Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-12

The wheeling Press in commenting up
on the course Of Provisional Governor
Stanley, says;
"Now, we take L that any violation Of
law, the wholesale djsregard Of local insi-
tutions in such States as North CAROLINA,
which has manifested so much lingering |
loyalty, is wholly wrong, and must tend /
greatly 10 place the President in dilem- /
ma in endeayoring to restore such States 4
IalI and the South 10 their once noble and 10y /
al condition
il, This is fair sample Of the reasoning of
those who now uphold Gov, Stanley in his
suppressing The oOlored schools, only few
come out quite 50 bluntly, and we may
say, blunderingly, for the Inconsistency Of
their position is shown thereby to be ex-
ceedingly apparent The local insti-
tudOns are not to be violated or disregard
ed in the rebel States So this is to be a
war in which we respect and obey all the
laws which the States in rebellion have
chosen to make for themselves, and il may
be for the guidance Of that very rebellion.
Hence the whole power Of the army must
be brought, IL necessary, to enforce the
local laws, for some laws and regulations
must be had, and if the State laws cannot
be disregarded, they must be enforced
II any State laws are tO, receive such will
ing obedience then no exceptions can be
made, but az those which appear upon the
statute books Of any State must be Obeyed,
the bad as well as the good for all have
the same stamp Of State legislation. Our
army may therefore be brought to the en-
obling and heroic work of slave whipping
at the post and Of every other enormity
which any ofthe slavery-blind States have
enacted. And as by this doctrine State
laws and institutions are put above every
thing else, the very laws by which the
rebel States declared themselves out Of the
Union, must be regarded as binding upon
the soldiers Rho 60 within the borders Of
those States. Of course this conclusion
would be repudiated by the uphOlders of
Gov. Stanley, but to such conclusion
does such argument as we have quoted
lead its votaries 1o3't
An such doctrine our people and our
e. army win reject with indignation, The
army enlisted in no such petty work as
marching to carry out the lOcallaws Of
any state much less those of one in rebel
lion. Should this doctrine be acted upon,
,----- the whole rebel army could concentrate at
s. such point as they chose for the invasion
Of the North. leaving our armies free
course to pcoupy their States, they being
assured that all their local laws, however
atrociOus they might be, would be carried
out by the federal power. az
But the Press says North CAROLINA Hhas
manifested so much lingering loyalty
What has that to do with the enforcement
Of the laws2 Those who have that slim
gering loyalty are the very ones who viii
be most benefited by the establishment Of
q military over State rule. By the State
laws these very men of loyalty might
doubtless be tried and punished by some
black code Of the last year, for treason to
The State, We fail to see how the enforce
nent Of State laws, or a regard for State
institutions, would be tribute to that
'1ingering loyalty.
But this opposition to Governor Stan
ley's course tends to prevent restoring
'sueh States and the South to their, once
noble and loyal condition Aye 'there's
the rub. These upholders Of Gov. Stanley
fear that their former allies of the South
go will not be restored to power as of old, and
they weep for the days when the crack of
the southerners whip was the signal for
the cringiug Of the North. The 'nOblen
condition Of the South was that Of pOlit-
ical and social despOt, ruling syeOphantic
Hf followers from the North, whose timid
souls fear even the rumor Of war, "cry
peace, peace, when there is no peace" and
look back with eontemptible longing from
these days Of glorious battling for the right
to the time Of eowsrdly quiet and content,
This is its anoble" attitude; while for.its
Az 'ioyal" condition, no man who has watch
ed the course Of the South for thirty years,
dare say a word -s.a aa..
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