Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-18
LYACHDURG IIRGlNIAN.
Mr.. wise's Speech in Petersburg.

,noaat Of interesting matter wherewlth our eS-
changes come laden. and suppressing our own
telcctablc lucubrations, we present full length
report of Mr. Wse's speech in Petersburg.
Let no one henceforth suspect US of any dspo
sition to do injustice to the Staunton nominee
Let no one doubt that we are ardently interested
about him. We make ourselves his speaking
trumpet his medium. We speak his speech to
thousands whom his voice will never reach. We
Law before eyes that will never gaze upon the
Oracle the Pythonio words il uiters. Nay. more ::
we forbear to follow the illuatrous example OF
democratic contemporary, on another OCCASION
and scandalize this effort .'harangue.' we
distinctly call it A spEncn-an Grafton, mani
fe>to-or by whatever other most dgnhed ana
nor,ps titlc. tho classic sensibilities of its
thor NAV demand We emphatically repudinte
- ida. tbo, il i "a mnsh- mixture of fustain and
,vaddle- or ..a mountain Of trash and dirt" We
positively decline even to stigmatze its doctrines
a, "perniciou~," 'red-repubhcan,' dangerous
+, the peace of society,"" revolutionary" and
calling for 1.-The united opposition OF all good
men" Such epithets we leave to others-re-
marking only for ourselves. in fervor of appre-
cia,ive admiration, that, taken altogether, the
speech is a sockdologer.
Who that reads it can dispute that the "Irlb-
me of the People is most uncommon man =
Who can doubt that with the schedule of his mcr-
its, designs and capabilities here exhibited he
should be Governor of all the States-aye, OF
..the great globe itself, and all which It inhaht'
instead of the successor of Joseph Johnson
and his own beloved Billy Smith Is he not a
bout to disembowell the earth of its reasures.and
CARPET its worn AMI sallow face with the green
web Of agriculture Will he not save the uncn-
dangered credit Of the State--rescue ITS intact
honor from deiilement, make "iearned lheban
of each mothers sou and daughter from the
Chesapeake to ''the big bend OF the ONO = WIN
he not make steam horses as numerous as buiia-
Ice, on the prairie-and have the white wings of
commerce sailing like fish hawks up every creek
The public lands, too. will he not wrench them
from the hands of the spoor make the armies
of Europe fight on till we get tired feeding them;
and utterly and irreparably demolish and ami
hilatc Know Nothingism, and that speedily =
To sum up all in an intorrogatory, is not Mr..
Wise the most promising candidate poor old
Virginia. has yet been blessed with
Nor need we question how all this is to be
done-nor look to his speech for enlightenment,
but must take it in faith nothing doubling
lieving that ''snce be was fifteen years of age,
he has known no such word a fail'-cxcept IN
getting through democratic Senate, as Minister
to France. Some things there are, it is true.
which. as the vehicle of Mr.. Nse's Delphic ut
terances, we could wish he had spoken more
clearly We do not exactly comprehend, in the
outset how his refusal tn discuss Democracy,
with friend or foe because he is the nominee of
the Lunatic Convention, is to satisfy the "oId
defenders" of that party, who resent his abuse
of Gen Jacks and his insults to themselves,
and desire to know if he has repented of these
things and is willing to make open acknowledge
ment of it. For such men, the declaration that
he is an ''infdel radical democrat" strong and
convincing as such language would have been in
the DAYS of Robespierre, and the Reign of Ter
ror will hardly suffice.
fit were not our bounden duty, too, to pro-
nounce the responses of the oracle, precisely as
they are given to US, we should have been pleas
ed to have had marginal exposition OF the exact
Significance and full import of that fierce phrase
-"nfdel radical democrat We have too much
respect for Mr.. Wise's intellect, to believe for a
moment that he belongs to the ''indde" school
ing socialist" red republican, and with hay.
ing INDUCED in "bidsphemous imprecations.-
We prefer thinking that he said, or meant to
say, infinite radical democrat'-nlbeit such
character would make him the worst sort OF a
Governor for a conservative State, with estab-
lished institutions and fixed laws.
But passing from this, admit ourselves be-
wildered in contemplating the process by which
Mr.. Wise is going TO educate all the people,
..knew- Nothings" and all-and make them wise
enough, and viruous enough, TO discharge all the
duties of good citizenship, and especially TO in
terpret wills Alright. Nor can we help saying,
quietly to ourselves, if education makes u man
good and wise-will not religion make him bet
fer and wiser; and if it be just and expedient to
take mans mO2ey, by law to pay the school
master who teaches other peoples children would
it not be still better to send the sherln for tithcs
also, to pay the parson of the parish' But thisis
al soto rcce and if any one has heard US whis
pering,h will please not mention it to Mr.. Wise.
we are not 80 much befogged as to the means
by which Mr.. Wise would make several lines of
railway from the Chesapeake to the big bend Of
the Ohio" What he says savagely about
taxes explains that As the illrstross Simon
Suggs jr., says, that clears up what would other
wise be "qute ondefinite." Nothing is easier
than to make railroads. when you have money;
and the sheriffs and constables and eommiss
ers of the revenue make an admirable Committee
of Ways and Means Any poor mans in
the commonwealth, if sold at the nearest eros
sings, is worth ten dollars, and that will pay the
days wages of a dozen foreign Ant-Know-noth