New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-14

Lot lees hv0ruble 70 SUCH pretended DemocrSS as
Gov. Wise than to such real Tories and Royaists
as Gov. Berkeley. And not only does be presume
on the ignorance Of his auditors be relies on their
stupidity as well venturing upon the most papsble
and ridiculous self contradictions, such ., show in
him and ADMIT of in US but very low essimste
of the intelligence Of the community which under
takes with Wise as ia organ, to Get itself up a.
President.makeI General for the Union.
Thus, for instance, Gov. Wise ventures to i'm
pose Mr. Buchanan upon bis Richmond audience
ss "about the last link in that line Of Ssges-the
"men Of the heroic age Of the Revolution and
"thoee who immediately succeeded them" who
"settled our sy STEM and secured, by their virtue
"and wisdom, our free ins,tutiOns'-a man 'ven-
"erable with age and sobered by experience"
whose lessons, derived from personal contact with
"their wisdom and patriotism We could not afford
to lose. Thus seeks Gov. Vie to pa. of Mr..
Buchanan as q contemporary Of and in personal
communication with the WsshiDgtons, Jefersons
Jays, Hamiltons and Madisons, imbibing wisdom
and patriotism from them, almost in the very same
breath in which he ventures 10 excuse Me-. Buchan-
ans active participation in the meetings held
in PeDnsylv to denounce Slavery and its
extension at the time of the Missouri Compromise
On the ground that at that time Mr.. Buchanan was
"a mere bcy-a very youth" who h.d not yet
reached the age Of political responsibility
Most remarkable man, this Mr.. Buchanan!
"mere boy. a very youth" in 1920, and yet cotem'
porary companion and associate Of the sages OF
tie Revolution In fact he neither. Wise has
practiced double imposition upon slaveholding
ignorance. BY exactly reversing the truth, he has
succet ded in perpetratiDg a twO-foh fasehood
Buchanan WAS "a mere boy, very youth, at the
time when Wise represents him as ayOung cOllabo
rator of the sages of the Revolution, aud imbbing
wisdom and patriotism from personal contact with
them. At the time OF the Missouri Compromise
he was, by Wise's own showing, who states bis
present age at sixty five, grown man of thirty,
and fully responsibe-f We csn suppose him ever
to have had in him the quality of responsibility
for his political options and actions.
So much for the Governors history, and now for
bis geography. Not only was Buchanan de-
nouncer of Slavery Extersi in 1920; in 1546,
during the debate on the Oregon bill, being then
Senator, be moved TO extend the Missouri Com
promise line to the Pacific. Even Wise himself
would hardly dare 10 represent, even to Richmond
audience, that in 1o46 Buchanan was ga boy
mere YOUTH" and politically Irresponsible; so he
cOolly turns about and insists that lice which it
was unconstitutional and gross invasion OF the
rights of States to have originally proposed and
established in 1920, it had become in 1876 highly
patriotic and constitutional to. extend to the Pa
cifc And lea, this inconsistency might attract
the attention of his audience, Gov. Wise makes
de1trous ard characteristic appeal to their svarice.
1.-THE cost, he says, "of not running tina. line to
"the Pacific may be valued thus, to Virginia:
We now get ) DOCTOR sound slave; va would
q" then have gotten from $4,000 to $4,000 for an
"ope,atire in the gold mines Of California; 400 900
" multiplied by 1900 or even 5000 will show our
immense lose One billion of dollars would not
"ctmpcnsate Virginia for bei loss in not running
"ihe line on to the Pacific Our Vieginis orator
knew perfectly we'll that the suggestion Of thi,
splendid rise in the slave market, as consequence
of the measure proposed by Mr.. Buchanan, would
at once and forever ex'iDgush in the IN nds of Vr-
enians ali objections to it on the score Of justice
or constitutlonality, while be relied with confidence
on the geographical ignorance of bis audience as
sufficient security against any objection on their
part that the Calit rbis gold q ines lie north OF
Sc 3O'S and that therefore the extension of the
Missouri Compromise line 10 the Pacific could not
have operated to I'LL those gold mines with "opera
tyes imported from Virginia at cOst of from
$4,000 to $4,000 head, thus adding II billion Of
dollars to the value Of the human live stock Of that
State.
But while in relation to the history of the past
ard the eet grapby Of such slant regions as Cal
iforba, the speech Of Gov. Wise may be rather
open to criticism, in regard to the action Of the
Cincinnati Convention, the reasons why Mr.. Blu
char an was nominated, and what is expected of
I'm should he be elected, We take that speech to
be the very highest authority. What Gov. Wise
states upon that subject is briefly this; Me-. Bu-
chanan was The first choice of the State Of Vir-
einia and Of Mr.. Wise. His nomination came
from Virginia. Sic made it; wi.hol. her it
"would not have been made, and she had the right
"to make it," As in the Convention Of 1852,
Pennsylvania separated from the North to join
with Virgins, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala
." bams and Mississippi, to make nomination.
to wit, that OF Frank Pierce" and they, these
{" six States, did make it, and did we'll 10
make it," SO Virginia on the present
occasion separated herself from North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi and joined with PenDsy lvania to nomi
pate Mr.. Buchanan expecting that his nomination
and Presidency will prove equaly suspicious aud
devoted to the South with that Of President Pierce