Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-23
LfNCHBURG lIRGiNIAN.
TUESDAY NOaxIN8 .JANY - 80.
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zeus In this plsee. Saturday night. IA speech ~
about three hour. and three quarters leugth /
vii appear in fail 10 the Richmond Wing (shose
ret.erter Va tsr..-eni1 and we defer comments
unfil We have il before U.s. II differed in no ~.
ierial position. nor much IN Language. irafa ais
speeches IN Petersburg and Bedford. the sub
s;aaee OF which bas bern given aud commented
ON IN former numbers Of tbs Journal.
lie began WITH some complimentary a..a.Ians
to the city Of Lynchburg-i,s outerprize, indus
try and wealth turned next 10 the vouchers Of
H.. denocracy-to-v it. that he Il the nominee
of the staunton Convention. and bas twice served
"a Presidential Elector by the appointment Of
Democratic Conyentions--tbus being "a trebiy
endorsed Democrat' by the paHy-bat boldly
declaring. in reference to hs former opinions
and course as a public man, tina, be had ''No RH-
CARNATIONS To MAKE; glanced next a; the var
in Europe. which be thought might involve the
credit Of the State-and which or federal gov
eralnent had done wisely in keeping clear Of all
connection with; through The subject. of
agriculture. mining, manufacture and educa-
ton; referred briefly 70 the Nebraska blll-Which
be sail he would have voted fof II be had
been in Congress-and which mo abolitionst
should lay hands without fight. announced
HE views Of our Land policy. differing. as we IN
desstood them. from the Bill Of Mr.. Hunter,
(ihough be took care not To sAy soj; and coneind-
ed wifh scattering and most neonolusiFe TRADE
against Know. nottingham, which BE- said he do
spised and defed."
In regard t. education. understood Mr..
Wise to revive distinctly the enormous ~ stetn Of
Jeifer son and 10 make it an issue in this cam
paigu. He enpha,ically declared, that. while 1t
i the duty OF the parent to feed and cothe the
body If the child, i, il the duty Of the State to
feed hi. mind He advocates the supper; 81 an
university, colleges. academies aud common
schools with an agricultural institute, all. unless
we mis,ook him, out Of the public treasury, aud
by taxation. The people will think more than
once about this. before they assent to IT.
He is for completing the leading lines Of ina
prorement with all possible expedition and at
whatever cost, compatible With the preservation
Of the public credit. 40 matter how much the
people may "grnauH about their faxes.
He daelt with lugubrioua gI-ts upon the de-
chyed aud fallen condition Of the state, under
the policy !, had heretofore pursued, seeming TO
forget iha, his own party ~rre responsible f,r
that policy.--and that he va eonvictng them Of
inoompetency to take care Of the Interests Of the
State.
tie walked into Know Sofhingsm With con
centrated venom. bat a confused logic. W have
never witnessed u ..impetsut conclusion
than the attempt to fasten abolitonistn upon that
order. and 70 trace lis origin to political sermon
preached last year in Mas.achu.ett-. by one par
son ClArk-from whose production be read long,
wear some and Irrelevant extracts. There b"
fret found the head spring Of thi- black aud pu-
trid .trean-but seemed afterwards 10 conelude
that d, had originated in England, aud ~a- sbad
owed forth in Dickens new book Hard ines
Before he finishes the canvass, be may traoe it 10
the koran-with DO Jess rcs-ou. tine evidence
10 his mind, tina, il il au abolition organization,
was the fact that the New lofk Herald had sent
n reporter 10 Petersburg 10 write down and pub
lish his speech lmisreprescnt H. hc said) for the
purpose of injurng his election. II struck every
one, except Mr. Wise himself, az strange that
the New York Herald. which uniformly adyo-
Gates the southern side of sectional questions,
should be couspiring with abolitionism to defeat
Mr.. Wise, while the New York Tribune, the
greenest viper in the whole snakes den Of aboli-
tionists, should be fayoring his election Moth
ing but the most inoonsecutiye and elf-eontra-
dietory process Of thought (if thought it may be
called) could have brought Mr. Wise's mind 10
this conclusion. But this not all Mr..
Wise was not content with committing suicide
upon his argument-buth he praotised on it all the
cruel penalties Of the old English law, aud
drove "a stake down through its defunct and mu
tilated body. Standing forward as the champion
Of the South and the slave interest, himself. and
denouncng the organization us abolitonism
in disguise, he informed the audience that the
constituted authorities, had solicited him to be
como their candidate for the office of Governor,
with the promise superadded that they would
ert whatever power they possessed, to make him
President of the Union in 1856 Could not Mr.
Wise have asked himself what Know Nothingism
wanted with him. if its object were to abolish
slavery, or dissolve the union
Mr.. Wise's abuse of the new order afforded
much amusement 10 the audience, especially TO
those Of it whom we took to be initiated. When
he most serious and tragic they appeared
most diverted. Whether Mr.. Wise has outlived
his best days, or whether the expectations of his
audience overwrought, we speak with no
wish TO disparage his oratory, when say the
general impression at the conclusion was one of
disappointment. Mr.. Wise is the same une-
qualled actor he always was. and here and there
are touches of inimitable drollery, or corusca-
tons OF true ecquence, but the genius that was
fed by the passions of his youth begins to flicker
and 'the fire that in his spirit dwelt is Tutoring,
faint and low" His speech was frank and
gallant one, but wanting the warmth which moves
the heart az much as the ugic that con vinoas tho