The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-04-28
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 2s 1859.

ltion7 If so, what is direct tarF Is 1dnd
Tar the only one which can be 'GpportioftedF
| Are the land owners to pay all the cost OF the
crusade of Congress and manifest destiny? Is
strict construction and are State rights to be
abandoned, and are we to give up State corpo-
rations to the bankruptcies of Federal com
mission? Where would have been our people
and their effects last year, if a Federal power
could have put our State banks into course OF
liquidation under commission of bankruptcy
Is the South, is any portion of our country, IN
a situation to rush into war-wars invited by
the President with three European and i've
| American Powers? And are we to be a
grand, consolidated, elective, North and South
American imperialism?
| The question is not, VII the Union be DIS
solced2 That is settled question. But the
question is, Is the old Virginia Democratic
faith to be abandoned, and are ace to rush o.,
Nth tile President into q full scheme Of Federal
policy ,ohich IN its ,chole outline and filing up
exceeds any federalism in all its points chict
| Hamilton, or adams, or any other latitudina-
rian, erer dared to project or proposeP For my
part, l take ground now firmly and at once
against the aoar po,cer. / am for the Washing
ton policy of peace, and against all entangling
alliances and protectorates, and the jackson
ruse of demanding nothing but what is right,
ard submitting to nothing that is wrong, and
70 preserving and protecting the South and the
whole country from ambitious and buccaneer-
ing wars, of which the landed and planting in
terests would have to bear the burdens at a
great sacrifice of present prosperity.
The President bids high. To fli6usters he
offers Cuba and the Lsttmus and North Aertco;
to the Vest, Pacific railroad; to the NORTH,
protection to iron and coarse poollens; and 10
Capitalization by obrious uses and abuses Of "a
| bankrupt act to apply to State banks. Yester-
| Gay Biddle was monster, and to-day few
| Vall-street bankers can expand and contract
upon US more like a vice than he did ; and
what would they not do, if they could force the
poor provinces when they please into bankrupt
cy? | have written this right on, and you may
dc what you please with it. Yours, truly,
"HENRY A. WISE"
| 1t will be seen that Gov. Wise assumes, as a
70 egone conclusion, that the Union is to be
dissolved. This idea on his part will doubtless
e, plain his ultra Pro-Slavery position. 1t is
ipTiredible that man of his intelligence can
hi pc to carry Northern State on the platform
h lays down above. He must know that no
Northern constituency will ever vote for any
+
al legislation for the protection of Slavery in
! the Territories and he should know that his
uncomplimentary allusion to the Northern pop
ulatiOn is not calculated to make friends. His
principles repulsive, and his language in
fsulnng. Under such circumstances, he cannot
hope to be elected President and his ambition
to be the candidate is prompted by the desire
to be the great leader in the Southern rebellion,
ITO De organized if Republican is elected Presi-
delt Of the Union. 1t will be recollected that
! GcS Wise went to Raleigh, North Carolina, in
1866 in order to meet other Southern Govern
orr, ind organize general rebellion in the
evf mt of Fremont's election. He still clings to
this reasonable design; and while he is exert
sinG every nerve to become the candidate of the
Democratic party for the Presidency, he
prnclaims beforehand that the Union is to be
di; solved. Rule or ruin, is his motto.
: Governor Wise may, for aught we can fore
Sc, become the candidate of the remnant or
/. ru nl of the Democracy which will be repre-
seate at Charleston; but with such platform
as be lays down, we doubt if he will have SO
mrch as an electoral ticket in any free State,
. He has placed himself horS du combat for any
purpose even pretending to be national; while
for the reasonable schemes meditated by the
: Rfjeigh Convention of 1856, and still ardently
ch-rishedby the dominant party in all the States
sottfo North Carolina and Tennessee, he is
the representative man.
B9 Gov. Wise cannot carry Virginia into
an. such reasonable scheme. TIE Gid Do.
mi,itn will adhere to the Mon; and if the
d. n1cracy of that State wish to be bull,d
ff tathoms deep by the Opposition, they have
only o follow the lead of their cratic Governor
This. however, they will never do. Gov. Wise
has Est the confidence of the Virginia De-
( mCHScy. In his Senatorial contest with Mr.
, Hunter, he was beaten so badly that his friends
will not own that he was in the field. So it will
be when he brings forward his proposition to
dissolve the Union. The entire Opposition,
with nine-tenths of the Democracy, will join in
putting down amy such reasonable and suici-
Y DIAL project.
/ By all means let Gov. Wise be the rump can.
didate for the Presidency. He will be cordially
sustained by the Disunionists and African
slave-traders; and it is not improbable that he
1 will sweep the Gulf States like whirwind. We
] shall then have an opportunity of testing the
! strength of the Union. He will be elected
\ President of the Gulf States by reclamation /;
4 and he, if any man, will have the courage to
lead them in the effort to secede.