New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-17
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public dinner which the personal and political
admirers Of Mr.. Henry A. Wise in Northampton
County, Va, gave him not many days since
That his personal friends should wish 70 do HIM
honor is perhaps not strange: though we have
never been able TO draw broad line of distinc-
ton between the private character of any man
and that he exhibits in his public acts. If he b
treachcrous TO his friends, regardless of night and
studious only Of his own advancement hater o.
all who will not do him homage and ready at any
moment to sacrifice friend, desert political
party and throw to The winds all the principles be
has ever protested, to indulge his spleen or fced
an ancient grudge we are forced 10 believe HIM
corrupt in heart-profiga;e and base IN his very
soul--a man who, in private as IN public life, is
utterly unworthy of confidence and devoid OF all
the principles of common honesty. But IN fact
the desertion by Mr.. Wise Of the principles he
has always heretofore protested his base stabs at
the party with which he has always acted and
his impotent sltn2crs Of It's great leader IN whose
praise he was wont to be so cloquent-ths very
proAigacy, which must forever make him dcs
pissed and loathed by every honest heart, was the
very trait Tor which his Virginia friends chose to
DO him honor, And the spirit of their proceed
ings seems to have been in admirable keeping
with that which prompted the offering, A DR..
Simpkins was chosen to preside and Mr.. Wise
made speech mot yet published in reply to
toast in which he was compared to Daniel in the
den of lions. We copy the following from the
list of toasts given upon the occasion
John Tyler--a patriot; his principles the
The Presidenal Chair that they in the Senate Cham
berhsppy -DW the country be to obtain hm forthe
President.
The country certainly has slim chance hap
piness on that basis. The following is too pro-
found for our comprehension it may embody a
high compliment to the Seventh Distric: wei!
as to Virginia agistratcs-butitl looks very much
like back-handed one:
"By w. H. Parker: District No. like Virginia Ma.
gsrate right gives judgement; right wrong, gives
Wise Judgement"
Mr.. ]. w. Williams expressed very natural
apprehension as follows:
The Hon. Henry a. Wise--nay he not dsssrs his
ctit"ents before the end Of his term"
His constituents may think themselves fortu
sunate if he do not. Their only safeguard lies
ID the fact that if he should attempt it no party
would receive him he would be puzzled to know
'whcre to 60 But the following, the last we
shall copy, is the basest sentiment we ever saw
offered in company Of persons pretending to be
gentlemen:
"By w. II. Williams-JonS Cursor ApAMs-once u
man, ,tcics child, and now demon'
suchis the language that Henry A. Wise and
his admirers SEQ fit to use towards venerable
statesman, whose head has whtened, but whose
soul has never grown old or faint, in the service
ofhls country: whose name is never heard by
patriots but with honor and respect who never
for an instant sacrificed great principle to selfish
ness or ambition: whose fame is identified with
the glory, as his name will ever be with the his
tory, of his country: and whose venerable age
if not his stainless purity Of character-might be
expected to exempt him from the insults even OF
caitffs and unprincpled traitors. The mon who
use this language are those who pirate so loudly Of
freedom from party or sectional preudcc-ofa
patriotism which overleaps all bounds and looks
only to the whole country for the object of his
love.
The letters from invited but declining guests
were written in similar strain. Mr.. Tyler,
with the regard for truth which distinguishes all
ms recent ects speaks of Wise as one who has
boldly and fcarlcssy maintained those great prin.
cip!es which lie at the foundation Of our political
institutions, and are connected with the pcrpatuitv
OF the Union ITSELF Il. NJ. T. Hunter contents
himself with believing that purity of motive and
elevation of purpose have characterized the course
OF MIR. Wise in all the relations Of lie,' and Mr..
I. ii. Bayly, saying not q syllable Of Mr. Wise,
sends a toast for Gen Parker. But Mr.. F. Nal
lory lees called upon to write longer and more
devoted letter, and accordingly expends half
column in vituperations Of the party with which
no SO zealously acted in 1910. He says:
"If Mr.. Wise's relations have changed theirs
the faalt his Try him BY every test give 10 hi, con-
duct the closes; scrutiny ard Will be found ,ha: he kas
Tai redeemed hS pledges GG adhered 70 has prigei
pies. Those who denounce hun renegade. aposle and
traitor themsireS richly deserve these aud Other
epithet which mos, emphatica express ptot'g2ic
abandonment Of principles ':s sacred and valued
1t is impossible 70 doubt that Mr. Mallory
knew, when he penned this passage tina, it was
as false as any statement he could possibly have
made. Recent experience leaves us no; al liberty
to wonder how men can be corrupt enough so wan.
tony TO 1aislty the tr1th' out that they should DC
foolish enough to utter fasehoods which they know
every man, woman and child in the Union mus,
at once detect, still seems surprising. The whole
Wing party-all the great leaders of that party,
aud the great multitudes of people Throughout,
the land who voted for Gen. Harrison in lS40, We
are to believe have deserted the position and prin.
ciples they then held, and left Messrs. Wise and
Mallory-a worthy pair-upon the ancien,
ground Can any thing be more absurd, or child
ishly ridiculous
D We understand, from the best authority,
that the paragraph copied BY us from the New