Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

Governor Wise Of Virginia has AL irotiurs fo
the presidency. In the following extract from
recent letter he States his rccommendati,n ~. Mr.
Wise is a positive character and such is his rec
cmmendatiun to the presidency. "Hc ujH ru1c IN
Black Rep"JEcans." That is Il recommendation
III all men north and south. As we are to have ,
stakeholder for the next four years, Wise is thc
man in lttei;fte tt the Without charactcr-c
mere plant tool Of slaveholders, like Fillmore and
Pierce. Wise might, if anybody could, provoke
the submissive north to actual and thorough re
%sistance. lie says he knows Il hundred men he
would prefer to himself for PRESIDENT
But If the Democracy can again succeed. and
cannot again unite upon a better man than | ain,
ami they Ttd unite upon me, | can only say thai
l will a Ia mode Internationally and clGctual
y rule Black Rcpublicarjsm. I piU JUie item
But the idea OF ruling ur not ruling them shall moi
turn me II hairs breadth from my own convictions
as to what my duty as II patriot requires. | will
write, speak, act, rs | think, right, and leave the
consequences to God and tho country without
thinking of tho Presidency !
II am truly, your friend,
HENRY A. WISE.
"5,o. Booker, Esq, Hampton, Va"
In view Of the Considerations we have mention.
ed, the n. Y. Evening Post seems about ready t.
20 iT wise. wei we lulnR tIcre would be moro
good sense in that measure than in s~tulifying it.
self as the Post did at the last presidential election
by supporting that vicious nobody Franklin Pierce.
The Post says;
Mr.. Wise is Southern man in principle, in tenn.
per and character, who makes no pretensiuns to
neutrality or moderation. The maintenance OF
Slavery, and what he calls the rights of the South,
meaning the nationality tf Slavery. forms almost
the whole of his political creed, and is the profes.
red rule of his public conduct. In his moral con-
stitut ton there is all that impetuosity, that pre-.
dominance of the will and absence of self-re.
straint, which are the characteristics Of men
brought up among slaves. With Mr.. Wise for
President, the question OF the nationally of Sla-
very would advance rapidly to a solution. We
should have no half measures and no mincing of
terms; there would he the advocates oi that loose
construction of the Constitution which establishes
Slavery in the Territories on the one side, and the
champions of that stricter Interpretation which
denies the existence Of Slavery where it is not d.
rectly imposed by local law on the other. Under
such n President, parties would form and organize
themselves with Il view TO present questions; and
IT those views of constitutional right which are
favorable to. freedom have any real hold on the
mind of the people, they woull then have all the
advantage of a party regularly associated to sup
port and enforce them, both in Congress and in
the country at large. With such means the Pres
ident might more easily he kept in check during
his term of Office, and with such means the chan
ees of putting a successor Of different opinions in
his place at the expiration of his term would be
greatly increased"