The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-01-05
GOVERNOR WISE A UNION MAN.

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dency, and actually met the Governors of North
and South Carolina and Georgia at Raleigh,
with view to concert plan of disunion, is
now the most violent, rampant, and intolerant
Unionist in the land. He will not dissolve the
Union himself, nor will he be driven out by
others. He declares that the Union must
and shall be preserved" The preservation of
| the Union was the burden of his racy and
piquant speech to the medical students who
abandoned Philadelphia, and went down to the
Richmond school. We give some specimens
of his intense unionism, for the reason that no
language which we can cammand will begin to
convey an idea of the intensity of his devotion
to the flag of his country. He says:
"As have said to the military to-day my
friends, l say to you here now in civil life: ]
mean to stand by my State l mean to stand
| by my neighbor / mean to stand by nv indi
vidual rights; | mean to stand by my rights of
property; mean to stand by my rights of per-
son above all, mean to stand by my moral
rights of honor, and | mean to stand, last but
not least, by my political rights in this nation,
the highest of which, in a national point of
view, is the Constitution and the Union of these
States. Tremendous applause. If any Black
Republican, if any Abolitionist, if any fanatic
if any fool, if any worse than fool if wicked
men among the masses or in the high places of
the country, wish to take this Union from me-
they shall not do it. will fight first. GCheers.
If the Union is to be dissolved, they shall dis
solve it, not l. Applause. If any are to be
driven from under the flag that floats over yon-
der Capitol, and over the Capitol at Washing
ton-the Tag OF the stars and stripes, under
which the Revolutionary war was fought.
under which the last war with England was
fought, under which the Mexican war was
fought, under which every war, so far as l can
will 1t, shall be Fought say if any are to be
driven out from under this flag, it shall be those
who seek to drive me out! Cheers. Jackson
SAID, and will repeat his words, The Union
shall be preserved. 1t shall be preserved by
force OF arms, If in no other way. Applause.
And if they cannot mind their own
business, if they cannot discontinue their vi
cious intermeddling with us, we will make them
do it. Cheers. If we cannot do this by peace
full and self-reliant means, why, as you are
aware, gentlemen, little blood letting, little
phlebotomy, will reduce the fever laughter =
and tell you now, though do not express it
as a message to the Legislature of Virginia, for
it is not my part to do so-that if blood must
flow, if the tocsin of war must be sounded, if
we must buckle on our armor, If red battle
will stamp its foot, this nation alone shall not
| feel the shock. The real groundwork of dis
sension in this country-the real cause, the
real root of the diseases the foreign influence
of Great Britain. Your external commerce,
your exports and imports, the constant inter
course between New England and Old England,
| all beget sympathy between Old and Neao
| England, stronger, l sometimes fear, than the
sympathy which New England feels for us
nj eli ioin
with Old English intolerance in an effort to dis
solve this Union-any effort like that of which
John Brown was the instrument-New Eng
| land and Old England combined shall not avail
| to drive me from the Union. MOL With Gods
| help we will drive all the disunionists together
back into Canada. Let them join Canada. Let
| the compact of fanatcism and intolerance be
confined to British soil. AS for me, / mean to
/ stay here.
q A VoIcE IN THE CRowp.-e France will
help u.s.
| i care not for aid or protection from France,
/ Austria, or Russia; we are impregnable,
/ cheers, we are invincible cheers. They
| talk about the 'irrepressble conflict Let it
| be irrepressible; let it come that Constitu-
/ ton, that Union, will triumph as it has always
triumphed. Applause. 1t cannot be other
WISE Look at that figure on that monument
/ yonder, (pointing to the equestrian statue of
i Washington,) and tell me whether mortal
/ power in this country can, by any single blow,
strike down that outstretched arm? As long
as the arm of that monument is upheld, point
| ing you to the honor interest, and glory of our
| country-as long as that arm is upheld by the
bravery, arms, and patriotism of this people, the
! North and the South will unite to drive every
scoundreltraitor out from us, until the country
is made safer yet. Applause. Let you and
me stand together, and our country will yet be
safe, Applause, and we may pursue our avo-
cations = the mechanic arts, or professions,
whatever they may be-in peace, as we have
pursued them, until again, as in the natural
tendency of nations, peace and plenty and proud
pre-eminence shall reign, and she become so
fat as to begin to kick again. Applause and
laughter"
In the course of his speech, Governor Wise
details his plan of operations for the preserva
ton of the Union, and the development of the
resources of Virginia. But his great specific
for the consolidation of peace and union among
the States is to wage war upon Great Britain.
If elected President in 1860, he will immed-
ately demand of that Power that Canada shall
not be used as place of refuge for violators
of our laws and disturbers of our peace" He
would make instant war upon abolition dis
unionism, and Canada is to be the battle
ground. Wendell Philips and Senator Wilson,
whom he places in the same classification, are to
be driven out of the Union, and pursued into
Canada. The South and the North will be a
unit in making this bloody war and from the
fearful figures of rhetoric which the valiant
Governor employs, one might conclude that
the Valley of ST. Lawrence is to be the scene
of the famous battle of Armageddon, in which
Cog and Magog are to marshall their hosts and
fight for the dominion of the world
Governor Wise intends TO eclipse the fame of
John Brown. The latter invaded Virginia with
twenty men and now the Governor threatens
to pursue the next invaders to New England
and to Canada, with Only ten men Orlando
Furioso, who tore up trees by their roots, and
Don Quixote, who tilted against windmills,
would be appalled, at the mighty work which
Governor Wise has cut out for himself.
He has hit upon a novel expedient for get
ting the country into war with England.
Above all things, he wishes to arrest Fred
Douglas on British SOIL He would not bag "
him. He knows what hemp is made for better
than that comes to. We quote the following:
ooh! if had had one good low, black, ra-
kish, well-armed steamer, in Hampton Roads,
would have placed her on the Newfoundland
banks, with orders, that if she found British
packet, with that negro on board, to take him
Igreat applause and, by the eternal Gods
he should have been taken-taken with very
particular instructions not to hang him hafora