The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-11-13
LETTER FROM GOV. WISE,

i RICHMOND, Va, October 10, 1858.
DEAR SIR: can not express to you the emotions
OF my bosom. excited by your appeal to for aid in
fhc warm contest which your noble Democracy is
waging with Aboionism. Every impulse prompts
me to rush to your side Your position is grand one.
and. IN some respects, unexampled. In the face of
doubt and dstrust attempted to be thrown upon your
Democracy and its gallant leader by the pretext of
pretenders that you were giving aid and comfort to
the arch enemy Of our country peace and safety and
our party integrity. see you standing alone-isola.
ted by a tyrannca prescription, which would, alike
fooishly and wckedly. lop Off Of the most vigo.
rous limbs Of National Democracy-the limb of glo-
rous Illinois. zee you, in spite of this imputaOn.
firmly fronting the foe and battling to maintain
conservative nationality against enbttered and i'm
placable sectionasm constitutional rights, operat-
ing propria pigore and every way against all unequal
and UNI just Federal or Territorial legislation;
The right OF the people to govern themselves
! against all force or fraud
| The right Of the sovereign people to look at the
returns" and behind the " returns of all their re-
preventative bodies agents. trustees or servants;
! The responsibility of all governors, representatives,
trustees, agents and servants, to their principals the
people, who are Z" the governed and the source Of
all political power;
Utter opposition OF the detestable doctrine of the
absolutons of conventions to prescribe and proclaim
fundamental forms of government at their will with
out submission to the sovereign peope-a doctrine fit
only for slaves, and claimed only by egtimists and
despots of the Old WoNd;
Powers of any sort not expressly delegated to any
man. or body OF men, are expressly reserved for the
people, -
No absolute or dictatoral authority in representa-
tive bodies. The representative principle as claim
ing submission and obedience to will of the constu-
ents
above all mere representative bodies, conventions.
or legislatures. to decide, vote upon and determine
what shall be their supreme law
Justice and equality between States and their cti.
zens, and between voters TO elect their agents and
representatives. and to ratfy or reject any proposed
system of government;
Submission to the Constitution and laws OF the Fed
era Union and strict observance of all the rights of
the States and their citizens, but resistance to the
dctation or Tribe of Congress or any other power to
yield the iuaenabe right of selEgoyernment;
Protection in the Territories, and everywhere, to
all rights OF persons and OF property in accordance
with the lights of the States, and with the Constitu-
tion and laws Of the Union
Equity and uniformity in the mode of admitting
new States into the Union, making the same rules
and ratios to apply to all alike;
! The rejection oY all compromises, conditions or
terms which would discriminate between forms of re-
publican constitutions admitting one with one mum.
ber of population and requiring three times that num-
Der for another form equally republican
The great law of settlement of the republic domain
of the United States, free equal and just never to be
" temporized or" localized by temporary or par
tial expedents but to be adjusted by permanent,
uniform, and universal rules of right and Justice.
Maintaining these and the like principles, deem
them to be the aim Of the struggle of the devoted
Democracy to this signal contest And so understand
ing them, glory in their declaration and defense--
would sacrifice much, and go far to uphold your
arms in this battle. would most gladly visit your
people address them, and invoke them to stand fast
by the standard Of their faith and freedom and rever
to let go the truths for which they contend for they
are vital and cardinal, and essential, and can never
be yielded without yielding liberty itself
But sir. am like tied man. bound to my duties
here and if my office would allow me to leave it.
could not depart from the bedside of illness in my
family. which would most probably recall me before
| could reach Illinois and my own state of health
admonshes me that ought not to undertake cam
pagn as ardnous as that you propose. | know what
the abors of the stump are and am not yet done suf
fering bodily from my efforts for Democracy in 1853.
For these reason can not obey your call but, permit
me to add, fight on! fight on fight on never yield
but in death or victory! And oh that | was un-
bound and could do more than look on, throbbing
with every pulse of your glorious struggle-with its
every blow and breath-cheered with its hopes. and
chated by its doubts. You have my prayers, and am
Yours, truly. HENRY A. WISE.
Hon. JOHN MOORE, Chairman Democratic State Com
| mittee, of Illinois.
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has assumed its most expansive form. / will not de-
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