Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-02-12
THE WUIG AND THE y. Y. HERALD.

uar old stsyer. who hears everything and forget.
! nothing, tells US that the speech delivered oy GoV
Wise at the Commercial Dinner, the other day. wa:
almost identical with one delivered by the Hon Hen
~ a. Wise. at the great Clay dinner, at he tobacco
factory on the south side Of the basin, in lsi B"'f
speeches abuunded with the same saor sir'!es ahc
nautical phrases The good ship, Virginia was wea
th.r beaten by the storms and buteited oy the
sam. pillows IL the North Star tailed Us in the one
case in the same contingency, we would hS our iatr
upon the Southern Cross. ..
Our informant desires 70 know whether It is le!it
mate for U.mocro',c Governor tn crib from 'PhS
Congressman 81 Thmrsdoy's IiH'g.
"The old s,acrr, who hears everything, and or-eis
nothing" as the Wing says has most capacious ears
for such a purpose, doubt; but old stagers are
sometimes too much of lani-ubbers TO compare nau
teal speeches after sixteen years have elapsed aud
particularly when the peculiar circumstances, attend,
ing the Clay dinner at the tobacco factory on the
south side of the basin, III 1910, are taken into consd
Grafton. The "noise and confusion was such, on
that occasion that he who could hear what was said
mig, have possessed fclicHoui ears. Champagne was
the cock of the walk there and then.
We had thought that man might take corn from
his own crib without being charged "ih theft ana
even if Mr. Wise had quoted from his own Speech 1t
would have only been using his own corn; but We
remember that the Wing Congressmans metaphor al
m. tobacco warehouse was the "Cnion Jack Of Eng
land" The Wing, perhaps don't know what that is
and we can therefore pardon an old stager's mis-
take.
1t seems, too that even men, who profess to be re,
porters and with pen in hand undertake at the mo-
men to report speeches correctly, can be mistaken
and it is not strange therefore, that those who trust
to capacous ears, after long lapse OF time, may be
little out Of their reckoning.
Aa specimen Of the correctness Of Benefits report
ing Mr. Wise is represented in the Herald OF the 9th
instant, as saying,
81 remember that when
The galley old
On the ocean iOamed,
With Dscres in command
Ironsides never struck her hag," &c.
What Mr.. Wise did say at the Commercial dinner
looks rather better we think, even in print and gave
US the idea that Mr. Wise had stepped the boards OF
old Ironsides in his day, and was too old assser 10
misquote so villsinously. lie said:
al remember that when
The Gucrricre frignte bold
On the !oamiDS ocehn rolled, -.
Conmsndcd by proud Dacres, the grandcc, o!
Old Ironsides never struck her flag" &c.
We thought the y. York Herald would let the Co
vernon alone, after the election in Virginia last
spring.
We have rarely enjoyed greater treat than the
lecture of the Irish Patriot, John Mitchell, delivered
before large and attentive audience, on Thursday
! "snt hwas full Of burning thoughts and high pa
"io's' and, at the time, marked by the sound
Got conservatism, coming from an adopted citizen,
sworn 10 ooey the laws Of the United States While
Justly severe upon the cruelty and injustice of Eng
lI'h policy Mr. NJ. appealed with great force to the
patient palehng Of tn. Irshnen in this country, who
should await the ripeninG Of the revolution, which he
looked upon as most probable at no great distance
OF time, through the mismanagement and bankrupt
cy of the English Government
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We have heard spoken Of with the highest COM
mendasion, the speech of Senator Jones of Peters
burg, on the Bank question, in the Senate yesterday
he presented the souudest views in favor of An i'm
proved and safe currency, with power Of argument
that must carry conviction to the minds of all who
heard him. We trust that the Democrats at least, will
stand by the wise and sound position he maintained
IN favor Of safe, specie-paying currency. Upon
this question, the powerful arguments and facts OF
our able correspondent, "Senex," entitled to the
most seriOus cDnsiderefiop