New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-24
FURIOsO WISE.

Ex.Goy Wise to judge from speech which he
recently delivered at Norfolk, and which Is making
its appearance BY sections in The Argus OF that
city, still adheres substantially to tire tremendous
programme which he promulgated four years ago.
Such of our readers haSea relish for the extrava
CANT and ridiculous will perhaps recolect that four
years ago Gov. Wise--for at that time be was
Governor of Yirginia-proposed, /. Fremont should
be- elected to march upon Washington, to seize
upon the Capitol, the Presidents House. the public
buildings, the Navy Yard and the Arsenal, ADD to
hold the same in trust for the benefit OF the Union,
till the Government could be organized on basis
satisfactory to the shareholders.
That extraordinary scheme for preserving the
Union resort to which was then rendered unneces-
sary by the ele ,tion of Buchanan, NJ Wise,
though he is no longer Governor, proposes to carry
into effect as against President Lincoln.
The Ex-Governor, it is to be noticed, is a pro-
nounced Union mar. He admits, indeed the
Constitutional right of secession; but that is a
remedy for which he has no relish. After ALL
crazy as the Ex-Governor is, there is some method
in bis madness. He does not like the idea of
seeing Virginia border State. He does not like
to yield up her claims to the Army and Navy, the
Federal Treasury, Federal Office, aud the Public
lands-fcr attachment TO all of which little com.
forts and con,eoiences Virginia has long been
noted. He is no more incli0ed to yield up his
right to the Union than his right to his negro
property, both of which he seems to consider as
standing on pretty much the same level, and to be
enforced, if need be, by much the same means.
The Ex-Governor, therefore, in case Lincoln
should be eected-whch may now be set down as
a foregone conclusion-proposes to march at once,
if he can obtain leave TO do it-ior unfortunately he
is no longer Governor and COMMANDMENT Chief Of
the mi.it's-uDdertheb banner of Virginia IfVTg'nis
shiIks the contest, he will accept a commission
from North Carolina. IfNor,h Carolina hesitates,
he Will fall back on South Carolina; and 30 on,
from State to State, till some Stae can be found to
give him commission. He don't care for CO.
operation, ard does not propose to wait tor it. If
gallant little Florida will alone raise an army, be
will enlist ia it, and march to the rescue He
aspiIes, thus commissioned, to plsy the part Of
David against the giant champion of the Phllis-
tines. He hopes to meet Douglas in the field, and
to make him experience in his own person that the
coercion be threatens is not so easy. AS TO odds,
Wise laughs at that. He can remember, so he
says, the time when FIVE millions OF American
patriots stood firm and won the contest against
more than fifty-nore than hundred millions.
The Governors memory is certainly extraordinary
almost much az his gift OF seeing the future.
But, though the Ex-Governor does not care for
odds, neither does he expect anything OF the Sort
He ,eems to calculate indeed, that the odds will
be all on his side. The Northern fanatics will have
both bands full he thinks, to hold their own against
our friends, " the Northern defenders of South
"eIn rights" and, besides the capture of Wash.
iDgton, oil the Southern army will have TO do will
be TIE destruction aud humiliation of Southern
traitors He looks forward to a neighborhood war
war at both ends and in the center; war at the
North as ell as war at heS ,utb an array OF oil tho
forces of conservation against Black Republican
lem at the North and its tools aud panders at the
South.
After the country is thus little pscihed by the