New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-06


NJ the Uuivepity and third, the advocate Of
hsious toleration Cheers greeted Dos. Of these su-
lions 10 Jefferson, except when tie Declaration Of
Ipdeptndence was mentioned, froa which inferred
that the doctrine Of Equal Rights not very popular
ow in Virginia There was no cher among the two
thou.snd people present for the Declaration Of ISde
pendence. Well and eloqrenty dithe say, although
be was item speaking Of the material interests Of So
cieiy, Virginia now lies with her head in the dust"
II sounded very ST aDge to hear Henry A. wise
etesk Of Jsci son, Tyler and Pierce terms Of s1d-
alton Yet .hete were the three men whom be singled
out an org the Presidents who had guided the ship Of
State in her proper course. BE referred with some
pride to bis opposition to John Quincy Adams, indi-
eating him sc the originator Of the resent supposed
crusade against the South. After DWELLING upon Agr-
culture, internal Improvements, EAca:ion, and the
Tariff, he exclaimed: now l come the subject
On this head he offered little tst was new or
striking. He assumed that Slsverywss right and to
be perpetual Hence every thing he could find op-
posed thereto was wropg and reasonable The best
of all was, that he read large portion Of the Rev.
James Freeman Clarkes sermon on Slavery, and the
speeches Of Buripgsme and Henry Wilson entire, as
reported in Boston paper. Not Inc Of Burling Ame
or Wilson did he orait observed tina: the reading
Of these documents produced an nten'e agitation
among TIE moe elderly and aristocr,c looking por-
ton Of The audience. He also referred to the fact
thet Theodore Park er the most .idesus monster ap-
paren,ly, in bis eyes, among men, received over
hundred votes for Chaplain in the Massachusetts
legislature. After making Clarke and Parker the
great Apostles Of Anti Slavery he Was prep.'~a to
turn the odium heo'ogieum upon his opponents. For
were not Unitarianism Aboltonism and Socialism all
concentrated in Kno .Nothingsm' This was his
GREAT point. For more than an hour be welded il in
all the possible forms bis ingenuity could invent. lie
appealed in bis last resort for argument, TO the Epls-
eopaans Presby terians, Methodiss and Baptsts, by
name, to refrain from a crusade against the Roman
Catholics becaufe they believe in the Trinity
which. ss he charged, the Know Nothings do not
This was the weakest and sliest part Of his whole
tpeech But how could amin speak three hours and
a half without saying some foolish bings
Twas greatly astonished to find how confidently he
presumed on the ignorance and prejudices Of his
audience He felt sure, among other similar notions
that virginians would reject KnowNothingism, be-
cause Gov. Gardner had recommended that none
should vote who could not read AMI write. Here was
an article in the Hndoo creed that ist insure the re-
lection Of the whole By vuginians 1t might go down
in come States, but such a Wholesale exclusion
from the ballot box as this would be could never
be tolerated for one moment in the Old Dominion.
But enough. As I sad in beginning, his style was
mainly good, often eloquent. M Wise is now near
y So years Of age, thin shadow, but possessed
Of great powers Of endurance. lie showed no weari-
ness or exhaustion in this effort Of three hours dsra-
ton, in most oppressive atmosphere The audience
was vsriously estimated from fifteen hundred to three
thousand-twoILitds Of whom were Kuow.Nothings.
II was evident that Mr. Wise was rowing against the
tide. Reason and argument powerless with such
hearers. There was nothing taking in the speech,
nothing Of the usual sty Of stump speeches, and, IT
there had been it would have been equally van Out
of doors and in doors in the streets ia the barrooms
on the ferry boats, everywhere, "Hurra for San
like "buns for Jackson" in former times, WAS the
cry. II is useless to disguise it. Nevertheless, the
overwhelming majority the Democratic psrty has in
Virginia, may carry Mr.. Wise into the Governors
Chair.