The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-04-30
Governor Wise and the Presi-

dSuCY.
The follow ing letter from Governor
Wise to a gentleman in New York has
lately found it's way into the public
prin is:
RICHMOND, March 5, 1856.
"DEAR SIR-I received yours of the
Esd ult. to-day, and have no hesitation
in giving a frank reply to the resolution
of inquiry of which you are the medi-
UNI.
"As to the presentation of my OWE
name for nomination for the Presiden-
cy, 1 can only say that 1 have had no
part in it, and will have none, further
than to say that 1 will not withhold its
use from my friends, if they think hat
it can be fairly made to serve the cause
of the country and of the Democracy.
ct was at the last Convention the
avowed friend of Mr.. B~uchanan's nom
nation, and would have so declared now
had I not expressly understood that he
would not be a candidate for the Presi-
dency. 1 mean not to say that I am
not now friendly to his nomination, but
that I am not committed to him nor
to any man. My main desire is that
the Democracy shall be united on the
best man with the best chances of sue
cess.
CT especially desire that the Virgin
ia Democracy shall not be distracted,
and I am committed only to their pref
erence, whatever it be, within the range
of legitimate selection. 1 will go with
the Virginia regnnicnt into the ba tile
and remain with it through the fight
until death or victory.
Pennsylvania has always stood by
Virginia from the days of Simon Snyder
and Thomas Jefferson down to this day
she is one of the largest and oldest and
best of the Old Thirteen States, aud she
has claims to give a candidate, and she
has a son worthy of a nomination, who
is a representative, man and mind, OF
his States Democracy and if Virgin
ia again prefers him as she did in 1852,
I will go for his nomination might and
main.
stVirginia offers no candidate, and
will not likely-vote for any son OF her
own unless her sister States shall call
upon her to present he preference to
the convention. If she presents no sou
of her own in the first instance, my
belief is that on the first ballotings In
convention her vote will be cast for Mr..
Buchanan with an earnest, honest de-
sire to have him nominated. If his
name fails, then Virginia will expect
Pennsylvania to go along with her Tor
her preference. And l say this with
out rejecting other States or candidates,
for whoever is nominated by the conven-
tior at Cincinnati, upon a sound Demo
cratic platform, will be supported by
Virginia, and she desires to exclude no
candidate from having his name pro-
posed. She will heartily go for Mr..
Pierce, Mr.. Douglas, or any other sound
man of the North, and sets up equal
pretentions only for a son of her own or
the South. She would, doubtless, look
ing to men alone, prefer one of her W
example, Mr. Hunter OF the
Senate, or some other but the propo-
sal of the name of one of her sons she
would defer to her sister States, and to
none more especially than to Pennsylya-
MIA.
"For myself I prefer that Mr.. Blu
chanan's name shall be presented to the
National Conyention-iudeed, that the
field of selection shall be as large as
possible-that the claims of every good
and great man who has a hold upon
the masses of the people, without regard
to section, be thought of and fairly con,
sidered. in reference to the popular will
and not to the selfish interests of mere
politicians; and then every State regi.
nent will be marched up TO the grand
Democratic encampment, with high
of being the banner corps, and of
daddy and gloriously leading on to a
moral as well as political victory.
pledge you that the 'old Guard of
Virginia will tread with the tramp
# the serried host regularly in the line
.gainst the foe, and do or die in any
art of the field of conflict where duty
nd order may command. I am sir,
truly.
HENRY A. WISE"