Carolina Watchman

              f te1di of the watchman qvo ilollnrs in tt.lvance.nnd two dollars and fifty cents ., the end of th year \„ sub-nri ■ ... received for a less time toan one year utiii-ss paid for in advance xo subscri n discontinued bat at the option of the j ; liton until all arrearages are paid terms of advkrtising i ne dollar per square for the first insertion and twenty •'.,• rents for each continuance court notices and court orders will be charged 2 per , nt higher than the above rates a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those who advertise by the year ( all a ivcrtisemcnts will be continued until forbid anu iu"i,',l for accordingly unless ordered fora certain num . of times i • letters addressed to the editors must come post ■ ensure attention the annexation from the richmond whig to as land jobbers pond 4 scrip holders these gentlemen are becoming restless at the verv blue prospect before ihem of •• immediate annexation and of realiz ing great fortunes out ofthe public trea sury by selling at par what they have on lv t few cents in the dollar for and have projected a new move it is disclosed in the alabama monitor and we invite at tention to the scheme and to thc very ju dicious commentary ofthe monitor upon it — a commentary every word of which we endorse it is idle to imagine that congress will authorize the levying of troops in the tinted states to repel the mexican invasion ; authorized it would be a declaration of war against mexico ; unauthorized it would be infraction of law and treaties punishable by imprisonment there was never a more striking con firmation of the adage hat greediness : bursts the bag than in the case of the ! texas hind and scrip jobbers they were \ the true fathers ofthe late infamous trea . iv they were the men who would have : ' li.-td the united states turn hind pirates ' ind bully and wrong mexico in order that * they might reap a golden harvest of ill ' gotten wealth ; they were the instruments \ of cajoling the simpleton tyler and by i ■ dazzling his imagination with the hope of a second term through its popularity to ' tempi him to adopt and father their bant ! ling of immediate annexation !" must righteously have they been rewar ! tied for their selfish heartless grasping ! lacbinations ! the treaty has been kick _ io the dogs annexation is indefinitely 1 i ostponed ; they have created such an ex ' lent and intensity of honest prejudice a 1 gainst the texas scheme that annexation ' ' on any terms has become remote if not ' impossible but this is not all if annexed they may \ depend upon it that their golden dreams of sudden and princely fortunes will van i ish into thin air ! col benton's idea of sealing will unquestionably be adopted ' and rigorously applied and land titles will ' be severely criticized ! so lhat we real ly think the texas gentlemen had best keep quiel — polk if elected cannot help 1 ihem ! the people will be heard in this matter a*,ki they will not permit their mo ney to be lavished to make the fortunes ' of texas speculators ' hut to the new scheme wequotefrom ' the augusta chronicle : j * the trias speculators — a nan more . tin following article from the tusca 1 loosa ala monitor exposing the latest j invention ofthe speculators in texas lands ; and scrip should certainly open the eyes t ofthe reflecting people of this country to 1 tin true character ofthe designs of these [ desperate men — men who would not lies t itate to sacrifice the lives peace and trea sure of the american people to enrich j , themselves •' texas organization — a circular un i der date of 5th ultimo has been issucda 1 washington city requesting the formation 1 of committees in different parts of the country for the aid of texas in view of hostilities with mexico flic circular ar gues that the treaty of 1819 ceding tex as to spain is void that the railed states ', arebound by the treaty of 1803 with france : , to extend protection to till the inhabitants of tlu territory then acquired ; that texas , being part of such territory is entitled to come into the union : and thai to organ - ize a military force within the u states for her protection does not violate neu * trality c the plan of operations suggested by the ' circular is extensive reaching * every city town village and neighborhood iti the l nited states through state and sub-com mittees for the better understanding of it we extract the closing part of the cir cular as follows : that these committees shall corres , pond with each other and especially with iiu1 central committee at washington and . contribute till that they may lawfully do towards repelling the mexican invasion of - texas it is proposed — " 1st to enrol the names of those who - are willing to volunteer for the defence of texas if authorixed in congress to tlo so ' and also to ascertain the names of those who in the absence of such authority will emigrate for that purpose and the resour ces at their command which they will de vote to that object 2d to ascertain what contributions or loans of money pro \ isions arms cloth ng or any ofthe munitions of war can obtained 3d to collect funds to be disbursed by the central committee in defraying in cidental expenses and in aid of texas 4th to obtain subscribers to a paper tobe printed at washington semi-vveek '.'• until the first of november at fifty cis pw copy to be commenced as soon as funds to defray the expenses are obtained and l"1 profits tn be applied in aid of texas " rhe purpose is to furnish a cheap text k in pamphlet form containing a map 5 mexico and texas and embodying the acts and arguments in favor of annexa tion " 5th to promote by all legal and pro per means thc protection of texas and ber annexation to the united states and especialiy by addressing the public intel : v™"^^'^^™"^p l_____________i : tiie carolinr waf chman j .... — bruner & james ) > " klt.v a nikcrr tjpox alt your editors <§- proprietors \ is safe « ' f ( new series kui._rs do this .__■**_> liberty < gen'l harrison { number 23 of volume i salisbury n c october 5 1844 ligence through the public press and in public speeches " should you concur in fhese views we entreat you to take immediate steps to or ganize an efiicient committee and to urge upon them an immediate and energetic action all communications intended for the central committee may be addressed to the hon w w payne at washington city this circular is signed " many friends j of texas the idea that congress will authorize military bands to be formed in the united states for the avowed purpose of taking part in the war between mexico and tex as is perfectly ridiculous there is no thing more to justify it now than in 1835 when president jackson ordered all such individuals to be arrested and punished for a violation of law these " friends of texas seek to do that in the face of authority for which aaron burr was char ged on suspicion merely — the employment df troops in a foreign country if the mere intent to invade mexico in the event ofa war between the united states and spain in 180.3-g constituted a misdemeanor on die part of burr punishable by law we see no reason why the same penalty should lot be incurred by the actors in this ex pedition who proclaim that their object ls to war against mexico a country with which we are at peace under solemn trea ly stipulations the fact that mr tyler instead of ge neral jackson is president may let it pass j with impunity we arc inclined to ihink that if the old il-ro were in the white house friend as he is to annexation he would have the whole texas squad put ander bonds for good behavior we sup i pose mr tyler would not move an inch fjxcepl to approve if the recruiting oiii ' ers of texas or any other persons were | to beat up for volunteers with the flag of ihe lone star moving under his eyes — he is so infatuated on lhe subject that the central committee of washington know j lhat no obstruction will proceed from that quarter we see through the whole movement | it is the dying effort ofthe texas faction . o excite the public miud and to make ca ital for mr polk to this end the coun iy is to be flooded with tracts speeches iters nnd all sorts of publications in or iel to raise wind sufficient to blow mr payne's tennessee " toad to the size of tn ox but like the frog in the fable he fhing will burst aud ihere will be an iid of it till way to answer them i never have our opponents bragged louder md higher than uf late and why .' simply tecause they were not defeated in maine a tate not claimed bv tlie whigs or only by a ' ow and because silas wright is their candi late for governor in new vork this shows with what desperate energy they clutch at straws let no whig be fur out moment dis j heartened or discomposed by the confident tone ! 1 nv polk and texas man may speak in say to him in 1 840 your party claimed 22 slates and got 7 fhcy claimed 261 electoral votes and they got io rhey claimed pennsylvania and they lost it by " 359 maj'y fhcy claimed maine and they lost it by 411 do rhey claimed delaware and they lost it by 1,039 do rhey claimed michigan and they lost it by 1,802 do rhey claimed new jersey and they lost it by 2,317 do rhey claimed mississippi and they l.ist it by 2,5.13 do riie^claiined louisiana and they lost it by * 3,080 do rhey claimed maryland and they losl it by 4,7g(j do they claimed georgia and they lost it by " 8,331 do rhey claimed tennessee and they lust it by 12,102 do rhey claimed north carolina and they lost it by 12,594 do rhey claimed new york and thev lost it by 13,290 do they claimed indiana and they lost it by 13,098 do they claimed ohio and thev lost it by 23,375 do they claimed kentucky and they inst it by 25,873 do if this dues not suffice say to him your party claimed virginia iu 1844 and they lost it : they claimed maryland in 1 14 and they lost it : they claimed louisiana in 1844 and they lost it : they claimed ohio in 1844 and they lost it ; they claimed north carolina in 1844 and they lost it : they claimed georgia in 1844 and they lost it : they claimed indiana in 1844 and they lost it frank if not politic — the new york evening posl throws off all disguise about the tariff on thursday evening it had 1 this paragraph : '* "\\ hen the democracy re-assumes lhe reigns of power the knell of the bank and ofthe fatal tariff of 1842 is sounded — when the obsequies of ihese monsters arc for the inst time and forever performed the pies ion of texas will become one of great interest and importance the tariff of 42 to be killed and bu ried as a monster ! and then texas to conic up ! the mechanics mechanics ought all to bo whigs the mea : sures and policy of the whigs will secure to i them what they most want steadiness of em ployment and good wages the shoemaker the tailor the hatter the tinner the cutler the currier c may ail be brought by degrees to the lowest stage of depression and most o them forced ultimately to seek employment in agriculture or some other pursuit if the fabrics of tlieir labor unprotected at home are sub '-, jectcd to competition with foreign fabrics wliich are protected at home we cannot belter illus trate the benefit derived from proper protection by the mechanic than by relating an anecdote which we had recently from undoubted autho rity : in a certain manufactory of wall papers in ■ one of our large cities prior to 1812 there were many journeymen employed who were all dem ocrats when the tariff was reduced to its lowest point the employers were forced to stop business and the men were turned out of em ployment soon after the passage of the pres ent tariff however the establishment was again put in operation ,* and work was again given to the journeymen every thing went on we'll the employers sold their papers at fair prices aud the journeymen found steady employment and good wages after some time just preceding an election the chief partner in the concern one day en tered the establishment and found the workmen assembled in a sort of deliberative conclave ; and the foreman addressed him in substance as [ follows : we have just been deliberating as i to the vote ve should give at the approaching election and we have determined that it is our duty as well to ourselves as the country to vote the \\ hig ticket formerly we were all dem ocrats and always voted on the democratic side but we saw that in 1342 there was a general depression of mechanical and all other pursuits we were thrown out of employment and you compelled to stop business ; and we now see that the country is fast recovering its ■ prosperity you have sale for your fabrics and we steady employment and we further see that if you were to fail or reduce our wages j there are other establishments in the country where wc can find work whereas when you ; stopped business there was no where for us to ; seek employment for other manufacturers had i shared your fate we cannot deny that this happy change for the country and for us has j been produced by the whig tariff and being : thus convinced of thc superiority of whig over i democratic measures for the good ot us all we have determined to be whigs henceforth and vote ilie whig ticket tiie employer who was a good whig of course expressed his gratification at their wise conclusion the men remained faithful to their determination and helped to achieve a glorious whig victory at thc election this anecdote is of general application — xo class of people arc more to be benefitted by a wise system of protection of domestic in dustrythan mechanics and none go more di rectly in opposition to tlieir true interests than , do they when supporting young hickory dallas i__c with all their disorganizing and fanatical allies — lilchmond compiler the polk game badly played on sat urday two men drove into poughkeepsie from thc east nnd announced that thoy were farmers from the country who wauled to bet 2,000 on the election of polk and dallas the news ran round the town and soon a whig came forward who happened to have 82,000 by him and i was very willing to waive his scruples ; about betting to accommodate these anx \ ious gentlemen but in bringing the , braggers to close action.it was found that though they wanted to bet they would ra ther not risk so much as 82,000 the whig would not let ihem off but they fell to one thousand live hundred and at last said they would only bet one hundred dol \ lars ! the whig nailed them on this and , got the money put up the braggers hung round the town a couple of hours evi dently ill at case and finally went to their whig customer and offered him five dol lars to let them toko back their money he refused telling them that he was quite in earnest throughout and if they were not they should have done their bragging somewhere else than in poughkeepsie — this is a sample of a good many such scenes which have taken place the past week the polk party hereabouts upon the nomination of wright set up a con certed shout that new yorli was safe for polk ! it will cost them something before they are done with it — n y tribune " handy jim of tennessee nothing so much enlivens a political campaign as a good song especially when a sufficiency of truth is embodied in the poetry to make us feel its force w c therelore make no apology for a third time gracing our columns with the following sublime lyrical effusion which is extract ed from that meritorious national work the " pork and dallas songster mark — lhe poetry is of the highest epic order extolling the heroic deeds of that valiant warrior james k polk : " in the south he drew both pen urui sword ; and freedom marked by deetl and word ; the red coats and red skins did flee from handy jim of tennessee ! ( when red 111 mi ravaged through the south his \, lie was tn tiie rifle's mouth ; the friend of brave old hick-o-ry stood handy jim of tennessee ! without any desire to detract in the least from hisoiherperformances we must think that the last act of " handy jim mentioned above is the most famous of them all to wit : his " standing thc friend of brave old hick-o-ry that was an act of astonishing bravery and old hick-o-ree has certified to that effect — greensboro , palrwt *' from the baltimore clipper a startling fact we have it from an indisputable source that an agent of an english iron manufacturing es , tahlishmcnt stated a few days since to a deal er in hardware of this city that he had receiv ed positive instructions from his principal in england to use all the means in his power to procure the repeal of the american tariff — the agent resides in xew york and will com ply with the instructions which he has received ; so here is proof positive of english interference with our domestic concerns british gold will be lavishly spent to influence affairs in this country ; and british agents will roam through our land to cheat atid deceive our people into the support of british measures are they to be thus imposed upon or corrupted ? we do not believe it the influence of british gohl may be partially felt it is true in the purchase of a few venal presses which are a disgrace to the country ; but the mass ofthe american peo ple will spurn this foreign attempt on the purity of our government and cling with more tena city to the measure which england is so desir ous to destroy the knowledge that british agents are at work under instructions from their employers to procure the repeal of the tariff will be sufficient to stimulate thc american peo ple to its support no congress will dare to unite with england in the destruction of our manufactures no patriot wouid sanction so unholy an union ; and no man other than a traitor to his country would sustain it north carolina much as we have always loved and venerated our dear old native state yet we confess we look upon her now with a fondness and pride we never felt before instead of being the butt of jest and ridi cule — instead of being scolfed at and de rided as the vulgar witling was once wont to do we hear from every quarter the voice of adulation and praise instead of being jeered at as the " rip van win kle of the south she is hailed as the glo rious the good old north state instead of being the land of " lair pitch and tur pentine she is proclaimed abroad the safest the most prompt and one of the most active states in the union — sending abroad b means of her rivers rail roads and turnpikes her thousands of the rich est and choicest staples of the land so long as we were bound to thc sluggish car of loco focoism we were dragging out a miserable existence " unknowing and unknown but when the light of truth began to beam in upon the minds of thc j people and she began to arouse — to think and act for herself a mighty revolution ensued — thc facilities to her trade were opened — the energies of her people were put in action — and like the lion when he bestirs himself and shakes off the dew drops lrom his mane and proclaims him . self king ofthe forest so she soon found her self in the front rank with the proud est of the sister states of the confederacy and now wherever a son ofthe good old north is found he is proud to proclaim himself a son of north carolina — coming from the land of tbe gaston's the stan ly's and the yaxc-v's then say we in the fullness of our hearts : " hurriih ! hurrah the old north state forever rale itch register news from the oregon emigrants five men arrived at independence mis souri in the beginningof this month bring ing intelligence from the emigrants who left last spring for oregon these men are direct from fort laramie distant a i bout eight hundred miles from indepen dence they state that the last of the emigrants left fort laramie on the sd of august and expected to reach their place of destination about the 1st of oc tober the emigrants had plenty of ba con but were badly off for hour and bread stulfs and had nothing like a supply to earry them through although there was plenty of flour at the fort the price being forty dollars per barrel and only to be had for cash they could not procure it sugar and coffee was also quite scarce with them their teams were jaded and weak aud their cattle generally in bad condition it rained incessantly during the first two months of their journey so that all the watercourses were unusually high they complained greatly of the hardships and fatigues ofthe trip but en joyed good health and had lost only one man by death they had divided and formed themselves into several parties owing to dissensions which had taken place in the company it was thought that they would reach buffalo in five or six days after leavingfort laramie where they hoped to lay in a sufficient supply of provisions to subsist them lill they arriv ed at their destination fears were en tertained of their being harrassed by the sioux indians whose chief had despatch ed a large war party for the purpose of attacking them but the only danger they apprehended in the event of such an as sault was the loss of cattle speak pleasantly — don't speakso cross to that boy what if he is an apprentice he has feelings as well as you tell him pleasantly to do lhat job and he will go about it immediately and do it as soon and as well as he can if you look cross and snap at him he will not care how much time he takes and how bunglingly the work is done this may be wrong in the boy — but it is human nature \ ou ; can coax but you cannot drive — pori i land tribune whence comes opposition to the profcc , tire policy ? — it comes primarily from for • eign agents of british houses in n york . and other cities and from foreign books written expressly to deceive us the for eign merchants in new york alone have a vast influence by control ling by their ad vertising patronage many ofthe commer cial newspapers of that city ; and these operate again upon those oi he country which do not share in this patronage — tlie new york journal of commerce the evening post the aurora the plebian the sun and others always advocate free trade and do till they can against protec ' tion to american industry they have succeeded in arraying a large portion of the south against protection by telling them that the planters could buy their manufactures much cheaper if they could gel them in england free of duty thus we have a combination against northern ■ labor by british merchants aud southern planters the latter wishing a free exchange ofthe pro-ducts of their unpaid slave la bor for the almost unpaid labor of the pea ' santry and artizans of europe and the former the british merchants designing to monopolize all the trade in this ex change of slave and pauper labor while the free labor of the country is left unpro tected to sink down to the same level kcnebec journal late from mexico by the arrival at savannah ofa vessel in eight days from havana files of the diario de la habana and diario de la marina have been received which con ■ tain later intelligence from mexico than has before reached us the marina of lhe 7ih says " by the : arrival at this port yesterday of the brit ish mail steamer taviot in four days from ' '■ yera cruz we have the following an ; ' nouncement : an express arrived at this ■ i city on wednesday morning from monte ' | rev with official despatches for the su ! ! preme government relating to a desire ; \ manifested by president houston for a ! suspension of hostilities already commen ced by the mexican army on the other side of the rio bravo the government \ not having yet published these important communications we are of course ignor ant ofthe terms i texas thc natchitoches chronicle of the 7th inst confirms the ren n't that houston has arrived at flu scene of thc recent disor ■ ders in eastern texas he had failed out the militia of sabine and st au gustine counties and had succeeded i.i capturing walter morman the leader of the " regulators this individual was immediately put on trial un several indict ments for treason and murder the re port thai a pitched battle had taken place , between the rival factious is also confirm ed sixty or eighty persons are said to have been killed the chronicle states i that such has been the turbulent and vio i lent conduct of these lawless bands for a t year or two that society on the frontier | was completely disorganized and the ad ' joining parishes of louisiana kept also in ; a state of alarm among the outrages committed it is reported that the " regu lators pursued one of their victims into the parish of de solo and murdered him within a few miles of mansfield i ] iron — some idea of the extent of the - iron manufactories of pittsburg may be < derived from it knowledge ofthe fad thai ! upwards of one hundred and forty tons pig i metal is melted here daily and converted i into all the varieties of wrought and cast ! iron the stock is supplied by the vari : ous furnaces on the alleghany mononga hela juninta conemaugh rivers and the states of ohio kentucky tennessee all ' of which forward to pittsburg as their main market for the sale of metal political discuss an — we learn from the *' fayetteville ( bserver thai messrs waddell and reid the opposing candi dates for elector iu the sixth district had a meeting in that place on the 3d instant j mr w is said to have given a plain and lucid statement of the measun s of the whig party while mr l seemed to make the whole burden of his song the impor tance of the annexation oi texas the discussion was conducted with propriety aud good feeling on both sides monument lo noah webster — tin last rest inn place of webster at new haven conn is ! now marked by an imposing monument as symmetrical as his character and as enduring as his fame it consists ofa lofty shafl of dark quincv irranitc resting on a massy block ol the material no inscription graces the column except webster chisselled in material fitted i to endure the decay of coming centuries this 1 monument was prepared in boston at an expense ' of about four hundred dollars noaks messenger says the merchants worked for the whig cause in 1840 be i cause thev were distressed bankrupt and out of business but won't work for it now because they have a good trade and are doing well ! perhaps there are some mer chants as short-sighted and unpatriotic as this but we don't know them the v hig merchants of our acquaintance will work ', as hard to preserve the prosperity of the : country as they did to restore it — tribune i to the people of fellow-citizens the whig central com mittee fee it their duty to call your attention to a very remarkable document which appeared in the semi-weekly globe of september the 2d it hears the form of a report or address to the '« democratic state centra committee of north carolina and is ushered to the no tice of he public y that body in a prefatory statement containing a brief account of the birth and services of jambs k polk an a lofty eulogy upon the distinguished reputation and talents of tbe hon w_jli__a h h-.v wood the author of the report with special reference to his qualities as a ** truth fid /.-./ iitiit and accurate investigator of facts and cvi l.'.'icc tiiis gentleman whilst le seems to concur in tiie applause he wed upon mr ik interposes a modest disclaitrier of the particu lar merits imputed to himself and addresses him self to the performance of what he calls bis pi ous .';,,',,'* vrith an ingenuity and special plead ing so characteristic of one v he has a profes sional retainer us proves that he did not consid er himself employed l.y the committee so much to ascertain the truth as t support a cause to which none probably ia more aware than bim e_t that truth is i,it always tin best friend both be and iiu committee affect to he mov ed with horror ami indignation ut what they con sider a charge of toryism wantonly brought forward by the whigsagainst ezekiel polk the grand-father of ;:,.■ democratic candidate for the presidency now these gentlemen sure ly know and certainly c uld not have forgotten that the whigs did not first move iu ihis matter they knew attd must have remembered that the first allusions male to lhe political charac ter of ezekiel polk came from themselves — that gen saunders represented james k polk as thc descendant ofa signor ofthe meek lenburg declaration of independence aud that by him and hy the democratic press support was claimed for him on account ofthe revolu tionary services of his ancestors it was in reply to these statements atid in refutation of these claims that the whigs felt themselves both justified and bound to bring the truth iu relation to this matter before the public and wc ask you fellow-citizens if in tbis tbey were not right .' if a descent from a signer of tlie mecklenburg declaration constitutes a claim upon the american public then the want of such descent nullifies that claim and if mr polk may justly demand consideration and confidence because his ancestor faithfully served his coun try during the war of tiie revolution then to shew that his ancestor took part with tlie cue mies of his country nr in a question between his property and that country preferred the for mer to the latter — that lie was either a tory or an indifferent supporter of tiie revolution while he bore a commission in lhe army em bodied f.r iis supp.nl — surely to shew tbese or either of these is not only a fair but a just and conclusive answer to this demand tiiis the whigs have undertaken to do they did not wantonly bring forward tlie subject of ezekiel polk's character that character was first made nn issue before the american public by the sup porters of james iv pi ik and now when they find their pretensions disproved and feel that thev have put forward a topic before the people wliich recoils upon themselves it is with a very poor grace they attempt t escape the just con sequences of their own mistake by canting about a calumnious charge the iflspring of the de mon spiril of party li is with a xry poor grace indeed when we remember that these very men four years ago racked their inven tions for every false anl calumnious charge by which they hoped t.i destroy the peace and bin tlie character of the virtuous am patriotic 11 i.i:.m : am when now the demon spirit i lit ir party"rests not day nor night in ma lignant efforts to blacken tin bright and glori ous reputation of the greal leader of the whig party and who if their power were equal to their venom would forever blot the name of clay from the bright roil of american worthies in which it shines with a lustre second only to that of w as:ii:vi;tii for such a partv to com plain of falsehood and calumny is an insult to the public intelligence by false professions and calumnious charges they first obtained power by these they maintained themselves in it and on tbese alone do thev now rely i.-i the attempt to tecover what the indignation of thc people wrested from them in 1840 de prived of tbese they would stand in tho present contest unarme ! and impotent the writer ofthe report an i the committee who published it seem to consider the toryism of ezekiel poll ns a charge upon north caro lina and tin polk family surely these gentle men cannot believe w hat iheir zeal has induced them to intimate god forbid thai the charac ter of north carolina or of the l'i family should in identified with ezekiel polk or james !{. polk either north carolina during the revolution had like other states amongst a glorious hand of iii__s some unworthy son but this d itracl : nof from her excellence even iiu sun himself has sp ts hut they dim not his brightness th polk family waa a noble band e patriotic whigs and the names ot thomas polk the elder tli masterspirit ofthe mecklenburg movement and ofhis sons thom as and w'uliam nnd charles ail of whom fought gallantly for their country — one falling in battle and another bearing to his grave more than ou glorious scar i evidence at once of his devotion and his valour — these names shed a glory upon the family which cannot be ob scured by the misdeeds of their collateral rela tive ezekiel polk bear in miud then fi how-citizens tbat the matter in question involves the character neither of north carolina nor of the polk family it is merely tm inquiry into the revolutionary con duct of ezekiel polk and that inquiry institu ted not at tlie instance of the whig party hut rendered necessary by two assertions put for ward by the democratic party viz tbat james k polk was a descendant of a signer of tho mecklenburg declaration : secondly tbat bu grand-father was a distinguished whig of the revolution the first assertion wasdenied y the whigs has it been supported so far from it it is now admitted in the very address which we are noticing that there were no sign ers of that declaration was he one of the delegates by whom the declaration was made ' [( is evident that he was not in the bd.ingof 1775 thomas polk the elder tben colonel ol mecklenburg county issued a dertouach captain's company in the county to elect two persons as delegates at that t.me ezekiel polk was not a ciuzen ol north carolina mo then resided in south carolina from which he 7 to mecklenburg in 177 see state t ol john smith and thomas gribble pub lished aud referred to in mr haywood di ■- s it is not to be believed that any <- p