The weekly Arizonian., 1859-06-09
Letter from Henry A. Wise.

Gov. Wise, of Virginia, has recently written a letter of thirty columns length in the Rich mond papers, giving his views upon politics - The following extract, written in the Governor 8 best style, is specimen of the document
 The fool who says in his heart "there is no God, sees the Frost King shooting his borea- lis lights from the North Pole, and he then looks to the Sun of the Summer sostice that never crosses Cancers line North, and he says there is war in the elements of Nature, and Nature herself, he thinks sets them contending, Frost with Sun, Cold with Heat, North with South, and South with North But how differ ently does Natures music of the spheres answer back in all ultimate harmony and peace The law of Frost and the law of Sun are reconciled and kiss each other in the blending of lights and of temperature, in the equipoise of expan- sion and contraction, in the variety of climate and production, in the supply and sustenation ot animal and vegetable life and health in ev- cry form of existence. Nature makes no wars
 but arrays and mingles elements, and subdues the one by the other only when her course is op- posed or obstructed Her hypoborean cold piles up icebergs, and these again the heat melts apart and sets them floating towards an Equa- tor to refrigerate the seas of the South, to make invigoraing winds and airs, and fructify dews and rains and Frost and Sun say how near Boreas the Africans, and how near the Tropics the white men may labor in the fields of the re- spective Northern and Southern climes and shall both grow and be exchanged for each oth- CT: that wheat and corn, and tobacco, and cot ton, and rice, and sugar, in plantation inter est ofthe sunny fields of the South, shall have, and must have, the African operatives fitted for the climate; and that a superior race must master and govern and guide and provide for them and that wheat, and corn, and grass, and potatoes, and cattle, in g. farming interest adjacent to commerce and manufactures and mechanics' art, must, in the regions of cold
 have the superior race to be operatives and arti- sans, there to be masters of themselves and the equals of their masters anywhere, and to be benefited by the labors of the slaves, in the ex- change of productions themselves This is all as harmonious as heat and cold, if God alone be acknowledged the Supreme Providence, and If His work and law be not 0bstructed and op- posed by the folly of man. The heat, and the cold, the frost and the sun seem to contend, but it is only at last to make harmony and variety, and perfect balance by counter influence and exchange of forces. And so this seeming war of North and South, would be ultimately happy and harmonious but for the ignorance and shortsightedness of human vision The war of North and South sections in the United States is no less strange than, in the language of a master divine, 'the strange anomaly of a reli- zion of love producing the keenest hatreds, and gospel of peace engendering strifes and animosities more bitter than the disputes and rivalries of the profane.' It is all owing to the arrogance and vanity of men attempting to as- same the Deity's prerogatives, to change the very laws of our nature as we'll as of grace, and in presuming to play Providence itself for human affairs This nation wants reverence more than anything else, to preserve its peace and prosperity. a1e
 Let us then, before the sword of civil war is ever drawn in the United States, all kneel down in pious and patriotic devotion before that God who led our fathers through the gloom of the Revolution to sovereign Independence, when we were poor, despised, needy and weak peo- pie, and pray fervently, that now we are a strong and prosperous nation, quintrupled in power, and wealth, and population, and great ness, we may not be allowed to throw away all by forgetting the divine care which isthe only