Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-09-22

very solely on the Atchson letter and the letter OIL
the subject of Canada annexation He exhaustet
these topics, without producing any thing new
that had not been fully answered q. dozen times
and then took up Gen. ScoTr's letter of accep
lance. His comments upon this document, VI
must say. were. perfectly puerile. He regarded
Mr.. FILLMORE as true patriot because he "faith
fully executed" the laws, but could see nothing
hut an attempt to revive the Sedition law in it
worst form in Gen. SCorr's declaration of iaten
ton to do the same thing. In one passage Of the
letter he discovered that SEWARD and his friends
were to come in for q portion of the Offices under
Gen. ScoTT. Well, if they execute the laws, the
s'fugitive slave law included" as Gen. ScoTT de-
clares all his officers shall, no body at the South
need object to their appointment. We, however
can see no such meaning in the passage as Mr.
WISE finds there.
On the subject of naturalization, Mr.. WISE spoke
at great length and with much warmth. He as
sumed as fact that Gen. ScoTT advocated the OLD
rule .'once a subject always subject" and de-
scanted quite eloquently on its enormity. His ap
peal to Irishmen and Germen would not have been
dscredtablc to any demagogue in the country
All this time too, he was professedly comm enting
on Gen. ScoTT's letter of acceptance, in which he
says he would recommend or approve of q single
alteration in our naturalization ws,"-one giving
to foreigners serving in the army or navy one yeal
in time ,of war, the right of citizenship. This, Mr.
WISE at last noticed specially, and pronounced
perfectly outrageous-not because it was unconsti-
tutional, as Judge DOUGLASS by virtue of his title
declared-but because of the alleged discrimina-
ton made by it between individuals. His whole
argument on the point, however, had been antici-
pated and answered by Mr.. Boris.
When we returned to the Courthouse in the
afternoon, after brief absence, Mr.. WISE had
Gen. PIERCE in hand. He pronounced him to be
perfectly sound onthe slavery question: "North-
ern man with Southern principle" she stood
side by side with Mr.. CALHOUN" voted for the
Anterior resolutions, SC. And now would any
one who heard Mr.. WISE on Saturday, have i'm
agined. that Mr. WISE himself not only violently
opposed those same Atherton resolutions when they
were offered in Congress, but denounced them as
''a plot sprung upon the South?" Yet General
PIERCE, one of the plotters, showed thereby his
devotion to the the South
Mr.. WISE referred to the New Boston speech
and argued, on the superstition that Foss' report
was true, that it did not invaldate Gen. PIERcE's
claims to soundness But Gen. SCoTT's Atchisor
letter proved him to be entirely unsound
Mr.. WISE next entered into discussion of mil
itary matters. He declared emphatically that
Gen. PIERCE was no General at all. and did not
pretend to be one. Gen. ScoTT was General,
but what of that2 Place him (Mr. W. at Vera
Cruz with the same means Gen. SooTr had, and
he would perform the same exploits-provided all
the land captured might be his He ridiculed the
idea of science in Wharf.-The only science Of fight
ing, he said, was to fight, and wig on barber's
pole with an automaton to say go-a-head would
have done just as well as Gen. ScoTT.
Somewhere in the course of his speech, Mr.
WISE declared that freesoilers at the Democratic
Convention were like "poor folks at a froic;" and
that JOHN VAN buren,, having dropped his plat
form, now stood humbly at the door begging to be
admitted into the Democratic household. These
declarations only served to bring to mind the ac-
tive part taken in the proceedings of the Conven,
ton by H.LLEr, and the remark of VAN BUREs
that there is no inconsistency between his present
and his past position.
Mr. WISE said great deal else Of course, which
we are unable to notice. He concluded his speech
with formal and apparently devout prayer.