Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-09
GOV. stnuley Aenin.

By our special dispatches Wehave very
interesting report of an interview between
Mr.. Vincent Colyer lately driven out of
North Carolina by Provisional Governor
Stanley, and the President and Secretary
Stanton, in the course Of which the pro-
-oeedings Of Gov. Stanley were canvassed
freely. Mr.. COlyer went to North CarOli-
na to be Of service to the blacks and other
Union persons, and occupied the position
Of superintendent of the poor. In this
capacity he had some five thousand loyal
blacks under his care. Immediately after
Gov. stanley's arrival, when Mr.. Colyer
called upon him, the newly arrived digni-
tary told him that the law of North Caro-
lina forbade teaching slaves to read, and
he should therefore be obliged, if appealed
70, to enforce the law. Mr. Colyer had
better close the schools quietly and have
3 s IlSss Is 70 Tie schools he proceeded to the
second part of his prO-slavery work by
giving orders for the return Of fugitiVes
to their professed owners. A man named
Beray, a semi-secessiOnist, brought an or
der from the Governor for slave, and
succeeded in getting him during Mr. Col
yer's absence. Succeeding SO well in this
attempt, he came again, doubtless armed
with another order from the Governor, and
would have carried of girl who, with
others, was engaged directly in the service
Of the United States in making cartridges
for the soldiers, had she not fed and for
days kept out Of his sight
The effect Of this policy on the part Of
Governor Stanley was Just what would be
natural Rebels who hsd before kept quiz
ct and indoors, now talked open treason
and no longer felt the need of coneealment.
They had now a ruler who would serve
their purposes as well as the rebel Govern
or himself and the wholesome restraint
which they had felt under Gen. Burnside s
rule, gave way to feeling that they would
be gprotected in all their rights"
The soldiers themselves, who took a
common sense and not political view OF
these things, were Disguised with such len
ieney and trucking to the slave power, and
were fast becoming abolitionized, but Of
course they could do nothing so long as
the highest officer of the State was thus
subservient to the rebel preferences.
President Lincoln was much interested
in this review Of Gov. stanley's course,
and spoke warmly against any re-enslave-
ment Of any negroes who had come within
the lines Of the federal army. He said
Stanley had no instructions which would
warrant him in doing as he had done, and
promised that he would 50 inform him.
The country is certainly disgusted with
the humiliating spectacle which this Pro
visionAl Governor has made of himself
Because he was a North Carolinan, it was
not therefore necessary that he should be
q rampant slave hunter in the execution
Of State laws, and we hope to soon ehroni-
Gle his arrival from that State at some
Northern port. sle
Dispatches received since the above was
in type say that GOV. Stanley viii prOba-
bly, resign or be recalled within ten days.
Commodore Dupont reports that he cap
uFed stono, near Charleston, by means Of
information furnished by Robert smalb
the cOlored man who ran the steamer
Planter out from the latter place and put
it in the hands Of the bloCkading fleet
What lazy, shiftless, vagabOnd, heather
set these blacks are, to be sure Why
didn't CON- Dupont issue an "Order No.
3" like Gen. Halleck, and SO 90 entirely by
guess work against the enemy; or keen
Small between the pickets Of two armies
until he was shot, like Gen. stOneman D
That's the eOnciiiatOry policy, you know