Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-08-26
Edward Stanly's Treason.

AUTHORIZED UNITED STATES.
Edward stanly's Treason. II n
= We alluded briefly in last to the acceptance
by the Hon. Edward Stany, formerly of this State,
of the black Republican nomination for Governor of
California We find in the last Raleigh Register,
extracted from the late budget Of California news,
the views of Mr.. Stanly in his 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
disnation for the traitor. The people of North Car
oliua 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 birth, and
my to the Constituton-and the Union Of the States.
There is no half way ground for traitors>/ Public
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.. Stany, should be held up in all the
breadth and depth of its blackness and hideousness,
so that Others already in the tempter's tolls, may
be restrained and arrested before, like him, they
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 Presi
dent or Vice President. Our neighbor says
"While we would see Mr. Stany 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,
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 e5regiously.
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
say that he is devoting them now to most mischiev-
Gus purposes"
We agree with our neghbor as to the matter Of
.s.alent" but differ with him in his estimate of
character" No traitor to his native land-no
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 tine country but he has forfeited every
thing which is respectable 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-
ditional submission to the demands and aggressons
of Northern fanatics, and in denouncing all who diff
fered with him as secessionsts and traitors; yet
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 was about to
become Minister of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. We were therefore surprised greatly
SURPRISED when we 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, 1--WE do
not now alude to neighbor of the Register) by
saying that the black Republican party of California
is sounder and more conservative than that o: the
old non-slaveholding States. 1t is the same party
soherecer 1t erists-the in its hatred towards
the South, the same in its geographical character,
and the in its principles and the objects it has
in view. 1t is known by its platform of 1856, in
which it Is emphatcay declared, one of the fun
damenta Articles of its creed that slavery is not
only an evil, as Mr.. Stanly terms it, but as black a
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 the shores of the Pacific and on
the shores of the Atlantic 1t is rank poison-it is
death to the body polite, whether administered by
Caornians 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 formidable and dangerous opposition
as it met and vanqushed in 1866. The elements
are mingling-the isms are all running together for
another and it may be, a final conflict We see it
IN the fusion in Missouri between the so-called
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Sailorn'a in this treason on the part of Edward
s'sny' But the old Democratic guard will be
'saoy' 1t may be stronger in the North in 1860