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An article appeared In this paper, On Tho
9ist of Aueusi last, Published As \ COM
NUNlCATfON. headed Per M Chronicle,
addressed TO M Spencer signed An Abo-
! l%tinnisi,' rurporiing to Give an extract ifom
'Rootback's ,our THROUGH tho Western and
I Southern States In 1897 The extract clos
ed with a reference 10 foriv-ihree slaves, pur'
chased Of James X Polk, distinguished by
the brand ofhis initials upon their shoulders.
The article was brought to MS in manu-
script. by Daniel Mckinney. Esq a young
gentleman Of this village, Of unimpcschable
character and v%eracity, and was published
without the least suspicion that it VAS Other
Than what il purported to be, a genuine ex'
tract from a book Of travels. II turns out to
be an exlrac, from Felhers,onhaugh's Tour
through the Slave States. with the State
ment in relation to James X. Folks Slaves
appended.
From the affidavit Of Mr. Mckinney, which
| follows, it appears tina, the pretended extract
was furnished him, in manuscript, by Will
lam Linn, ESQ. of this village, A LOCO
FOCO OFFICE. HOLDER, the candidate
OF that party for Justice Of the Peace, TO
| which office he was elected. and which he
now holds: and also Examiner in Chancery,
appointed by a Locofoco Senate. on the rec
ommendation of Gov. Bouck. Mr. McKin-
ney was as unsuspecting OF its real charac-
ter ms we were.
This forgery and fraud so bitterly de-
nounced in The Albany Argus and the locofo-
co prints. is then fastened upon the shoulders
of a ~lncofoco office holder. with what object
on his part we leave the Public 10 judge
The forgery and fraud is placed where il
belongs, and consequences of an unpleasant
nature must recoil upon the l~ocofoco party.
Neither Mr. Mckinney nor ourselves have
any par, of this responsibility. Both were
imposed upon by a vile hoax, or something
worse. Our agency in its circulation was
wholly unsuspicious Of its real character.
We ask no other agency than Truth, in
the Wing cause. The mutilation of letters,
and interpretations, we leave TO the Locofoco
press. Scarcely one of them DO we find,
a fraud as pross as 'Roorback'sTour,
by the mutila,ion OF Mr. Clay's letters, max
ing him say what he does not say. That
lanes X. Polk is a STAKEHOLDER no one pre-
10 deny. 1t is useles to invent circum-
stances of special altrocity to connect with
such slaveholding. No whig has done it
.hough the lies in relation 10 Mr.. Claws
'laveholdiug in the ~locofoco papers, have
,een as plenty as blackberries.
The affidavit of Mr.. Mckinney, showing
he origin Of this Rooback's Tour as fol-
ows
This is to certify that on or about the 10Th
lay of August 1914, WIN Linn, ESQ. called
IN me with an article purporting to be an ex-
ract from Roorback's tour through the Wes-
ern and Southern States. requesting me to
opy the same and hand it 10 the Editor of
ne Chronicle for publication; stating as a
A.@, r.. "
oco printer in that office, who was acquaint-
d with his chirography. ] complied with
is reque 81, without the slightest suspicion
hat 1t was not a genuine extract from a VERT
BILE book. DANIEL McKIsNEy.
Subscribed and sworn the eth day of
September. 1914. before me,
c. G.. HEATH, J.P.