The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-15
THE DONNELLY LETTER-MR CASSIDY'S
EXpTANATInN

From the Albany Argus
Gov WIsEs LETTER AND Gov. WIsE's ExPLAEA-
TIoN.-Gov. Wise's letter, in which we regret to
lind no word OF remorse or shame for the fraud he
advised and attempted upon the Democracy of this
State, has yet something in it that calls for few
words from US.
That Mr.. Donnely, to whom the letter was ad-
dressed, after showing it to several Others conded
1t to MIR. Cassidy, with permission to send it to Mr.
Richmond, at Buffalo, who was to bring it to AL
bany, on the meeting of the State committee, the
subsequent week, is true But Mr.. Cassidy did not
avail himself of this permission. He was more
chary of the reputation of Governor Wise than his
own correspondent. Neither Mr. Richmond, nor
any member of the State committee, was made
aware of the contents of the letter until copy of
1t was ascertaned to be in circulation in this CITY
on the day the State committee met.
Mr.. Cassidy's feelings, those of his friends, and
of his friends friends, such preclude the
idea of hostility to Gov. Wise; and the only emo
ton the letter excited in him ofregret that
it was written, and of apprehension lest it should
be made public Mr.. Cassidy denies that by any
act of his, or by any connivance or consent, di-
rect or indirect remote or near, was the letter
made public
Mr.. Wise had associated himself with a political
confidence man in this State, to whom not only
every social circle barred, but every political
convention was closed; who had held office only to
show his untness for public for private trusts and
OF whom the press talked only meckingly in con-
nection with his chances of real penitentiary, or
the hypothetical Cabinet of President Wise. 1t
would nave Deen supernuouS cruelty to nave sought
TO injure such candidacy, stained with such as
ISOLATION.
We demand that Governor Wise, (uness he is to
be judged by his companions, in which case we de-
sire to have nothing further to do with him., shall
push this inquiry, in regard to his correspondence,
to its This letter appeared first in the New
York Herald with the editor of which Governor
Wise is in confidential correspondence. Let him
demand how this letter communicated to it
By its agent? Then, from whom did the agent get
it? Who was the third party? Who stood behind
him? Who was the last and original source of this
communication?
If Governor Wise has anything left of honor and
manness, if he is not cowed down or shamed into
impotency by his own conscience, let him do this
We challenge the investigation, because we know
its results will acquit us, abroad, of a charge
which no man in this State friends or foe, would
bring against us, of being false to private conf
dence.
But the resentment we feel at the dsgraceful
subterfuge, which, under bubbles and falsehoods,
seeks to divert the responsibility of this disclosure
from its true source, and the contempt we feel for
the author of such letter, are lost in sense of
pity for the State which has the misfortune to have
such man for its head. 1t is Virginia of which
Mr.. Wise is Governor! 1t is to the Mother of
States that we are forced to trace this shameful
harotry.