The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-06-19
DOW AGIAC G:
A Traitor Knave with q Federal Commits
sion In his Pocket.

A marked illustration of the coward
" folly of seeking to "conciliate" the
red handed rebels Of the Slave States
has been afforded in the appointment
of -Eaward Stanley to the military
Governorship of North Carolina, as
noticed by us last week.
Stanley is native, and was a resi-.
dent and leading politician of that
State, until a few years ago, when he
removed TO California. Ex.Senators
Gwin and Foote of Mississippi, and
scores of other pro-slavery politicians
of the Slave States, repaired thither
at about the same time.
They went to dc ~hst they might,
to bring California, or at least the
Southern half of it, and as much of
Mexico as could be seized by piratical
flli6usteri,ig, into the wolf.fold of
Slavery. Stanley's proceedings as
Military Governor of North Carolina,
manifest degree Of abject devotion
to the Slave power, which sufficiently
indicates that he went for the same
purpose.
When the rebellion broke out, Gwin,
Foote and many others of the "Chival-
ry," returned the States whence they
had pretended 10 migrate, and openly
took their fitting place amongst their
fellow traitors. Stanley probably
thought that he could subserve the
cause of treason and Slavery more eff.
fectually and at the same time with
more safety to has oson neck; by stalking
service" under the Government.
So. when the New England COM
mander, Gen. Burnside, with an army
composed principally Of New England
men, had subjugated considerable por-
ton of North Carolina, Stanley was
on hand at Washington to come in to
the rescue of the "divine institution"
and its bloody treason in his own re-
volted and seeded State.
| The Slave Power which seems al
most as omnipotent against the present
administration as over those of the
miserable Buchanan and the equally
miserable Pierce, would tolerate no
man of northern loyalty as Military
Governor of the traitor State.
In loyal obedience 20 that provision
of the Law of Nations which requires
that deserters be Hospitality received
and vouchsaled asylum and protection,
Gen. Burnside, unlike Halleck, McClel.
, Ian and other commanders of their
peculiar type of loyalty, was affording
asylums TO some thousands of colored
deserters from the traitor enemy, some
of them the very men who had been
compelled by their rebel masters 10
, consteact the Notifications at Roanoke
Island and Newburn, the storming oil
which by the Federal forces, cost the
Iife.blood of scores of loyal northern
citizens.
He was affording useful employment
to the adult fugitives upon his own for
tiications and in his camps and hospi
tails, and thereby securing for his own
men that exemption from exhaus!ing
and unmilitary drudgery which Slavery
had all along afforded to their rebe
] antagonists. He had authorized and
: aided, Qife-long "democrat" as he
isl the establishment of schools by
private benevolence, st which the chill
dren Of the descrters were receiving in
, struction, and the parents also when
their hours of daily labor were filed.
As laborers supporting themselve,
; and children by their honest earnings
they were demonstrating their capacit,
G to "take care of themselves" as pupil.
/. acquiring readily the elements of edu
: cation, their capability of mental cul
ture; in both relations, their claim t.
e rank and be treated as human beings
r Slavery was therefore, in sore tribu
lation and peril and, therefore, jus
, such thing as Stanley was required
8 for its consolation and rescue
y So he received his commission
}, repaired to North Carolina ant
: discharged what he seems to have re
= garded as his whole duty under it, b,
! promptly breaking up the coloret
: schools, ordering the restoration of III,
n colored deserters to the rebel enemy
u and expelling at least one loyal citizel
from the State for daring to doubt tn
propriety of his conduct!
4 His excuse for these traitorous scoun
}, drelisms. isjust such as such creatur
It would he expected to give. 1t is, tina
u she is there to enforce the laws O
9 North Carolina and that those law
! give to each master the possession O