Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-20
LYNCHBURG IIRGINIAN.
SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. 20, 1855.
Mr.. Wise In Other Days

tude that he should be fully and properly appre-
ciated by our people. Two days ago, we had
the satisfaction, by the aid of the New York
Herald, of presenting him as the orator-with
incidental illusions to his accomplishments rs
statesman, warrior farmer and fisherman. Yes
teriay. we delighted ourselves with an exhibition
of him as most finished letter writer aud pro-
FOUNDER of patriotic toasts. To-day, we have
reserved for the most triumphant display of his
genius, with which the public have yet been ia
vored. Many men in this oratorihc land of ours
make speeches-some of them sensible and good
speeches-but to the divinely gifted few alone is
vouchsafed that versatility of intellect which
enables them to make splendid speeches in causes
directly opposed. Talents so Protean and sens-
hilites so shifting exat man transeendently
above the multitude, and ii is with no little salts
faction that we have an opportunity this morning
Of establishing the claim of our distinguished
guest to the possession of these rare and nap
preeiable virtues. Not to delay the enjoyment
# the public. We proceed at once to the demon
>tration In the good old year of LAO, fruitful
If thoughts of coons skins. hard cider, "yaNer
kivers" and other blessed Wing memories it en-
ter d into the minds of certain patriotic citizens
n Louisa to compliment Mr.. Wise with public
linner-because they thought aud told hin. that
in warning against the men and the measures oi
Democracy, he had shown himself: 1.-The faith
fu sentinel upon the vateh-tower Of Liberty
the untring investigator of Treasury frauds
the incorporating oi.poser of Northern inter-
ference with southern rights: eve~ ready g. do
battle in his country's cause; and incapable OF
being conquered" though he might be cover
come" Mr. Wise confessed the soft impchch-
ment. and in a speech longas Mr.. Polk's last
message prodigal of poetry and pathos, main
tnincd the correctness of this deseripho persona
We wish we had space for the whole OF 1t. We
feel that we do him injustice in breaking bulk,
hut must plead in e1tenuation that he has since
changed his guuge from the broad. safe, swift
and smooth five feet of Whgsm, to the narrow,
uncertain mcommodious and dangerous four feet
eight. and a half inches Of democracy. While
standing on his post sentinel he said il had
been his dire duty to 'hod up the mirror to
knayes, lest they should half forget their own
deformity' We won't ask who those knavos
were, and to what party they belonged-it is
enough to know that Mr.. Wise was then in Il
Wing watch tower" In that SCI vice, he told
them be had received wounds and that he
could point to them with much pride as Old
Hickory pointed .'insidously'' to his won in bat
tie When did Old IIiekort d. ths-will some
rood Jack sonan democrat tell us Referring
10 the Treasury" the frauds Thy democratic Of
foials we suppose, in which he had been nyosti-
eating he compared ii to q stable and said it you'd
take 1.-THE twelve labors, each Of twelve Hercules"
to cleanse IT, Those frauds. he declared. were
not merely the dereheiions Of ind, but.
on the contrary, are parts and parcels uf u grand
system of party ambition, Of u personal lust tor
party power, conspirug against public liberty,
and are natural and necessary results aud effects
from preconcerted and oontriyed causes. which
are now operating, and have been operating FOX
wears, and which must be erudicated, before the
effects, the frauds themselves, will cease
In the following sentence, occurring under the
same head, he refers to Mr. Van Buren,, with
side-wipe, not the most complimentary, at Gen.
Jackson. Old-liners will enjoy it
But in days of rank corruption, when tools
were ready to his hand-when crowds were eager
to sell themselves, their country their God for
gold-when a cheftain whose fame had outlived
his wits, was seated on the throne-when he was
behind the throne, and could turn that chicftan's
popularity to his use--when he could ex
plain the laws and bring the nations treasure to
his feet--whv should he be patriot drudge, io
be slandered by foes and misjudged by fools
In the annexed passages Mr.. Wise traces
these treasury frauds to source that all who
we're the memory of Andrew jackson must dc
light to contemplate Speaking of the effect
upon 1.-THE Greatest and Best Of Van Burcn's
hattery ne says Gen jackson ITO show that he
WAS that for which he was praised and to display
these varied talents" "commenced to announce
unheard of doctrines. To be great he must be
original. With rude hands b. seized the wheels
ofgovernment-
Now. Numbering yeloes. following ye,ocs. toll
Una's the word-he'I simrlif, the vi hole,
Who shall restrain the action of inordinate pow
ersl If these powers oppose. the Government
must move ri G gag, or stand still; it all con
fusion-these clogs and checks and wheels He
was for one great wheel 10 give motion to all the
rest. These were his principles, he was frank,
and these he thought were his own. unconscious
all the while that he the tool Of deceit, and
the victim of smile. Nothing but glory meots
him He assumed with honest zeal, the nations
treasure for the nations veal; he "took the
sponsibaity," and crushed a Monster of the Law,
and the result that the more of CHARTERED
rights and Of the restraints of the law he destroy
ed, the less would remein to be destroyed by Van
Buren,, his successor. Every claim advanced,
and every power usurped became the legitimate
means of more. The startling creed which once
shocked to be heard now moves not the accus-
toned ear, though oft proclaimed jackson
claimed, that it was HIS ITO Judge the aw"-and
the law, prevented lent him aid Does a par
tisan squander the public money the law al
lows it for the public good is the Treasury pill
fered ! it is all finance
And powers Of all IA one ael arJmcnt blen,
Mean ust-to simplify the Governaeut'
Thence from this lawless lust for power this