Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-02-13
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY By
SOGAR SEOwDES.
ALEXANDRIA,:
SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 10, 1858.
Gov. Wise.

denouncing Senator Hunter tor suspected
or supposed difference Of opinion with the
President on the subject of Kansas, that at
this early day, the position Of the rivals
would be so completely changed, and Sena-
tor Hunter be regarded as a champion Of the
administration, and Gov. Wise as its enemy!
And yet this thing has come to pas! The
"head and front" of DEMOCRATIC PARTY
IN VIRGINIA, is, without scruple, denounced
by the organ of the Administration aud
virtually read out of tho party! And that,
too, 10 rather a cool and cont mptuous mai
ner--as il his opposition were neither to be
feared nor deprecated--and as if his pCliti-
cal sntecedents did not entitle him to much
weight or consideration, at best, and certain
ly to none in reference to the great question
which is now dstracting the dominant party.
In order that our readers may See how Gcv.
Wise is no,c regarded and treated by the
friends of the Administration, we copy the
following article from the Washington Union
of yesterday:
"Gov. Wise has again come before the pub
lie in an effort, as he himself uniquely ex-
presses it, to save the administration and the
democratic national organization. His late
Tammany letter was the frat blow aimed in
that behalf; he now advances upon his for
mer position" and plants another, though
feebler blow, precisely in the same direction.
Gentlemen have discovered Of late a sim
40 pG pspu tho al mini ar and
the democratic party. We believe the recent
course of Senator Douglas on the Kansas
subject has been shaped with especial refer
ence to this laudable object Gov. Walker,
too, has been actuatsd by the same common
dable motive. Gov. Wise and Col. Forncy
alike participate 10 the patroniZing seUtl-
ment In fact, We believe this exemplary
excess of friendship for the administration
and of solctude for tho democratic organi-
cation, is what distinguishes the democratic
from the black-republican branch OF the coal
itiou which has been formed to defeat the
policy of the administration and 10 disrupt
the national party.
.'Since the publication Of the nCt-fOrgotten
declaration of Gov. Wise, in 1854, that 1.-THE
objections to the Nebraskakansas act were
unsnswerable, but never insuperabie," We
believe tina, gentleman has not been dis'in-
suished as as advocate or defender of that
notable measure, which has been cardinal
test of democratic orthodoxy from the slime
of it's passage until now.
Governor Wise, it must be recolected, Is
an enthusiast in his espousals Of public
measures, supporting them always with
heart and head, might and MAN," where he
supports them at all aud the fact that he
has signalzed himself in no special manner
or important crisis, in the championship OF
this measure, has itself sufficiently attested
bis lukewaruness, if not Indifference, 10 It's
success. The act was passed in the face OF
the violent opposition Of the entire black
republican party, of the great body OF the
old wbig party, and of the then rising know
nothing party; and, though Gov. Wise was
Lot 10 actual cooperation with this motley
opposition iu their formidable resistance TO
the measure, neither was he lending bis sup
port, or even countensnce, to the democracy
10 their struggle in its behalf. AsGov. Wise
was indifferent to the enactmeh. OF the
measure, at a time of great & fort aud struggle
to it's friends, it has simply followed, as
matter Of course, that bow, IN the decisive
struggle for the contamination oftbe measure
in it's application to Kansas. be Is founa In
conflict with the democratic organization,
esteemiug his individual opinions superior to
those Of the great body Of the party, on test
measure. Considering his anteceden on this
subject, it has very naturally come TO pass
that letters are now solicited with eagerness
from him by opposition meetings 10 tue
northern cities, and that assaults by him
upon the policy of the party and administra,
ton 10 regard to this measure, are received
With gusto BY the coalition through all the
length and breadth of the northern States.
whatever political relations, therefore,
between Governor Wise and the friends OF tho
administration may be impaired by present
differences of sentiment on the Lecomptoh
constitution, it is not probable that any great
affection or soicitude for the Kansas Nebras-
ka act itself has had to be cOmbatted by uo,-
or nor Wise in throwing himself full length
against the contamination OF the measure III
it's application to Kansas, according to the
policy resolved upon by it's original ana true
friends-the national democracy OF the Union.
Though Gov. Wise may be inchntd to as
sumo, in competition with the president oi
the Philadelphia meeting, the patronlzlng re-
lation of a Warwick, the kipg-maker, to the
present administration, 1t Is quite certain
that be cannot claim the paternity OF tue
X ansas- N ebraska act itself. or set up any eS-
pecial right to dictate to its early, constant
and real friends and supporters his ind'vlo,
ual views as to the manner in which 1t snail
be interpreted, executed, or applied. As the
democratic party and its administration Ct,
tablisbed the measure without the aid aud
avn patty of Gov. Wise, it must not be eA
pected that the same party and its admins
tration will give much heed or consequence
10 bis present views upon the policy wnich
thew have resolved upon for consummatlns
the great measure in its application 10 the
Territory of Kansas. Whatever INJURY 10
the policy of the administration and demo
cratic party may result at the North irom
the fact that so conspicuous southern n't"
as Gov. Wise opposes it, it must at least oe
remem bered, there. that this opposition co"es
from southern man aud democrat, VINO was
at least never an active supporter Of the Ne
brsska-kansas act"
The Blue Ridge Republican declares that
Gov Wise is now "yoked" with Henry Wiz
ter Davis in opposition to the administration
on the Kansas question, and must have his
DOOM" Henry A. Wise and Henry W.
n:t What q con;pn,fi m has coma abnut