Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-12
WASHINGTON, d. G.
WnIIAM M. puRwELI., Edition.

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER IL, 1866.


WA WAS mol MIR. Wise Defeated 2
asks the Herald. Because the American parry
Was charged with universal abolition AZ tne
North. upon the authority OF Wilson, whole
lot of Abolition governors, and an innumera-
bic array of legislators, pledged to pursue sia-
very. and invite Papists and Hessians TO help
them il necessary Because the people of Vir-
ginia were told that the whole Democratic
party at the North was sound as granite, that the
Freesoiers had all turned to the know-Noth-
ings, and that they were with the South, w''n
all their soul, with all their heart ana with oii
their strength" Because wilson haa SPOKEN,
and Van Buren, held his tongue The recent
declarations, that the Democracy OF New iorS
..pledge themselves to an uncompromising nos
llity 10 the extension Of slavery" has opened
tho ewes Of Virginia to the deception practised
upon her by the Democratic party leaders. Ihey
now seem inclined to doubt all party fidelity
at the North, and to combine with every friend
Of the Union and States Rights, North OF
South, to save the country from disunion Had
the people of Virginia known the true secret
of Democratic dishonesty at the North, they
would long since hayeresorted to the measures
Of selfprotection that we have Indicated
Having been in the Virginia contest and elect
ed to a seat in the Virginia Legislature, the
writer has right to say that the election OF
Mr.. Wise was due to the general belief oil
Democratic fidelity and the charge OF abolition
against the American party. The issues OF
Alienism and Papal influence were popular,
and formed the party in Virginia. But, IN our
honest opinion, where Mr. Wise gained the
Democratic party one vote, Wilson gained ~
twenty. His election was not, in our opinion,
dueto his own popularity or powers OF declama-
ton. He was beaten by subordinates upon his
own ticket, and by alarge aggregate OF the con-
yressional vote. He was not acceptable TO the
did line Democracy. because Of his violent de-
nunciation of their party. He was not popu-
lar in Eastern Virginia, because of his reckless
indifference 70 taxation and appropriation he
was not relied upon as a safe man In federal
affairs. because he might any day charge upon
the Yankees, like Monsieur Soule, with his
small sword, He has never connected himself
with the execution OF single plan of improve
ment, or moral or mental progress in the
State-having principally served abroad IN
Brazil and in the Federal Congress.
The Democracy of Virginia were much
alarmed by the fear Of losing Office salary, and
the control of the State. The American party
were too confident Of success. In sheer des-
peration the Democratic party went to work
cxterminating prescribing, and denouncing.
They spent their labor and money. They APP
paaled to MIR. Pierce for aid and he sent all the
oficeholders he could spare under fwlough.
The result of the desperate struggle was the
preservation of their offices. They saved the
shin. Mr.. Wise was upon the quarter-deck,
n ,urishing his sword, and threatening ezter-
IMITATION TO his enemies generally, He did
not know how to splice rope, hand-reef, or
steer; so whilst the old pea.jacket and tarpaulin
Democrats were, allow and alolt, wrinGing
wet with spray and perspiratlon, hardly to DC
heard in the high and bowling storm, ooeying
every impulse Of animal preservation, with al
the resources Of practised seamanship--Mr.
Wise was giving orders that no one under
stood or hearkened TO, venting inprecations
that the boister0uS clentnlS Dole IN ieeh'Neo
indifference, and closed the scene OF common
salvation with a cracked voice, an exhausted
system, and bad cold, claiming for himself
the high and exclusive merit of having saved
the vessel.
So the old seamen saved the ship, cargo and
manifest Mr. Wise was state-room passen-
ger, very busy, very much excited, very sin
oerc, and good deal in the way, but wholly
inefficient to secure the safety of the vessel by
his seamanship or influence To have thought
otherwise is one Of the "follics of the wise
This is our theory and VIC may add that
If the sound and conservative platform adopted
ia Philadelphia had been before the people OF
Virginia, and the astounding disclosure that
the administration has had in its pay, innu-
rnerable Freesoilers, who have recently broken
their pledge Of secrecy, and adopted the VIII
mot Proyiso in open Democratic convention,
we are satisfied that Mr.. Wise would have never
realised his claim TO the gubcrnatcrial honors Of
Virginia.