Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-16
Governor, stanIy in North CAROLYN

Governor Stanly in North Carolina.
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.
sCharity begins at home" is the old proverb.
Why 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-
BILE. What so well calculated to exasperate them
as these missionary efforts of AbOlitiorism, 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 Abo,itionism.
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 Abolitionism.
But however wrong and barbarous, In the esti-
nation of Northern people. these laws may be,
had not North Carolina the right to pass them?
1t is proposed in Illinois. by constitutional pro-
vision, to absolutely exclude negroes from the
State. Has not Illinois the right to exclude ne
groes? And what would the people of Illinois
say of the Reverend Doctor Collyer if he should,
in contempt of such constitutions! prohibition,
enter into the business of transporting negroes
into this State?
This whole negro business is a question of
State rights, and North Carolina has the same
right to prohibit the education of negroes within
her borders that Illinois has to exclude them from
her borders.
The Reverend Doctor Collyer and his support
es understand this perfectly. They understand
that they are operating in North Carolina con
trary 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 peering about among the North
Carolina negroes, teaching them sedition and in
surrection, because that is the way, above all
other ways, in which they can do most mischief.
We trust that if the government at Washing
ton is inclined to make an issue with Governor
Stanly on this question, he will accept the issue
and let the Administration recall him. He has
not gone to North Carolina to overturn valid
State laws. He has not gone there as a crusader
of Abolitionism. He has not gone there to in
t%erfere with the local affairs of the people. He
has gone there simply to exercise the powers of
the ,Sjtate government and enforce the Fedora.
authority until such time as the loyal people of
the State shall be ready to relieve him of his du-
ties. That he is faithfully doing the work of his
mission is apparent from the bowling of Adolf
tionism everywhere