Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-28
GOV. WISE As A REPREsENrAr.vs OF v.s.sI,StA

Gov. WISE As A REPRESESTAr,vp OF v.SstStA
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points triumphantly to the vese os the YSEsfsSA
Legislature ON the LeeesaFgea CesastitaSSSa IS
an evidence that Virgins Is ssaa5 20 the eeSs
on the gyea, niger qasstiNa-sna IS cOssEe1A>
ton that Gov Wise Is Eallea star, thEOsasA-
out the length and breadth Cf the pu6sSe epsa-
ion OF this Commonwealth We think that he
Star is unnecessarily precipitSte and SweeR;ns
in its assertion. and mistaken. at least, by one
half we are sorry that the Western members
of tho Virginia delegation did give any grounds
for such belief-for We are very certain that it
does neither themselves nor their respective
constituencies any credit in the eyes of the
world. Butstill, for all that, we not willing
that the name of Gov. Wise should be used as
convertible term with the principles which he
seemed temporarily to have cxpoused. Gov.
Wise has been known to our people everywhere
MS fire-eater, as diSunionst, Uncertain events)
and as such he had become popular with one
part of the people of the State, and unpopular
with another. By his recent extraordinary
manifesto in favor of the integrity and purity
of the elective franchise i'll the vote upon the
Lccompton Constitution, he took all parties by
surprise, and while his letter provoked his for
friends, it did not reconcile his past oppo-
nents, who mistrusted, and with good cause too
that the Governor was at one of his freaks in
the hunt of popular favor. All parties, there
fore, concluded that it wos propitious time to
head off the uncertain Governor, in asmuch as
he seemed to be standing loose from sympathy
with any particular party.
Taking this view of the case, it is not for the
Star to so hastily pronounce that Gov. Wisc's
sentiments, as embodied in his Tammany Hall
letter do not meet response in. Western Yir-
GINA. They do, and will meet with response,
whatever any of US may think of the author of
them. We confess to having very little conf
dence in the stability or loyalty of our Cover
nor to any scheme other than his own ambitious
reachesf first for the U. s. Senate, and then, if
not before, for the Presidency. The people of
all parts of our State have learned to mistrust
the Governor-and to fear the consequences of
endorsing any of his mystic forays upon friends
or enemies-lcst in little while, they might be
called to go an unenviable length to keep up
seeming consistency.
Tho Star should have stopped to consider
how exceedingly improbable is the idea that
persons, not actuatcd by the hope of govern
ment favor, could first give in their unqualified
adhesion to the doctrines of the Kansas Nc
braska bill, and them ere yet those doctrines we're
incorporated in the creed, turn right about and
stultify themselves by entirely repudiating
their own expressed opinions
But there is something that the Star should
learn, and that is that whatever the politicians
of Western Virginia may seem in its eyes to
be-the people of these Western hills and val.
leys, rough and uncultivated though many of
them may be, are not the poor ninnies who will
for ever and ever be made the ''make-weights,"
to throw the voice of Virginia to the side of Ill
traism The time was, and is yet, in some pla-
ces when Western Virginia did not dare have a
sentiment of hcr own, because she was within
the hands of the East. The time was when in
Wheeling here, meeting could be got up to
protect tour interests at Richmond, at the cx-
pense of citizen Whartons personal safety-
That time, the Star had as we'll know, is gone
by and the era has come when the expression Of
the sentiments contained in Gov Wise's Tamma-
ny letter do not dscredit man in this congress
sional district, at least.
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