Polk Protection,
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1t is now settled and admitted that Ezekiel
Polk, grandfather OF James h. Polk, did take a
Protection under CornwalIis at the time the
BRUSH Army overran North Carolina during the
Revolution. What was British Protection
MIR. Polk's apologies say II was Protection from
Torv rengeanee and that Polk took 1t TO preserve
his property from confscation. But if Polk still
adhered to the American cause, we do not see
how he could ask or CORVALLIS could give him
any special Protection-any other Protection than
sach as every citizen in temporarily subingated
district receives of course from a commander in
civilized warfare. If Polk had been with The
gslIan, little band which still rallied around the
standards of Marion and Sumter, awaiting in
w;Ids and Businesses the arrival OF reinforcements
from the North to reestablish the Wing ascend
ancy. there would have been no chance for or
thought of obtsining Protection from Corn
wallis.


But wil.t was Protection Did any man
ever hear OF the British commanders in our Rev
olutionary struggle granting Protection to
nnv but such as renounced the Wing cause
We never did-Thc Louisville Journal copies
from Steedmans History of American War the
following oath which was required 10 oe taken
Ly all who applied for British Protection, VIZ


IfRzeke Polk of the State OF North Cardinal hereby
ma Ike oath on the fIoy Ev-ngeSts OF Almighty God that
vii adhere T. the of lawful sovereign his Msjsy
George the H. inr u the nted Kingdom Of Great Bts
and Ireland acknowledging that nc the true ard ihSu
welt and throwing up commission the rebel army and


nd protection cOun,eDance To the rebels no
AIMS sganst their a iJ sOrefeign. but VIII faithfully
fulfil m all thugs the duty which good subject owe 0
hi. a>ty George the Ill Aforesaid King. &c and whch
the people these Co.nls u said George the lii.
treir lawful sovereign. help Cod.


THIS a rather mare explicit and plain. spoken
,hen any thing we now get on the subject OF
Protection from Japes X. bur not more 50 than
his fumnaiions against Protection always up 10
the present year.


Need we say again that we do moi at all op
pose Mr. Polk on account of what his grandfather
did We seek but to expose the impudcnce and
faschood of the claim Sc; up by his champions
in his biography and elsewhere Of Revolutionary
merit in his ancestry. That is cheat, and
shall be exposed