Port Gibson Herald

MR. POLK PRESENTED.

The "New York Courier" says, that while Mr. Polk was Governor of Tennessee, instead of attending to duties of the office and acting under the restraint which his position would have imposed upon him if he had been a man of the slightest delicacy, he took occasion on the 4th of July, 1840, at a public meeting of the Loco Focos at Knoxville, Tennessee, to nominate himself for re-election! And he forthwith proceeded to open the campaign in person, and bring to bear upon the issue all the Gubernatorial influence with which he was invested. The people of that section, thinking that this was not part of the duty for which he had been elected, expressed their censure very freely, and finally the Grand Jury at the Sevier County Court presented the Governor as follows:

"The Executive of our State, James K. Polk, instead of being found at his post, executing the laws, devising means of improving the deplorable condition of the country, and of restoring it to the prosperity it has lost—he, our Governor, is found traversing the State, conducting an electioneering campaign, for the elevation of others, and to keep in train the system which is so oppressive, and in power, the rulers who ask for power at such a price. This we present as a most serious grievance, a dereliction of duty—an evil example to others who may be prompted to do the like, and which in the end will prove the overthrow of our free institutions. &c., &c.

JAMES SEATON,
Foreman of the Grand Jury."