The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-15

ears hence. We know that, like his associate, !
)aleb Gushing, Of "the Corporal's Guard Mr.
Wise, during the last fifteen years has belonged !
o all parties; and we were satisfied to to-
i'm, for the present, as the champion 9 AZ
democracy, and as the peculip Il the
representative Of the high-top @heredi-
nd refined hospitality Of the -es 'chfvatry
cold Dominion PS'au ana ever
In this character, Mr.. v
NV his democr .ffse had been brought
80. $50 p;obmc. ATTIC confederates and or
49, NJ WI. >ad 10 Washing ton; and this
er. The res' ~s's"s We expected 70 encoun-
a Il article falls as far below the at
~ .escription as one of Bsrnum's hum
We have given to our readers three Of
srsnp speeches of Mr.. Wise--three of the
g sea coz eight which he has delivered. The
correctness Of our report of the first two was
mpugned, and our reporter was coArsely as
sailed SO an emissary of the Know Nothings,
whose Office it was to dog Mr.. Wise and mis-
represent and falsify his speeches. Determln-
ed TO put our impartiality hey ond all cavil, we
secured the services of two Of the most &C
complished stenographers of Congress, gradu-
ates Of this Office, to give rer5atim, from lirst
10 last, the speech OF Mr.. Wise at Alexandria.
Their excellent report we have published. Not
a whisper have we heard from any quarter
against its fidelity. 1t is conceded to be a da-
gueIreotyp pc by all parties who heard it. We
lay some stress upon this fact, because this full
report establishes the correctness of our gene
ri report of each Of the two preceding speeches.
The Alexandria speech was the Charlottesville
variations. The late Mr.. Mcdowell, of Va,
once delivered a finished conservative speech
in Congress on the slavery question. A gentle
man remarked to one of his colleagues that it
vas a great speech. EYES," replied the col
league, ~ Away did admire that speech Of Mr..
McDowel's." So with Mr.. Wise. It is the same
speech, boiled over and rehashed from stump to
stump, and our reporters have unwittingly re-
vealed the fact, and anticipated him at every
point in the unfinished schedule of his election
eering tour. The wrath of Mr.. Wise, in being
thus robbed Of his stumping capital, may be
natural enough; but his solitary speech, and his
mode Of exhibiting his displeasure at the dis
closure, destroys every vestige of a claim from
him to the craftsmanship, or chivalry, or hos
pitality of the good .'Old Dominion"
Let us glance at some Of the salient features
of this Alexandria speech of Mr.. Wise. He ex-
patiates upon the European war; but sticks to
the saving clause-th the salvo of an increase Of
the price Of wheat. This reminds us Of the
old market pms who lived on the hills over
looking the Ohio. A great food in the
submerged all the valley, and swept of
houses, fences and live stock to the amount of
Of property. Hundreds Of people were
driven from their homes to the hills, houseless
bankrupt, and some were lost in the over
whelming waters. But the old market woman
on the hill was secure, and thought ''the food
would be q blessed thing for all, for 1t would
raise the price of chickens and eggs" Aud
this is Mr.. Wise's huckstering view of this hor-
rible Eastern war. 1t is q blessed thing after all
it raises the price of wheat.
Mr.. Wise next declaims upon the agricultural,
commercial, manufacturing and mining re-
sources of Virginia, and is eloquent in exposing
the negligence of the State in the develope-
ment Of these vast reserves Of wealth and pros.
perity. But the only measure of relief which
he proposes is to make the Virginians "groan
with taxation" His plan, w presume, is to
build . vast system of railroads and canals, to
tax the people to pay for them, and then to sell
them for what they viii fetch at auction, like
the State Of Pennsy lvania. 1t strikes us that
the New York and Yankee squatters in Fairfax
and Prince William counties have shown the
way Of redeeming the agriculture of Virginia,
the basis of all commercial, manufacturing and
mining prosperity. Virginia wants more Of
such farmers as those Of the modern schoo! in
old Fairfax, and to secure such achievements
it were better to Tighten their burdens than to
make them groan with taxation"
The main reliance of Mr.. Wise, however, is
the slavery question. This is the staple in
trade of Northern and Southern demagoguas;
and the seditious agitations OF Seward, Hale,
Giddings, and such, in the North, are scarcely
more despicable than the infammable fustian
of such demagoguss as Rhett, jeff. Davis aud
Wise in the South. What a fall is here in the
stumping defamation of Wise from the ex.
allied craftsmanship of Old Dominion ~
What a contrast between this Alexan lria ha.
rangue upon abolitionism, and the recorded
speeches and sentiments of such Of the Virginia
contemporaries Of Mr.. Wise, as Stevenson, Taze-
well, Rives, John Tyler and Others, On this
vexed and perilous question:
The Northern Know Nothings, the anti
slavery speech of Arson Burlingame at a Bos
ton meeting, the Endorsement OF this speech by
Senator Wilson. the continents NJ Eroooa,
Clarke and Heory G.. Gardner, aud various
other things from the North are brought forward
by Mr.. Wise to prove that the Virginia Know
Ncthings, shareholders inclu led, are aboli-
t~ionists. AS well try to prove Senator Mason
or Hunter, Of Virginia, a free soiler, from the
fact fhaf Chnaa of Ohia ana cu~aA ~