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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) or search for North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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"Governor" Stanly hard pushed.
--The Wilmington Journal has certain information, by way of the underground railroad, that "Governor" Edward Stanly is getting quite sick of his mission to North Carolina, in the character of Abe Lincoln's agent, emissary and representative.
He has (says the Journal) been holding out the strongest bribes to seduce the true Southern men to take the oath of allegiance to Lincoln, but without effect; among others, he sent for an aged gentleman, a warm friend of Mr. Stanly's before he went to California, who had been plundered and impoverished by the Burnside "respecters of private property" and promised him the restitution of his negroes and pay for all his losses, in gold, provided he would take the oath.
This the aged patriot refused to do, replying, with a pardonable warmth, that "he would see him and the whole Yankee nation--first.
They had stolen most of what he had, and they might take the balance if they could get it, but they could not bribe
Col. Wm. H. Thomas, of North Carolina, with two companies of Cherokee Indians, is now at Strawberry Plabis, Tenn., guarding the railroad bridge at that point.
The Yankee prisoners in Lynchburg have passed a number of counterfeit Confederate notes upon unsuspecting citizens.