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. li 5 d«i not suppose.
EY TUO.M AS HAYNFS HAYLKY
Oil! do not suppose that my hours
A re always unclouded and gay ;
*■ Or that l orns never mix witli the flowers
Th t fortune husstreyv.il in uy way;
When seen liy the Cold and unfeeling.
We s nile through t!ie sorrows we feel:
But smiles are deceitful—concealing
The wounds which they never can heal
The* world is a changeable ocean.
And sunbeams and shadows abound
While the surface Mt*u.s least in commotion,
The ro<Ks ol misfortune art* found
A nil monis the pilot*, who, steering, »
, Of*every billow thwisport,
fciees the gale of prQsjierity veering
Which promised lb w ift him to port.
Our hopes are the gales tint’ serenely
’Waft onward our sails as we float ;
Our tears are the whirlwinds that keenly
O’erwhelm our poor perishing boat;
And reason’s the beacon that gives us
Its light through life’s perilous way, .
Eut fully s the ray that deceives us *
A nd leads us too often astray.
Our moments of mirth may he many,
And hope half our sorrow beguiles;
But beliavcrtne,There can iot he any
Whose features arc always in snides
The heart may he sad and repining,
fhough cheerfulness brightens the scene,
Asa goblet with gems may :»#• sliininj.
fhougli bitter the portion within
* •littering volume msv cover •
\ sterv of sorrow and wo;
ill night's gayi !*t ii.rh-ors may .
V\ her. dangers It lurking b. low
Thus ofl. in t! e unsiiine ot g 1
Th • cheek arjd the eve ;«.«> • dr».-t,
Whilst t*eelu -ul i- t m sadn -
secret rs *
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MISCi LLA S'Y.
. AuH'ULliviitu stow of .llau
Ancient atheistical wliters have pre
tended, that men, like inpslwopjis, sprang
spontaneously,from and owed
their origin to chance, while modern ma
terialists very gravely inform us, that
their primordial Qxistynce was a necessa
ry effect, of we know not what mysteri
ous arrangement in their beloved chaos :
and some learned naturalists have as
wisejy calculated and ascertained the.dif
ferent epochs, wherein the primeval el
ements of naturc'severally concurred in
tha formation of the universe—without,
however, condescending to acquaint us
hy what .mysterious influence mankind,
or the animal species, or the vegetable
world, could start forth, from a globe ot
chrystal,ail on fire (no matter how) from
eternity. Certainly these gentlemen have
each of them the merit-of eccentricity.—
But their sublime theories will not bear |
the light; they quickly disappear when
confronted with the simple and unaffect
ed narrative ot the sacred historiographer
of the book’of Genesis. In the begin
ning'God created heaven and earth. .
lie said, let light be made , and light
was made. And again he said : let us
make man to our own image and like
ness ; and God created man to his men
image. By these lew words we learn
our origin : what we owe to God and to
ourselves, and what we are to hope trom
the bounty of our great Creator.
Is then God corporeal like man, ns the
-Mateiou.ites of old, the Manichees, the
philosophers of the fourth age, and the
iuAdeis ot the eighteenth, with o,
the present day, erroneously infer ? By
r.o means: the principal and the jioblcsf
part of man is the soul. This soul is git
ted with understanding—with a will and
memory, and liberty of action ; is capa
ble of knowing, loving, and adoring her
Creator. In this it is, that man is like to
God
In answer to some speculatists, we
won and ask, \Y hat then would l e the state
ol Adam and Eve.at the moment of their
production ; what their felicity before
they mrfeited their innocence: and what
would have been their future destiny and
that of their |iosteriiy, had neither the
one nor the other of them fallen into sin?
These are queries very interesting, but
concerning which holy sciipture has ex
plained itself with much reserve. It in
forms us that God created man in right
eousness and in justice; consequently,
not merely exempt from vice, but endow
ed, moreover, with sanctifying grace,
which rendered him agreeable in the
eyes ol his Divine Majesty. It informs
us, too, that man was created immortal
at least in this sense, that he had it in his
power to escape death by avoiding sin ;
death having entered into the world hy
sin only, and the malice of the devil. —
We are likewise given to understand that
God had been pleased to communicate to
our first parents the science of the spirit.
He filled their heart with n isdom and
shewed them both good and evil. —
Hence it follows that the state of the first
man, previous to his fall, was astute of
great felicity, although his happiness was
not complete, inasmuch as he was liable
to forfeit by disobedience that original
justice in which he was created, togeth
er with all the gifts and privileges annex
ed to it. A more consummate beatitude
was destined to be the fruit of his volun
tary and tin necessitated perseverance in
good. How long this probationary state
of our first parent might have continued,
in order to his peifect confirmation in
justice and inadmissibility of grace, the
Holy Spirit has not thought good to re
veal to men. Had be persevered in tact,
his offspring would have enjoyed the
prerogative of original justice it. which
lie was himself created ; each individual
ofl is posterity, would, perhaps, like him
have been subjected to temporary laws,
exposed to the danger of violating them,
and oflorfeiting as he did, all the privile
ges of innocence. This is the opinion
of the learned Estius, and of the great St.
Augustine.
On a variety of other questions regard
ing which holy scripture is silent, let us
beware of imitating the- rich curiosity of
our proto-parent Adam ; nor presumptu
ously approach the tree ot knowledge in
quest of a forbidden fruit. But, why
cries modern incredulity with the ancient
Manichees—why impose a law on man,
and lay on him an injunction which God
foresaw that he would disobey? I an
swer : because man being created a free
agent, lie had it at his option to obey,
and strictly ow and obedience to his great
Creator, it is by free will, as much as
by his understanding that he is distin
guished from the brute: and Almighty
God most justly required of him a testi
mony of submission, in acknowledgment
of the benefit of life and oilier blessing
conferred upon him; and in con ormily
with the universally established disp n
sation- of Providence it is expedient that
t! . hu pi ness o his civatnr s
sho d not .. a -ift in ail respects abso
lute i v .gratuitous, but a reoo up- nee mo,
awarded to obedience and virtue. Nor
ouglii the foresight which God had ot the
prevaiication of Adam, in any wise to
derogate from this et< rna! and infinitely
wise mid equitable dispensation.
When infidels also take offence, that
God -lion and have prohibited the eating of
the fruit which was to impart the knowl
edge of good and evil, they affect not to
mideistand what kind of knowledge is
here in question. Adam possessed al
ready the knowledge of moral good and
evil, as we learn from sacred writ. He
would else have been as incapable of sin
ning as the infant that litis m>t yet attain
t'd the use ot reason. But he had not
the knowledge of physical evil, which
he had never yet experienced. He had
no idea o» that confusion and remorse at
tendant upon guilt. After his sin he
was sensible of both, and was thus ena
bled to compare happiness with misery
and grief: such was the experimental
knowledge , from which Almighty God
in his goodness was wishful to preserve
him. In this sense alone could ilie eat
ing of the forbidden fruit communicate to
man the knowledge of good and evil.
The sacred historian has again incur
red the jeering sarcasms of profane ca-,
villers—in relating how Eve was temp- ,
ted, and the melancholy result of her
prevarication. To these wise s| cculut
ists, the narrative ap|>ears, in many in- j
stances, absurd. First —they do not
conceive the serpent to he more saga-!
cious than the rest of his fellow-animals,
nor how he could enter into conversa
tion with Eve, or fie said to be accursed
more than other reptiles like himself. —
With respect to the superior sagacity of
the serpent, we are not sufficiently
acquainted with the serpentinian species,
to pronounce how tar precisely it may
extend : the extraordinary facts authenti
eally recorded ot some other animal, ap
pear at first not less fictitious and iucred
flile. Doubtless, the wicked spirit mat
have been permitted to converse \v ib
Eve through the organ ol the serpent,
MACON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, ISI4.
and Eve, very possibly, had not yet ex
perience enough to know whether an
animal were naturally capable, or alto
gether incapable of speech.
That there exists a great variety of
tins species of cron ures, is a fact
well known to naturalists, and to travel
lers : some winged and extremely heau
*ifill, which, like the featheied race, can
waft themselves with great facility thro’
the air. Consequently it is n~t certain,
that some which now crawl upon the
ground, did so originally; nor whether
the serpent spoken of in the hook of
Genesis might not belong to the latter
class. Again, we are not sure that none
among the different species of serpents
actually eat earth for their food ; were
this a fact it would sufficiently verify the
malediction pronounced against that spe
cies for tempting Eve to sin.
According to sacred writ, Adam’s pen
itential cour e was very long; he lived
nine hundred and thirty years. This
j long life Almighty God was pleased to
grant him, in order the more easily to
perpetuate among his descender) ts,the tra
dition of those grand truths to which he
himselt was qualified to give the strong
est attestation, as having received them
personally from his Maker, and could
mankind desire an instructor more ven
erable, or more worthy their a (ten lion ?
But—without that promise ot his merci
ful Creator, respecting the Redeemer to
i be revealed in future ages, Adam must
oft have been exposed to the temptation of
despair, upon witnessing the frightful
evils of every description, which his sin
unfortunately entailed upon mankind.—
None, however, among the fathers ot the
church, have ever entertained a doubt ol
his salvation : all without exception were
persuaded, that this inestimable blessing
was secured to hint by our common medi
ator Jesus Christ.
Trogress of Geographical discovery in
Abyssinia.
Meliemet Ali, Pa-ha of Egypt, recent
ly sent a party under command of Cap
tain Solim ol t lie marines, to explore the
country adjacent to the White Hiver, o\e
of the principal branches of the Nile, the
source of which lias never been discover
ed. Capt. Selim was provided by the
Governor of Sentiaar with boats, an es
cort of 250 men, and provisions for seven
months, and took bis departure from
Kartown. The accounts given of these
curious geographical researches is pub
lished in the Cairo Gazette from which
we extract the following passage:
On a*.tain ng the island of Lesnnkis
cliahonr, we found the villages of Ma
kok, of Siam, of Chalkan, of Josmalin,
and of Oschira. The country very
agreeable, and fertile in maize, tobacco,
gourds, beans, sesame; we also saw little
cott li growing. In this region the riv
er is infested with hippopotamus—an en
counter with which is dangerous, for
they easily break in pieces or sink boats.
We saw many of these monsters
stretched on the banks in the hot sun.—
Captain Selim frequently fired his mus
ket at them; but whether they were too
..-,r Ms, or their skins too hard and thick
lie penetrated by balls, none of them
\e e |<i"ed or (apparently) wounded.—
lightened hy the report of the gnu, they
mhi g and into the river atiJ we lost sight
of them, lbuvever the expedition con
tinued to ascend the river, passing
through a dry and desolate country,
sometimes bristling with mountains mil
sometimes immense plains boundless to
our view. Alter great fatigue and nu
merous pet its, we arrived among a tribe
whose custom it is to cast all their dead
into the waters of the Nile, instead of
burning or burying them. For many
miles along the front of the villages,
which are quite populous, the river hore
human bodies, some mutilated, and some
in high putrefaction. All along the river
edges and "on the bottom where the wa
ter was shallow, we saw human remains,
on some of which birds of prey were
feasting, while a horrible stench infected
the air. Onr boats often, wjiile seeking
a passage over the sandy bottom, struck
against corpses buried partly in the sands;
and then the corpses being disturbed,
drifted further down the stream. No
thing can give an idea of the horror of
this spectacle; and what added lo it, was
whole flocks of birds of prey hovering
over the river and devouring their fright
ful, feast. Gorged with their food, some
w re unable to rise on the wing, and re
mained stupid on the sandy shore until
the burning rays of the sun had hastened
and completed the labor ot di.estiou. —
But this awful prey was disputed with
them by very numerous crocodiles.
Captain Selim states that he saw one
of those terrible amphibious animals go
out of the river, hearing a corpse between
his jaws, the weight of which dill not
seem to discompose him. The crocodile
carried his booty to the middle of a small
island covered with reeds, when he dis
appeared from view, but we heard the
noise of his formidable jaws cutting and
crushing whole limbs. This expedition
did not succeed entirely in its object. It
reached toe mount insol Abyssinia with
out being able to discover the sources o.
the Nile, particularly of that branch cub
ed White Nile. The Natives said ii
would require two years to reach the
source.
Great wealth amt rxlieme poverty in one
Family.
There lives, or rather subsists in an
old hovel on an obscure street in ibis me
tropolis, an infirm destitute widow lady,
who hasrenched her ninetieth year. Her
first husband was one of two brothers of
an ancient wealthy Dutch family. She
was young and beautiful; lie was ardent,
wild and brave. On the morning of the
memorable twenty-sixth of August, 177 ti
she encouraged her gallant husband to
leave her at the welcome mansion of his
parents, and Lo cross over to Brooklyn to
battle the invading British tfoops. Near
the close of the disastrous conflict he fell,
nobly, at the head of bis volunteers at
Busliwick. Tlip bells tolled bis fimer
ial knell in this city, amidst the terror
and appalling evacuation of the whole
whig population, leaving their homes to
the overwhelming army of their oppress
ors. The young widow fled into ob
scurity, afterwards married another vic
tim of liberty, who left her in poverty to
rear a family, who remain poor to this
day.
She encountered a succession of ad
versities, and finally; after a lapse of fifty
years was impelled by dire necessity to
apply to the aged surviving brother of
her first love. He had taken and kept all
the property and income of his only bro
ther that had valiantly laid down his life
for his country, and for his kindred —he
! also retained the immense estate of their
father. The old patriot wept over Ins
i long lost sister, and exclaimed, I will do
her justice and more than justice, for 1
j loved her like an old sister, but subse
quently the evil councils of those who
watclnd over his declining years and
his increasing estate, prevailed on him
to turn her off with a small pittance.—
The arrogant threats of a master spirit
and her declining years and pinching
want induced her to accept the scanty
offer; her protracted life ha* outlasted
this small portion of her own just rights.
The venerable brother has departed
hence. The vast estate has passed into
the possession of three or four relatives
! who may walk from their splendid and
luxurious mansions in twenty minutes
to the comfortless abode of their aged
I aunt, behold her destitution and listen to
! her moaniugs and faltering imprecations.
—Evening Post.
The vit and. advantage of a defect.. —
Mons Ik 1 riot, being an eye-witness of an
Indian battle, caught the general spirit of
l the affray, and, as he afterwards said of
himself, “fought like a famished lion !”
when, unluckily, his pistol snap; ed in the
face of a Sioux warrior, who struck him
a blow that felled him to the earth.—
j Stepping lightly over the formofhis pros
trate fine, the savage grasped a knife in
Ins right hand, and seizing the luckless
Frenchman’s hair with his left was about
to sca'p him; when the knife dropped
from his hand, and he stood for a mo
ment petrified with astonishment and
horror. The whole head of hair was in
his left hand, and the white man sat grin
ning before him, with a smooth shaven
jerown! Letting fall what he believed
! to be the scalp of some devil in human
i shape, the affrighted Sioux fled from the
spot; while Beriot, replacing his wig,
muttered hulfaloud, “ Bravo ma bonne
permiuc! je te dots mille remcrcineus !”
How SCHOLARS ARE MADE. — TIIC
Hon. Daniel Webster makes the follow
ing pithy lemark in relation to scholars ;
“Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets
h ive no magical power to make scholars.
In all circumstances, ns a man is, under
God, the masterof his own fortune, so is
he the maker of his own mind. The
( reator has so constituted the human in
tellect, that it can grow only bv its own
action, and by its action it most certainly
and necessarily grows. Every man
must, therefore, in an important sense,
educate himself. His books and teach
ers are but helps : the work is his. A
man is not educated until he has the a
bility to summon, in case of emergency,
all his mental power in vigorous exer
cise to. effect his proposed object. It is
not the man who ha seen most, or who
lias read most, who can do this; such a
one i. in danger of being borne down like
a E ast nfburden, by an overloaded mass
of other men’s thoughts. Nor is it the
man who can boast merely of native
vigor and capacity. The greatest of all
warriors that went to the siege of Troy
had the pre-eminence, not because nature
had given him the most strength, and car
ried th** largest bow, but because self dis
cipline taught him how to bend it.”
Religion.—There are those to whom a
sense of religion has come in storms and
tempests; there are thase whom it has
summoned amid scenes of revelry and
idle vanity: there are those too, who
have heard “ its still small voice” amid
rural leisure and placid retirement. But
perhaps the knowledge that causeth not
to err is mo t frequently impressed upon
the mind during the seasons ol affliction ;
and tears are the sofiened showers which
cause (he seeds of heaven to spring and
take root in the human heart.— Walter
Scott.
POLITICAL.
From the "Sober Second 'Fiouykl.”
Hurrah f.u- the Democratic Pyramid !
OHIO 22
MAINE 9
INDIANA 12
NEW-YORK 3fi
ILLINOIS 9
VIRGINIA 17
A LA B A M A 9
MICHIGAN 5
MISSOURI 7
A R KANSAS 3
L O U I S I A N A 6
MISSISSIPPI fi
NE W HAM PS H l R E. 6
SOU TII CAROLINA 9
P E N N 3 Y 1- V A N I A 20
183
Necessary to elect, - - 138
To spare, 45
Is there a stone in it that does not be
long there? Let us see.
Ohio. —What a splendid capital she
makes for the column ! Ohio has now
a democratic legislature and Governor.
Her votes were cast for Harrison in 1840
by means of the most extensive, syste
matic, and audacious pipe-laying ever
perpetrated even by the whig party. It
cant he done again. All the Kentucky
whigs are wanted at home ; there is not
one to spare.
Maine. —Now democratic—(hat is to
say, all of her that Webster did’nt sell to
England. The people of Maine might
as well be expected to vote for “re-an
nexation to Great Britain,” as to vote for
Henry Clay. But the whigs don’t claim
Maine, 4 so there is enough said.
Indiana. —Democratic now by thou
sands. And since the whigs have es
poused native Americanism, they can’t
hope to come within sight of the win
ning post in Indiana, to say nothing of
the popularity of annexation in that state,
or the aversion to Henry Clay for his
hostility and numberless insults to the
pioneers and squatters. Indiana is sure
for Polk by 10,000.
The Indiana American, a coon paper,
lately said of Mr. Clay and his prospects :
“ He never received the votes of Ohio
or Indiana, and it is worse than idle to
calculate that he ever will. YVe have
heretofore excited all our strength for
the election of Henry Clay—and we be
lieve him superior to any man living
—but it is worse than folly to endeavor
to sustain him, whom the people have so
often condemned. And although we
woo and rather see him President than any
man who has been named for that sta
tion, still we believe he will he distanced
more than 10,000 voles in this state, al
this time or any time to come.”
New York. —Our friends in this state
would laugh at us for speaking of her
vote as doubtful. Onr majority on the
popular vote last fall was only 20,000
and upwards '; rather small number, to
be sure, in the eyes of some hard-faced
whigs, deciphned at “brag.” Every one
in the state knows perfectly well that the
coons only claim it because to give it up
is virtually to abandon the field without
an effort. Set down the vote of New
York for Polk as inevitable!
Illinois. —We have not yet seen a sin
gle coon barking up this tree ; it would
Ik; too evidently the wrong one. It is
hard to remember the time when Illinois
was a federal state. She is democratic
now, and our mail, Governor Ford, is at
this moment battling nobly for t lie su
premacy of the laws over a reckless su
perstitious nnb. Illinois is as safe ns
New Hampshire; is’nt tha' safe enough?
Virginia. —The Gibralterof democra
cy. She never has given a icderal vote,
and never will. About half of the “glori
ous 'Tenth Legion” are subscribers lo the
Sober Second Thought, and they all tell
us that there is cor//*- de reserve in that
part of the state more than strong enough
to sink all the strongest whig counties
put together. YY'e refer any whig, who
dreams of carrying Virginia, to the
“ Tenth Legion” generally. The Fre
ling-huy-sen coons give up Virginia;
they don’t p!ay “brag.”
Alichigan. —The whigs will scarcely
run a ticket in Michigan, except as a mat
ter >f form. They intend to use as ma
ny of the votes as possible in the western
part of New York. Mr. Clay does not
believe that Ylichigan is a state, (see his
Raleigh speech,) of course he would not
take her vote it he could get it.
Here’s a sample of Michigan :
Another sign. —At the militia train
ing, on YYednesday, by the militia of this
city and Humtrainck, a city coon propos
ed to take a vote on the presidential ques
tion, which resulted as follows :
For Polk, .... 250
For Clay, .... 50
After this, the militia gave three cheers
for Polk and Dallas. —Detroit Free
Press.
Missouri. —Thomas H. Benton repre
sents Missouri, and has done so for some
time past.
Arkansas. —\Y r e have never heard of
blit one coon in Arkansas; he was a no
tably tat one, though, represented him
self in the whig convention at Baltimore.
That party in the state is perfectly uni
ted, as mhy be supposed.
VOL. II—NO 12.
Louisiana. —The whigs don’t men
tion it. Louisiana is just as strong for
Polk as Texas would be.
Mississippi. There is no use in
spending time about the particular states
of the southwest. The whigs give up
the whole region. Mississippi is now
democratic throughout her state govern
ment.
New Hampshire. —Need any one ask
the price of twenty-shilling boots'/
South Carol rta votes through her
legislature. She cast a unanimous vote
for Martin Van Bureti, and probably will
not do more for Polk and Dallas; any
tiling less is not looked for from the no
ble birth-place of Sumter, Lawrence and
Calhoun.
Pennsylvania. —The pedestal of the
column—the key-stone of the democratic
arch. We have the state now by more
than 20,000. 'The whigs will undoub
tedly carry Philadelphia hy an increased
majority, provided the “ Native Ameri
can” mob doesn’t clinch with Gen Cad
wnllader’s brigade again. In Philadel
phia there is not an even bet on the state
to be found. Air. Clay does not hold
that card.
There our pyramid stands ! resting on
the rock of Pennsylvania republicanism,
and crowned by the gallant, aspiring
head of young Ohio
“Ilyporion’s ourls ; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ;
A station like the Herald Mercury,
New-hghted on a heaven- kissing hill.
There is not a state in the whole pile
which is not already ours; and every
letter we receive, and every messenger
we meet, from any part of the Union,
tells us of daily accessions to oar num
bers. YVc are getting stronger every
hour; already able to sweep the feder
al Philistines from power, with our
“ Young Hickory,” who is hold enough
to define the limits of ottr power at the
ballot-box when November shall arrive.
Hurrah for
Polk, the Young Hickory,
Dallas and Victory.
Fro ol V le Bjston Statesman.
Texas and ihe i ederalists in ISl3—Texas
nndthe Whigs in ISI4
The federal whig party have always
been consistent in one thing: the prefer
ence of Bi'tish interests and principles to
American. 'They are now opposing the
re-annexatinti of Texas, and prefer to
have her a colony of Great Britain; and
they were doing the same thing in her
struggle for independence in 1813. The
Poston Atlas of to-day stands on the
'Texas question just where the tory Pos
ton Centinel stood in 1813, nndthe Post
stands on the other side, where stood tfie
Republican Independent Chronicle. —
An extract, worth preserving, will show
this identity of o!d and new parties.
From the Boston Chronicle qf Sor. 15, I8E!
“ Wherever the cause of Britain rears
its snaky crest, federalism appears ;ts
advocate. Whether Britain supports a
horrid juggernaut in India, n cruel in
| quisitiou in South America, or a tribe of
! savage bloodhounds in Canada to butch
er our own frontier women and child
ren, federalism of the pious Poston
stamp is her most prominent advocate.”
“ In the province of Teras, the inde
pendents, after having been very success
ful, have Ijitely met with a repulse from
the British party, u'ho are fighting to
subjugate the province to old Spain, un
der the hope that England will cb;ve
the French from the country, and get
possession of it.
The Boston Centinel , with its charac
teristic zeal in lhe British cause, seizes
upon this circumstance and exuiiingly
proclaims that ‘theSpanish revolutionists
have been completely disc-unfitted in
Texas hy the loyal party!’ But this
exultation will be of short duration. 'The
great cause of Mexican independence
will eventually prevail, and the centre of
the Allonti be the jurisdiction boundary
of every foreign despot. We hope the time
is near at hand when the sceptre of no
foreign tyrant will lie acknowledged in
the new world; and even the vast do
minion discovered by Columbus, after
being purified of all foreign domination,
will harmonize in every part.”
There spoke the republicanism of 1812
when battling for the security of Ameri
can independence In the annexation
of Louisiana, they had carried out the
democratic doctrine of Jefferson, '“to
spread the blessings of freedom and equal
laws.”
In the annexation of Texas every true
democrat must take the same republican
side!of the question, and maintain the
glorious doctrine of Jackson, ‘'extend
the area of freedom .”
Toryism,
The following article from the Nash
ville (Term) Union will be read with in
terest by the friends of Mr. Polk. The
Union is published in Mr. Polk’s neigh
borhood :
GOV. POLK’S ANCESTORS—REFUTA
TION OF A VILE SLANDER.
Every good man, without distinction
of party, has seen with indignation and
regret, a vile slander circulated through
the whig papers—the Richmond (Va.)
\Y hig, Louisville (Ky.) Journal, Mobile
(Ala.) whig paper, and other kindred
