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A NEGRO PATRIOT.
Along with the emigrants from North Carolina who first settled Wilkes County, there came a man named Aycock. He brought with him a mulatto boy named Austin. This boy passed as Aycock\'s slave; but when the conflict between the Liberty Boys and the Tories in that part of the country became desperate,—when the patriots were fighting for their lives as well as for the liberties of their country,—Aycock\'s neighbors called on him to do his part. According to all accounts, Aycock was not much of a warrior. His sympath............
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