Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-10-10
From the Ohio Statesman.

GasGGEs OF THE FEDERAL PARTY A
~!NsT a REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT
PROVED FALSE BY : WITNESS
WHOSE WORD NO MAN DARE DOUBT. |
lfany evidence was wanted to sus-
tsin the proof afforded by the achieves
Of the country, to put down the vile
and the infamous SANDER propogated !
by the federal party, that Ezekiel Polk |
and other relatives of the democratic
candidate for President, were tories !
in the Revolution the following would
be sufficient. It comes from one who
participated in the Revolution, and
who to this day bears upon his cheek
scar received in that memorable
struggle. It comes from one who
has filed the highest stations in his
native land, and now preparing for an
eternal rest. In word II comes from
Andrew Jackson, a man proverbial for
nothing more than for bis strict regard
for truth, and he endorses, of his own
knowledge, the assertion to be false.
When a party is driven to ransack
the grave to injure the living; to hang
in efhgy patriot of the Revolution, to
gain votes for one whose private char
acter is so base that even his friends
dare not deny the many charges against
him, and whose vindictive passions
are so violent that even now, in his old
age is under bonds to keep the peace
their cause must be rotten, H.
deed.
Such a course the whig patty has
pursued, and such is the character of
the man who, they claim is, the very
acknowledgement Of their Principles"
Democrats, when any of the federal
party again dare to SANDER the reputa-
ton of Ezekiel Polk by breathing even
suspicion against his patriotism, brand
them at once as base fal5i6ers, and ap-
peal to the history of the Mechlenberg
Declaration of independence, and the
testimony Of Andrew Jackson to sus-
tain your assertion.
HERM1rAGE, July IL, 1874.
SRI have just received your let
Ter of the Goth ult., informing me that
recently declared "that he trav-
elled through Tennessee at the time
Gov. Polk was for the first time can
didate for Governor, and that his OPP
ponents (the Whigs) then brought the
charge of his grandtather's being to-
ry against him, and the democrats of
Tennessee met the charge by throwing
it on the North Carolina branch of the
Polk fanily-that is, COL Thomas
Polk; and you desire me to state, for
your in Information, and that of the peo-
pie, what [ know of the facts.
In reply, I state with pleasure, that
/ know all the old stock of the Folks
Col. Thomas Polk, father of Col. VIM.
Polk, and E9eltiel POLE, grandfather
of ColaIas. K. Polk. They scere all
good SSt1whigs. Old Col. Thomas
Polk VA the first mover of indepen-
dence in Mecklenburg county. I'LL
the Poiks tasn groacn acre good ZIG
achigs-and Col. William Polk, son of
Thomas, was twice wounded in the
war of the revolution, and I think he
had brother killed in battle. never
knew one branch of the family to be
charged with toryism before. If such
a rumor was circulated during the can
vass referred to / never heard of it.
am gratifed thus to be able to give
nv testimony to the revolutional servi-
ces and the Patriotism of the Polk fam
ilp, with many oe whose members I
have been intimate the greater part OF
my life.
character is safe against the slanderer,
for there never was less excuse for II
than in the case of Col. Polk. | have
Known him since he was boy. A
citizen more exemplary in his mora
department, more punctnal and exact
i his business, more ergetic and man
" in the expression ofhis opinion, and
more patriotic, does not llye.
| am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.