The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-18
THE HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY.

We have elsewhere given some choice com
pliments of Governor Wise and his organ, the
Richmond Enquirer, to the Albany Regency. 1t
is but fair that we should let our readers know
what the Regency think of the Virginia Gov
ernor. 1t must be borne in mind, that accord
ing to the high authority of Mr.. Wises CORES.
pondent, Donnelly, the Regency is for Mr..
Douglas, and that it will send to the Charleston
Convention none but Douglas men. This i'm.
placable quarrel, therefore, is between the Wise
and Douglas factions. The Albany argus and
atlas is edited by the Mr.. Cassidy to whose
faithful keeping the Donnelly letter was com.
mitted and he it is who comes in for full
share of the compliments of the Wise organ
viz: such as assassin, scoundrel, etc. Mr.. Cas-
sidy, through his organ, is equally severe upon
Mr.. Wise. The Governor of the proud Old
Dominion is secuted as though he were soul
lion of the lowest stamp. That journal says ):
governor WIsE's LETTER AND GOVERNOR
WIsE's ExPLANATION.-Governo Wise's letter
in which we regret to find no word of remorse
or shame for the fraud he advised and attempt
ed upon the Democracy of this State, has vet
II
US.
Z" That Mr.. Donnelly to whom the letter was
addressed, after showing it to several others,
confded it to Mr.. Cassidy, with permission to
send it to Mr.. Richmond, at Buffalo, who was
to bring it to Albany, on the meeting of the
State Committee, the subsequent week, is true.
But Mr.. Cassidy did not avail himself of this
permission. He was more chary of the repu-
tation of Governor Wise than his own cores
pendent.
Mr.. Cassidy denies that by any act of his,
or by any connivance or consent, direct or in
direct, remote or near, was the letter made
public.
"Mr. Wise had associated himself with DO
litical confidence man in this State, to whom
not only every social circle was barred, but
every political Convention was closed who
had held Office only to show his unftness for
public as for private trusts, and of whom the
press talked only mockingly in connection with
his chances of a real penitentiary, or of the
hypothetical Cabinet of President Wise. 1t
would have been superhuous cruelty to have
sought to injure such candidacy, stained with
such an association.
"We demand that Governor Wise unless he
is to be judged by his companions, in which
case we desire to have nothing further to do
With him) shall push this inquiry, in regard to
his correspondence, to its source. This letter
appeared first in the Nep York Herald, with
the editor of which Governor Wise is in conf
dental correspondence. Let him demand how
this letter was communicated to it. BY its
agent? Then, from whom did the agent get
it? Who was the third party? Who stood
behind him? Who was the last and original
source of this communication =?
If Governor Wise has anything left of honor
nd mo ba
shamed into impotency by his own conscience,
let him do this. We challenge the investiga-
ton, because we know its result viii acquit us,
abroad, of charge which no man in this State,
friend or foe, would bring against us, of being
false to a private confidence.
"But the resentment we feel at the dis
graceful subterfnge, which under bubbles and
falsehoods, seeks to divert the responsibility of
this disclosure from its true source, and the
contempt we feel for the anthor of such let
ter, are lost in sense of pity for the State