The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-18
Gov. Niss sadiAhe Kansas Qnsstion-Which
Wav, Governor

The late, Tammany Hall Kansas manifesto of
Gov. Wise has caused a pretty general sensa-
ton, North and South, and has excited a
world o. curiosity and conjecture among the
calculating politicians. OF all parties. Some
have supposed that the Governor, vainly
imagining that he held the Virginia Legisla-
ture between his finger and thumb, concluded
that it would only be necessary on his part to
denounce the Lecompton schedule, in order to
bring the "voice of the Old Dominion" to the
rescue of "old Buck :" and that 1t would only
be necessary for "Old virginny" to speak to
bring the administration to the right about
face. Others have supposed that Gov. Wise,
having declared war against the Southern fire.
caters, bas resolved that, at all hazards, he will
not play second fiddle to the tune of Jefferson
Davis; but the most generally received opinion
is, that the shrewd virginian has found out
that "there is a North" and that no man with
out a foothold in the North can be elected
President of the United States
This view Of the subject is very
adroitly worked up in the article which we
transfer to this paper from the Chicago
free soiD Tribune. Our f~acetious North
western contemporary says that the Cuisines Of
dissolving the Union has proved q dead
failure that cit has frightened the North for
the last time, and Wise knows it," that he
knows, land Douglas, and Walker, and the
whole tribe Of crazy politicians, that the North
is daily growing more and more willing to take
up the gage which the South has thrown down,
and give the fre-eaters all they want" that
Wise. Douglas, and such, accordingly, finding
that Outlying, badgering and browbeating
are exhausted" are "~clawing off" as fast as
possible. And so "Wise's letter is bid for the
free soil sentiment of the North for the Presi-
dency. 1t is following up the move of Doug
las for the organization Of the national demo-
crazy" with q Northern exposure; but ''repub-
licans are warned not to throw up their hats
until they see for what and whom they are to
burrsh!'
Such Is the prevailing Northern interpreta-
ton Of this famous "Kans-assical' and Cant
~assical" Tammany manifesto of the Virginia
Governor. But the closing bit of advice which
our Chicago philosopher whispers into the ears
of the republicans may prove to be a wise pre-
caution. There may be a cat in the meal tub.
There is no telling, in fact, where Governor
Wise may turn up in the heat and crisis
OF the battle. In the summer Of sc he
was the fercest and most terrible of all the fire.
election knew no bounds. lie was ready, should
his fears upon this score be fulfilled, TO organize
the Virginia militia, niggers and all, and march
them upon Washington, seize the surplus cash
in the treasury, and the public archives, and
from the forum Of Capitol Hill to proclaim a
Southern Confederacy. To this end Governor
Wise went all the way to Raleigh to consult with
a little convention of Southern Governors, and
came back with flea in bis ear. With the cleo
ton of Mr.. Buchanan, however, the fiery Gov
ernor became the pink Of propriety, the cham
pion Of conservatism and a model of modern
ton.
What next9 If the administration has recop
nized a special favorise Of the party-standinga
head and shoulders above all Others at the White
House-ith has been Governor Wise. If there has
been a local champion more popular among the
Virginia demsGscy than any other man since the
time Of jefferson it has been Governor Wise. If
at any time since the nomination of poor Pierce
the position Of the Virginia democracy was
especially important to the safety Of the whole
party, IL was the other day, when Governor
Wise's Tammsny letter was taken up in the
State Legislature. IL Il certain, therefore, that
after being sdmonished, as Governor Wise
has been, Of the grave mistake of that
Tamrany manifesto, that he will stick to itl
Is 1t certain that that letter vas not a strata.
gem, intended to beguile the enemy, and to
lead him of upon o false alarm The greatest
Of Napoleon's victories we're achieved by draw
ing of The enemy to repel a feigned movement,
under cover Of which he surprised and crushed
them Of The real point Of the fght. Some such