The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-03
MR.. sTANLY's POSITION.

We give below few extracts from a recent
speech delivered by Mr.. Stanly, the guberna-
torial nominee Of the Republicans of Califor
MIA. They are interesting, coming as they do
from the mouth of former citizen of slave
State:
"Gentlemen, the principles which we have
at heart, and are now at issue, are great as were
those of the Revolution. AS early as l774.
Washington took the lead in annunciatins
them, and was followed by jefferson. and then
Madison. These men assembled in Convention
in Virginia, during that year, declared Slavery
to be an evil which should be abolished. and
blamed England for introducing among them
what they considered a curse. Opposition to
Slavery then was not confined to one section of
the country; the feeling pervaded the South
as well as the North and in IVA, in my own
town of Newbern, North Carolina, a Conven-
ton was held to take measures for remedving
the evil. Again in Pennsylvania, in the same
year of l774, there was Convention held at
Philadelphia, with Washington at its head.
which passed resolutions against the spread of
Slavery. What then? They commenced add.
ing territory. New York started, and was fol.
lowed by Connecticut; and all parties saw the
necessity of preventing the spread of Slavery
through the new Territories. About this time
Ordinance behind him; and on the 18th dav of
July, 1.-THE same day, too on which accepted
nomination to be your standard bearer,) the i'm.
mortal Ordinance of 1887 which declared that
Slavery should never be allowed to exist in anv
OF the new Territories of the Northwest. was
passed by Congress- and nobody dreamed of
the act being unconstitutional In 1890. when
Washington was President, Congress passed a
law giving effect to this Ordinance. thereby
acknowledging its constitutionalty and Con-
gress has no less than eight times passed laws
prohibiting Slavery in new Territories. Neither
Washington, Jefferson, nor Madison, thought
these acts unconstitutional"
: y" will say a few words upon another point
the recent decision of the United States Su
preme Court in the bred Scott case. I shall
not give my enemies chance of attacking me
by using harsh language towards that body. bnt
merely say think they are in error. Years
ago, IN North Carolina, Judge CASTOR decided
that every man born on the soil was a citizen.
no matter whether bond or free. | was brought
up and learned law at the feet of this GamaIiel
He was q strict Roman Catholic, and of revo.
lutionary sires. 1t was while thinking of this
good and great man that | denounced Know
Nothiugism few years since, because it would
prescribe Catholics. In my town, and in nv
fathers house, there were negroes who tough;
IN the Revolutionary, and received pensions
for the same. Negroes also voted in North Car
DINA up to 1885. If one Of these revolution.
airy negroes should go into another territory. and
be taken as slave, would he not have right
to sue for his freedom? Forbid it, eternal ius.
ticel
" The white men of the South are not infe
nor to those of the North, and yet why the great
difference as to enterprise Because in the
South labor is degraded. Let a man with
large family settle in the North, and he he.
comes prosperous, for labor is considered man.
ly; but let that man go to South Carolina. and
attempt to make his sons work. he finds at ev
cry point mechanical as well as other slave
labor, and his boys will shrink from the contact.
for 1t degrades them. In this State. notice the
difference. The men from the North work. and
make money; while you notice young men
from Virginia-sons of sires as brave as ever
drew sword in the Revolution-and ask one
of them why he does not go to work at some
business, and his reply is, Oh if could only
get an office i Benz amin Franklin. when
young, would never have brought lightning
from the heavens, had he been brouobi mn in
the South. Roger Sherman made shoes. and
Millard Fillmore gained his position bv labor
L now think of young man from the South,
who, few years ago, after considerable pains,
got an office from Government worth about
$1,000 year. he shortly came back. and said
1t did not suit him; it was too hard work. He
was given another, but after while threw that
up also. Mr.. Marcy gazed upon the young
man while, and, in his common-sense way,
said, What kind of an Office will suit YOU
What did you come here for?' BY the Eter-
nall cried the office-seeker, came here to
support the Constitution u He wanted an of
nee, but would not work in this family had
never worked Fellow citizens, 1 am fighting
for 1Fee LABOR, and want to see anybody who
opposite grounds"
There are some $4,000 miles of telegraph
lines In the world, of which $50 is submarine.
There are $4,000 miles of telegraph lines in