The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-02
Threatening and Appealing Letters to Gov.
Wise.

Wise.
The Governor 90 Virginia, whose energetic.
patriotic and prudent conduct in regard TO the
narpcr's Ferry outrage commands universal
approval, is in the daily receipt of large
number ofietters from aool.tioniSis IN various
Sta,es. threatening his life, threatening an at
tempt 10 rescue cid BROWN, and threatening
the renewal Q: like attempts 20 those o! BROWN
jfGay. WISE does no; pardon the miscreanI
who has Just been convicted cf has crimes, aud
who Will be but 10 the death he deserves, As
sufely as ;o-rlorrow's sun rises IN heaven
Thosp letters speak OF the increasing number
@. ;he absIiiionists, Of their ability TO perform
what laey threaten, and OF the "muTds'op,
ey-,' touse 5he language Of one OF them, with
which they watch the progress Of BROWNS
trial. They windpp generally with holding
oEt 10 the Governor great popularity st the
N4-;h, II he VIII deal len!ently with the Grim
inals. From all quarters in the Northern and
Western States these letters come, written in
every variety OF style and penmanship; but
all breathing threats ofrescue or OF vengeance,
IN case Brown and his followers are execu-
ted.
These letters, however. might DO treated in
ordinary times with utter contempt, but for
the illustration which Old Brown has recen t
~ given OF the truth OF SAM PATCH's maxim
thar some things can be done rs well as
Others" But these are not the only, nor the
most important ard dgnifed Of the Gocu-
nants with which the Governors mail is
daily loaded From some Of the most inteili-
gent aad res &c table sources in the non-slaye-
holding States como letters fun Of respect and
COURTESY, some OF them evidently free from
all sinister motive or influence, Invoking
the Governor to pardon BRoWN. The ground
Of good feeling IS urged as the reason OF then
recommendation the enemies of the Consii-
tuticn. VINO are chagrined by the exposure OF
their crimes Will have no chance OF recovering
the influence they have lost Virginia and hel
Governor wall be everywhere hailed with
universal love and gratitude
one of the writers says that, if the Cover.
nor ccuid De on the ground and see the state oi
continent in the -sayeholding States upon
this subject he would not hesitate for an in
etant. All this explains the sympathizins tone
OF The New York J0WHal # Commerce, TO which
We referred yesterday, hitherto 4 conservative
paper. but Which seems now to be infected by
the general madness. The writers of ties'
letters undrrral e the sagacity iirmness and the
character OF the EIrginiaE at the head OF this
great Commonwealth, when they address K
him such appeals III the most cold blo0deo
and deliberate malice and wickedness, JoH1
BnoWS mas committed the greatest grimes
known 10 human law, and now they who in
stigaGed his crimes threaten vengeance II he is
punished, aCd men whose morbid sympathies
are always enlisted in behalf of suffering
villiany, insist that it would DE good policy L
lei him go 1t would neither be good policy
nor GOOD princi pls-a thing which there seems
10 he precious little idea Of in the minds oI
many Of these sympathizers.
But why these sympathizing letters Some
of them are from men high in wealth and po-
sitioD, nnd who are themselves strongly
suspected OF q Willingness to make money
out Of Southern blood. They are uneasy in
their own minds: their conscience tells them
that BROWN is in lis present position through
their agency; that he Is only their toe! ard in
struIaent and that moi only the blood shed at
Harper's Ferry is on th-ir hands, but The life
OF Ola brown and Ais con!ederates also
Hence their anxiety 10 rescue him from the
ate impending over his head. We do not say
that ali the etttTs from influential quarters
received by Gov. WISE are prompted by this
motive: but some of them undoubtedly are
We would suggest TO sympathizers of this
stamp the only mode of approaching the Gov
ernor OF Virginia which affords them the
smallest chance of receiving even a hearing
Let them offer their own precious necks in the
place of BROWN. Their consclerces tell them
that, if lie dies. they guilty Of his death
Let them come on and offer to die in his place!
Let some of the Boston spectators in South
ern cotton try he merits Of this system of ex-
changes We venture to say that if they viii!
draw on Southern hemp, the draft will be i'm
medately Lonored, and The bonds of Union
pulled so tight that they Will never agan
breathe disloyal and traitorous breath