The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-06

Teecn cJ mr.. W1e at Aisrandrta IT'S Length
and On'issions-HI -Assa lions During Tire
Hosrs-IA Protestant Clergy Of the NORTH
hn0so Nohfngsm Again-Pox Plus IL. and
"Jack the Giant Kltr.n
Although | presume you Tad 4 reporter on the
stand tonight to note down the remarkable speech
OF Mr.. Wise--which, according 10 my old fashioned
silver time piece, occupied three hours and seven
teen minutes in its delivery, al d would fill SONS
twelve or fifteen columns Of your ~paper-I think 1t
probable that your readers, who are business men,
and consequently have not an entire day to throw
away on one stun piai, would lks to see q brief
account of what he said, ipterspersed with = fsw
things which he omi.3ed TO say, or forgot to re-
me mber.
shall, therefore, give you a running sketch,
,prennigivs hat I think Es mistook his audience, and
viii cCniiL ne to NATAL tia character Of his felloH
citizens. If he attempts 10 dive, irstend OF lead or
persuade tnSm to support him Ia hs lofty aspirs
tons. II IL AZ old saying, ard tue asst is old, that
while a boy can lead q bose 70 the brook, forty
men cant force him TO drink when he gets there,
unless 10 is thirsiy.
His FIRST hour was consumed in pronouncing a
prepa, cd lecture upon what Old Virginia was, as
she caue from the bands Of her CIeator-rich Ia
soil, mines, minerals, and water power; but misssa
Bile and poor in the habits and customs or
her ~iencfals and lazy Inhabitants. Whsrs
the landsol5sgs 'skinned che tenants and the te-
nants skinned the land, and all became wretcted
and ~csrtsGptible together, leaving naught but
scaIsard purifying sores upon the face OF thsir
good old mother" "Where, instead Of fastsd cas.la
upon q thousand hills, for distant markets, rs could
lie found In other States less flvoIed by Providence,
you could behold the starving farmer aud his laz7
tenants chasing stump tailed steers for daily food"
All this and other trying evils, he attributed to
misgcyernment and mism ansgensnt at h,me-.hat
virginia had heretofore given up all her greas men
to The nstional government, and had kept none FOR
home consumption. Her former Governors were
mere dolts ia his estimation, aud her legis,a ;ors lit
tie better than her thriftiess farmers and poor ms.
chsnics. That while the beautiful Blue Ridge and
the lofty Allegheny mountains daily aud nightly
"milked the c!ouds,1 no ons vas found in their vi.
entity wise enough 10 catch t1e milk aud use IL pro-
perly. BE then with humble manner aud bendsd
knee, d~eicately insinuated in haze verba, that he
and long experience to his native State.
That he did not desire The office Of chief magis.
trate Of the Old Dominion r his Sn sake, but Tor
the peoples good. That ii elected he would mike
railroads, build up fact ties, opsn minss, improve
their farms, stimulate c,mmercs and do several 9th
er things too tedious 70 mentioa. (Applausc.)
Whatever other criticism Mr.. Wise may have pro
y0ked, no just man can csarge HIN with using 100
much SOFT soap upon his hearers-bowmucAsoever
he may rub over his own head and shoulders. In
anakepcie everybody and everything in o, on. of
M. Wise devoted his second hour to a ssve.e
Philippe ana scathiDg criticism upon the Northern
the head Of one Freeman Clark, Think he called him,
and ridicuied his method Of praying and Staging
psalms and hymns before readiag his Iextfrom Jere-
miah. Some one near me hissad at This time. aod
whom 0atsI mhv ha ahd IL rpnlfe1 TINT ha tS,uohf
Mr.. Wise deserved 1t, for tnus scorning all his tel
low-citizens who did net happen to be infds,s or
paplsts. In this connection be Landed General jack
son, john Tyler and F,anklin Pierce as The
for their Roman frrn1ess in vetoing al vile
river ard harbor mDs. He forgot TO remember that
he had once violently opposed "Old Hickory aad
claimed 70 be elected Speaker Of the 27tn wing
Congress for this outst ,ndlog virtue; that he hsi
ssoIn he E00ld met tsse Office under Tyler, although
II should be hung with rnbiss," ano yet hal after
wards siGdl7 conseated 10 90 a. United States Mn
lister 10 BAIL, With tie palIry outfit of $4,000 ard
5000 annual salary; ne emitted to mention that
Old Ha koiy" had signed 8 river aud harboc bill
on the 81 # March, 1887, sppropri,ting over three
millions o. dollars for commsncing sucl national
improvements, the very day bsfoes he lS: the White
Bouse forever, while bis ~iaSoites, Tyler, Polk and
Pierce, had Vetoed bills to finish the works which
their ii!usfrious pIede essor hal begun. ] suppose
he thope6. that all his hearers well rccolected these
small facts. and therefore they did not require no
tice.
He presented Gfnesa al pierce 10 his StlVcholiing
audience IS the gres; trend and Wind, ,a.or OF
their tights. wholly forgetting th3 INN !. srial
fact that he lad turned Bronson ou. of Office
in New York, VINO supported General Cas-, the de-
mosratic nomiaee for President, in lS4S, and put Ia
his place, q Van B1rsn bsrnabrnyr, who coaissctd
with the abolitionists at Blffslo and Ui-a, w,ere
ore Of the chief speakers "a Peffectiolist minister
OF the Gospel said that che hoped to see the day
when tbers would be o high wall built round all the
slave STATES, and all those of the North who sym,
psttised with besiaye power would be driven In, and
then fire aud birthstone scattered over the crowd
Would rot 'our s~ufsrings have been intolerab'e ~
Van Buren).
His third hour a. seventeen minutes we-e de-
voted 70 that mysterious, ubiquitous order com
monty called =" Know No,hipgs." And as 81.
listening 20 violent deounsia.ion aud abuse Of his
own coun.fymen, for hard he artedness and charging
the Protestant churches with oigotry, ignoran 9 and
/ fsIatcism, while be ate npttd TO draw forth q sigh
orr tear tor me poor expatIiated feon, or the old
Pope OF Rome, because ne WAS surrounded with
French soldiers, In order TO prevent him from cutting
the thIoats OF his libsrty loving Protestant subjects, /
wasforcibiy re mirded ofan ancient nursery tale, told
10 me ia early youth, and viii n | still remember. II
was called "Jack he Giant kilsr,' and rms thus: A
certain nighty king, in olien times, was wofuliy b.
set by p05t6r0u, one eyed giants, rho deyoured
his herds aud 1ccks; snd, when these failed them,
would b~Ieakfast, dine anil sup upon his unfortunate
subjects nho might happen 70 fall ioto their hands.
HI. war blessed With one only daughter, the hsiress
to his throne, and promised Der in marriage 80 any
ore whs would lid him " his csnnibal rel GLIB Irs.
Many ambitious kings AID p-iaces lost their lives
aid thru mes In vain endeavors &, exsefminate the
giants. AT length q bold fssmer's son presented
himkelf and offered TO do the work. He had seen
the beautiful princess, and loved her with oil his
heart. A kind-heartcd fairy male hin q presen, o.
q magic cap, which, when ne put II on, rendered
him Invisible. With this and his faithful dagger he
entered upon the fearful Combat. He woaId, ever
and anon, show himself TO bis Cyclic plan enemies;
but, when they struck at him 6ercely and fu;ionsly,
be hid himself beneath ais fairy cap aad laughed
them 10 scorn, while. As so5n as they bsc Kms weary
with their ~fru,less cf5rts I, destroy him, he womb
mount upon their sleeping bibles and put ous their
ewes. And thus and by these means, unaided, ne
destroyed them all, and married. the kings lovely
daughter. SO, TO nigat, when AR. Wise, the modern
democratic one eyed giant, was striking az the
Know Nothings, / could see them laughing all