Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-14
POLITICS..
N''0"A- CaarlsteseNe JGersoniaa Republican, Dee. o.

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Nfr'"&, Charlottesville JeGersoniqa Republican, Dec. 9l
w '-i MIR. WISE.
we sec thu tlE Richmond Wing, Norfolk Herald,
, In , ,%;a eo,'r,6ndan,s are c~huckling over the idea
ana .n,s genisuas has abandoned the TyLer.yvhigs'
a"u -. ht9nsei' % the Federolists. We are sorry
~ =. III artams N these good folks, and to dc.
prive them OF this ''crumb = comfort" Sever,hsIss.
unless we are greatly deceive the letter Of Mr.. Wise,
wlich VIII De iound IN our colunns TO d,v, will have
this effect. II any body can fnG INV ,55;na i i've y
letter Squ,ntng even at an obandonn,n, of 1ha Tie
Wings, or erincing the slightest disposlt,n IN o.o
rate again with the "IneorrigiJies,' as Mr.. -y;se term.
the Federal Wings, then we will be Tree adm,
that we cannot comprehend the import Of the -.,;a
est language. The times have not produced 4 IN =
sca,hing denunciation Of The Wings and their DOING
at the Extra Session, thaH. this letter contains. aud If,
after reading IT the.Pipe- Layers can still tawn upon dis
author with the view ofaverting his anger and concilis-
ting his support, as they have been recently doing,
they will prrye themselves rather more sycophhnfis
than even they have heretofore been. They may,
however, lick the hand by which they have been smit.
ten, and fawn and crouch at the fooislool of Henry 4.
Wise, in order to induce him TO ''turn away his wrath, y
but unless we are grossly deceived he will spurn them
with the contempt which they so eminently deserve.
1t is true, MIR. Wise deals the Democratic purity some
pretty hard slde-blows, but that was 10 be expected;
and US we remark, in another article, we are perfectly
willing 10 sput up with them, in consideration of the
harder, and more effective blows which he deals our
adversaries. The very fact, also, that he occupies an
INDEPENDENT pUsIlOu UGlWGGH LuC " aICuI VI
will give him a weight and an influence with the body
ofthe people which he would not otherwise possess
We are perfectly willing, and perhaps 1t is preferable,
that he should fight the common enemy "upon his own
hook" lie never has been one OF us, and perhaps
never will be; bat we apprehend, nevertheless, that The
influence that lie is now exerting cannot but operate
~tavorably 10 the Democratic party and their principles.
We therefore BID him good speed in his crusade against
the "IRcorrigiJcS."
LETTER FROM THE HON. HENRY A. WISE.
The following letter from this distinguished gentle
man, will be read, We doubt not, with deep interest.
From some unacc,untable circumstance, probably the
harrassing irregulTity of the mails, it has but Just come
to hand, although dated, as will be seen, on the 9th OF
November, having been very nearly a month on the
road from Accomc TO this place. Still, 1t will, we re.
peat, be read with deep interest. IL is one OF the most
graphic exposures of the doings of the "Dictatorship'
al Washington, curing the memorable 'hundred days,
that we have yetseen. The character Of the war wagcd
upon "Capt. Tyer,' by the 'iacorrigi6ies,' as they are
forciby termed, W Mr.. w. is drawn with a master hand,
and all will he struck with the great force and energy
with which he sums up, and characteristics the whole
system Of legislation, attempted to be fastened upon
the country blythe Federalists, during tic Extra Ses-
sion. lie IDEAS Mr.. Clay, too, some hard blows, and
the contrast beween that gentleman, as he is IN a ma
jority, aud as he was IN Il minority, IS exceedingly
striking. tits tue, as he passes along, he now and then
lets fly an arrowat the Democrats, or "Loco Focos, as
he terms them; but we are willing TO "pns up with
them, in consideration of the harder blows which he
deals our adverslrles.
We would particularly commend this letter to the
Wings, and mcst particularly to The State Rights
Wings. If these latter do not find enough IN It 10
make them alb ure their unnatural connection with the
n ational Republican,, or "Ftderai portion OF the Wing
party We are greatly mistaken. Mr.. Wise shows SO
plainly the ultra Federal tendency Of the measures OF
the Extra Session, that We cannot conceive how any
State RightS' man, no matter what may have been his
mere party connections heretofore, can hesitate, for a
single instant, in determining what position he ought
10 occupy. .,I
Again we beg all such TO give the letter a careful
and attentive perusal:
AccoMAc c.. H., Nov. 9Th, 1871.
Gentlemen Yours Of the 18Th ult, directed 10 me
at Phiiadciphia, reached me hero by .he last mail. l
had left that city on the Both, and thus, If other CIR
cums:ances permitted, time would not allow me 10 JOIN
the State Rights Republicans of Albcmarle and Mel
son in their dinner at Greenfield, on the l2.h instant
10 their worthy and able representative, the lionora
BILE Thomas W.. Gilmer. Nevertheless, gentlemen,
unite in their estimonia OF high regard
for his character and public services Nj acquaini-
ance with him has been brief but gratifying, and such
as TO ingraft him warmly in my ~a.iachment,e esteem ana
He is one Of the few in Congress whose prin-
ciples | can truly characterize as Unconstitutional Rtpub-
and whose course as a Wing, in my estimation,
has been consistent since with his professions before The
late Presidential election. This mark in the man was
enough to attract me to a firm union OF action with
him and q few others in the public councils; and ne
Ills associates having UtCoHlt lG oOySSto 4a1A
less party prescription, they are drawn still closer to-
geiher. A Congressional Dictatorship, bold, seifsh'
arbitrary and itself truant, a%rrogantly assuming 10 pre-
over both The Wing party and the president OF us
choice, constituting not 4 majority oil that party IN INC
two Houses and representing but 4 lean minority Of me
whole people of the nation, doEinecr;ng 10 rule the
present and overweening in It's ambition 10 promote q
particular candiGRe for future power and place; mas
undertaken 10 excommunicate your representative ana
his friends as heretics and traitors, SIMPLY because lucy
would not acknowledge that fidelity to the wing party
fealty to n certain President apparent and his fe-
deral principles, and because they esteemed the Co"n-
,rv, the Constitution, and the rights Of CONSCIENCE lar
more sacred than all political pretendcrs and all the
profe ssions or passions Of their blindly devoted part:zan
followers.
Providence placed in power a Constitutional hePuo-
lean. and because he would not bow down TO this same
ri ,atorsbip. and humbly submit that another should
he President in fact, and himself be President only IN
because he would not consent TO be a mere iocuin
tenens. and be morally guided by another man $ con
science, and politically governed by another man 5
ofthe Constitution, and play pander ior ano'hef :
lusts after the succession; he too has been tirst donoteh
and then damned, and the base attempt has been MADE
IL DEGRADE ellis Excellency" down to "HIs Acciden
10 take away the mans good name by convIclng
of the high crime of vainly trying to agree WIN
those who were predetermined TO disagree WIN hini' OF
al least being consistent with a puniic lne oil .iil'y sean'
well known, recorded and published before his election
of happily disappointing a set oil conspiratois, VINO
ali The time trying TO "head' him and to trap both
conscience and his understanding lie is called
/" HIS Accidency" by those who could not make a
President by design and by this sco!ing title the
seems TO deny n Great FIRST Cause
whose Providence ovcrrules human events and the des'
mics Of nations, and 10 ascribe the death OF The Is,
mented Harrison and the succession OF the second
choice of the People TO a blind chance, according 10
the inGdel creed Of a disappointed ambition winch has
been writing ever since the election in l7lo IN mort'-
tication and chagrin that any one should have been Sc,
cond whilst they could not be first, and that providence
or the People, or chance or change, they cared not
what or which, did not cast the descent of power upon
them and throw its patronage in favor OF their man
his principles. The Dictatorship was the onIy
device of a substitute for legitimate election and mas
been resorted to with warlike violence and Proscr,lpuVc
uoraeonce. Put il has no terrors for honest and con-
sislent men, or for just and patriotic politicians: GIL
and his friends have, not in der,s'on OF 'hen'
but of Old Virginia's % Republican doctrines oeen
nicknamed Abstractionists and laughed at as less IN
"n,ho-e than n uCorporals guard" Yes. the hrst