Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-08-22
Edward s.anly's Treason.

We alluded briefly in our last to the acceptance
by the Hon. Edward Stanly, formerly OF this State.
Of the black Republican nomination for GovernIr Of
California. We find in the last Raleigh Register,
extracted from the late budget of California news
the views of Mr. Stanly in his new position, togeth
er with his letter of acceptance. We are glad to
observe that the Register condemns his course; yet
it seems to US that the grief which that paper ex'
presses should give place to earnest and burning in
dignation for the traitor. The people of North Car
DINA will hear of Mr. Stanly's conduct not only
with regret but they will regard him ever hereafter
as false to the spot that gave him birh and an enc
nv to the Constitution and the Union OF the o!ates
There is no halfway ground for traitors Pubic
men must either maintain their integrity or, losing
it. they must reap the consequences at the hands OF
an injured and outraged people. An evil example
like this of Mr. Stanly, should be held up in all the
breadth and depth of its blackness and hideousness
50 that Others already in the tempters tolls, may
take the fatal plunge
As the Register has no doubt correctly intimated,
Mr.. Stanly is looking more to high federal honors
than to the Gubernatorial chair of California. He
hopes to be run by the black Republicans for Pres
dent or Vice President. Our neighbor says
"While we would see Mr. Stanly in Jericho be-
fore we would either vote for him or fail to vote
against him, if he should be the candidate of the
truculent party to which he has united himself, We
do not hesitate to say, that in comparison between
him and Fremont the latter, in point of character
and talent would kick the beam most esregousy.
Fremont was destitute Of talent information, expe.
rience, and character, and owed his nomination to
his supposed vast wealth (Mariposa,) and his con-
nection with Old Bullion. Mr.. Stanly has talent,
experience and character although in all candor We
saw that he is devoting them to most mischiev-
GUS purposes"
We agree with our neighbor as to the matter Of
.' Talent" but differ with him in his estimate of
man who "lends his name and influence to cause
which cannot triumph but at the expense of the
Union of these States no black Republican,
standing on the platform of that party and holding
its doctrines can possess any character worthy of
consideration or respect Mr.. Stanly has possessed
character, and he was once the object of much and
of sincere respect not only in his native State, but
throughout the country but he has forfeited every
thing which is respectable or valuable by his recent
step.
We know that Mr.. Stanly was among the fore
most in this State in 1850, in lauding the Union a:
the expense of the Constitution, in advising uncon-
dtona submission to the demands and aggressions
of Northern fanatics and in denouncing all who DIFF
fered with him as secessionsts and traitors yet we
thought he had abandoned political life, and that
the fires Of his ambition had gone out. Indeed, it
was rumored not long since that he about to
become a Minister of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. We were therefore surprised-greatly
surprised when saw it stated that he had thrown
himself into the embraces of the black Republicans
of California, and had accepted their nomination for
the Office of Governor.
1t is idle to attempt to excuse Mr.. Stanly, I'VE do
not now allude to our neghbor of the Register) by
saving that the black Republican party of California
is sounder and more conservative than that o. the
cid n-saveholding States 1t is the same party
achereuer it erists-the same in its hatred towards
the South the same in its geographical character,
and the same in its principles and the objects it has
in view 1t is known by its platform of 1856, in
which it IS emphatically declared one Of the fun
damental articles of its creed, that slavery is no,
only an evil, Mr. Stanly terms it, but as black
crime before God and man as the crime Of polyga.
my. That is black Republicanism in California as
we'll as in Massachusetts,. There is no difference
between the ism on the shores of the Pacific and
the shores of the Atlantic. 1t is rank poison-t is
death to the body politic whether administered by
Caliiornians or by Massachusetts, men.
The signs now are that the old national Demo.
cratic party will have to encounter in 1858 and in
1860, quite as formidable and dangerous opposition
as it met and vanquished in 1856. The elements
are mingling-the isms are all running together fol
another and it may be, final conflict We see il
in the fusion in Missouri between the so-called
Americans and the black Republicans, and in
California in this treason the part of Edward
Stanly But the old Democratic guard will be
ready. 1t may be stronger in the North in 1860
than it is now, or it may be weaker,-no man can
tell; but of one thing we are sure, and that is. The
heel of no 5luek Republican President piU eoer b
planted on the necks Of the people Of North Carroll
Edward Stanly may betray his native State
but he can never subdue it.
We copy at length the correspondence, showing
Mr.. Stanly's position:
LETTER BY REPUBLICAN SUBCOMMITTEE
TO MR.. STANLY.
SAN FRANCISCO, July Is, 1857.
Hon. EDWARD SrAsLY-Dear Sir The under
signed have been appointed by the State Central
Committee OF the hepuohcan party to invite you to
address the citizens of San Francisco, on Wednes.
day evening next, at Musical Hail. upon the political
questions involved in the approaching election.
In giving to you the standard of the Republican
party to bea, aloft upon the battle field this fall the
State Convention knew in whom it trusted. 1t did
not forget the votes you have recorded, nor you,
gallant defence of freedom upon many field Of de-
bate. 1t knew that, while of late you had not beer
an active political partisan, the opinions you had
avowed during all your former political life were
substantially those of the Republican party, as they
are Of free men throughout the nation.
Full of confidence in our candidates and of hope
in the triumph of the truth in their election we ex
tend to you this invitation, and beg your accept
ance of the same We are, very respectfully,