New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-15
A SPECIMEN OF CHIVALRY.

The committee on the Slavery lectures at Boston
have received the following very spicy and very Guar
acteristc and very polite letter from Gov W ise OF
Virginia. The letter is italicized according 10 the
ONLY NEAR OsAscooK}
ACcoMAcK COUNTY, Va, Oct. s, 1855.
GENTLEMEN: On my return from home, alter an
absence of some days found yours of the 10th uti
respectfully inviting me TO deliver one oil tue lee
lures of the couse on slavery at fremont Temple,
in The city of Boston, Thursday evening, Jan TO-
1856; or if that time will not suit my engagements
YOU requeet that will mention at once what Thurs.
" day evening between the middle Of December and
" the middle Of March next will best accommodate
" me-"
Now, gentlemen, desire to pay you dae respect,
vet YOU compel me to be very plain with you and to
Say that your request in every sense, insulting ana
offensive 10 me. What subject of Slavery have you
initiated" lectures upon1 cannot conceal IRON
myself that YOU have undertaken in Boston, TO discuss
and TO decide whether my properly IN frgiH'd ougn,
to remain mine not, and whether II sha De auo"ee
the protection Of laws, Federal and State, wherever
it may be carried or may escape IN the cnted states
or whether il shall be destroy sd by higher law than
constitutions and statutes!
VLo are ron 10 assume thus saek jurisdiction
over subject delicate and already h1ed 10 us teia
tops by solemn compact between the States, ana oy
States which are sovereign will not obey your
summops nor recognize your jurisdiction.
You have no authority and no justification for thus
calling me to account at the bar OF yor tno9na' anu
for thus airaignns institute q, established oy iaw'
which do rot reach YOU, and which you cannon reach
by calling en- ne 10 defend IL IL
You send me card TO indicate the character o. ZEE
lecfvrers iof the last year. Ii reads Admit the
"bea1er and LADY to the Independent Lectures 90 on
"S Slavery. Lecture Committees. IT, howe, i:u S'
- bert, Geo +. Wilisms, Henry I. Parker ": W ash,
burn, h. Il. Mussey, w. b. SPooner, D. W. Stone.
II is Endorsed: Lectures at the fremont ienpis
I. Rcston., ls54-5. Nov. g. Hon. Charles Summers
Rev John Perpont, poem. Dec. !, Hen Ssnnon
a. p. Cbase of Ohio. Dec. H. Hon Anson burno
"rame. Dec. 81, Wendell Phillips, Esq. Dec -
" .assius NJ. Clay Esq, of Kentucky. IAN T. Hon;
Horace Greeley. Jan. II, Rev. Henry Wa,u
RS cher. Jan. ls, Hon John p. Hale; Jsn. 20
" Ralnh Waldo Emerson, E.q. Feb. Hon, Nato (,
"P Ranks. Jr. Feb. Is, Hon. LEWIS u. CaMpoen
"of Ohio. Feb. 90, Hon. Samuel Houston oil IeAs''
"Wsrcb !. Hen. David Wilmot Of Pennsylvania-
March q Hon. Charles ". Upham." All honora'
MES and souires except those who are TersreHes
The card does verify indicate their Q! sun
ply naming them. Ard your letter. gentlemen, :
ranked by &C Sumner, L. s. ). WIN Ihese cna M.
acteIstcs am at no loss to understand you ana !Su
You saw, "during the next ses.os arger num sS
Of gentlemen from the South viii ee inyneS' ~,
&c. regret it, if any Others can De loena yo o
| aveholding States TO accept your lnvita'yn IL,
plead the example Of Gen. Houston. ns .ss. -
would follow. have doubt you accoide0 sery 80,
spectful attention to him last winter ana "ee 'e!
grateful for his services in your cause.
You offer "one hundred and fifty doilsn 70 oe Pa
to the Lecturer, be bearing bis Own expenses ~,