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Extracts from the Report Of the Hon. WM. II.


HAYWOOD, Jr., Senator in Congress-, from


the State of North Carolina, " To the Democrat


&c State Central Committee of North Carolina"


But suspicion itself must give way before the
accumulated testimony of those who lived in the
time Of our revolution and knew Ezekiel Polk
long and Intimately. They resided in MeckIen.
burg county, where TORIES were scarce--so
scarce during the war as to be universally known
and remembered after it. Amer lean soldiers
revolutionary wings themseves-they testify with
one voice that they knew all the Poks, and that
this charge is a calumny of modern growth
They say that it is " false" that it is sian.
der;'' that Ezekia Polk was not a TORY, but q
true, early, and constant friend to the American
cause, and a " sereaty-sir whig as all the Polk.
arere" 1t will be seen, when come 10 give theil
evidence IN their own words, that have not over
stated it.


There are one of two facts. however, resting
not upon frail memory of man alone-facts which
no prejudces of the present day can falsify, and
no parliaIity can have devised. but which are SO
inconsistent with this imputaton upon the memo.
ry of EZEKIEL POLK as to enttIe them tc
high consideration and before proceeding to sub.
mt the testimonials of the old soldiers in vndica
ton Of their slandered compatriot, have to say
a few words upon them.


II has been shown already that Ezekiel Polk
" took lead' in the declaration of independence
on May 10, l775. To achieve that independence
he is next with revolutionary miiiidyy com
mission in his pocket, even before the~ national
declaration of independence of 4th July, 1776.


To prove the fact here is copy Of the COM
mission taken from the ORIGINAL, and cores
ponding with the same document as published in
the American archives, viz a


SOUTH CAROLINA. ~


n pursuance ef the resola:sops Of Tie PspS
cial Congress, Yedo certify ihat Esekiel