"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 or buy him."’ It is said, also, that
Mr. Stanly has written a letter to
Hon. Geo. E. Badger, soliciting his aid in bringing the
State back into the old Federal Union, and that
Mr. Badger has replied to the request in a very able letter, in which he positively refuses to co-operate in any such movement.
We have little or no doubt of the truth of these statements, and trust that the letters will be given to the public at an early day.
Mr. Stanly doubts that he has undertaken a fruitless mission, and that his warmest personal and political friends are now as bitterly opposed to his present course, and denounce his position as firmly and as strongly as any of his former opponents.
