New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-21

MP. Buchana1 eriy " iaI - no ~ "-s ~ 70
into thar hands, and to become the instrument OF
their policy.
A struggle has BEEN going on for isus time pat
10 Virginia between these two sections Of the eomi'
nsnt party, headed respectively tie thorough Pro'
Slavery men By Senator Hunter the trading poll
ticisps by Gov. Wise. TIE success OF the poht''
clans in securing fox Buchanan the vote Of Virginia
in the dominating Convention, and their further
success in nominating and electios him, AMI the
great majority which they obtained in Virginia, In
spirei them with 80 much confidence, that imnedi-
ately after the election they undertook 10 ride it
somewhat rough shod over the other faction, threat
ening to supersede Hunter in the Senate on the ex-
piration Of bis current term and to send Gov.
Wise in bis place.
Tie means chiefly relied upon BY tie parssans Of
Wire to dsmage Hunter, has been the insinuafon
Of want Of zeal and heartines on his part in the
support of NIr. Buchatan. Several letters have
been written to Hunter with view OF drawing
him out % these points. OF course, hs would not
10 30 far 90 to avow any direct hostility to Mr. Bu-
charsu or even dstrust Of him yet be has not hes.
itated severely to condemn the Kansas policy Of
Governor Walker, between whom and the Presi.
dent he undertakes 10 make distinction plainly
enough iptimatipg, however, HAT If Buchanan sus-
isins Walker in her attempt to secure for the people
Of Ksn,as the tight ~ vote on the acceptance or
rejection Of the Constitution which has bees MAJ
ufactured for them at LecOmptOn, he, Hunter, in
that case and in that matter cannot and will not
support Buchanan.
Thi, reply on the part Of Hunter would seem to
give the parti,ans Of Wise al the advantage they
could really have pected but instead of meeting
HIN on that ground, Governor Wise hs' como out
in long letter oys,fowiDg with yexation and dis
appointment in which he fairly yields the field to
his opponent as the only means, so he says, "of
"da,irg excitement, and preventing division in
"tbe Democratic party Of Virginia" in other
words, the only means of saving himself from the
notification Of seeing Hunter elected over his
head. He even gees so far a. to volunteer white
wa,tipg commentary upon Mr.. Hunters letters
Governor Wires exposition of Mr.. Hunters posi-
ton as exhibited by those letters is this He thinks
their meaning to be that he Hunter, "does not
"express any warm or strong confidence in the Ad-
" mibistraticp, that he dces not wish to BE- under
stood a. being one of its especial friends or par
'tsars, but that be does disclam the opposition
"to it by saying that he hopes and expects to sup
sport the Administration in the main; and so
rather than allow "the extremists to appropriate
"bis (Hunters) reelection as triumph to them
"selyes," Mr. Wise thinks it best not to attempt
further to contest the seat with him.
- Ia 1ov fnoI thayur "A
q csries,ion on the part Of Gov Wise, that these
DECENTRALIZATION he stigmatizes with great
bitterness as "porcupiue opposition" raising
their quilts against every point Of policy OF the Ad
uinistration, and "attemptipg to damn tho whole
Democratic party of the North, and every South.
ern man who trusted them"-are a good deal
stronger in Virginia than be supposed when he I'M
dertock to contest the Senatorship with Mr.
Hunter for Of course one can only set down as the
mere.t gammon the awkward pretsnse with
which his letter sets out that though for more than
twelve months "his (Wises) name had been ban.
- died about n conversation aud by the press with
90 license which assumed the air Of authority"
in connection with this scheme Of Oustng Hunter
AID putting Wine in bis place, yet these pro-
ceedings were wholly unauthorized by him As if
bis very silence under such circumstance and the
allowing his name 30 to be "bandied about" was
not authorization enough.
In fact, with all the Indignation which the Gov
ernor bestoVs upon this I" Extremist or "Porcu'
pine party, be seems to be % well satisfied of their
srepsth as to be getting ready to join them-ths
feat Of shifting hor,es in tie party race being one
=. L.. III
Thus he boasts his readiness, had Fremont been
elected to have gone all tbs in the way Of secess
ion aud reyout on 10 which be doubts whether the
very extremists themselves would have been wiling
to follow him. Nothing prevented him, so be says,
from having come out before now nullifer and
sece ssonist Lot merely in theory but 10 practice,
except the fact that Dir. Buchanan, the man Of his
choice, happened to be elected Such being the
fact, in what point Of principle or attachment to
til Union does Gov. Wise differ from the Southern
extremists, whom he makes such 8 parade Of
stismstizpg and condemningl We have never yet
beard Of any secessiOnis. 90 extreme that the
privilege of controlling the policy Of the Union
uoulA lot persuade to remain in it. What So
curity has the Union in the hsrds of q man who
makes 3he euccsss Of bis candidate and tho triumph
Of lis party the condition, and the only condition,
or which be will remain IN is
Whatever else may be said Of the "extremists,"
as Governor Wise calls them, compared with him
sell, Buchanan aid the whole faction of trading
politicians, theJ are at least honest They do not
pretend 10 be sece ssionsts and unonists friends Of
Slavery ard frieLds Of Freedom. all 10 the same
breath. They make no attempt Ike Governor
Wise, to hitch Washington Farewell Address and
he Re,olut;crs Of 93 ia tie same team and TO ride