The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-08

HENRY A. WISE AND Hrs ORGAN ON THE
REVOLUTIONARY SEIZURE OF WAsHINGToN-TER-
RIFLE WANING.-We all know that ex-Gover-
nor Wise, of Virginia, is man of pluck, man
of action, and mighty man of war. Wcall re-
member that, in 1856, he threatened, in the
event of Fremont's election, the march upon
the city Of Washington Of hostile Southern
army, and the seizure of the funds and archives
of tie government for the purposes Of South
ern confederacy. Hence the late frequent
threats and appeals Of the Richmond Enquirer
looking to revolutionary seizure and occupa-
ton of Washington, in order to expel the black
rel Lblicans from power, have been widely ac-
cepted as the instigations of ex- Governor Wise
This opinion, too, has been pretty strongly sus-
tanned by the late belligerent speeches and
maniiestoes of the warlike Ex-Governor on
southern State rights.
Ills faithful organ, however, the Enquirer
ato' esaid, comes to bis rescue in this matter,
ana positively asserts shat Ex-Governor Wise
does not, and never has contemplated, engaged
in, advised or attempted any arming or organ
ization, for the purpose or with the intent OF
making any assault or military demonstration
whatsoever against the city of Washington
Moreover, for the past thr &c months, Mr. Wise, we
are told, has been detained at home "by severe
illness in his family, and during that time has
never approached within two hundred miles of
The city Of Washington" This testimony we
accept as fully generating Ex-Governor
Wise from any association with the secret
Southern conspiracy alleged to exist for the
revolutionary usurpation Of the federal govern
ment and its effects at Washington But the
terrible Bombastes Furoso of the Richmond
Enquirer has something else to say on the sub
ject, and here it is, italics and all, as we find
it in that paper Of Tuesday last
But We tell the peopleof Washington at the time,
that their lives and property placed in manifest jeo
pards by the intigu.s OF Scott, seward Co The city
Of Washington, unoccupied by military forces would
offer refuge Of safety. But nshe Stoe Of riro
ma shdit foAe dtte measures u resistance 70 Hac r,s
rule, her authorities conho and ac not brook he pre-
NJ fede al army Of cneviou Washington II ne
amy shall there must BE- dy~n out and ne city
eoi tr,d y ossanq force @ hundred thousand
require adeahich cia level erery roof , the pare
msnts ZINE streets.
This IL fearful warning, but it il a very
foolish one. If Virginia and the other South.
ern States do not wish TO ALLEVIATE their North
ern friends, and combine the people Of the
North as unit against the South, there will be
no Southern attempt to expeI by force
Of arms the administration about to en-
ter constitutionally into the occupation
Of the government at Washington. When
thus the official occupation Of that city
shall be reduced TO question Of physical
force between lawful right and revolution, the
census returns OF the North and the South too
clearly indicate the inevitable result to be doubt
ed for moment. A comparatively dense white
population of some nineteen millions In the
North against eight millieas thinly scattered
over the wide cxpsnse of the Southern States,
should warn our Southern brethren Of the folly
of wsn,only provoking a Northern invasion.
While we are doing all that We can to maintain
peace and the rights and institutions Of the
South, Uffion or no Union. We must admonish
cur Southern contemporaries of the wickedness
~ inviting war In a southern crusade for the
'n'e II Washington. Let us hear no more
81 IL. Lei us have peace.