The Greensborough Patriot
June 12, 1862
Page 3
From the Fayetteville
Observer.
Mr. Stanly.—We Give it
Up.
We
had faith in the personal assurances of the Hon. Edward Stanly, made two or
three years ago (as stated in the Observer of the 5th ult.,) and
therefore did not credit the report that he had been appointed Lincoln Governor
of North Carolina, or if he had been so appointed, that he would accept. But we are now forced to believe that our
confidence in him was misplaced, and that he is untrue to the land of his
birth. May he meet the fate due to his
faithlessness! The following is from a
N. Y. paper:
NEW
YORK, May 24—The U. S. steam transport Gen. Burnside sailed yesterday afternoon
for Beaufort, N. C., Hilton Head, Roanoke Island and Port Royal. She has a cargo of subsistence stores and
ordinance; also a large mail.
Among
her passengers are Gov. Stanly and suite, N. C.; Charles Henry Foster, Esq.;
Rev. J. B. Clark, Chaplain Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers; Rev. Peter
Thomas, Chaplain Fifty-first New York Volunteers; Sergeant J. U. C. Smith;
Lieut. Col. Robt. B. Butler; also seventy North Carolina prisoners released on
parole, who are under charge of Gov. Stanly.
These men are all strong secessionists and refused to take the oath of
allegiance to the U. States.
In
addition to the above, we find, copied from the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, a
paragraph from an address issued by Mr. Stanly to his friends in
California. We copy the paragraph,
merely to show our readers how a faithless man can deceive himself, or his
friends. The wicked stratagem that he
talks of, was a yankee determination to subjugate the South; the separation is
final; his olive branch should be held out to Lincoln, North Carolina will scorn
it, and Mr. Stanly will find hundreds of thousands of enemies, and we hope not
a single friend. Speaking of North
Carolina, he says:--
“They
have always hated secession; always were devoted to the Union, and never freely
yielded to evil influences or consented to a separation, until made to believe
by wicket stratagem , that their own government had declared war against
them. I go to hold out the olive branch
of peace on terms such as a man endorsed by you could offer; and such as brave
people can honestly accept. With a firm
reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, I return, temporarily, to my
old home on a mission of love, to a State among whose citizens I hope I have
not a single enemy; whose borders contain not a single man to whom it would not
afford me pleasure to do a kindness. I
return to old friends whose favors compelled me, in the performance of sacred
duties, to leave the heart corroding cares, and the impoverishment of public
service.”
