Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-10
Governor stanIy i'm North Carolina

DONtEhOF Nhobtt III
The Reverend DR. Collyer, the Abolition mis-
sionary to North Carolina halls, we believe from
the CITY of New York
In the city Of New York the negro population
is vastly more ignorant and degraded than it Is in
North Carolina.
Charity begins at home" is the old proverb
ny did not the Reverend Doctor Collyer. be
fore setting out for North Carolina, organize a
system OF negro schools in his own neighbor
hood?
1t is not. as we thus see, that the Reverend
Doctor Collyer and those who sent him care any
thing about the educational welfare of the North
Carolina negroes.
What they do care about is, to exasperate the
Southern people SO as to make reunion impoSsi-
ble. What so we'll calculated to exasperate them
as these missionary efforts of AbotiOIsm by
which State laws are set aside and all sorts of
crazy and fantastic notions instilled into the
heads Of the negroes
1t may be said that the laws of North Carolina
forbidding that negroes shall be taught to read
and write are wrong and barbarous.
Who made those laws necessary? There were
no such laws until after the rise of AbolitioniSm
They became necessary, the people of North Car
OlinO thought, to preserve their negroes from the
insurrectionary teachings of Abolitionism and
themselves from the consequences of negro in
surrections There never would have been any
such laws but for AbolltiOnism.
But however wrong and barbarouS In the est
nation of Northern people. these laws may be.
had not North Carolina the right to pass theml
Ii is proposed in Illinois, by constitutional pro-
vision, absolutely exclude negroes from the
State Has not Illinois the right to exclude ne
groe,y And what would the people OF Illinois
say of the Reverend Doctor Collyer if he should,
III contempt of such constitutional prohibition.
enter into the business OF transporting negroes
into this Stateg
This whole negro business is question of
State rights, and North Carolina has the same
RICH; u prohibit the education OF negroes within
her borders that Illinois has to exclude them from
her borders.
The Reverend Doctor Collyer and his support
ers understand this perfectly They understand
that they are operating in North Carolina con
trarv to a valid law of the State. They violate
the law not only knowingly but exultantly and
with the keenest relish They find the highest
qualification in peerng about among the North
Carolina negroes teaching them seditiOn and in
surrection. because that i the way, above all
other ways, in which they can do most mischief.
We trust that il the government at Washing
ton j. inclined 20 make an issue with Governor
St3nly on this question, he will accept the issue
AID let the Administration recall him He has
not gone To North Carolina to overturn valid
State law, He has not gone there as a crusader
of Abohtionsm. He has not gone there TO in
terfere with the local affairs Of the people. He
has gone there simply 10 exercise the powers OF
the Estate government and enforce the Fedora.
authority until such time the loyal people OF
the State shall be ready 10 relieve him of his du-
ties That be Is faithfully doing the work % his
mission Is apparent from the bowling OF Adolf
ti0nism every where.