New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

FABRICATION. Some Whig, in imitation of the foul play of the Polk party, has fabricated a story, purporting to be an extract from "Roorback's Tour through the Southern States, in 1836," in which a description is given of a group of 200 slaves whom the writer alleges to have seen on the way from Duck river to the sugar plantations in Louisiana, and adds:

"Forty three of these unfortunate beings had been purchased, I was informed, of the Hon. J. K. Polk, the present Speaker of the House of Representatives; the mark of the branding iron with the initials of his name on their shoulders distinguished them from the rest."

Through this outrage of some most indiscreet and unworthy member of the Whig party, many of the newspapers have been led into an act we feel assured not one of them would wilfully do, and have published what none would have done, had they known the falsity of the story.

The Whig press, so far as our observation has extended, have conducted the present campaign in a manner the reverse of their adversaries; and it is to be hoped will continue to act an honorable part in all stages of the canvass.

But while they have acted thus honorably, there has been manifested on the other side the most outrageous conduct that ever disgraced an electioneering campaign. The most unfair extracts are given from the letters and speeches of Mr. Clay—they have sanctioned the burning that pure patriot in effigy—they have continued to reproach him, when the charges brought have been denied by clergymen of all denominations—they have caricatured the pure and blameless Frelinghuysen, and carried in their procession representatives of him with a bible in his hand, and in the attitude of prayer! and by various acts which literally "out-Herod Herod," have rendered themselves absolutely infamous. It is to be hoped the Whigs will not imitate these culpable acts of the adversary.—Let them wallow in the filth so congenial to their tastes.