The Greensborough Patriot

June 5, 1862

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“Gov.” Stanly.

            KINSTON, May 22d, 1862.—What used to be the “Hon. Edward Stanly,” arrived in Newbern last Monday.  This is authentic and reliable.

            The above is certified to us by a gentleman who arrived in this city yesterday morning.  It needs no comment, as its very announcement will stamp him a traitor through all future time.  What a contrast he presents to his patriotic brother at Washington, of whom such honorable mention was made, in our last issue.  That brother has our warmest sympathies; and we hope the press will be careful not to stigmatize the name of Stanly, because of the infamy of this bad man.

            We learn that a number of paroled prisoners came to Newbern in the same ship with Stanly, and it is greatly to be feared he may have attempted to poison the minds of some of them by his insidious representations.  We hope, if he had made dishonorable propositions to any of them that such will let it be known.—Raleigh State Journal, May 31.