Washington telegraph., 1856-04-02
GOVERNOR WISE, OF VIRGINIA.

If we may be allowed to form any
opinion as to what the character of the
battle which our opponents intend to
fight throughout the coming summer will
be, from the present indications, We must
be forced to the conclusion that it is
their settled policy to pursue a syste-
matte course of vindictive aspersion, for
a parallel to which we may search in vain
through ali the records of shat unscrup-
ulous partizan warfare which they have
waged from the very inception of the
American movement, up to the present
time. Clinging as they do with des-
perate tenacity to the wreck of their
political fortune-and smitten as they
are with a prescience of their impend-
ing ruin-aware that the appeal which
has been made to the conservative in
telligence and patriotism of the Ameri-
can people, in the nomination of FILL
MORE and DoNELsoN, will be responded
to by an overwhelming majority cf those
who desire the well-being, and are re-
solved upon the perpetuity of this Union
and utterly at a loss for facts upon
which to base respectable opposition
to the ticket OF the American Party
in their day of trouble they must needs
resort to frantic appeals to passion and
prejudice, and unsparing denunciatiOns
of men, who hare been fully tried and
found wanting in no one clement oi
political integrity and ability And ii
seems, that if any one individual can
justly lay claim to the unenviable dis
tinction of having surpassed all other
men in an ingenious but repulsiye conl
bination of scurrilot,s cpithets, that in
dividual is the distinguished Nirginian
whose name can be seen at the head OF
this article
! 1t seems that the Hon. \. II. IL
STEWART, of Virginia, recently asserted
ed that Governor WISE, during the Pres
idential canvass in 1852, characterized
the Administration Of Mr. FILLMORE as
WAsHINGTON-LIKE." Governor WIsI
contradicts Mr. STEWARDS statement in
recently y-published letter, and uses the
language which follows
''In the next Presidential canvass there
will be new issues presented by three par.
ties: the white mans party-.he Demo
cratic; the black mans party-the Black
Republicans; the mulatto party-the cross
of Northern and Southern Know-Nothings
the ticket of Messrs Fillmore and Don
clson. All nature abhors vacuums and
mongrels; and so do conscientious, con-
servative, and Constitution-loving Wings
of Virginia. They can put up better with
pure Africans-wool, fat-nose, odor, eb-
On-skin, and gizzard, foot and all-bet-
ter than they can bear the cross Of the
Caucasian and Cufey, which you call mu-
lattor'
Now We submit to the readers sense
of propriety whether anything more un-
dignifed- utterly unworthy of, OF
disgraceful to, the source from whence
it emanated, could have, by any posi-
bility, been sent forth from the pen Of
a man whose name has been mentioned
in connection with the Chief Magistra-
cy of the Union We can remember
no parallel to this exhibition of impo,
tent malice.
The Governor of Virginia-the moth
er of Commonwcalths-surely must have
forgotten his station when he wrote his
letter. 1t may be, however, that his
manifesto is bnt the keynote of the
charge which is TO be sounded by the
rank and file of which he is an acknowl-
edged leader. And it is by 10 means
improbable But it is very certain that
such mode of warfare Will have any
thing but the effect which they desire
it to produce And it is equally GER
tain that the people will examine for
themselves, and seeing the utter ground.
lessness of the charges adduced, and be-
coming aware of the motives by which
these would-be leaders are actuated, Will
repudiate them, not more because of the
shallOwness of their claims than because
of their unworthiness to create or re-
fleet the sentiment of nation of free
men,