New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-18

only VII ne not ueH'ci AcS'"'S W -.
day evening proposed BY the commifsee' put
=" there will be no Thursday evening bet'een the
q middle of December and the middle oil March
" next. or between that and doomsday, which will
Z" best accommodate me for that purpose" And
finally. be concludes BY saying again with extreme
emphasis that the particular phase OF the SUBJ
iect be will present is "To FIGHT IF WE Must"
Mr. Wi.e is not only the governor elect Of Viz
oinis but. az we may fairly assume, the model
rre.t man Of that commonwealth Of first families
and great men. With regard to most of these per-
sonepes it is no violent or startling truth to say
that out of their own little circle of party politics
in which they are adrot and skiled-it is i'm
possible to imagine more pretentieus ignoramuses.
Tley remind US of the Squire Westerns parish.
like to the back bone even tempers, being al
WAYS wratby accustomed to servile alteration
from starved and ignorant dependents-the genu-
me fruit of a system which, in the language Of
Pinckney of Maryland, is a nursery Of petty des-
"pots" Mr. Wise may perhaps gain applause
among the "eiehty thousand" in Virginia who
can neither read nor write his ferocious absurdi-
ties msy commend him to frontier brigands; they
NAV epdesr him to Custom house and Post-Ofice
dependents but to the intellectual culture, the ar
tstic SKILL the mechanical labor of the great North
and West of the Union, which not only bear up
the civilization of Virginia, but prevent it being
overwhelmed with Southern barbsrism, Mr.. Wise
is only an object of pity. He proves himself not
morally healthful living man, but galvanized
relic of the dark ages-making hideous antics
which, if they had little of the respect would ex-
cite the horror Of the civilized world.
But it must be added in explanation Of Mr..
Wise's ultra ferocity on the Slave question, that
there is method in his madness This roaring and
ppssbipp of teeth are not intended for the civilized
but the uncivilized world-for the region where
rule the seventy thousand elgarchs (there are not
more who individually hold slaves in numbers sufii-
Gent to make weight). These menagerieisms of
Wise are Qrowls toward the democratic nomi-
nation for President local nomination to that
end has already come from Kentucky, upon which
The N. O. Delta remarks that Mr.. Wise Z" has
"never skinned his knees on the Presidential track
for hich reason he is regarded as most available
candidate 1t is, however, barely possible that
Wise may be believing too loud. His tragedy is
too vocfereus. 1t is too physical, and TOO bad al
together. A little lamb like behavior would suit
better hero who has not yet suffered the stmu-
lus of having his knees skinned.
Mir. Wise, however, is not of the old school OF
Virginians, and it is sad to think what changes
have come over the manners and morals of that
region There was time when Virginia produced
great men of another stamp but the breed of noble
bloods is lost In the Federal convention which
drew up the Constitution Virginia counted members
like Washington, Madison and Mason So sincere
was his love of freedom, that Washington, beside
being a gentleman, was an avowed Abolitionist;
Madison another gentleman, considered it Disgrace
full for the Constitution to mention the word slave;
and what that great nan, Mason, also a polished
gentleman, thought of Slavery we cite as novel
and commendable to negro-breedDg Virginia at
this moment. On the question of the slave-trade,
he used language like the following:
"Tbe present question concerns not the importing
States alone, but the whole Union The evil of hav:
ing slaves was experienced duriog the late war Had
slaves been treated they might have been by the
enemy, they would have proved dangerous instra.
.is@s: i. is' s A sy lie Rai S"S
arts and manrfacures. The poor de,pi'e labor rhen
of hites, pko really enrich and strengthen country
They produce the most pernicious effects on manners
Frtry master of sldres is born petty tyr mt Ihey
bring the Indictment of heares on a country. By an
inevitable chain Of and effects Proridencs pun
ishes national SINS By national cdiamn'es. he Ia
mepted that some of eastern brethren, from lust
of eaip have embarked in this nefarous nafhc. AS
to the State being in the possession Of the right to i'm
port that the with many other rights no to
be given up. He held IL essential in erery point Of
cieS that the Genuai government should hare power
to prtrent the increase of Siavery."
Such was the language of a true great man
whose national reputation is not such as his genius
deserves, for he was in no wise second to Jefferson
in constructive power. Compare such nobility of
sentiment and clearness of mental vision on the
effect of Slavery-on it as thing which the nation
has to deal with, because the nation will be pun
ished by the irresistible moral law of the universe
compare this with the coarse. mouthed rant of a
Wise. Compare too, Thomas Jefferson Ran
doph-w who, in the Virginia legislature in 1882,
declared the domestic slave-trade to be much
"worse" than the foreign, which the National gov
eminent had declared to be piracy-with Wise
who DULLES and foams about his property in men
as good as himself-and think that such person
has been chosen as Democratic governor of Viz
gnia, and that she will possibly nominate him for
President of this Union-and then measure, if you
can, the depth of her fall.
DECIJNE OF THE EMPIRE STATE,