Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-18

Rocky MOUNT. FRANKLIN County,
October II. 1872.


October H. lSI2
To the Editor Of the Richmond. Enquirrr
| find in Lyncbburg paper. copied from
the New York Herald, what purror!s to he Il
report of conversation held with Gen Henry
A. Wise recent in Washington in which it is
said of the General that He complained of
General Jubal Early, with when he hail "a
crow to pick. Two months ago Early wrote
hun. begging him to keep aloof and declare for
neither party, and he agreed. Now, without
writing him, Early writes his letter 1t had
tempted him to take the opposite side; but no,
he was not willing to 60 with Mosby, whom he
considered irjudicious in the extreme | am
perfectly satisfied that Gen. Wise made no such
statement as the above for know him to be
incapable of stating what is not the fact; yet.
as many persons give credence to the reports Of
interviewers now so much in vogue. deem 1t
proper to state that there is no foundation in
fact for the statement that wrote to General
Wise begging him to keep aloor and declare
for neither party, or for the inference tina, he
assumed his position at my instance After he
had written and published his letter TO Col
Mosby, fully defining his position. | did write
letter to the General, in which signifcd my
concurrence in the main views expressed in his
published letter. but took Il friendly exception
cessary to mention. This was the first letter
written by me to him, and afterwards there
was a correspondence between Us ia regard to
my card denying the report that We We're
among the leading Grant men of the State: but
in no letter did | make any request to him OF
the character mentioned. He had assumed
his position without reference to any views OF
mine, and my opinions were based on no re-
commentators Of his, though on views some
what similar to his 1t is true that | declared
to him my opposition to the Cincinnati plat
form and candidates in very decided tcrllS, but
there was nothing 10 the correspondence be-
tween US which rendered it necessary that
should communicate to him my purpose to
write my recent letter to the Winchester com
mittee had declared to Others in person,
ny determination not 10 support the Cncln-
natl nominees in more decided aud emphatic
terms than any contained in my letter to Gene
raj Wise, and when changed that detcrmna
ton | stated, in my Winchester letter, the
considerations which had induced the change.
! trusting that they would be satisfactory not
only to him. but 10 all others whose good opln
ion | value.
have nothing now to add to the reasons
given for the conclusion announced IN that let
ter but will say that. far from seeing in the re
suits OF the recent elections in several State any
cause to regret that conclusion, am strength
ened 10 my conviction of the Importance and
necessity for all Virginans who desire the vel
fare of their State to unite and exert their best
energies in the effort to save it from the blight
ing grasp of the Radical party.
Not doubling that General Wise will concur
in the correctness of the foregoing statement in
regard to the correspondence between U.s. |
send this for publication at once, as the mail
facilities here are not sufficient to enable me To
communicate with him in any short time, and
| shall be here for some time in attendance on
the court. Respectfully,
J. \. EARLY