Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-24
MI Wise the Candidate of the Abolitioni-ts
fol the Presidency

MI. Wise the Candidate OF the AD0htohl-9
foi the Presidency
The Tribune aud Evening Post of New York.
the leaders 90 tbe abolition party, have both cx-
pressed themselves favorable to the nomination
If Mr.. Wise. W. have not seen the reasons as
signedby the frs, named of these journals for
it, Willingness 10 support oar Governor eleet,but
a paragraph from tho Evening Post will proba-
bly, account for the seemingly anomalous posi-
ton ofbo,h. insert il
Mr.. Wise is a southern man in principle. in
| temper md character, who makes no lretensions
20 neutrality or moderation The maintenance
of slavery, aud Of what he calls the rights of
the South, meaning the nationality Of slavery.
ferns almost the whole ofhis political creed. and
is tho professed rule Of his public conduct.
in bis moral constitution there is all that iInpet-
uosity. that prejoninance of the viii and all.
scnce of self-rcstraiht, wlirh are the character
sites Of men brought up ao,ong slaves. With
Mr.. Wise for President, the question of the nt-
tionality Of slavery would advance rapidly to Il
solution. We should have 10 half measures and
~ mincing Of terms: there 'yould be the alvo-
Gates Of that LOOSE construction of the conslitu-
ton which Establishes slavery 10 The territories,
on the one side, uni the champions Of the strict
or Interpretation which denies the existence of
slavery where is II not Directly imposed bvthc To-
cal law. on the other. Under sach u President,
parties would farm and organlz ~ themselves with
IA view Ia present questions, und If those views Of
constitutional right, which are favorable To free.
dom. have any real hold ON the mind If the peu-
pie, they. would then have oil the advantage Of ii
party regularly associated 10 support aud en-.
force them. hoth IN Congress md in Tia" cenntry
ut large. With such means. til. President might
more easily bo keat in check during his term of
office. and with such means, the chances of put
ting u successor of different opinions in his place
at the expiration ofhis term woeld b, greatly in.
creased.
Here then is u rational solution Of tho riddle.
Despniring of success in their seditious efforts
to organize n sectional party. ns the slavery
question now stands, they desire to place at the
head Of affairs q Southern man whose want Of
moderation aud absence of self restraint
would urge him into such excesses ms would place
the South in the wrong, and drive the people Of
the North "to organize themselves with Il view
to present questions" aud to putting a success
or of different opinions in his place at the expi,
ration of his term The scheme bc,rays all that
astuteness for which the aboliiionists are noted
The late elections have surprised them by the
exhibition of Il weakness for which they were not
prepared. Relying upon the excitement produc
ed in the North by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and trusting that the hour
for triumph had come, they sounded the tocsin
of rebellion, and with Seward himself carrying
their black banner, rallied the cohorts of fanati
cism and treason. But fortunately for the coun
try, the great conspiracy failed. There was
still enough of patriotism interrupted, and rea-
son not yet infatuated, in the North, TO confront
aud put to rout the renegade hosts of treason.-
Bof1ed and beaten as they were, and yet not
abandoning the fendish hope of final success
we can imagine their leaders meeting. like fall
len Luoifer and his colleagues in the internal re-
gions, in dark conclave, to plot the means Of re-
deeming their fortunes. All had been done tina
could be. by infammutory appeals to the pass.
ions and prejudices of tho North. The ~enforco
ment of the fugitive slave law, the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and she outbreaks of "bor.
der rufianism" in Kansas had been urged a,
acts of intolerable outrage and insult. Their
strongest men and most skillful leaders had beer
in the field. And yet they had encountered q
disastrous and sweeping defeat! What next
was to be done! New material must be brought
into action. II, with what the South had done,
she could not be broken down, the South mus,
be induced to do something more and worse than
she had yet done. to incense and arouse the an
tagonistic feeling of the North. Some Southern
man wanting in moderation aud ..self-re.
straint,' prolific of b~lunders, and poten, for mis-,
chief, must be given a national position. A. il
to favor the scheme of the conspirators, Mr.,
Wise, just n. the crisis, presented all the Quail.
ties and characteristics they sought. He had
achieved a victory which made him c~onspiou
-. J.. Al. oras af tho nata, IL, L-1 MIN
letter to Boston which revealed the recklessness
Of his nature, and the venomous intensity of his
hatred for the anti-slavery portion of the North