Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-01-14
SHEPHERDSYOWM,
Gov. Wise and the students.

Students in Richmond, the chlet features
of which was speech from Gov. Wise.
We extract from a report in the Richmond
Dispatch some Of the chief points OF The
Governor speech
say 10 you now, in civil life, as | said
10 the military .o-day,lhat mean 10 stand
by my State. by my nelghbors, by my IN
dlvidual rights of property and person,
above all, by my moral right OF honor,and
as,, bu, not least, by my political rights,
the highest of which is the Constitution
and the Union. Applause. | say, if
HE Black Republicans. Abolylionlsts, ia
asties, fools; worse than fools, il The wick
le,lgftf The masses. or liigb places, wish to
take s!ie Union, will fighii FIRST. They
shall dissolve it, not /. Before we shall
be driven from Benea,lf ,he flag that flies
over ,ha, Capitol, which hoated over The
war of the Revolution, the Mexican war,
and which shall float over every wal to
come, have 10 fight it, they shall be dri-
ven from the country. You can preserve
it. Jackson said what now repeat alt
shall be preserved" How You have
done right, perhaps, my friends, in reiur.
ming 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 ii may be preserved. Let US
employ our own teachers, applause, es-
pecially that they may teach our own doc
trines.
Let US dress in the wool raised on our
own pastures. Let US cal the flour from
our own mills; and if we can't get that,
why let US 90 back 10 our old accustomed
corn bread. Loud applause. TsEleton
found ou, of wha, material ashington's
buskins were made, and you can teach any
foes of what your buskins are manafactur-
ed. At the North they have made our
clothes pins, our broom handles, our en-
gines, and even our doctors. Laug ghter.
Turn every where. and you fnd the re-
suit Of their manufacturing. l DO not ad-
wise YOU TO break then, because you have
paid for them, but hereafter do without
lhem-doctors. broom handles and all.
| Laughter. Make them yourselves.
They boast that they have lS,000,000, Of
men to 5000, 600 and hard handed men al
that Wen, il may be ; bu, il we have not
The population of the penl-up " ork-shops,
we have he men who have been reared IN
the pure air of the corn helds-lhe work
shops Of the heavens. If we had men OF
old who fought our battles, we have men
now, and if we had men OF old who could
speak TO the hearts of the people, we have
them now, and we have, too, the hearts Of
the people 10 speak TO. CCheers.
That bad man Wendell Phillips, and
that worse than Phillips. that Senator from
Massachusetts, (Wisou,) say that our
slaves are right to cut their masters
throats and make their way TO Canada !;
and that il the slave, with his hands drip
ping with blood, was to knock at their
door, on his way 10 freedom. the door
would be open 10 the bloody hand ! De-
liver these sentiments in New York with
a guard of seventyfve policemen. 10
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encourage lhem,I would say that the time
has come, when-if we are not allowed 10
pursue our way in peace--l am ready 10
assume the panoply of war. | am not
speaking against The whole North. There
are patriots there who will help us 10 give
their hands full at home. For one, am
not content that war should be confined 10
the South. would invade Canada, even
England; for she should no longer be per-
united TO shelter The cut ihroats xho in
wade Us, Fred Douglass. the negro who
came down with John Browns party as
far as Chsmbersbnrg, has issued his "pro-
clsmaiion against Governor Wise," and
fled to England. lie complains tha, he
fears that Gov. Wise, aided by the Feje-
raj authorities. will bag him. tell
him that my hemp should Eever be man.
ufsclured into bagging him; it should be
made into rope Tor hanging him. He
links he is safe in England. II it were
in my power would not strike at Massa-
chusells ana the Northern States, but
would leap 10 awar with England. 1t
can be brought on. II | had a low black
rakish steamer in Hampton Roads,
should have ordered il 10 the banks of
Newfoundland. with the order that if
British packet. with that negro on board,
attempted TO take il, by the eternal gods.
and | would have instructed them not 10
hang him till had seen him. and seen
him well hung. and if England had asked
my excelle nj friend great laughter Mr..
Buchanan, for reparrlion. would have
told him TO do as he said he would al
Harper's Ferry.
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lhere is in the Library at that Capitol