The North-Carolina standard., 1844-09-18
TO THE PUBLIC.

lanes Z. POLK was born and educated in
North Carolina He was nominated as the demo
cratic candidate for the next President of the Uni
ted States, by the delegates of five and twenty
States. assembled in convention at Baltimore, in
May last Between forty and fifty years of age
nearly onehalf of his life has been devoted to the
public service. as legislator and Governor of
the State of Tennessee, and as a member of Con-
gress; and when member of Congress, exalted
to two among the highest posts of duty in that
body-Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means His politics, of the pure Jeffersonian
and Jackson stamp, have been marked by con-
sistency rare and pOondertpI in this age of poll
tical regeneration, always the fruit of honest
heart sound judgment, and patient investiga
ton of the truth. His political enemies find
ing no blemish or spot in his private or public
life, both ever distinguished by good temper, pure
morals, and strict integrity, have sought to in
validate his claims to the presidency by SANDER
ing the character of his deceased grandfather.
Ezekiel Polk, with the charge that he was tory
during the war of the American revolution.
Believing this charge to be false and calumni-
Gus, the offspring of the demon spirit of party,
the relation in which we stand as the democratic
State central committee of North Carolina to
James K. Polk, and the debt of gratitude that we
all owe to that noble band of patriot soldiers of
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, who first declared
independence and first shed their blood in its sup
port Qor ingratitude to such men would be foul.
er than traitors army have constrained US to
cause mass of testimony to be compiled in re-
lation to this charge, so voluminous, cogent, and
authoritative, as must forever consign it to infamy
and Oblivion.
Our senator, the Hon. VIM. H. Haywood, has
been appealed to perform this task, because of our
high confidence in his distinguished reputation
and talents, truthful, patient, and accurate in
vestigator of facts and evidence. The result Of
his labor in this behalf he has now submitted to
US, in the document or report accompanying this
address, which we have orderedto be published
He who will not read it because he is unwil
ling to see Justice done to the memory of lead
ing patriot and soldier of the revolution, would
himself have been traitor had he lived in '76
he that reads to know the truth, will honor the |
memory of Ezekiel Polk, and scorn the authors
of the base calumny, who deemed it no sacrilege
to violate the grave of true whig and soldier of
the Amererican revolution.
Raleigh, Aug. %, 1914. /
LOUIS D. HENRY,
Of Raleigh, Chairman.
Josiah o. Watson, Johnston county.
Weldon n. Edwards, Warren co.
Thomas N. Cameron, Fayetteville.
Perrin Busbee, Raleigh.
Charles Fisher, Roa0G11 co.
Gabriel Holmes, Nea0 Hanover.
Joseph Allison, Orange co.
Will r. Poole, Wake co.
Louis D. Wilson, EdgecOnpb CO..
Will. W. Holden, Raleigh. Il
James B. Shepard, Wake co.
B. B. Smith, Raleigh.
George Whitfield, Lenoir co.
Thomas Bragg, Northampton co.
VIII. White, Raleigh.
Alpheus Jones, Wake co.
Wilson w. Whitaker, Wake co.
Burton Craig, CGtaao6G.
John Hill, Stokes co.
CASTOR II. Wilder, Wake co.
To the Democratic State Central COM