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"The Editor of=the Standard may exclaim,
like Archimedes of old-Eureka, EUREKA!
After trying for ten months; to find something in
the Administration of Gov Graham, to carp al,


he bursts out into perfect fury of indignation be,
cause His Excellency has respited a negro That
was TO be hung, for four acceksr' Register
The Editor of the Register is entirely and
grossly mistaken, as the article in our last will
show. We manifested no 'fury of indignation"
whatever. We were surprised at the course Of
His Excellcncy in the malter referred to, but we
certainly neither felt nor expressed /" indignation"
After speaking of the reasons that might have
influenced the Governor in respiling the boy We
said:


"Thtse reasons were no doubt satisfactory 10
the Executive, as they would in all probability be
to his constituents; and, without finding fault with
that distinguished officer, we would beg leave re-
specially to remind him, that the crime Of which
this boy was convicted is an Infamous one, and
that any postponement of the day Of execution,
without cause given, is calculated to arrest The al
tention of our people" e'


The facts are these; A slave had been tried
BY Jury of the country, and found guilty oil sn
attempt at rape upon The person of his young MIS-
tress, and the udge had condemned him to the
gallows, and fixed the day of execution. Sucha
crime in slaveholding community, is most afro
cious, and speedy punishment is called for. The
Governor steps in and respites him for four weeks
acithOwt assigning IN any a00y 10 Mep"6I'e d"
reasons for the act. The public ought to have
had those areasons-it ought to have them now
Insufficient, let the people know them, that they
may so pronounce, and also that no evil may no"
from the act upon our slave population; II lnsun
cien, lettheu come TO the light and let the blame
rest where it ought .e,sysrr.,.


So far from bursting out into a perfect fury Of
indignation" we did not even find fault with the
Governor for the course he had thought proper
10 pursue, but only called for his reasons i0F
granting the respite. We take back nothing We
said last week. We leave the answer with the
Governor, and shali-not look to the Editor Of The
Register for a reply. The people will in Inc
meantime put their own construction upon the aC'
ton ofthe Executive in this matter, and that con-
struction will doubtless be correct.


So much for. the logic and truth contained ID
the Raleigh Register t,a The Editor Of that paper
oughtto be above such pititul evasiOns Ii De
has anything like truth upon his side, or even
the appearance oft, or, what is less, ordinary po"
'ers of special pleading, he ought to come 0',
ward like man, and meet the question, ana nO'
go lodging and skuIking into the hooks ana GU
ners of faIsehood and Misrepresentation