North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-17
MR.. sTANLY,s LETTER.

Mr.. Stanly'S late Ieuer 10 cliZenS OF NeWoeIu, III
reply an invitation to public dinner, is in perfect
keeping with his past political conduct.
We do not propose to review discuss this letter
at length that has been done already, with much
force and point, by friends of the Republican and
Patriot; but there is one passage in it to which
ask leave to call the attention of readers. 1t is
follows:
81 sincerely believe that any candidate, an avowed
advocate of secession dsunion who would without
equivocation proclaim his wish to dissolve Union,
would be driven into retirement amidst the excavations
of our people believe there is people under
Heaven, in whose hearts the love of Republican in
sttutions, secured by timehonored constitution,
exists with stronger steadier feeling than in the
hearts Of the people of North Carolina. God grant
this may continue to the last syllable of recorded
time!
Now, we take occasion to endorse every word of
the above and declare that these the very
timents held by COL Run and his friends in the late
campaign; and yet Mr.. Stanly and his minions, we'll
knowing that they were deceiving the people. pro-
duced during that campaign, in the minds of many
of the voters the impression that, because COL Ruff
fin held the abstract right of secession in the last
resort, he was Disunionist and that his election
would be promotive of dissolution and civil war |!
Then he declared that the doctrines of his opponent
were Disunion doctrines nOl0 he declares that any
candidate who would proclaim his wish to dissolve
the Union, would be driven into retirement amid
the excavations of our people" He and his friends
labored to convince the people that Col. Rufin was
in favor of dissolving the Union, and this was the
main of his success; but now that the contest
is over, and capital of this sort is wanted,
for at least two years, he comes forward with the
opinion that such man as he described Col. Ruttin
to be, would be driven without hearing from the
field, and consigned to retirement amid popular exc
craions. But, we repeat, we are not surprised at
this in Mr.. Stanly. 1t is only specimen out of
many of the rank and deliberate political dishonesty
which has uniformly characterized his conduct.
Mr.. Stanly speaks with contempt of that IS indie
scribable thing, State Rights man." sit possible
that language like this, from of North Carolina,
can be approved and commended Yes, it is posi-
be-Mr. Stanly's letter has been copied into nearly
all the Wing organs, and the language of praise has
been almost exhausted upon it! According to this
view of the matter, North Carolina is nothing COM
pared the Federal Government-herp position is that
Of Countryside possesses rights as State. or
if she does, they neither be found descrb-
3D.. Could humiliation before Federal power 60 fur
her than that! Is there depth of Consolidation
below this pointl This, then, is modern Whiggery.
Mr.. Sanly declares it is, and the Wing leaders, with
few honorable exceptions, endorse the declaration
Mr.. Stanly owes his reelection to misrepresenta-
ion, SANDER, and the grossest political dishonesty
His triumph was triumph of Freesoil sentiments
in the midst of slaveholding people and that peo
pie, laboriDg for the time under strange infauation,
nave endorsed at the polls man whose conduct has
been and is highly calculated to impair Southern
rights and endanger the existence of the Union. In
The language of the Wilmington Commercial, Wing
paper, IS we envy man his elevation, who attains
it by misrepresentation spread abroad, that the
advocates of the doctrine of secession are hostile to
The compromise and enemies to the Union. That
Mr.. Stany has done this infer from the
Of his eter-he has, therefore, succeeded by deceiu
ing the people, tn The character Of naalapert politician
ind dem4gogue instead of aspiring the high posi-
lion of candor and honesty. which his personal and
political friends had right to expect, from his stand
ing as a man and his character as Whig.''