The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-10
From the NetO Fork Herald.
POI JTIHAI GOSCJD


CORRESPONDENCE OF GOVERNOR VISIT would
that the illustrious Chief Magistrate of Vir-
gna is prolific in bis epistoary favors. The letter
to Mr.. Donnelly, which upturned the Albany State
Committee to its foundations, and cemented an
everlasting alliance between the friends of Daniel
S. Dickinson and the Barnburners, was but one out
of thousand from his facile pen. The last known
recipient of one of his valuable communications is
! gentleman in Brooklyn whose name is Mr.. Oliver
Cotter. Mr.. Cotter was enjoying, it is said, not
| long since, in his back parlor, cool breeze from
| the bay and cigar, when ring at the front door
bell gave token of vsiter. The vister proved to
be the postman, who brought to Mr.. Oliver Cotter
letter, postmarked Richmond, Virginia, which,
upon opening, he perceived to be adorned with the
distinguished signature of Henry A. Wise
What Governor Wise could have to say to him
Mr.. Oliver Cotter did not know, and not knowing,
he proceeded to decipher-no difficult task, as the
handwriting clear, plain and unmistakeabe.
| The letter to Mr.. Cotter from Governor Wise was
one of thanks-an out pouring of gratitude for the
endorsement OF his claims to the Presidency, which
had been given in Brooklyn at a meeting over
which Mr.. Cotter had not long before presided. 1t
deemed any long exposition of political faith, after
the thirty mine page credo in which the Governor
had recently indulged quite superhuous, but eav-
ing naturalization laws, niggers and schnapps out
of the question, it solemny declared that he Henry
A. Wise, looked forward with unaffected humi-
ty" to the honors with which he was about to be
overwhelmed. and that he could not but sincerely,
honestly, and with the most devout sensations of
gratitude, contemplate the disinterested and pa
triotic expressions of regard with which he had
been greeted by the city of Brooklyn generally,
and by Mr.. Oliver Cotter in particular.
Let Mr.. Cassidy be consoled. If the Donnellv
letter did come to light rather oddly, and if the
Atlas and Argus did prevaricate slightly concern
ing the issue of its genuineness, heat drives out
heat-each last Wise letter oblierates the memory
OF the last and the great thirty page epstle
which is said to be in preparation, will contain
combustion enough to cause all past confagrations
to pass out of remembrance forever.
Simultaneously with the letter to Mr.. Oliver Cot
ter, Governor Wise wrote another to person in
Williamsburg on the same subject of the "Brook-
lyn Wise meeting" with which he had been so
mysteriousy guled; but as this is altogether a
grave and important matter, and as the original
documents must soon be forthcoming, we postpone
further comments for the present.
Alas for Mr.. Oliver Cotter's powers of compre-
hension of Governor Wise's eloquence, he had no
recollection of ever having presided at a Wise
meeting. 1t is doubtful, in fact, whether Mr.. Cot
ter is Wise Certainly neither he nor his
friends had assembled to give vent to that exhu-
berance of Wise enthusiasm which had inspired the
Governor with such :" unaffected humility" Was
it, then, "humility !" on false pretences? Such a
supposition not to be thought Of Whatever
other smaller frailties the Governor of Virginia
may have been accused OF, hypocrisy and sham are
none of his vices. Imprudent hair-brained and
| foolish he NAV he-reckless to a fault-but he is
void of duplicty beyond doubt. 1t flashed, then,
upon Mr.. Oliver COtters mind that GoAernor Wise
must have been hoaxed-cruev, wickedly, abomi-
! nably imposed upon-and that certain wicked ones
sons of Belial," in Brooklyn or elsewhere, had
led him to believe that the thing was which was not
in word, had lied to his Excellency most atrocous
| ly. And so it proves to lave been and the up
right Cotter has written to Governor Wise to that
effect, and has assured him, that honored as he
feels himself by the receipt of his letter he never
presided at a Wise meeting, and that no such as
semblage was ever convened in the City O
| Churches.
And now for still another letter, which "bags'
Boston, and provides for another ''tea party"
I We are indebted says the Boston Courier t.
Lieutenant John S. Foster, corresponding Secre
tary of the Boston Mercantile Library association
for copy of Governor Wise's letter in answer tt
invitation TO lecture before the society next win
| ter. 1t is in these words
RICHMOND, (Val, July o. 1859
To Jno. S. Foster, ESQ.,, Chairman and Sec'y., &c.
DEAR SRI hardly know how to decline YOU
invitation, but must do so.
| Please present my acknowledgements to the Lee
ture Committee, and say that am about to star
for our mountains for tour of sixty days ex
amining routes and reservoirs for a canal Tha
| from that time to the 1st of December, | shall b.
engaged in preparing materials for my last messag
to the Virginia General Assembly, upon whom
must wait constantly until the first of Januar,
| next And that thereafter shall be busily occu
pied in fixing house and home for my family afte
four gears absence. Besides all this, extra labor
of grievous burthen fall heavily upon me. So,
cannot except this call. have no time for terar,
or any other composition. am bad shot tthe best
and am not going to Boston to shoot at game o