The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-13
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Tdmmany Hall in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the
Emeute-C Coalition betpeen Mayor Wood,
Governor Wise, Douglas and the Hard Shells
against the Adminissration-Go Governor WISE,
the probable Champion Of Emancipation
The Contest Impending ~ Nrginia- Cor.
ernor WISE, Ell 7hayer, the Railroads and
White migrants.
Correspondence Of the N. Y. Times,1
Washington, April 8.
The new schism in Tanmany Hall has been
deeper signi6cancy than the " skirmishes Of
kites and crows" which usually disturb the
harmony of the party. Mayor Wood and his
foresters have fed TO the Medina in no tempo
rary exile. Henceforth Mercer Hall will be
classical ground-the headquarters Of a rebel
lion hich is destined TO exercise a great and
perhaps fatal influence upon the fortunes Of the
Democratic party. The disaffection Of last
fall, which gave SO much uneasiness to the
faithful everywhere, was purely local, and inn
paired the strength of the party very little if
1t all.
But the plot Of which the ex.Mayor is the
soul and centre, has extensive ramifcations
1t is charged by the personal adherents of the
Administration, that it was formed at Richmond
early last winter, in conference bets cen Mr..
Wood and Gov. Wise, and had its origin in con-
alterations partly personal and partly political
1t 10 alleged by the Buchanan delegation in
Congress from the city, that Mr.. Collector
Schell belongs to the league, that he has sought
to "make up State for Custom House ap.
pOintments inmcal to the Administration and
unfriendly TO the denomination Of Mr.. Buch-
anan, and to the succession Of Mr.. Cobb or
any other member of the present Govern
ment. This, they affirm, was the real cause Of
the rejection by the Secretary Of the Treasury
of Mr.. Schell's thirty two Inspectors in Febru.
airy last.
The motives Of Mr.. Wood are easily enough
discerned. His power ~ q mere city politician
departed last December. He sought to perpe.
tuate it by transferring lis talents for manage
menL to broader field. Gov. Wise has nObler
objects Of action. He has or Is about TO separate
from the regular Democratic organization upon
question which will agitate Virginia and all
the Southern States for the next twenty years
with an intensity approaching the violence Of
the sedition of ancient Rome. II 10 the sh-
very question. Governor Wise is preparing
himself for the great controversy Of emaEcipa
ton. That is the real basis Of his hostility to
the imposition Of slavery upon Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution. He sees that
Kansas can never become market for the
slaves Of Virginia, while to force . pro-savery
government upon her, would give additional
strength to the antemancipation party in Vir-
ginia and at Washington.
This great social question has been precpita-
ted upon Virginia by the same means as in Mis-
souri,. II 10 the fruit Of the internal improve
ment system and the immigration Of whites Of
the middle class. Those two influences are SO
rapidly increasing the price Of lands 40 to reader
them too valuable for the occupation Of color
ed laborers. Gov. Wise is statesman enough
to perceive that these tendencies Of the times
cannot be resisted. The movement may be
Rn dad nj al ~
courage to govern his conduct by the require.
ments Of the future, rather than the necessities
Of his present position. He, therefore, openly
supports Eli Thayers schemes Of white coloni.
cation, and oil the projects for canals and rail-
roads which are running Virginia % heavily in
debt, and may not improbably make her the
greatest State in the Union, in population,
wealth and political power.
By what political alchemy it has happened
cannot describe, but the immediate personal
friends Of the President, and the hangers on of
the court, declare that Gov. Wise has sought
to prepare himself against the coming storm by
. coalition with the hard-shell faction OF New
York, hitherto excessively pro-slavery, with
Mr.. Wood and the Democracy of the North
west under Mr.. Douglas. The singularity Of
this combination 10 obvious in many respects
particularly in this, that the three heads Of the
sions are recognized candidates Tor the Presi-
dency, whose pretensions have been hitherto
altogether conflicting. This may ex-
plain why the living hard.shells have come to
regard Mr.. Dickerson as an indurated fossil,
whose venerable yearnings for the White House
ought not to be permitted to derange modern
calculations. Mr.. Schell, Of course, has him.
self to take care Of, and being in the actual
enjoyment Of the best office and highest honor
he is likely to reach, may well content him
self with discharging his duties to the Gov.