Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-05
The whole thing Explained

The idiosyncracies and eccentricities of out
eirzsrd foot Governor have puzzled the so'enc
of our most expert Psychologists. Natural his
tory, metaphysics and psychology have exhaust
cd their resources ia the vain attempt to devel
ope the source and explanation of SO many meni'
and moral peculiari,ies. Nothing could be dis
covered in his education. associations, or way
of life, that accounted for his unique and ungov
ernable propensity to make himself miracle q
complexiiy--a tissue of absurd anttheses az
ridiculous inconsistencies--a coDglonerafon
s contradictions and contrarietes-an automatic &
filed with all sorts Of back acting and counter
revolyipg machinery-a human concrete OF Bar
NUNS happy family in which found animal i
Of the most antagonistic propensities and hos
tile instincts Nothing, We say, in all that ap
pertained TO. or surrounded him. furnished clew
to the mystic and lsbarynthne recesses Of thu
inner being which gives law to the outer. From thu
fundum Of his yizzard-foot, up his ebo shins.
through his sccurged bowels and lacerated lungs
to his expanded chest and daing nostril,h he wa {
an enigma that no man could interpret, pbeaom
enon that no man coz I'D explain. But it is a law
of nature that nothing is without a cause, and
fort to the philosopher to know that progressive
science will yet lay open all the arcana Of the uni
verse. Fortunately for us,lt has been permitted Ia
the age in which he and We live to find solution
of what was so inconprell ensible and unfathom'
able in the nature Of our Eubernatorial prodigy
Newton betheught him once to walk in his garden
and there an apple falling on his head struck out
from his brain the sudden idea of gravitation.--
Innumerablo great results have sprung from eau
ses slight and seemingly accidental James Pink I
ney Hambleton, NJ. D.. Of pittsylyania c. H.,
desiring, perchanoe. only to all up tho leisure
hours Of profes life. conceived the Fortunate
scheme of writing book. We have no reason
10 believe that he foresaw to what grand results
this woald lead. lie did not know that half "
dozen lines in that book would give a key to un
lock the sibyl cave of n character inscrutabt
and unintelligible, hitherto, TO human ken. HID
did not know that he was uneoverng the hidden
fountain from which flows the mixed and mud |
died stream Of Governor Wise's life. But so id
was and the world stands debtor therefor TO
james Pinkney Hambleton, NJ. d., of Pittsylva-
MIA c. H.. Hero is the open. sesame. Listen.
o. Earth
THE mother of Governor Wise was Sarah
Corbin Cropper,the daughter of Gen. John cropl
per of Eowinan's Folly in the county Of Acco1
mack, on the side. Her mother was Marga1
ret, called Peggy, Pettitt. The Choppers werd
English, the petttts Scotch. This cross is call
ed by some genealogsts the "Buiidog Nth hs
mqnge," meaning the English for the Bull, and
the mange far a certain outaneous eruption that
was at one time common with the Scotch, called
the Scotch fiddle"
Thereit is! The whole thing is now as plain
a. the road to mill. His marvellous Exoellenoy id
a"Bulldog NTH the mango" If he has exhibited
at any time "doggish ways" how could he help
it! Is he not, by historic proof, Il dogl If ha
has been ill,tempored, headstrong or ferocious-s
what else could be expected Is ho not in tho
language of his biographer, Bulldog! If hid
has been restless, itching (for offce) always rub
bling against some body or something's it to-
be wondered att Does not his euogist toll us
that he has the "mange."l What other strange
propensity or instinct has his Maynard life be-
trayed that may not be accounted for on the the
DRY that he is a"Buiidog NTH the mange"-
Eureka Eureka Let creation give thanks to
james Pinkney Hambeton, NJ. d. of Pittsylva-
mia c. H.