The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-08-30

the evening after, and observed they had heard of
but one person "a Mr.. Beard but approved ofthem.
81 then proceeded on to Philadelphia, and deliv-
cred the Meeklenburg declaration of Independence
of May, 1775, to Richard Caswell and William
Hooper, the delegates to Congress from the State
of North Carolina.
81 am now in the eighty eighth year of my age
residing in the county of Ebert, in the State of
Georgia. was in the revolutionary war, from the
commencement to the close
81 would further observe, that the Reverned
Francis Cummins, Presbyt eran clergyman, of
Green county, in this state, was student in the
town of Charlotte at the time of the adoption ofthe
resolutions and is as well, or perhaps better ac-
quainted with the proceedings at that time, than
any man now living
"Colonel William Polk, of Raleigh, North Car
olina, was living with his father, Thomas, in Char
lotte, at the time have been speaking of, and, al
though then too young to be forward in the busi-
ness, yet the leading circumstances have related
cannot have escaped his recollection.
GAMES JACK.
sSigned this 7th day of December, 1919, in
presence of
"JOB WATSON, c. C. o.
GAMES OLIVER, Attorney at law"
This certificate, proves, beyond doubt, that Eze-
kiel Polk was one of those who first declared inde-
pendence, in Mecklenburgh, North Carolina, a
year previous 10 the declaration by Congress-
When the war commenced, as we have before
shown, he was apponteda captain of rangers in the
South Carolina line. He served his country faith
fnly during the war, asis proved by the most re-
spectacle testimony. After his death his execu-
tors found among his valuable papers his commits
sion as captain of the South Carolina troops, which
commission has been preserv ed, and is now in the
possession of his descendants, and has been shown
to several gentlemen of the highest responsibility,
in Maury county, who certify as follows, viz:
"The undersigned citizens of Maury county,
Tennessee at the request of some of the members
of the family of the late Col. Ezekiel Polk, former
y of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, and
afterwards of this State, who died about twenty
years ago, have this day inspected an original COM
mission of captain of rangers, in the whig army OF
the revolution, granted to Ezekiel Polk, by the
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"SoUTH CAROLINA.
"Ln purs uance Of the resolutions ofhe Pfoci'a-
cial Congress:--We do certify that Ezekiel Polk,
esq, is second captain in the regiment ofrangers
June, IT'S.
VIM WILLIAMSON,
J. HARRIS,
THOS. BEE,
CHARLES c. PINCKNEH,
M. BREWTON,
ARTHUR MIDDLETON,
THOMAS HEYWARD, Jr.,
VIM. H. DRAYTON,
JAMES PARSONS,
HENRY LAURENS,
RAWS LOWNDES,
THOMAS FURGISON,
BENZ. ELLIOT"
"This commission is now in the possession OF
the family and descendants OF the said Ezekiel
Polk, and bears all the evidences of authenticity.
The parchment on which it is printed and written
has an ancient appearance; the signatures to it
evince different handwriting, and no doubt is
left on our minds that it is genuine, and was exc
cuted at the period it bears date. We are inform
ed by members ofhis family, that the commission
was left by him at his death among his valuable
papers, and was preserved by his executors and
family.
s'Given under our hands, this 18th day ofJuly,
A. d. 1874
S. D. FRIERSON,
GEO. M. MARTIN,
GIDEON ]. PILLOW,
H. LANGTRY,
ROBERT MACK"
S. D. Frierson, esq, is lawyer of high stand
ing in Columbia, of whig politics; Geo. M. Mar
tin, clerk and master of the chancery court, is a
whig in politics, and so is Robert Mack, formerly
Judge Of the circuit court of Tennessee. General
Gideon j. Pillow, and H. Langtry, postmaster at
Columbia, are democrats of high standing. Con-
frmatory of the above, is the following voluntary
statement of the Rev. Solomon Reese, of Tus-
cumbia Alabama, copied from respectable print
Of Alabama:
From the Franklin (Ala.) Democrat
ANOTHER wHIG LIE NAILED.-The wings
are endeavoring to make some capitol for their par
ty by asserting that James K Folks grandfather
was tory. We hope the annexed certificate from
the Rev. Solomon Reese, Of this place, well known
as worthy minister of the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian church, will shut the mouths of those base
slanderers who have been propagating this false
hood To what an extremity must that party be
driven, when, to advance its candidate, it not on
ly SANDERS the living, but the dead!
TuscUMBIA, Alabama, July "a, 1874.
To the editors Of the Franklin Democrat:
GENTLEMEN: Whereas there is tale going
the rounds Of the whig papers, asserting that the
grandfather of the Hon. James X. Polk was tory;
now, this is to certify that was intimately ac-
quainted with Ezekiel Polk, the grandfather Of
James X. Polk, during the revolutionary war, and
that neither he nor any ofhls relations ever had a