Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-12-01
WEAVERVILIE. CALIFORNIA SATURDAY. DECEMBER l, 1860

Henry A. WISE, AND DIsuNGoN.- last Pony
brought some very fiery and revolutionary intel
ligence. The demagogues and disappointed pol
itcians are utterng and publishing all manner
of sedtious and reasonable sentiments most
bold and dangerous of whom, is Henry A. Wise,
of Virginia. We had hoped better counsel from
him. He is a man of genius and eccentricity,
and wthal one OF the most popular men in his
State. He is the very last political leader in the
South who we thought would go mad over the
election of an opponent TO the Presidency, and
who would vent his political bile at the expense
of his country's good, and future existence But,
reluctantly we are compelled to record his ter
giversation--he is the very head and front of
disunon in Virginia. AT grand mass meeting
and barbecue, in Princess Anne county, Va, Gov.
Wise, after one of his peculiar and stirring ap-
peals to his audience, introduced preamble and
series of resolutions and, to our mind, treasona-
BILE TO the last degree. We have not room to
give them entire, but select the following as
specimen The preamble starts out with
l. The election of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency will be an open and official avowal
ma lion that the past aggressions OF Black Rcpub
licanism are right
2 That they are to be persisted in with great
aggravaton for the future.
g. That the slave States shall not govern them
selves in respect to their own property in their
own limits but that whilst Territories are to be
allowed to prohibit slavery in their limits, tile
States will not be permitted to protect ii in peace
in theirs.
The annexed resolution cmbodes the plth of
their intended treason to the Union
Resolved That the moment the election returns
are made known, and it is asccrained that Abra-
ham Lincoln is elected President Of the United
Stutes the General Council Of this county shall
select one delegate from each district to meet
such delegates as may be appointed by other
counties, to assemble in Convention at Richmond,
to determine upon measures for protecting our
own safety and honor as people, for defending
the Constitution of the United States, for saving
our rights in the Union and for obtaining the
sanction of the sovereign State of Virginia.
1t seems, then, from both the preamble and
resolutions, that the mere election of Lincoln to
the Presidency whilst yet a Democratic Presi
dent, claimed by the most ultra southerners, as
the official exponent of their views occupies his
place at the head of the naton-is quite full
stranger term. No overt act, contrary to the
interests of the South, is to be waited for, but
upon q mere suspicion, or bypothesis-oi what
will or may occur when Lincoln takes his seat,
the proud glorious old State of Virginia is to be
declared under martial law, to briste with bay
oncts, every house to be Il barrack, and her pres
tige of nearly n century, for patriotism, intelli-
gence and answering faith to the cause Of liberty
and progress, to be swallowed up in sea of
popular prejudice aud jaundiced jealousy, to
obige and justify the Internal designs of u few
disappointed, yet aspiring, political leaders, who
would rather rule in hell than serve in llcav-
en- !"
Whom the gods would destroy they first make
mad" The gods must certainly have determined
on the political death of Gov. Wise. The Vir-
ginians are too patriotic and loyal to the Union,
to listen to the appeals Of this mad, fire eating
orator. however much their diaboical ends may
be glded by genius and eloquence. Arnold and
Burr were both brave, and gifted with eloquence
both were traitors!
Let every true American citizen, North and
South, East and Wpst-whaever may be bis po-
litcal proclivites down disunon, at
least till he has some more substantial reason
than the mere elevation to the Presidency OF a
man who is the constilutionaly chosen ruler by
the mass Of their free American fellow citizens.
-" Rather bear those ills we have.
Than Gv to others that we know not OFF,