Daily American organ., 1856-08-26
Letter from Governor wise.

The Buchanan party in New York, finding them
selves very much bothered in making favor there
with the Froe-soilers, in consequence Of certain
opinions uttered by Governor Wise, in the speech
which he made at the Buchanan ratification meet.
ing in Richmond, one Mr. Isaac Butts, Of Roches-
ter, addressed him communicationson the sub.
ject, to which Mr.. Wise replied in letter, from
which MIR. Butts publishes the following extracts
.9 -ss RICHMOND, Va, July 2s, 1885,
DEAR SIR In reply to yours of the 22d, touch
ing the pending canvass, let me say that anx-
iously sympathize with your sentiments and feel
ipgs. The difference between the North and South
touching slavery ought to be an honest difference
It is 80, | am confident, with true patriots and
Democrats. ] assure you that i ask no man on
earth to be proslavery man. in sentiment or nc.
ton. / leave you honestly to your own convic-
tions, controlling your individual conduct and
your conduct as citizen in your own State / am
content that you should, for yourself and your
State, be an anti-slavery man and voter And
am sure that you will honestly leave me, In my
State to my election, pro-slavery and that you
will not attempt to deprive me of my equal rights
or lawful property in the Union of States. W.
agree to disagree, and leave the subject here the
constitution found 1t, and left ito the arbitra-
ment of the Federal Compact. But agitation dis
turbs the compact ITSELF and ir is that about
which there is sectional strife and bitterness. You
and say, let the subject alone-simply let the
laws reign. The agitators say, there is higher
law; and this makes the mischief @p,g3 aa.
Now, TO myself, the Herald Tribune and
Times have said most mendaciously, that :" i spoke
as to the influence Of the fate" / never uttered
word on that topic in the speech to which they
attribute the remark. To prove it. send you
several copies of the speech. Ny opinion was,
and is that the admission OF Kansas, with or with.
out slavery will not affect the price of slaves in
Virginia at all. What said was that the extern
sion of the Missouri line to the Pacific, and the
allowing of negro slavery in California, would have
affected the price Of slaves in Virginia, by increas-
ing their value to dig gold. have said more !:
that 1t would have freed all the breadstuf growing
slave States-havc left slavery only to the large
cotton growing and sugar growing and the gold
mining States, and have thus diminished the Eede-
raj power of the slave States; and furthet II
would have enabled the slave owners to free their
|-slaves at q larger profit than they can now sell
them. HENRY A. WISE
"This letter, upon its face, the New York Her
aid says, is evidently written for the latitude of
York State, and to quiet the nerves of the shaky
Democracy Of the Van Buren, Buffalo school. -
Who would have expected to hear this great
champion of slavery declaring that he " anxiously
sympathiges with man whose obvious motive
in writing him is to extract something that will
make Mr. Buchanan acceptable to the anti-slavery
sentiment of New York; that there ought to be
an honest difference" !" between the North and the
South touching slavery; that he asks emo one on
earth to be pro slavery man in sentiment or ac-
ton !" that he is willing that the convictions !"
of Northern men may control their conduct az
citizens of their own States. But what amazes ua
most in this letter Is, that Mr.. Wise should con-
cede that the subject Of slavery is within the
arbitrament of the federal compactW What does
he mean s-Lysschbarg Virginian. -