Southport Telegraph

We make the following extract to show our friends how the campaign is carried on against Mr. Polk, by the dueling party headed by Henry Clay. It is an attempt to show Col. Polk a coward, and is in answer to a question as follows:

"Do you know any thing of his (Col. Polk's) personal courage."

A. "I was in Washington when the affair took place between him and Wise (an insult from Wise) and it was notorious that he was personally insulted almost every day of the session, without resenting it."

The public want no better evidence of Col. Polk's courage than to know that the cause of these repeated insults, was his unflinching and successful opposition to the Bank hordes led on by Clay and Biddle in their attempts to force a re-charter of that institution. And why was Col. Polk insulted almost every day of the session, by the same men whose hands were subsequently red with the blood of Cilley? Because occupying the station he did, it would have been a glorious consummation for these blood-hounds to have put him out of the way. Afraid to act the part of assassins and risk the vengeance of the law, they desired to force him to the field, pistol in hand, that they might commit legal and honorable murder. The public will judge between the men whose courage and conduct are those of the brute, and that calm moral courage, which relying upon righteous justice, can pursue the straight path of duty, unmoved by the repeated insults of such contemptible scoundrels as Bailey Peyton and Henry A. Wise.