Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-03-14
Mr.. Wise at Fairmont.

In company with a party Of gentlemen
OF this place, We visited Fairmont on th
9Th inst, to bear Mr.. Wise's address. To
say that we were pleased would be afaipt
expression of our teelings-we were deligh
ted-ecstatically so. Mr.. Wise is great
mana great speaker. and the best Isa,
der We ever heard. In argument and de-
nunciation he yields Damascus blade as
keen as that OF Saladin, that cuts clean
through the rafters among the "bats and
owls" OF a K6owNothing. Council in
garret. lie held up this OZARK lantern
party" as he called it. in all its naked de.
formities. to the full view of an audience
disguised with its Jesuitism. We think
ne speak within bounds when No say
that 400 votes were made for tho Demo.
cratic party by Mr.. Wise's visit TO Fair
mont. His advocacy of policy to de-
velope the Mining, Manufacturing, Com
mercial and Agricultural resources Of the
State did Justice to his character. rs
statesman, while his remarks in favor Of
Common School system, shows his APP
probation of the Importance of general
education, as nucrsswry to seIf-goyern-
ment.
We have not time to make a more ex-
tended notice, but give our readers the
following from the Fairmont yirginisn.
with the simple remark that we consider
he has undsr-.stimAtSd the nun bcr Of
people present. by one half,
An immense crowd Of people ascend lsd
here last Monday. The day WAS sun
shiny. balmy, and health-inspiting. Froa
TayI Tor, Harrison. and MonongaIiA counties
there were many persons present; while
there were soms from Preston, and seVs-
raj even from UPshur. Our streets liter
ally swarmed with men. About one o'S
clock Mr.. Wise entered the court. house,
which was already packed. We were
among those inside but we are ersdihlv
informed that the crowd in the house Was
outnumbered by those Who could not get in
more than two to one. No one, NE believe,
estimates the number Of people present as
less than two thousand.
Hon. Z. Kidwcll made few eRrnett
and appropriate remarks in Introducing
our distinguished candidate. Mr. Wise
then rose and commenced his speech. Flo
spoke of this section OF The other grand
divisions OF the State and Of his love for
the whole Commonwealth His rsfefenea
to the mountains which had once divided
the East from the West was ono Of tho
most beautiful and chaate flights OF ora
tory we ever listened to.
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US to give an outline Of Mr.. Wiso's
speech. We cannot do SO. We went 10
hear, not to report il; and NE did not
take down a note. Besides, even the
heads of his speech would fill up half a
page Of our paper. His remarks on the
subjects otinIernal Improvements, mining.
manufacturing, education, de-, no one,
we take it for granted. could object TO-
They were such as n statesmen might we'll
utter, and were heard with marked atten.
ton. II was only when hc touched the
once mysterious but now we'll understood
subject of Know Nothingism. that the
crowd began to applaud him. is expo.
sltion of tho workings Of that order ought
to have convinced every man who beard
him that it were best to have nothing 10
do with the nocturnal brotherhood. He
bore down with great severity upon the
ism itself, but treated those honest men
who had been inveigled into il with kinH-
ness, an advised them to withdraw. In
this connection he pointed out tile vast
difference between the first oath and tho
second, 1--WE believe. The first only
bound the initiate to vote against foreign.
ers and Catholics negative oath. 'fhe
second bound them to vote for no other
persons than second degree members Of
the order. whether natives and Protes-
tants or foreigners and Catholics were by
this means excludcd-an affirmative oath.
He said not word, so far as we can
remember, which should induce any hon
est Know Nothing to vote against him
from pique. He said he would crush the
order or it should crush him but
he certainly did not say that he would
crush The individual members Of IL. Ho
meant Of course That one Of its heaviest
blows would be the withdrawal Of many
OF its best members. We make those
remarks because We know that an effort
is being made to get some disguised
Know-Rothings back into the ranks by
incorporating the position Of Mr. Wiae.
men who will undoubtedly vote for him
If they be not deceived Mby his enemies
And We stand almost alone in even
saying this much by way of sxplaaation:
for nine tenths Of itbe Wise men in this
country are perfectly defiant IN their At
titude.
Mr.. Wise showed that though they ac-
knowlenged God in their ritual, they
did NOT recognize triune God the Sc
cond aud third person in the Trinity were
ignored and he explained this fact by
stating that there were so many Unitari-
ans in the North that the order we're