Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-06-08
GOVERNOR WISE.

GOVERNOR WISE.
The Chicago Press prefaces an extract
from the N. Y. Evening Post. with the sub
ioinsd paragraph. We quote what the
Pres says, and also the article from the Pest
On which it comments. Both Of these jour
nails are Of the strongest Democratic kind,
and time was when the Post especially wss
looked up TO a. one Of the leading papers of
that party in the country. They are both
also somewhat unpopular with the powers
sAAe Be. because they have not gone oil
lengths tos the support Of slavery. This
Ass lsss thsa the favorable countsasacs Of
IL slavery propagaadists. but they still re-
tain the confidence and appreciation Of the
masses Of the people in the Free States.
TIE character which the Post draws Of
IL. Wise is certainly not very enviabie
one. but being drawn by Democratic hand.
Ne commend il to the attention of those of
our Democratic friends who have been dis
posed to exult 90 much over the Virginia
election:
@The officials in this city were in scsta-
eies when il became certain that Mr.. Wise
res elected Governor Of Virginia. Guns
we're 6rsd and Mr.. Douglas made speech,
aad The few who adhere 10 his desperate
SI1e.aes Prs.snded to be excsedingly happy
G ~ result. Being Democrats Of the
Jasksea stripe, and knowing the previous
Aissosy Of nr. Wise. we did not feel like re-
ioieiag very vigorously over his election.
The Democracy Of Illinois will see what
fIss1s Mr. Douglas 10 embracing. and what
ssmall crumbs Of comfort can give JOY to
the Administration. from the following par
agraphs which we take from the N. Y.
Evening Post:
THE political history of this man is be-
fore the country. He was one of the NEST
violent opposers of the Administration Of
General Jackson. He was equally violent
in his opposition to the measures of Mr..
Van Buren's Administration. Violent is
almost too feeble and quiet term to ex-
press the intensity of hatred manifested by
him TO the political system of those two
eminent statesmen Nothing could ex-
coed the yehemenee Of abuse with which he
assailed them, their principles and their
friends. The great sewer OF Canal stree,
does not pour daily into the Hudson tide
Of more offensive feculence than flowed at
thst period in the harsngues of Mr. Wise.
II was pure, unmxed railing, an intermin-
able 6ueney Of vituperstion, a mechanical
facility Of abuse, and nothing more-there
IVES neither argument nor eathusiasm in il;
II wss the mere volatility Of q scold. His
disposition to vituperate seemed . sort OF
moral disease; he threw everything At his
eppo0snts which lay in his way, without
discrimination, sticks, stones, dirt, the ecra-
Pings OF the CUTTERS. clawed up hastily with
hands that scorned all nicely of selection.
We should not refer to those things at
the present time il they had been repented
OF. Ii Mr.. Wise had expressed any regret
at his opposition to good measures founded
on the maxims Of wise policy; il be had
shown any sorrow for the injustice he had
done to some of the ablest, purest and most
sagacious men of his time, the case would
be very different from what it now il. We
do not recollect any public debater who
showed less sense of justice in his behavior
TO his political adversaries than Mr.. Wise.
He has never acknowledged the error of his
course. He is now. for aught that the pub
lie 10 informed, just where be was the a: the
eeAAS eAsuly VI INC uaAiIEs 81 t1at national
policy, the support Of which has distinguish.
Cd the Democratic from the Whiq party,
and ready, whenever the occasion arises, 70
eppose them with the same vehemence a
before. His election 10 regarded BY the
friends Of Mr.. Pierce's Administration a.
triumph, but it il not even known whether
- 10 prepared to support the Administration
n any OF those respects in which it deserves
support
We have no compliments to pay either
to Virginia or 10 the party which could 90
far forget itself as to make him its candidate
He Is now nominally ranked with the Dem
ocratic party, it is true, but we have no
reason to believe that he considers this a.
anything more than a temporary alliance
Tor the sake Of Office, and involving no re-
nunciation of old opinions. In one of the
nswspapers friendly to the Administration
the result Of the late election is claimed a.
proof that the Democratic party keeps
tagsther in Virgins. II seems to us, on
the contrary. to be . proof that the Demo
erstie party in that State is losing ito unity
en4 cohesion, receiving Political heretics
anfo re communion, and thSs tincturinp it.
self wifi their opinions. IF Mr. Wise is 10
give character to the political association
he leads, and by which he is chosen. we
Tear that we shall ere long seek vsinly
Tor the old Democratic party in Virginia