Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-23
The ola War.Horse Of the Acoomac.

nc OAN NNMNNEAWNNC VI NuV ANONNAHCs
Governor Wise has been making speech
at Norfolk, the field where Douglas declared
his passion for administering hemp to Sc
cessionists. The Governors voice is still for
war. Retirement has not tanned him in the
least. cage can not wither, nor custom
stale his infinite variety" He has by no
means beat his sword into a plow-share,
but fourishes it even in his Dreams like Don
Quixotte among the inn-keeper's wine-skins.
He il not going to wait for an overt act. The
election of Lincoln is to be declaration of
war, and he is only going to draw thesword
in the defensive.
$50 soon as the war, already declared
against my State and my section, shall be
actually commenced by the election of
Black Republican President stand ready to
draw the sword of defense"
But he is not going to wage any disunion
war. He goes for secession and war strictly
within the Union.
81 would not yield my right to the Union
any more than / would yield my right to
both the Union and the negro, and fight to
the last to preserve and maintain all my
rights to both"
He advises the States not to wait for one
another, "not to stand on the order of their
going, but go at once" There is some
doubt about Virginia, and in fact there is
much doubt about any Of them; but he
thinks if they wait for some body to begin,
it won't begin at all.
7 -
ginia for authority to fight under her ban
9er. But if Virginia shall not meet the
issue and come up to the mark ofself-defense
and'selErespect will look to North Caro-
lima, / will look to South Carolina, to
Georgia, to each Southern State in sue
cession, and appeal to each for permission to
| fight under the @gis of her sovereignty.
And will advise each State not to wait for
the example or cooperation of other States
Such waiting will only produce faltering,
and all the delay and confusion of uncer-
tainty. Mol Let each State leap at once
| for herself and by herself, into the contest,
and struggle for precedence and pre-emin-
ence in the work of defense"
What a beautiful picturel The age of
chivalry revived Imagine Gov. Wise, with
his cooked hat and plumes and stripes on
his trowsers, going about and offering himself
and his sword to each State in succession,
like the Knight of La Mancha, sallying forth
and rendering his lance for the relief of any
damsel in distressl
But he thinks Florida peculiarly adapted
to begin. Capital ideal So remote from
dangerl And she must be suffering so from
Abolitionists and other Southern wrongsl
vUlo4 ~, ;,,r-ao,n ebIa ,,oc;t;o,, +bo no,-or, ~
could take up in the Everglades Nobody
will disturb him. Let him go at once, and
make Billy Bowlegs of himself Here is
the plan of the campaign:
"Any one State, even the smallest, can
make the battle and win the victory. And
if the unsided-if the gallant little Florida
will alone take up the gauntlet of war, and
levy an army, will enlist in that army,
wherever it shall be raised, and we will see
then, whether the black Douglas can ex-
ecute his threat of coercion. If ever the
issue comes, ! hope to meet him in the field
where the altima ratio of States is to be
tried"
This is better than good To take to the
Florida swamps, and from these defy the
short-legged Douglas, who would be mired
at the first step! Glorious strategyI Inm-
table General Imagine Douglas, laden
with the halters with which he is going to
hang the secessionists when Lincoln is
elected, fioundering with his coat-tail in the
morass, while the lOng-legged Wise, with
sword uplifted, comes skipping from bog to
bog and falls upon him! We never have ap-
preciated the Governor before We knew
not what treasure of military strategy we
had. Florida is the place for him. Let him
not wait for the election, but go at once