Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-26
Gov. Wise and the Medical Students.

the chief feature OF which was speech
from Gov. Wise. We extract from report
in the Richmond Dispatch, some ot the chief
points of the Governor S speech
Il say t. you now in civil iife as said 10
the military to-day, that mean TO stand by
my State, By my neighbors. by my indivi-
dual rights Of property and person: above all
by my moral rights Of honor, and last, but not
least. BY my political rights, the highest of
which is the Constitution and the Union
Applause. say, if the Black Republic
cans Ab"litionists, frantics, fools-worse
than fools-if the wicked in the masses, or
high places wish to take the Union, will
fight first. Applause. They shall dissolve
it, not |. Before we shall be driven from
beneath the flag that flies over that Capitol.
which foated over the war Of the Revolution,
the Mexican war, and which shall float over
every war to come, if have to fight it, they
shall be driven from the country. You can
preserve it, jackson said what now repeat:
1T shall be preserved" How? You have
done right, perhaps my friends, in return
ing home. Virginia has contributed her
blood and her intelligence to the country,
and she now calls back her own; and now
that her own have come back, let me tell you
how it may be preserved. Let us employ
our own teachers, applause, especially that
they may teach our own doctrines.
Let US dress in the wool raised on our own
pastures. Let us eat the -four from our own
mills, and if we can't get that, why, let US
20 back to our old accustomed corn bread.
Loud applause Tarleton found out OF
what material Washington's buskns were
made, and you can teach any foes Of what
YOUR skins are manufactured. At the North
they have made our clothes pins, our broom
handles, our engines, and even our doctors.
Laughter. Turn everywhere, and you lind
the result of their manufacturing. | do not
advise you to break them, because you have
paid for them, but hereafter do without them
doctors, broom handles and all. Laugh
ter. Make them yourselves. They boast
that they have lS,00O0 900 of men to $780,
600, and hard handed men at that. Well, 50
it nav be, but if we have not the population
Of the pent-up workshops, we have the men
who have been reared in the pare air Uf the
corn ields-the workshops of the heavens.
five had men pf old who fought our battles,
we have men now, and if We had had men OF
old no could speak 10 the hearts OF the peo-
pie We have them now, aud we have, too, the
hearts OF the people to speak to- Cheers.
That bad man, Wendell Philips, and that
worse than Philips, that Senator from Massa-
chusetts, (Wilson:) say that our slaves are
right to cut their masters threats, and make
their way 10 Canada; and that if the slave,
with his hands dripping with blood, was to
knock at their door, on his way TO freedom,
the door would be open to the bloody hand.
Deliver these sentiments i'll New York with
a guard OF seventy-iive policeman. To these
and such as thu>e who protect and encourage
them, | would say that the time has come.
when-if we are not allowed to pursue our
way in peace-l am ready TO assume the pa
nuply of war. ! am not speaking against
the whole North There are patriots there
who will help US To give them their hands
full ut home For one, ! am not content
that war should be confined to the South. !
would invade Canada, even England; for she
should no longer be permitted 10 shelter the
cut-throats who invade Us. Fred Douglas,
the negro who came down with John Brown 5
party as far as Chamhersburg, han issued
his ''procamation against Governor Wise, -
and fled to England. lie complains that he
fears that Gov. Wise, aided By the Federal
authorities, will bag" him. tell him that
my hemp should neyer be manufactured into
bagging for him, it should be made into rope
for hanging him. He thinks he is safe in
England Ii it were in my power | would
not strike at MASSACHUSETTS, and the North
ern States, but would leap to war with
England. Ii can be brought on. II ! had a
low black rakish steamer in Hampton Roads.
| should have ordered it to the banks OF New
foundland, with the order that if British
packet, with that negro on board, attempted
to take it, by the eternal gods, and | would
have instructed them not 70 hang HIM TIL
had seen him, and seen him we'll hung, and
if England had asked my excellent friend
great laughter Mr.. Buchanan, for rerara,
ton, would have told him to do as he said
he would at Harper's Ferry.
There is in the Libary at that Capitol, a
copy of the London Punch, in which Is rep
resented black eagle and . white eagle
the former representing the Slave statos III
combat: beneath them is q lion with deer
in his clutches, who has turned from his prey
to look up at the birds OF the the air. BE
| meath this significant picture Is the single
word, Watch" 1t is a most significant pho
togrsph 20 the eyes Of the American people
for they have forgotten that while they are
| lighting, the British lion is Watching
But um watching the white Gag lie and the
black, and they shall not fight but It they
do, | will light upon the back of the British
lion myself. and wake up the patriots OF the
North; and call on you. Mr. Buchanan, Il
say to Eng and that Canada shall not be re
fuge for the fugitive slaves OF the South
They talk Of an ':irrepressible conflict lie
it be irrepressible.
would arm the people of this State, anc
l would apply to the other Commonwealth
70 sec what States warred upon IA by then
statutes. would stand an armed man, and
placing my finger upon chose laws, would
say-repeal it, repeal it, repeal it: and after
| had said that three times would only aho
three words: AT your peril. Here
voice in the crowd said something
the reporter could not hear-about Governor
Wise's action if he were in the White House.
My friends, all I've got to Say IN reply Il
that is, lust try me if You want to KNOW
One thing know, that would not let !
! Virginia Governor rattle his reg ments under
its very windows, without putting my head
out and saying. my brother, what is the
natter" The Governor then alluded 70 the
eariy expiration oi his tern II Ills "ihrc, an1