Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-01-12
LETTER FROM GOVERNOR WISE. TO THE
NEW YORK TAMMANY SOCIETY.

RICHMOND Va Dec. 30, 1857.
GEHrLEMEE:-I have the honor to acknowledge
the invitation of the Society Of Tammany TO attend
their celebration of the Forty Third Anniversary o.
the Battle of New Orleans, the evening of the 9Th
day of January next. regret that cannot be with
YOU in person, but tender TO you my warmest sym
pahy 10 the sentiments and objects OF your celeora
tion trust that your venerable order will always
uphold the federal Constitution, with which you
proudly claim to be cotemporaneous; that you will
strve to revive and perpetuate the spirit OF the he
evolutionary fathers, who you boast were your found
ers and that you will now, more than ever, cherish
national az opposed to sectional eengs-a strict con
struction of the Constitution. as opposedlto all com
promises of it's provsions-true Democracy in its
republican FORM as opposed to the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
mobs or mere nejorities enactDg their own higher
lav''-and the liberties Of the people against all
power, delegated or undelegated, upon earth. To
Theses ends you may well commemorate the victory
OF New Orleans. Its hero was "guided by law and
bound by duty" when be took the responsibility to
save city then, and afterwards to save country
from fos more formidable than foreign bayonets.-
He gave US the motto: 1.-THE Union must and shall
be preserved" and hope that his great authority
still remains potent 10 stamp upon every heart, and
upon every banner in the whole country. To pre-.
serve it we must steadily adhere to the Democratic
faith and platform; we stand by you in standing
nv James Buchanan as the people stood by Andrew
jackson.
He had to contend with the money power, and sub.
dusd il by the Samson Of Democracy. We now
and the same Samson survives in vigor to fight for
the chosen people. God forbid that the Samson OF
Democracy shall at last be Samson Agonlstes,
shsrn and blinded, TO become destroyer Almost
every other people and every other party except tha
American Democracy, have had their "bridges Il
a.ses" but I do pray that may not be such aSses
ourselves as to make bridge of slavery, or of any
other subject, for US 10 stall at in career aud pro-
gress OF national greatness. And yet, gentlemen,
there are great many Kansas asses in our country,
half am hh0rp IA q
asses. A driver can get along after manner with
an ass that can but the cruelest goad will not prevail
with the Assess who cant. They are the stuooornest
of ALL and to stall just in the way and at the
religion and religious pon,cs The best whip which
ever touched these asses exactly in the raw, was
James Buchanan's Conestoga thong, laid right on
upon forty fanatical preachers "all in row." Asto
Your other motto Civil and religious liberty, ours
was saved by the Virginia Democracy in 1855 We
struck the dark lantern out Of the hands of ineabe
SaIp and none now are found poor as 10 "hurrah"
tor him. We, therefore, have some right to say TO
you ON other topics that all common sense and jus.
tce quire is that We let each others property and
peace and political privileges alone, and attend TO the
conservation of our own interests respectively at
home. When we happen to meet in the common
Territories, to make new homes and neighborhoods
there, all We have to do is to respect each other
equal right. II we are Southern elaveholders don I
lei our property be invaded or taken away from u.s.
don't allow any power to prevent US from settling
upon common lands, don't drive us away from the
settlements We have made upon domain purchased
or won by common treasure and united vaor.
On the other hand if you prefer that slavery shall
not be Incorporated in the new body polite OF which
You are 10 become members, We promise you that it
shall not be imposed upon you, with our consent,
either by force or by fraud. We propose to 60 to.
gethet TO the polls equals, justly respecting each
others rights and there determine by legal votes,
what shall be the law Of the case If property be
taelshed 10 one form or another it shall be respect.
ed and, il forbidden 10 any other particular FORM 1t
shall not in that form exist in that community Now,
has THE just fair and equal course been observed in
served. Fraud and force both on both sides have
been attempted, aud have, to shameful extent, pre-
| vailed. Aud it is the great vocation of Democracy
to put down both fraud and force in this and in ali
other cases. Howl The case divides itself into two
categories-ths de jure in the Territory, as be
tween the Convention and the peoples and the other