Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-05-03
COMMUNICATED.
MIR. WISE AT YORK TOWN


Judge Upshur adjourned his Court at this place
about hal!-past dock yesterday and imme dale!y
thereafter the sheriff made procamotinn tina, in half an
hour, MIR. Wise would address the people. At o'clock
Mr. Wise repaired 10 lie Court house followed most
Of those present, and Gok station The bench.
After expressing rrgethat he had been disappointed in
address ng the people York counlya week two ago,
and al seeing soiew OF his fellow citizens
bed the present occson, he said HAT he would
at upon subject Of the greatest importance,
10 his constituents wei 10 the country al argehe
meant, he SAID their mney matters. lie then went into
lengthy detail Of the manner in which The National
and expenditure had been naged for the last
half dozen years, commencing with the removal Of the
deposes from the U 5 Bank IN the fall # 1888 The
condu OF the Secretary OF the Treasury, the ~ York
Collector and District Attorney with many others, passed
under review. Upon Levi he passed sentence of
drmnat in most blltr terms-chargng HIM not only
with neglect and mism,nagement brt with corruption
too! He called The moh dgnlied body Of our country,
Tom Benions Senate, and dubbed the President OF
the u S with the title Of Bull! lie said, that General
Jackson and his successor, after having repudlaled The
good old wife. u s. 'ank) whose fidelity and worth
had been he theme Of praise for more than forty years
had estab sLed iaren and took up with eighty
ninety c"uCubines, o. whom becoming at length
aied and dIsgus,ed Van Buren, had cast himself loose,
and now, ,eleusng himself from all restraint,
ing the c'ounlry at large like Parish Bull! (Grea,
applause) MIR Wise entered into particular descrp.
lion OF the 6"incaofy committee, and the mode OF
nagng the National money matters at Washington and
elsewhere he SAID that 1t mad been discovered that
Hoyt the present Collector New York had deposited
10 his private credit more than hundr,d thousand
dollars OF the public money !! (HhG, outrageous QSscy-
uonsD
Mr.. Wise then went on to compliment The people of
his distrc. for their integrity public spirit and unanni
TILE stated that They more independent and
unite ban any equal number Of people under the
Unable To account for such state OF feeling himself he
lad applied Of the most intelligent gentlemen Of
tie district account for IT, but that gentleman
Tie TO do So otherwise hun by surprising that there
10 presses Offices of magnitude within lis bounds
upt aud lead them asray, and that possibly il might be
Jwing the fact that the people had here the Of
good living a. ways hand for, when they without
corn aud meat their noble bay and lis tributary streams
with their land patches about hem furnished abundance
of oyster aud potatoes, which enabled them To produce
their frc Republican children, who came into The world
Kicking! (iHuch cheering u Delicate Taste)
Mr. Wise tered into an PLANTATION and justification
of the duelng affair and stated That he had forgot
The advice oucr- given him by aged friend now de-
ceased which vas, that he should avod dueIling if lie
could but If 1abe 10 do so, Justice To himself his IN
my and his unlry, required that he should k the ad
versarv if pos :ble who sought to take his life.
In relation 10 The next Presidency, Mr. Wise declared
his de,ermn l,ion for Henry Clay, in support Of
whose claims the Office lie dwelt for long time. OF
MIR Ryes not Il word was said: and am told that lie
WAS equally sen. TO that gentleman during his ad
dress 10 The ciliz..ns Of Williamsburg Monday last
bu, of whom I'm ierstand he spoke freely in other places
some short time since Possibly, "a friend Of Stale
Rirh,s" and others, OF more experienced heads than
his own may have counseed hun li;lie that well
ns on the ohrr subjects, during his weeks stay abOu,
the walls of Will; IN d Mary.
In concuson nlr Wise alluded to Bacons rebellion,
the principal acts nf which. he said pred the
waters of York riy er; and he said that e had slept the
overnuht under roof Of That celebrated building,
fremplp Farm now DR.. II II eid sheauttul residence,
sirualed on York river and Wormey's creek wherein
tho terms of Cornw allis capiiulaon signed. Mr.
Wise might also la We added hat al this very port, the
first tea thrown from shiphod the avoid the
raynen of British tax, had opportunity TO sink in
our harbor the depth Of "a fahoms for, there sill
lives in our couniynn individual who eye witness
of the act-one Who able TO and hear Mr Wises
entire speech Of three hours duration: and what is
remarkable per ops this sid gentleman, vergng on
30 although he mas lived all his i- within short dis
tnnce of "Black swamp, university esteemed one OF
The most unhea,y situations in county, was neYcf
SICK and rides pr ncpay horseback as he did 10 town
on yesterday.
VIVA, i pretty pledcament the people of York aud
James City niles and the city OF Williamsburg are
now placed in! Henry Wise, WING Secessionst,
end their candi ale for Congress, Advocating National
BAN! and Hen Clay, with las Bank, Tariff and Inter
nal Improvement principles. and violently opposing
sub Treasury and John NJ. Grrgory,a Wing Nuiier.
one Of their &C unity candidates, advocating Sub lrea
sury though opposed TO Van Buren,. and denounclng
Henry Clay the Bank, Tariff, and Internal Improve
ment systems And yet, is commended here, that Inc
Wing party is acting with perfect consistency IN support
ing both! Capt. Robert Anderson Of Williamsburg the
other county candidate in opposition to Gregory is
Unonisl and advocates the SubTreasury, the Adm"s'
ua,ion, and Martin Van lIutrn.
York Town, April 81, lS39.