Polk A Slaveholder

A friend of Mr. Polk in wrftes to the Morning Heraíd of thnt city, correcting the statement taken from the Pittsburgh Amorican, thnt Mr. James K. Polk s 'onè of the largest slaveholders' in the southwest. No snch thing. Rend: "Lucius Polícis not the brotber of James K. Polk. He is the bróther of Leónidas Polk bishop of Loushina, whose father was the firet consih to the father of James K. Polk, n relatfonship hardJy rpconized They are se-ond cousins. In the nert place, James K. is nót 'the owner of a grea number (of slaves) tvhom be hires out thröug.'i the State, bargaining with the employers fór fo much a year." He ownsa plantation in Mis6issippi with probnbly 30 or 40 negroos, being vvhat he inherited from his fnther, with their natural increase. And he lina in Tennecsee one or tvvo domestics. He neither buye, selli, nor hires, and is in no way connected with 'the trafile in human flesh.' lic is a kind indulgent anrl humane master.'1Now let us have no moro slnnders. The Democratie ennuidate for the presidoncy,vaunting his zeal tbr Ecüac Riohts, Equal Laws and Equal Justice (o ALL MEN, is only LTilty of violntinor this doctiine in 30 or 30 instonees--holding Jc or 40 human heings as property, mere appendages to his own being! That is all! And these beings, wilh righte by nature equal to his own, he puts tinder nn overseer m Alississippi, tvhoee o.ily instrument of extortiny labor ftom them ia the Lislil A beautiful candidate for the Demociacy. -