New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-13
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Mr. o. Jennings Wise is the son OF the Hon.
Henry A. Wi.e-the writer Of letters, the my
" dear Governor" Mr.. b. DOnnely of Ne. 3 VIII
linn street, the friend Of Mr.. Eugene Cassidy,
and the would be Dagger Of Boston. Mr.. o. j. w
i, al.o the editor Of The Richmond Enquirer, which,
with one hand, deal. hsrd blows 10 Squattsr Sove-
reiepty and, 10 the hollow of the other, holds Wise
the elder. in full view Of the United South" and
the White House. Mr Patrick Henry Aylstt, who
described himselfn lo5i as "ayoung and unknown
"kerson," has long been an anonymous con-
trbutor 10 The Richmond Examiner, aud has at
tines been left in charge Of its serri-d col
umns Young and unknown 10 "a, he is
young and known in 80. Mr o. Jennings Wise
directly, Mr. Henry A. Wise indirectly, have
gwen lin 10 the world. On the 10th
Of July, every body knew that Vrginan, bearing
his classical, Virauan name, existed in the flesh,
and in the fe.h had set himself up as target
before Mr.. 0. Jennings Wise, in North Carolina.
Two days We waited; on the third the news came
that Jennings had made no Ayiett holes with his
pistol, and that Patrick Henry's shot had left the
great o. as round as ever. Patrick Henry had
missed the Governors con, and the Governors son
had fred into the air and not into the vacant he,d
Of Patrick Henry. Then principal Ayletts
second withdrew him from the field and
Patrick Henry, forgetting bis namesake's IL 70
peat IT, Sir, We must fight, expressed the belief
that the oifense offered to him BY Mr. Wise was
"the result Of Misunderstanding, and the wish
''tbat BY cones might be byg' pes" Here, ac-
eordipg to the modern code-not the code of the
bookr, We believe, but that TO which the ddellO Of
our days practically confoIms-was the place for
o. Jennings to extend biz hand, embrace his long
"lost brother" and leave the field Of honor arm
in arm with him. The son of his father did
otherwise. Il hope that We may be better
"straDeers,' vas substantially his answer Il
"do not thirst for the blood of Aylett; far
abe il from NE even 10 wonDd his feeliDgs-but, we
" cannot be friends" A very sensible reply. How
the smell and smoke Of a certain quantum of
powder, burned in the presence of two seconds,
two "friepds' and two surgeons should make
foes friends, we never could understand mys-
terry hung about the ceremony, cloud about the
s,cred fire, which we could never penetrate. And,
now, o Jennings Wise, chivalry Of the chivalry,
+. Fest ofthe +. +. VS., who acted throughout, by
the admission of BIZ, adversarys second, as man
L" of honor and courage" has also failed to per-
ceive the logic Of this part Of the Code declares
that it is guitess Of logic, and returning to Rich
mond, locks up his pistols, loads The Enquirer to
the muzze and delivers broadside after brOadside
into Tn, Richmond Eramiaer at whose guns,
match in hand, stil stands the redoubtable Patrick
Henry. who did no, fire into the air and did not hi.
Nr, Wise.
The la.t card, >" which IS the only one that has
fallen into our haLds appears in Th Richmond
Exquirer, side by side with the correspondence be-
tween Wise, the elder, and Mr. B. Donnely, Of
No. 3 William street Alusions to other cards,
We know not how many, are made by Southern
ournals, but mercitul Providence has kept them
At dittance from US. In this last card, which is
only three columns in length, appears sufficiently
ucid explanation Of " what the fighting was about"
tseeDs that in lS4, Aylett corresponded, IS Mr. b.
DOnnely has corresponded, with tie Hon. Henry A.
Wise, not yet Governor but a candidate before the
Democratic Convention, presently to meet at Staun.
ton; obtained from him certain materials" as did
Mr. Donpelly, and used those materials, as have
Mr.. B. Donney' friends, TO the injury of Sir. Wise
The materials" related to tie political history Of
the distir guished Virginian from ls4l, and more
particularly to the chapter Of bis relations With the