To the Democratic State Central Com


ry1ittee of North Carolina.
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Having been selected as your agent in the pious
task of at once defending the renown of North
Carolina and vindicating the revolutionary fame
of one of her departed patriots, (he late Ezekiel
Polk,) I have devoted myself to it with pride and
pleasure only regretting the shortness of the time
that has been allowed me to perform it in, and my
want of ability to do it better


1t is not to be expected that the evidence of
events which took place nearly three-fourths of
century ago should be of such character as to
silence calumny altogether, stimulated into exis-
ence, as was, by the recklessness of party, and
encouraged, as it is in our day, by a spirit of
consciousness, which, while all profess to de.
precae, so few are found to resist under the temp
tations of political strife. feel confident, how
ever, that the proofs compiled under your direc-
ton, taken in connection with those heretofore