Polk's Slaveholding

Wc find the fullowing in the Detroit Advertiser, by which it appeara tliat Polkas a largo etton planter, and employs a Imndred slaves in the business, under on overeeer, wliile he himself is absent, thiis ensuring to the slavea harder work and worse treatmcnt than though he resided on the plantaüon. Shout fbr lum, ye Democratsl Extract from a letter from a gentleman in Tennessee, to hia friend ir Philadelphia: ''In reply to your inquirios, as to wheiher Mr. Polk is a slnve-hoidor, 1 am informed, that, ten or twelve years ago he es'ablished, in compnny with íiis brother-in-law, CnUwell. a negro quarter in Yallabusha couniy, Mississippi, near Grenada; ifterwards. he boughthis brother-in-law out, and nas near one hundrod soulí on his cotton planiation thero, whom, in consequence of his being so immersed in politics, he has seen but once in Tour years, and leavee them to the tender mercies 01 the oversoer." From the Deiroii Advertisor. Lower Saginaw, Aug. 16, 1844. To tho Editors of the Detroit Advertiser: Güntlemen- I authprized a mistake as to the political history of Ohio, which I made in niy ate debate with Mr. Platt, of Detroit, to be accnowledged in the Signal of Liberty. You have republished the article containing the acknowledgement, and have followod it with this comment: "Mr. Birney was politely informed of tho above error, and several oiher similar ones, madeby him in his lectures here, by a gontleman from Ohio. We aro creJibly informed that the Ohio gentleman was very rudely and uncivilly replied to by Mr. Birney at the time. Whigs should lindemand that Mr. Birney was originally a Locofoco. When a member of the Alabama Leg slature, he voted for Mr. Senator Eing ofthai State. His eympathies are ali with that pary-" Permit me to correct the many errors into which you have been led by somé misinformed or nischievous person. 1. I was not informed of the error alluded to, or of "other similar ones," by a gentleman from Ohio. Whilst I was speaking in reply to Mr. Platt, some one roee up in a distont part of tbe room. and interruptcd me. Deeming any interruption except by Mr Platt, as unauthorized and unfair - söeing I had only q given time to reply to the nany points made by Mr. PJatt, I at once appeaied to the chair, whostopped the person referred to. before he had said what he intended to say. Next day I was told ihat this person was a stranger from Oliio. who if he had been permitted, would have conlradicted my statement, as to the political character of at least one bianch of the Ohio Legislaturo at the session spoken of, But as Í did not see him afterwardr of course 2. I did not reply to him tlvery rudely and uncivilly." 3. I nevcr voted with tl;e Democratie party, nor have Í to my knowledge ever been set down as a member of that party excep. by the Advertí ser and a few othcr Whig papers. 4. When in 1819, I voted for Senator King he party unes were very indistinct, compared with what they are now, at least it was so in Alaama. It my memory serves me Mr. King had no competitor on the occasion referred to. The general undersianding at that time asto the olecion of the Alabama Senators - and indeed for a ong time nlterwards - was that one of them should be token from the Northern part of the Staie, and one from the Southern; on wbáteyeí candidate the Southern members generally united, the Northern members voted for him usually n mass; and zice versa. Mr. Walker, (since dead,) was the choice of the Northern membeit. br their part of the State, and was aiso elected, '. think, without oppoflitiun. ;he sanie sesaion Mr. Jing was. 5. My eympathies are no more with the Democratie party thán with the Whig party. The eaderi of both stand alilie ready, as I fuily bc ieve, to make the interestd and honor of the country sacrifices to their own advancement. - My spmpathiesare wholly with the Liberty party whose eaily succes3 alone can save our country from being undone. Yours, &c. JAMES G. BIRNEY. CC?" Horatio Needham, Esq. formerly a prominent gentleman of the Democratie party of Vermont, has become a thorough Liberty man, and was their nominee for Senator for Addison county. At a subsequent convention of the Democrats, he was nominated for the same office byihem, upon which he sent to their committee a manly and independent answer, to the effect that henee forth he should go for universal liberty, and equal rlghts to all, and should he be elected, he should act and regard himself as a member oí the Liberty party.