Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-03-26
The Governors Last.

Our Governor Wise makes his appearance III
the Enquirer of the 18th inst, ia letter OF two
and half columns partly in response to me letter
of Mr.. Stuart, and partly in furthe. calculation
and emphatic justification of his ''ebo shin" and
.gizzard- foot" epistes, ofSts.e-wide notoriety.
The frequent COMMUNICATION of his fatulent
columns to the public, will soon render an eight
cylinder Hoe & Go, printing machine indi,pensa
Die at the Enquirer office. Nothing slower than
this will be able to keep pace with the fast pen of
our ''fast" Governor. Heis apparently in perpet
ual literary labour, giving birth to all sort, Of g.
pstolary monsrosities, with fruitsulness which
finds an appropriate parallel only in the oyster
''fundum" Of the Eastern waters.
In the letter before US Mr.. Wise endeavors to
shuttle out Of the difficulty in which he, in COM
mon with all the Democratic orators of 1852, find
themselves placed by their extravagant eulogies
of Mr.. Fillmore; eulogies in which they INDUCED
for the purpose of arousing the feelings of Fill
more Wings and Withdrawing them from the
support Of Gen. Scott. We say he tries to shuttle
out Of the difficulty for we regard his explanation
as a mere subterfuge, unworthy of straight for
ward, candid man. Oar recollection is distinct,
and we are corroborated by hundreds in this COM
munity, that Mr. Wise did himself eulogize Mr.
Fillmore in most complimentary terms, n.ot mere
ly placing what he said ''upon the estimate which
the Wnig. themselves placed upon him" as he
now asserts. This la,t.er he may have done, but
he did not leave the other undone. II he was
simply impersonating and speaking for the Wings,
he could not with propriety have said that he
''once dis,r,sca Mr.. Fillmore, on the subject OF
slavery, but had been most agreeably disappointed
in the man." This must have been an expression
Of his individual opinion, for the Wings never did
dstru,t Mr. Fillmore. 1t strikes us that In I'M
deraking to explain, the true and correct interpret
alton of the editorial notice. extracted from the
Staunton Spectator, Of September q. 1852, MIR.
Wise plainly perverts its meaning. 1t il not al
all within the ra9se of probability that all tho pa
pers, both Wing and Democratic, that notlsed his
speeches during this canvass Of 1852, should have
misconceived and misquotsd his remarks, withoo'
being corrected We have abundant erldence
that Mr.. Wise is particular in regard to snen
matters, from hs recent corrections md Tecorrsc-
tons of nero vsrbal inaccuracies in the famous
''ebo- shin" epistle, aud Jet such Palpasfs blun-
ders as he now says were committed By the newt
papers in 1855, and the Richmond Enquirer prom
inent among them, were permitted TO stscd upon
record without an ntimati On they weta ncorec:
in the slightest particular. The Enquirer says
"Mr. Wise paid high compliment to Mr..
Fillmore for his patriotic course-hs had served
with hin-knew him well-knew his private sen
timents- knew them to be opposed to slavery IN
the abstract. The man who could act thus dis
nterestedy, he considered entitled to well done
most faithful servant" But it is uscleo, to dis
cuss the matter further. The simple denial OF
MIR. Wise. four years after the transaction, will
outweigh, in the estimation of his party, tho con-
current testimony of Wing and Democratic news
paper reports, taken down at the delivering OF his
speeehes and with no motive under heaven to
misrepresent him. On the contrary, it was the
palpable policy of the Wing papers to suppress
all the compliments bestowed upon Mr.. Fillmore,
for the purpose of dissatisfyiug the Wing party
with Gen. Scott.
Mr.. Wise repeats in his latest letter everything
that he said in his previous communications in re
gard to the American party, 'ebo shin, glzzard-oos
and ALL" 1t even exhales the same odor, quite as
agreeable to delicate oltactorie, as the effluvium
that arises from pile of Peruvian Guano. Our
Governor has made good his claim to the titls and
ought hereafter to be known and acknowledged
as the very Prince of the ''paJumed" Democracy.
There is no accounting for tastes, and we are
therefore not surprised to hear this letter of Mr..
Wise pronounced "admirable" by members of the
party As an slect.onesriag document, it might
pass muster in pamphlet form over an anonymous
signature, but as the deliberately connected mani
lesto the Governor OF Virginia, promulged from
the Executive mansion, we regard it as unprece-
dented, undiguified, discroditable and disgusting.