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~o'o IVA Y Won, '"' C. u. ROBINSON.
Auxuxt I'd 1874 Cor Secretary Of Burns Clay CIuD
Reply to the abore.
We cannot consent to write series OF arti'
cles' about Mr.. Folks connection with Slavery,
number of his Slaves, SC. because though this
might be effective in opposing him, VIC do not
think it would be honest. For in good faith, our
opposition to Mr.. Polk is not at all based on the
fact Of his being slave holder or living in State
which sustsins Slavery. He may be very wrong
in holding Slaves, but we do not think the Pco
ole of the Free States in view Of the history, the
spirit, and the clear intent of the Federal Constu-
ton, would be justified, in an election under that
Constitution, in excluding q citizen OF a slave
holding State from National office because he
lived in Slave State or was personally connect
cd with Slavery. This is our position. 1t may
be wrong; hut We have not assumed it without
elaboration, and shall not abandon 1t but upon
clear conviction. As at present advised, were
we convinced that it is wrong To vote for a
Stakeholder because of his slave holding, we
would cease voting for President and Vice Presi-
dent at all, and strike at once for Dissolution of
the Union. If the Slave-holding States are not
to be treated equals, let US honestly say SO
and separate from them; but let US not dlshon-
estly hold them in subsection, by violated Con-
sttution and the force of our superior numbers.
Mr.. Clay is slave-holder we wish he were
not, and would like him better; bat we do not
allow the fact that he or any man is slave-ho
der in Slave State to influence our vote TO fill an
Office common TO the Free and Slave States
We abhor Slavery, whether direct or existing in
any of the thousand forms which the world has
not yet begun 10 recognize and condemn. Whe-
ther the man who spends on his own appettes a
hundred thousand year, drawn from the hard
toll of a thousand other men, who earn perhaps
three hundred year and pay him one hundred
each for the privilege of living on piece OF
Gods earth, is any less STAKEHOLDER than he
who frankly owns hundred men, cares for them
in sickness subssts them in health, and takes
the bulk of their earnings TO himself is ques
ton which must come up for discussion when
the Slavery controversy is in order. We do not
mean here to express any opinion upon lt-cer-
tainly not to assert that Southern Slavery is not
more injurious and less dciensi6le than any which
exists at the North. We think it is We
only mean to say here that, whenever Slavery
shall become in fact the Main Question, it will
be found to reach a great deal farther and cut
much closer than many Jealous Abolitionists
have as yet any idea of.
AS to Mr. Folks connection with Slavery, it is
50 notorious that they are not only very auda
cious bu. very silly liars who undertake 10 deny
II No man was ever more Jealous in his Gcvo
t;on TO Slavery and the Slave Power while in
Congress. We defy any man to point on, sin
gle occasion ON which questions OF Slavery and
Freedom were presented, that nc did not vote for
Slavery. His vote in minority of 81 against
the proposition OF Gen. Mercer OF Va (reprc-
sentng slave-holding constituency that our
Government should take more effectual measures
FOR the suppression of the African Slavc-Trade is
we'll known to the country. 1t has been pub
lished and republished, and nobody has attempted
to deuy or explain it. His present position on
the Texas question would be enough of ITSELF
We have not doubt that he was engaged with
jackson, Sam Houston X Co. in the original
conspiracy by which Texas was violently wrcsted
For these acts, we hold him in deeper dcies,a,
ton, but not because he is STAKEHOLDER and
citizen Of Slave State.
But he does hold Slaves, and every body
knows it who knows any thing about the matter,
including those who are falsely pretending that
he does not We have the best personal author
ity for stating that he owns large number whom
he hires out to work by the day, month or year;
and that this is not considered crcdi,able-evcn
IN saaserholding Tennesse. We know also that he
has Tor bad Within a few weeks past large plan
tation in Mississippi, which no carries on entirely
by the labor of pat Of his slaves, and this
(hough not hinguiar) is still no. very popular
among human shareholders, as it is notorious
that slaves worked and ruled exclusively by over
seers do not fare as well as when they are uRder
the eye of the master, who usually feels respoa-
sibility and kindness toward them which can