Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-16

Our clerks know these Johns 10y their various
titles, and generally so designate them IN any
process they may issue. Willy repeat, let
me know which one Of our John Smiths your
process is intended for and it shall be duly eX-
ecu,ed. Yours, truly.
Trrom the Albany (N. W Evening S'andard'
GOVERNOR WISE.
The ccns,,re bestowed by several oil our de-
mocratic contemporaries throughout the state on
wha; is called the ''Wise-Donneliy Letter, we
cannot concur in.
Ii every gentleman will look over his private
correspondence he will find there many letters
which, if published, would expose the writer
to much more severe animadversion than Gov
ernor Wise
The principal rault-if such it may be called
on the part of Governor Wise is, in his cor
responding contdcntially with person whom
he evidently knew so little OF, and who was
weak enough not only to show his letter, but
to leave it for n time sufficient to he copied,
with an old political renegade and professional
spoils hunter.
The infamy of the whole transaction rests ON
the shoulders of Cassidy, and will stick to him,
like "the shirt of Ncssus. as long as he
breathes. There is no gentleman, either friend
or foe, who will trust him after this, and his
political and social positions, such as they were,
arc gone forever. The treason of ls4S caused
him to be dreaded and hated by the noble and
generous party that had nourished and suS-
tanned him and his. His Surrcptitlously ob-
tanning the Wise letter, under the Sulsc OF
friendship, and then having it copied, will. in
addition. forever cause him to be summed and
despised.
And, as if to add insult to injury, he brazen-
" turns round and heaps the grosscst abuses
upon the hish-mindcd and chivalrous Vir-
gilman, 1.-THE latchet Of whose shoes nc is I'M
worthy to loose. lie also throws = pail of his
olIal at Ex-Mayor Wood, who had neither
given him offence or provocation. But let Mr.
Cassidy pass, we are not among those who
would throw water on drowned rat.
And what is there so terrible in this cclcbra-
ted letter TO call forth all this noise and abuse
As we understand it, the Governor says, il the
old Barnburning clique should succeed in
packing the next State Convention and usurp
the appointment Of National Delegates, the
people of the Congressional Districts ought to
rise in their organic might and send true and
popular representatives to Charleston to con-
test the seats Of the bogus men. This is the
sum and substance of his offending. There
are over a hundred thousand Democrats
throughout the State of New York precisely OF
the same opinion. Fifty-ninc influential De-
mocratic newspapers in the State have sub
stantially expressed the same views. As the
representative of the true Democracy of this
country, we. have repeatedly put forth the same
sentiments in our columns, and we now boldly
and fearlcssly reiterate them, viz: That if the
clique shall succeed in packing the next State
Convention, and usurp the appointment oil
majority Of their tools to the Charleston Con-
ycntion, the Democrats Of the several Con.
cressional Districts will rise in their might and
send an honest and honorable set of delegates TO
Charleston.
But supposing there had been anything in
discreet or wrong in Gov. Wises letter, was 1t
the part of II brother in the political faith, nay
the editor OF the State Organ, and the reclpi-
ent of n vast amount Of party patronage to be-
tray aud expose him?
This attempt at cutting friends throat has
never been adopted in any party camp, and is
now for the first time introduced by the Butch
or Boy" in order probably to keep his hand
practiccd TO his early calling fhe had fresh
taste for blood nc oug n; to have applied his knife
to some other '.ugular" Gov. Wise had and has
too many claims upon the Democracy TO be
either injured or inSulted By any of It's mem
bers. When fanaticsm and prescription ran
rampant and had swept the North and East and
was proceeding Southwark with giant strides,
scattering the Democracy like chatf before
the storm, and when they reached the borders
Of old and never vanquished Virginia, and
boosted that they would sweep that State too,
the noble and chivarolls Wise met them on the
threshold and bid them defiance. He became
. the standard bearer of the Democracy, and in
hand to hand fight, the like Of which was
never cqualed in the political field. he fought
that powerful organization of Know Nothings,
and alter an unceasing contest Of several
months, came out of the battle victorious, lea
wing his antagonist with broken back and
bleeding frame upon the glorious battle field of
the mother of Presidents. This alone has en-
sured for him not alone the gratitude and love
of the Democracy, but the admiration of every
true lover of civil and religious liberty, the
principles of which he retrieved and yindcatcd
in that memorable contest
This of itself would entitc him 10 the Pre-
sidency, and if the Charleston Convention
should not sec fit to give the nomination to our
first choice-thc noble, the devoted, the true,
unseltish and patriotic National Democrat,
Daniel S. Dickinson-and shall bestow it upon
Gov WISE We promise that the Democracy Of
New York will be as true to him in the great
fight Of 1860, rs he was to them when espous-
ing the great common cause OF civil and rcli-
sious liberty, in the battlefield on the plains
Of Virginia, fought with the Know Nothings in
1856.
ORR CmcrLArloS.-Th city circulation OF
the Evening Standard" is larger than that OF
any other evening paper published in Albany.
1t is four times as large as the circulation OF
the "Atlas and Argus. VI !itbo"N ~. ~
Ereaing Standard.