Year: 1860

Ar a meeting of the jackson Democratic Club
of Boston, held on Monday evening last, the fol
lowing letter from Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Vir-
ginia was read amid great applause


RoLLIsToN, NEAR NORFOLK,


Princess Anne county, Va, Aug. 3, 1860.


DEAR SIR: | find it very difficult to decline the
complimentary invitation of yours of the 18th
ultimo, received within the last few days.
would prefer Boston, and Fanueil Hail. in Boston
10 any other standpoint TO speak from in the
United States, on topics especially Of these dark
times. But it is impossible. Domestic duties,
building and illness together forbid me to form
any engagements that will require additional
labors or any absence from home for many months
10 come. shall give to the Breckenridge and Lane
ticket all my support. ] do not agree with these
nominees in some essential particulars, and GER
tainly do not subscribe TO the platform IN two
respects on which they are placed by their nom
nation but their triumph will be the triumph
of the vital doctrines Of protection TO persons
and property in the common Territories Of the
United States. That is the issue Of this contest
whether protection every where, TO all and all
alike, shall prevail against this emascuating theo
ry of non-intervention IL protection be an alb
straction, non-intervention is not II the Legis-
lative department, Congress, and the Executive
department the President which is to see that
the laws are faithfully executed, are both to ig-
more the pdrehs patrG duty of protecting all cit
liens equally and alike, wherever the iurisdic-
ton of Government extends, in the rights of
property, without discrimination, or distinction.
or difference, and are to throw the powers ard
duties Of protecting persons wholly upon the
Judiciary, which is the umpire department be-
tween citizen and citizen, and Government and
citizen in matters Of individual rights. what is to
be the resultl The first and worst consequence
will be that 1t will drag the Supreme Court Of
the United States from its bench Of equality,
equity, and law, and justice, and bedragge it in
the mire Of partisan politics, until its ermine
win be so stained thatit will be unfit to hold the
scales of right, law, justice, or morals at all
The second consequence will be that il will set
up a mere municipal umpire to be arbiter or
umpire between sovereign States, which in the
last resort can decide only for themselves The
third consequence will be that the Executive, by
ignoring its duty and power of protection, will
at last obtain all the powers Of the Government;
for the Judges are nominated and, by and with
the advice and consent Of the Senate, appointed
by the President Nothing could be biHer than
the Federalism Of this non-intervention doctrine
And does it leave slave property alone at the
mercy Of Federal power concentrated ultimately
in an Executives No; lands, too, are at its
mercyi What else, who else won't stop to
enumerate. For one, viii never quietly sub
NIT to It This issue compels me to side with
the ticket Of your choice God grant that our
efforts be not in vainl ! fear they viii be-that
Black Republicanism is to triumph in the coming
election II so. mean for one to abide in the
Union; to fight in it -Of out Of Il; aid in saving
the country and its Constitution; but not to
submit one moment, or to coneede one single
item, to triumph which viii degrade me and
mine in this COnfederacy Of free and equal States
Pardon this hurried essay, and believe me sin
cerely yours,


HENRY A. WISE.


To Isaac H Wright Esq, President, &c.