Semi Weekly Standard

The Northern Conservative And The Southern Black Republican.—John B. Weller from Ohio, is the conservative, and Edward Stanly from North-Carolina, the black Republican candidate for Governor of California! The former distinguished himself in his native State as the champion of the constitution against the designs of the abolitionists: the latter made himself notorious by his professions of zeal for Southern rights, and by his abuse of the conservative Democracy of the North. The one showed his faith by his acts, the other by his words.

It is no matter of surprise that in the land of their adoption they occupy the same relation to each other, and to the conservative party of the Union.—Weller is in California what he was in Ohio, the uncompromising foe to black Republicanism, and has been selected to lead the conservative forces to put it down. Stanly is in California what he was in North Carolina, the bitter opponent and persecutor of the conservative Democracy, and has been chosen as the leader of the black Republican forces "to stop its encroachments on the rights of the North," as one of their resolutions expresses it. In one particular, however, Stanly is not now what he was in North Carolina. Then he professed to be a better Southern rights' man than any Democrat North or South. Now he is an undisguised anti-slavery man of the New England School. He left his mask in North Carolina, and he now stands on the shores of the Pacific, "in naked ugliness," like the hypocrite described by the author of "The Course of Time."

Some of the black Republicans anticipate important results from Mr. Stanly's effective power on the stump. They seem to think that Weller will be consumed by the "burning lava of Stanly's wit and sarcasm," as one of them has it. Vain hope! Weller is more than a match for Stanly on the stump, even if the latter had a good cause to advocate and defend; and as to a black Republican triumph in a debate between the two champions upon the present issues involved, the mere suggestion is ridiculous in the extreme. So far from gaining popular honors and overwhelming his competitor in this canvass, we strongly incline to the opinion that Stanly himself will be consumed by the "burning lava" of the indignation of the conservative citizens of the Pacific State.—South-Side Democrat.

Our contemporary of the Democrat is somewhat mistaken as to the opinion entertained by many persons of Mr. Stanly, while he was a member of Congress from this State. Here, where he was best known, he was regarded as a "Submissionist"—as for the Union of the States, without regard to consequences. Both before the people on the stump and in our legislative halls, he was foremost among those who, from 1848 to 1850, labored to put the South in the wrong, to justify the North, and to lull the people, under the guise of devotion to the Union, into a fatal security as to their rights as slaveholders and their privileges in the common territories.—He denounced the Democratic State rights party as a party made up of secessionists and traitors; and he ridiculed the idea that there was danger to be apprehended from the aggressions of our Northern enemies. He lost popularity, it is true, and his course contributed in no small degree to change the political character of several of the Counties of his old District; but the great body of the old Whig party still adhered to him, and, in endorsing him, endorsed also his dangerous doctrines.

He never was at heart an advocate of slavery, or a true Southern man. The "mask" was off at least half of his face before he left North-Carolina. Still, he says he is just what he was in sentiment when he represented the Washington District in Congress. What do the members of the old Whig party who supported him, say to that? Are they willing that this declaration of his shall circulate uncontradicted, and be received as true?

The contrast which the Democrat has drawn between Mr. Stanly and Mr. Weller is striking and instructive. Weller, a Democrat from a free State, is sound and true; an old-line "submission" Whig, from a slaveholding State, is a foe to the Union of the States and a traitor to his native soil.