubUshed by oiir able predecesso"-, in one of the late Nosr of the Mishatcaka Tocsin, most conckisively prove." This choosiog between slaveholdeis is bad business for a Deniocral! We tjust our friend of the Tocsin ,vill heareafler eilher 'rofiise to voíe for a slaveholder under any circumstances," or avvay his pretensicna1 to Democrary. Think of ybur position, neig-hbor, as a Democratie supporter of Slave-" Rrï