Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-08-16
Our Next Gorernor.

! nor, ana during the past montN or TWO
we have seen quite number of tickets
proposed to the consideration of the De-
mocratic party, for next springs canvass.
The names of Henry A. Wise, VIM. Smith,
John Letcher, CO.. Faulkner, and num-
Der of others have been suggested by their
different friends.
AS our present excellent chief magis-
trate is ineligible to recollection, we this
week raise TO our masthead the banner of
HENRY A. WISE, of Accomac, subject, of
course, to the decision of the Democratic
Convention. as the man whom not only
ourself. but the people of this, and vast
majority Of all the counLiescin this portion
of the State, decidedly prefer to any other
named, for the next Governor.
Mr.. Wise's talents long since marked
him as one Of the first men in the State,
and though he has never used any Of the
popular means resorted to by political as
pirants, he has been honored with many
of the most important public positions by
the people of his district.
The only objection that we ever heard
urged against him is, that he has not al
ways acted with the same political party;
but this, while we are decided partizan
and a great stickler for consistency, we
esteem a very trivial objection. It has
been said that under the teachings Of ex-
! perience, a wise man sometimes changes
his mind, fool never. But whatever
have been his political antecedents, those
best acquainted with him are the last to
charge him with improper motives-all
ascribe to him integrity Of purpose, and
patriotic desire to advance the best inte-
rests of the country. That he is now, and
ever has been, true Democrat at heart,
none who are acquainted with him will
deny. He has labored for the party a
number Of years. and has never set up
claims" upon that party for consider
alton" He has been free to act but re-
luctant to ask. Among the many evil
denccs which he has given of his devotion
to Democratic principles, we cannot re-
frain from extracting the following from
his reply TO a remark made by Wing
member of the late Constitutional Con-
vention from Fauquicr, Mr.. Chiffon, who
had the temerity to announce as the sem
timent Of his party -
We must have an infusion Of monar-
| chical and aristocratc principles, in order
IN cbacl, p,ro na1oocrocv %
Mr.. Wise responded as follows:
" He is traitor to his native land,
A traitor to mankind, who in Il cause
That down the course Of time will fire tho world
Rides not upon tho lightning of the sky
To save his country
1 deny here, that there is particle Of
aristocracy or monarchy necessary to the
wcll-being or safety, either of person or
property. 1 deny it. vindicate Anne
rican doctrines--l vindicate American lib
erty. Here, standing in the Capitol Of
Virginia, in this Assembly, representing
the sovereignty of the people of Virginia,
in the name of my fore fathers-in the
name Of my chi!dren-in the name of
my own rights-in the name Of the digni-
| ty Of human nature, and the authority OF
that reason and conscience which assimi-
Iates me to my God, deny that doctrine
and here repcl it. thank the gentleman
for nerving my sides to this patient labor
Sir, you and are antipodes in principles.
Your doctrines have been for seventy odd
years too much regarded. l must speak
plainly among our people, and especially
east of the mountains of Virginia. Thank
God. every evil cures itself. There was
once a day when the aristocracy Of Vir-
ginia wore white topped boots, and ruffs,
and powdered hair. There was once a
day when white men would stand at the
door, with hat under arm, and bow to that
aristocracy as it rolled by in Olympic cha
riot, casting its dust into the eyes Of the
people but now, in old Virginia to be
talking about aristocracy, when it is so
poor, that none are so poor as 10 do it
reverence
His course in the Constitutional Con-
vention is living. tangible evidence Of
his unscl6shness. He there, when the
West was struggling against the influence
and mighty intellects of the East, for rights
belonging to them as equal citizens of the
Commonwealth, CALAMITY threw himself
in the defence of what he believed 10 be
correct principles, and contributed proba-
bly,, more than any other man, in over
throwing the odious " mixed basis - and
it is but due to him from those for whom
he sacrificed every selfish consideration
and risked his political fortune in his own
section of the State, to show that they are
not unmindful of his services but will ev-
er hold them in grateful remembrance.
We are pleased to observe that the