Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-28
AMERICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1855.
Concessions TO Black Republicans

At ratification meeting in Richmond
in June last, Mr.. Wise made speech, in
which he expressed certain opinions rela-
tive to the effect which would have pro-
ceeded from the adoption of Mr.. Buchan-
ans proposition to extend the Missouri
Restriction line to the Pacific. These
opinions of Mr.. Wise having become a Sc
rious obstacle in the path of the democra-
cy in the free States, where the votes of
freesoilers and Black Republicans are
sought by "the party" Mr.. Isaac Butts,
of Rochester, n Y, addressed him a let
ter on the subject. Mr. W. responded, in
a letter from which we make the following
extracts:
RICHMOND, Va, July %, 1856.
Isaac Bits, Eso.-DeGr Sir: In reply to
yours of the 23d, touching the pending cum
vass, let me say that | anxiously sympathze
with your sentiments and feelings The diff
ference between the North and South, touch
ing slavery, ought 10 be an honest difference.
1t is so, / am confident, with true patriots and
democrats. | assure you that | ask no man
on earth to be pro slavery man in sentiment
or action. / leave yOn honestly to your own
convictions. controlling your own individual
conduct, and your conduct as a citizen of your
own State. / am content that you should, for
yourself and your State, be an anti,savery
man and voter. And am sure that You will
honestly leave me, 10 my State, to my election,
pro slavery; and that you will not attempt to
deprive me Of my equal rights or lawful pro-
perty in the Union of States. We agree to
disagree, and leave the subject W here the con-
stitutOn found il aud left ito the arbitra-
ment of the federal compact. But agitation
disturbs the compact itself; aud it is that about
which there is sectional strife and bitterness.
You and say, let the subject alone-simply
let the laws reign. The agitators says, there
is higher law; and this makes the mischief"
Now, as to myself, the HERALD, Tribune
and Times have said uost mendaclousy, that
81 spoke as 10 the influence of the fate of Kan.
sas on the value of slave property" / never
uttered a word on that topic in the speech to
which they attribute the remark To prove
it, send You several copies of the speech. My
opinion was, and is, that the admission of
Kansas, with or without slavery, will not als
feet the price of slaves in Virginia at all
What said was, that the extension of the
Missouri line TO the Pacific and the allowing
of negro slavery in California, would have af
fected the price of slaves in Virginia, by in
creasing their value to dig gold. | have said
more: that 1t would have freed all the bread
stuff-grOwng slave States-have left slavery
only to the large cotton growing aud sugar
growing and the gold mining States, and have
thus diminished the federal power of the slave
States; and further, it would have enabled the
slave owners TO free their slaves at a larger
profit than they can now sell them.
HENRY A. WISE.
Verify, these are days of democratic toll
GRAFTON, in one respect! "Vote for Buch- !
anan," says the old Jackson man in Ten
nessee, "and whatever opinions you may
choose to express in regard to the CREDIBLE
ity Of Gen. jackson, | will not quarrel |
with you about your conclusions, just now.
The party needs help too much TO warrant |
that" "Hold what opinions you please"
says the Virginia democrat, to the North |
ern anti-slavery man, "act upon them, car /
ry them out, in your State, | am content |
we will agree to disagree" In other words, I
as the Lynchburg Vrginian, remarks, he /
does not care how much fanaticsm is en- |
cOuraged, how much falsehood is propagat-
ed, how the South is traduced and the spirit |
of sectional hostility stimulated, provided
these things are done within the States;
license which would exculpate the craziest
fanatics among them? But what amazes
us most in this letter is, that Mr. Wise
should concede that the subject of slavery
is within 'the arbitrament Of the federal com
pad" What does he mean? What can
he mean? Can it be possible that he is
willing to leave slavery in all or any Of its
relations to the decision and action Of the
federal government? If that is his mean
ing he does not represent the people of the
South. We are obliged to conclude from
this language either that Mr.. Wise so be-
lieves, or that for the sake of conciating
the North, he is willing, for the time, to
have it thought he so believes. Further,
what are we to think Of Mr. Wise, speak
ing approvingly Oft measure which would
have freed all the breadstufgrowing slave
States" Does Mr.. Wise desire 10 see Iir-
giHia free STATE! Does he desire TO see
Maryland, North Carolina Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Missouri added to the class of
free Statesg Is he willing TO see their des-
tiny disconnected from that of the other
free States 10 which they are united by so
many ties of interest aud affection, and at
tached to that of the Northern States
which have served almost the last ligament
of brotherhood From his language to
this Northern correspondent we are again
forced TO believe eithes that he is willing
TO see this done, or that, 10 serve par-
pose, he is willing TO have the North for
the time, so think In either case, he
grossly miSrepresents the sentiments Of the
people of VirEinia. The supposition that
they are bound to the South, and attached
TO her institutions, by no higher considera-
ton than the market value Of slaves, is a
calumny. There is not money enough in
the world TO buy out Virginia's identity
with the slave-holding States. Their cause
is her cause, and their fate will be her fate.
If any thing emanating from the extraor-
binary character whom untoward circuT-
stances have placed in the Executive MAI !