Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-12-22
Mr.. Wise
WHAT CHANCE DOES nE STAND

have every confidence in those indications, We
as verify believe that Henry A. Wise will be de-
fea.ed, as we do that he is the nominee of the
Stanton Coyention. Nor isit our wishes that
haze produced our belief on the subject; bat the
''signs of the fines" which we have watched,
and which irresistably impress Us with the con
v%iction that this renegade ticket is doomed 10 a
defeat that will consign it, for all time, to the
lowest regions for defunet politicians Nv
cry breeze from every quarter of the State Is
redolent of signs Of disaffection and apathy, IN
the democratic ranks. and of determination aud
rengeance ON The part of the opposition. Our
Contemporary of the Petersburg Intelligencer,
proposes, discusses aud answers the question
beading this article in the following satisfactory
manner:
The attempt to elect Henty A. Wise Cover
nor of this Commonwealth at this peculiar period
is as ridiculous a. it will prove imPotent. Mr..
Wise steps into the political arena with no single
prestige Of success, but with all the signr ot the
times lowering over him, and threatening the
most sigual defeat. Whether we look at his
previous. course. the mode in which he has been
brought before the people, or the no'orI'usly as
traoted condition of tn" Democratic party II
cannot bur be apparent that h. eioetionIs SIMPLY
a moral impos-ibiliiy. No more unfortunate
selection for the Democratic party o"uid nave
been made than the choice OF Mr.. Misc aa Their
candidate. and this we think We can make clear
ly apparent. For many months past the hug
party Of Virginia have been almost IN n state OF
syncope. and. in truth, II almost seemed 10 have
faded out Of existence. At any rate, it was 50
apa,hetic that ii required most extraordinary
s,nul,r,. q, hive aruasnd IL INTO effective notion.
Happily for them the Democrats have furnished
them with these stimulants. No man IN the
Commonwealth could have been selected 50 OBJ
no1ious TO the Wings as Mr.. Wise. His very
name excitcs hatred and detestatipn IN their
bosofns, and it will be seen they will cherish the
memory Of "a thousand wrongs aud greedy
clutch at the opportunity to visit upon Inn II
most signal retrihution, for the fragrant wrongs
which h. has, in the most unproyoked manner,
perpetrated upon them. Henry 4. Mise u candi-
date and expect to be elected Why, his very
name will speed like 'the fiery cross,' ronsiug
up every Wing in the State Ia buckle on his old
armour against his election to the Governors
Office. The long penf-np wrath aud vengeance
will now find a vent which hr. Wise will feel Ia
his cost. This, We know, is no overdrawn picture
of the feelings Of the Wing party towards MIR.
Wise aud we are fully warranted in drawing the
deduction that lac cannot get one single Wing
vote in the State, while the young, the old,
the blind and, cripple among the Whigs, will
crawl or DO carried TO the polls TO vote
against him, and bless the day which enabled
them 10 discharge their debts of vengeance.-
While there exists this unanimity on the part of
the Wings, in what condition is the party who
nominated Mr.. Wise! Unanimous for lin So
far from it that it is a notorious fact that the par
~ is split and cut up from the Ohio To the Allan
tic, and from the Potomac to the Roanoke. Many
amongst them will give the domination a support
SO cold and feeble as will be calculated TO do Mr..
Wise more harm than good while numbers can
not be dragooned into his support. But this is
not all. There is a silent, mysterious Associa-
ton with their wonderful eyes glaring upon him
- party which never strikes but To be fclt,-
This party Mr.. Wise. with a risdom highly char
acteristic of him. has chosen wantonly and with
out provoeation to insult, deride, and denounce,
in language any thing but consistent, from what
we might expect from a gentleman who is a can
didate for the dignitied office of Governor of this
old Commonwealth The party thus derided and
insulted are no more nor less than mortal men,
subject to all the passions aud feelings of our
nature; and it would be miracle, indeed. fthey
did not turn upon this insolent detraotor with all
their irresistible wrath and crush him to the earth
where he belongs. If we have spoken truly, as
we solemnly intended to do, our readers can read
lily calculate MIR. Wise's chance for success in
the ensuing contest. With the Wing party
unanimously against him, the Know Nothings
spurred on by a sense of undeseryed insults and
injuries, and with his own party torn and ripped
up with the bitterest internal discussions. we ask
what chance does Mr.. Wise stand -