"Why Don't You Publish Something About Polk's Bad Charact...

UF Why dun'tyou publish something aboul Polk's batí eharacterand doings?" 'Why noi find fault wi-t-h hrm as weli as with Clay? J you would be impartial, ve would not complain of you." Well, what more can we sny truly about Mr. Polk iban we have said? He isa slavchólder of the worst kind- hiring out ]s sinves all over he country. He is utterly opposod to the antislavery movement in all its branches. Ke voted tigainst requesting tho President to negoiiate for the aboliiion of the African Slave Trade, and de 'laring it Pirncy. Thfs was na late as 1834.- In -hispersmal habit?, hs i3 said to be haSitually profane. When Speaker of the House, it is s.id beintrepreted the Gag rule rigicüy against ihe caase of Liberty. But we have -not seen the spe ciik-Htions of tliis chnrge. All this we have published; what more can we truly soy? Thosi who complain of us should furnish tbc charges. With'satiafoetöry evidence. It j8 possible Ütri thcy mny onderstand the art of '-'makingbricks without straw:" but we make it a rule to brin? no charges against any man but such as we have evideoce for beleving to be truo. ÏÏT -It seems that the Kentuckians are adoptng the idsas, althotigh not the language, of Liberty men. The Cincrnnati Enquirer says tha: .ïr. Southga-.e of Ky., in his speech Ir.st week, atLnwreneeburg, Ia., exdaimed, ;this. fellow citi.ens, is a contest between our f ree :labor and the kfaky headfid labor the So ith " Liberty men advocate ihesintorests of Free labor, but in doing so, they do not insult any portion of mankind because of unavoidable personal pecuüarities. Qj" A friend writes from Consiantiae, Au 16: -LiThe cause of emnncipatton prospera gloriously- Democrats and Wlugs begin to open their eyes io the great subject of Universal Liberty.- We shaJl poll a good vote for Birney and Morris, in St. Jo. - all io;d& aicuk:!"t "We repeat that no "sensible Locofogo," vvlio possesses the necessary infor5 mation to form an intelligent opinión, be Heves that Mr. Polk will get a majority ' of the entire popular vote of the State. If he secures the electoral vote of Michigan, } it will be by a bare pluralüy-hy a min ority m fact of the people. In all the i professed anxiety of the braggers, to bet 5 on Michigan, we have never yet known ■ one of them propose or accept a bet on 5 the single point of a popular majority for : Polk, over Clay and Birney, w'hile they have repeatedly refused it. Birney men, - therefore, can see the responsibility which ; they assume." - Det. Adv. What responsibility, neighbor? That of voting for a worthy advocate of their , own principies, insteadof either of three . Slaveholders? They will shoulder that. ; "responsibility," with great cheerfulness. All they have to do is to Vote for their , own candidates, and elect them ns soon as they can. They will do it! QCP Hon. Wm. Slade. of Vermom, ie writing lottera to prove that the Whig party is "the true Liberty party." becauec they are resisting the Annoxation of Texas. We ácny that euch is ilicir position asapany. But if il were, we want a Libeny party thot will not enact Gag iaws in ('ongress. Was not thelnst Gag more infamoue tlian any of the preceding ones, and was t not ad pted ïvith a large whig majority in the House? Gentlemen, we éhould despise ourselves if we could be seduced to support so dcspicablea "Liberty party" as the Wliïgs have shown themelves to be. tD3 Our edition of last week was not large enough to supply 55 of our new subscribers! They will receive the whole rrmnber o whicb they are cmitled, commencing to-day. ít?0 A fèw copies of "Jay's View of the Action of the Federal Government in behalf of Slavery," may be had at this office. A valuable work. Price 56 cents: (O3 The JacUson Cminiy Liberty Convention meets Sept. 4. Let all irn out! iff? A friend writes us from Dhw Aug. 15: i "Mr. C. H. STBWAnT.attended andad. dressed several meetings on his Inte jour e ney to New York, and speaks enC0Ur" agingly of the prospecta of the Libertv - party in that State. The seal of the f Whigsinthe Texan question ís grealv abating, and is no Ionger dust in the eyes of abolítíonists. It was started two or thrce monthstoo earhj. Indeed, t een, that álate Whig tract ly Rev. Calvin Colton takes precisely the same víew of Clay's positíon that we have all along maintained to the great scandal of the Whig party viz: that he is entirely noncommiltal ff?Tf we should give our Líberfy vo(efi f Polk and Clay this ycar, for this once hoj mary anti-slavery votes should we have i bestow next year? Nox oKE. He who de serts the Liberty party now, g0Ca for ite di J Bohition for tbis once: nd once di?8o)vetf wben could it be organized? And f W were provible to have a party which shoo ex.st only three out of four jears, what would be gained by t? He who votes for Polk or Clay, for this once even, votes for the cntire extinction of the Liberty party. Are nntielavery men reaJy for such a result? "The Chhistian Paulor Magazine: by Rev Darius Moad, New York, 1844 " This work has been recemly commenccd, only fonrnumbers havingyetnppeared. The object of t s deve! oped in its title. ít is designed for a placo on the parlor tables of Christians, and sintended to supersede the frothyand luiinstructive, if notpern.cous magazines of tbe day. A sligbt exnmination of the numbere issued has confirmed íhe favorable impressijn we had received of the work from notices in oiher papers. The articles appe3r o be tnsteful and wel! wriiten, and many of i,em arecalculatcd to inform and improve the mind and heart. The typogmphical execution is neat, and the engravings are good. The work is publishfld in nuinbers. monihly, at $2, a year. Mr. J. R. Walker, of tliis place, is agent for the work.(L? A gentleman who resides in Ionia county assures us that the Liberty vote will be trebled in that county at the coming election. A letter from another person just received says: "The tfork goes bravely on: a Liberty Convention has just been holden, and the several comrnittees appointed, as will be reported to you." 07 The Mercer Luminary, a Líberty paper, notifies a meeting in Mercer, Pa. a discussion of the meritsof the threé politica! parlies, to be addressedby speakers of each party. We like that. Let every tub stand on its own boltom. (t Gov. Seward, is determined to persuade the Whigs that they are already an anti-slavery party. In a late speech to a great Whig Convention, he said: "Friends of Emctncipalion.' Advocates of the Rigdsofman.' I am one of you. Í have ahvays believed and trusted that thé Whigs of America would come upto the ground you haveso nobly assumed. Not that I supposed or believed they would all at once, or (rom the same impulses, reach that ground. But that the progress 'of events would surely bring them there. and they would assume it cheerfully. . Tliat consummation has come." That is - the Whig party has assumed antislavery ground - become the "friends of emancipation - the advocates of the rights of man!" "By their works ye shall know them.' What are their works? Their present business is to make a Slaveholder, - a foe of all emanciparon- their President! - Need more be said? Cnssius M. Cluy keeps up an extensive corresponde-fice wiih both Whig and Liberty men, and is thoreby exerting the greatcr influence to Irnw over the latler fo the support of Mr. Clny. His Whig letters are full of anti-slavery sentimentg, ntui lie uses evöry argument to get Liberty men to go "thisonce" for Clav. But we trust that sensible rana will not beso deluded as to fall into the snare he has eet for them. JHis own inconsistent action should neatralize his advice. IT Many prominent Whigpoliticianshate tïie Lt"berfy party worse than they do the "Polkites" or "Tylerhes." The Detroit Advertiscr, and otherWhie papers are copying an article from the National A. S. Standard, the organ of the Disunionists, in which the writer proniises to show that ilMr. Birncy is tho most ohjectionabte canilidate of the four." Yet Mr. Slade says ïhe Whigs are "ths trut Liberty party!" Ann Arbor, Aug. 23, 1844. The. nominal price of Wheat to day is 56 cents: but we hear that sales have been made du ring the week at 58 and 60 cents. The amount received has not been large. Genesee Flour in New York, July 19, was dull at $4,31 to$4,37L.