Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-11-28
DINNER TO Mr.. WISE AT LOUISA.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2s. 1890.
DINNER TO MR.. WISE AT LOUISA.
Judging from the accounts which we have recei
we'd Of this festival, IL WAT a splendid affair indeed
snd must have been highly gratifying to the feelings
of Mr.. WISE. About two hundred gentlemen sa,
down TO dinner. Capt. JANIS MircHiE presided.
Besides Mr.. Wise, tho company was addressed by
Gov. BARBOUR, joan NJ. BORIS, and J. S. Pen
style, and elected universal spplause--many of the
Locos joining in, who were present as lockers on.
In his usual energetic. ~forcible, and eloquent man.
nsr, he touched upon Executive frauds and corrup-
tions-ths attacks of the Northern abolitionists up
on our nstitutions--the Interference of Federal Of.
6cers In State elections-the tinkering Of the Exc
seutive with the currency, and it's consequences
and in concluding, instituted a comparison between
the pre,ensions Of Mr.. Clay and Mr.. VAS BUREs
for The Presidency; which the Charlottesville Ad-
vocate thus reports:
Mr.. Wise asked, was Mr.. Clay a tariff man :
Admit It: But did not MIR. Var Buren, vote for the
Woollens Bill Of '28-,hat Bill Of determinations,
which was near producing a dissolution OF the Uni
on and did he not assign ms n reason for 40 doing
that he had himself 90, 900 sheepf Was Mr. Clay
In favor Of Internal Improvements by the General
Government Admit IL: And did not MIR. v. Bu-
rem vote TO erect ~to!lgairs on the Cumberland Road
within the territory Of Vifginia-aDd had not lie
and his immediate predecessor, in whose footsteps
he was pledged to follow, sanctioned more nppro-
priations to objects of that kind, than oil the Pres
ihenfs who had preceded them7 Was Mr.. Clay in
favor Of National Bark Admit il: But was not
Mr.. Van Buren, and his predecessor also in favor of
a great National Government Bank, exceedingly
moro odious than the institution they had destroy
ed Z"
The Advocate continues
Mr.. Wise also drew a comparison between the
claims Of the two candidates to the title Of Adolf
iionists. Mr.. Clay, he said, was born and raised
In the midst of a decidedly slayeholding population
The had always resided among the represented
shareholders, and was, himself, the owner Of one
hundred slaves. Mr.. Van Buren, was born and
raised in a non-slaveholding Siate-had voted in q
State Conyention to admit blacks to the privilege
of the elective franchise-and in all his letters on
the subject, had ever admitted, (by Inference at
least, and never denied, the right Of Congress to
abolish slavery in the District OF Columbia, and to
regulate the trade in slaves among the several
States"
Gov. Basbour followed then Mr.. Bolts and he
was succeeded by John S. Pendleton, Esq who
concluded with giving Mr.. Wise's toast at Phila.
delphia-" The Union Of the Wigs for tho sake
cffhe Union"
Owing to an accident on the Rail Road, the cars
did not arrive al Louisa Court House, until the fol-
lowing day and many Of the invited guests were
thus debarred q participation in the festivities Of
the day. But Mr.. LiPscoMB, the delegate elect
from the county, as a mark of his regard for these
gentlemen, and for the Committee of The Wise Din
per, gave them an enter;ainment-though differing
from them in politics. Short speeches were made
by Gov. Barbour and several other gentlemen Of.
ter whom, Mr.. Wise addressed the company-only
however, upon the urgent solicitation of all present
The Editor of the Advocate says, he addressed
himself specially to several friend, Of The Adminis.
tration present, two of whom, perhaps the most in
telligent and influential in the county, sat immedi-
ately before him. He spoke for upwards ofan hour,
10 a strain OF eloqnenee unsurpassed, we verify be-
lieve, by any thing Of the kind ever heard in this
country. He selected instances Of official corrup.
ton and matedminislraiio familiar 10 oil, and il.
lustrnted them IN such a conclusive, and at the same
time energetic and ~eloquen, manner, as TO extort
bursts of applause even from the friends If the AID
ministration themselves. The instances cited we're
80 glsring, and the remissness of the Executive so
fragrant that they we're compelled to admir-, as they
candidly did, all the conclusions of Mr.. Wise. We
have never seen a more affecting %sccne-and il it
does not work q thorough conversion on the part Of
those gentlemen, it will certainly disarm them of
all ill-will towards The speaker, and tend to open
the eyes of others less welded to party than they"