The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-18

a vote you would get with Seward against you
You would carry every Northern State, ex-
cepting Massachusetts, Vermont, and possibly
Rhode Island. All of the Western States,
am assured, would roll into line again.
/ am stopping at the Springs here for few
days, and, having an opportunity of consulting
with our friends from different sections of the
Union, thought it advisable to drop you the
enclosed, hurriedly scratched together. If
can be Of any service to you, let me know it.
If you think it advisable to make push for the
delegates from this State, write me, and / will
tell you how it can be done, to the best of my
knowledge and belief Ludlow, Cassidy, and
Peter Cagger, are the controlling spirits; and
either of these, if they supposed you were not
completely in the hands of Fernando Wood d
Co., would he your friend. This / find is their
impression, though not publicly expressed. Mr..
Wood IS a very smart man, and is much feared
by the politicians, but his misfortune seems TO
consist in having no one to back him. Had he
the strength that these others have in the coun-
try districts, he would be our next Governor
But in the country he falls behind, apd seems
to be very unpopular amongst the farmers and
others. Your best way is, to keep clear of all
cliques and factions. Side with none of them :;
and when it is determined who are to be the
delegates, and also who has control of them, it
Yours, truly, B. DONNELLY.
To HIS Ercellency Coz. Wise.
Address me at my store, No. 3 William ST.,
New York.
Mr.. Donnelly is, l believe, not member of
the Democratic State Committee of New York,
and is person in private life, so far as l know
Strictly in response TO his letter, wrote the
following reply, (now correctly punctuated,) and
intended, as it shows ON its face, to be strictly
private and confidential, and giving no advice
or counsel not called for by my correspondent,
and not pertinent as reply even on points of
personal vanity or pretensiOn:
RICHMOND, July Is, 1859.
DEAR SIR; l thank you for yours of the 9Th
inst. l have apprehended all along that the
Tammany Regency would carry a united dele
cation from New York to Charleston. For
whom Douglas, l know, is confident; but
you may rely on it that Mr.. Buchanan is him
self candidate for renominaton and all his
patronage and power will be used to disappoint
Douglas and all other aspirants. Our only
chance is to organize by districts, and either
whip the enemy or send two delegations.
If that is done or not done, we must still rely
on a united South Il united South acW depend
on united Virginia. and / pledge you that
she, at least shall be a unit. Virginia unit
protection to all persons of popular rs. squat
ter sovereignty, she must rally to her support
all the South. The SOlM cannot adopt Mr.
Douglas's platform. II is a short cat TO all the
ends Of Black Repu6licaRiSm. He then will
kick up his heels. If he does or don't, he can't
be nominated, and the main argument against
his nomination is, that he can't be elected if
nominated. The rams an Independent candi-
date, and Se1odrd rams, and / am nominated at
Charleston, can beat them both. Or, if squat
ter sovereignty is a plank of the platform at
Charleston, and Douglas is nominated, the
South will run an Independent candidate on
protection principles, and run the election into
the House. Where, then, would Mr.. Douglas
be? The lowest candidate on the list. If
have the popular strength you suppose, it will
itself fix the nomination. Get that, and ! am
confident of success
The Hon. F. Wood is professedly, and really
l believe, friend, and of course | would, in
good faith, be glad of his influence, and would
do nothing to impair it, and could not Justly
reject his kind aid but you may rely upon it
that | am neither completely, nor at all, in the
hands of Mr.. Wood, or of any other man who
breathes. He has always been friendly to me,
and am to him, but always on fair and indie
pendent terms. There is nothing in our rela-
tons which should keep aloof any friend of
either. He knows we'll as any one can tell
him. that his main influence is in the city of
New York, and ! Judge what you say of his
country influence is correct. But | am count
ing all the time without New York, and don't
f~a~ tho rASult.- depending solely upon an
open position of principle, independent Of all
cliques, and defying all corners. We ,oW orer-
lchetm opposition IN Virginia, and her pote aoiU
be conservative and national.
Il oil. I Io1l IL l. Il
from you, and am yours, truly,
HENRY A. WISE.
The first heard of this letter was the fuss
and farce and fraud practiced at Albany; and
on the 9th inst, Saturday last, | received from
Mr.. Donnelly the following:
NORTH SHORE, STATEN ISLAND,
august 4, 1859.
HIS ErceUency Goperncr Wise:
My DEAR SIR: Much to my surprise and re-
greet, find published, in to-day's Herald, your
letter to me of the 18th of last month. When
/ received the same | showed it to three or
four distinguished and honorable friends, each
of whom had the letter in their possession only
while reading it; consequently, they could have
no chance of copying it. After which, on Satur-
day last, while in Albany, l showed the letter
to Mr.. Cassidy the able editor of the Albany
Argus and alias, who after reading it, wished
me to leave the letter with him, so that he might
show it to Mr.. Dean Richmond the Chairman
of our State Central Committee. To this con-
sented, for the following reasons In the first
place, you will see in my previous letter that
stated that the selecting Of the delegates to the
Charleston Convention would be done in accord
ance with the wishes of Messrs Richmond,
Ludlow, Cagger, and Cassidy, each of whom, /
was informed, were friendly to you, but objected
to you on account of the reported influence sup
posed to be exercised over you by Hon. Fernan-
do Wood. In order to disabuse their minds of
this impression, and to secure their influence
and friendship, / consented to allow the letter
to go out of my hands, not knowing of any more
effectual way of accomplishing that object than
by showing to them the denial of these false
hoods, then in your own handwriting Mr..
Cassidy expressly promised me that your letter
should not be made public; and, from his prom
inent position and exalted character, supposed
was sufficient guaranty that all would be as
was desired.
This letter was made public, no doubt, with |
a view of killing you off. OF this we shall see
and hear more of hereafter. The Democracy
in this part of the country believe that the Giant
who was capable of destroying the monster
Know Nothingism, is the most competent and |
suitable person to destroy that monster of all |
AbolitiOnis m-which if not DESTROYED |
N 1860, will be master of the field for all time |
10 come.
The State Committee has done as was ex
pected, and the whole matter lies with the peo- |
pie, who, if aroused, have no fear. So long
As The people are right, we need not fear the |
tricksters. |
Yours, truly, B. DoxxELLY.
Now, this is all know about the matter 1t |
s no fault or imprudence of mine which makes |
he whole public, and thus explaining itself / |
nave no comment to make, nothing to palliate,