Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-05
Another Letter from Henry a. Wise-i
Cushing Reply TO The Boston Meftan.
tile Library association. .I

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The following letter has been received
from Hon. Henry a. Wise, of Virginia,
By thc Boston Lecture Comhittee,in an
swsrto one b theirs, requesting him to
lecture before Che Mercantile Library As
sociation during the present course:
6tSOYLY, MEAN OSAScocRs Va, fF
Saturday, Nov. II, 1855. EN-
GENTLEMEN: Yours Of tic 18th inst,
was awaiting my arrival at homo rycstcr-
day, ffem q temporary absence IN WASH
ingtonE City. Il n,
I gratefully acknowledge the Compile
raent of your invitation to deliver one,6f
4 course 81 lectures, during The present
Winter, before the Mercantile library
Association Of Boston. A+fa
|, j am we'll assured Of the highly re:
spectacle character, and Of thsy laudahle
objects Iof your literary Association, ghd
no body Of the kind could have been more
honorcd than you have been by the Illus
trious orators and statesman who have
shed upon yourlectures the lights Of their
great minds. j have no doubt, too, Of
the cordial welcome" / would receive
from every many Of your bospitable
citizens; but II is not in my power, .gcn-
tlemen, 10 accept your invitation The
situation of my private affairs, and the
duty ofpreparing for months to como, for
new scenes Of public service, will en-
gross all my time and attention the whole
Of the coming Winter. have been COM
PEELED To- decline every call Of The same
kind from many quarters in my own State,
and other States besides yours. Il
i sincerely regret this the more, be.
cause ! havepcrer YET SET my .fooi on the
beloved spill Of that portion Of my country
called New England. This has not been
owing TO my antagonism on my part to-
ward that favored section. M,issachu.
sets espscially.I have been taught to
yenerate ind cherish as Che elder sister
Of Virginia. When | refectsupon our at
titudes and relations in the darkness and
gloom Of Che night Observation-Disclosures /
listen to their halls, sister to sister yir-
ginia 70 Massachusetts, Massachusetts to
Yirginia--4in the times which tried
mems SOULS" whom | watch,the fires kin
ding on The heights of Boston, and See
Virginia going forth across the rivers and
over the land, BY the sen, lending her
BEST beloved son by the hand, dropping
blood and tears at every step there and
back, leaving linn there on the post to
guard your very. city, and to make the
-oppressors evaeuate it and whenSI con-
tfast this picture with the present state Of
things in our confedelacy, which makes
you assure Fme ,.that the feeling Of Mas
sachusetts toward my State are notFthose
of antagonism," gush forth IN anguish
aud ask-Why a necessity for such as
surances? ! 4 >I;%;
i Why any antagonism between these,
the devoted States Of Hancock and Wash
ington? May Godin His mercy and love
guide them, as Of yore! May they ever
be cementedin union BY the blood Of the
Revolution! And whenever another hight
Of gloom ana trial shall come, may they
Land cheer each other on again u. VIE
tory, for civil and religious liberty.
/ttsf II Yours truly. .
! o <srl m L HENRY A. WISE.
To Chas. G. Chase and others, Com
n1itfap etc i EY8let(lH& II 8451g "BHFs II