Year: 1859




revealed BY the letter. Divide the North, unite
the South Divide the North, by fraudulent
doubling of delegation. If the minority fails to
whip the enemy, let it still send delegation The
united South-Virginia, unit, leading, will'open
the convention to the fraudulent delegation gotten
up to divide and weaken New York


we knew such was the intention of certain po-
llcal managers in this State, when they urged the
adoption OF the district system but never
pected the source of this evil inspiration. We
never dreamed that the conspiracy against the
unity of the party in this State had its source in the
veteran Mother of States in its executive chamber
in the honored chief of its Democratic hosts We
did not look to that Old Dominion which has stood
forward as the champion of State rights, for the
centre of this mischievous and unworthy plotting
nor to one so honored by the Democracy for this
attempt against its integrity.


"Ihe district system is our only chance Doube
anu 9lVlde the delegation Virginia will be unit.
Our hopes rest upon divided New York and united
South. IF need be we can cnnnt yv;tSon+ Noy1
York


Is there not a volume of warning Of instruction
in language like this?


Does it not reflect foods of light upon the past,
well as reveal clearly the brakers ahead


Does it not tell us how New York has been di-
vided, distracted, weakened and betrayed. And in
whose interest In the interest of strangers of the
ambitious leaders of other States, who seek again
to break us up in order that they may profit bY our
ruin?


We copy this iIl-omened letter, which we have
withheld from our readers only from a sentiment
of sorrow, that one so honored by democrats in
spite of his antecedents should have had the ner-
versity to pen it. We call the attention of the
democratic electors of New York to its language
and its purp0se-a purpose which is not to be for
gone, but which will be persisted in, unless they
can foil it. If they but do what ordinary seltre-
spect dictates they will battle this plot of enemy,
and it will recOil upon his own head.


THE WISE LETTER.


The Richmond Enquirer does not afford that re-
lief to the best and truest friends of Gov Wise
which for rhnpe 4bar
ed. In common with the Democratic party, of
which Gov. Wise has been long most distinguish
ed member, and it may be added, with the mass of
his countrymen generally by whom his tai
ents and other high qualifications have been duly
appreciated, we sincerely regretted the appear
ance of "the letter." and would have been glad to
have seen prompt and authoritative denial. But
the Enquirer of Monday last does not deny its au-
thentictyand only declares hatitis not authorized
to speak" of the matter.


1t cannot be expected that this species of dis
clamer (if such it may be called) will be satsfae-
tory to the friends of Governor Wise, or that any
amount of denuneiation of the scoundrelism" of
those who were instrumental in betraying his con-
hdence will be accepted by impartial persons
apology for the letter itself Nor will the moral
sense OF the community admit that the tone of
levlty with which the Sensation Journals of New
York and elsewhere treat the matter is becoming
the subject or the occasion. These journals would
represent that politics is game of intrigue,
corrupt management and selfish trickery, with no
end but the personal advancement of those who
engage in it, and the defeat, notification and
humiliation of rivals; that consistency, patriotism
and political morality not to be believed in,
and that, all public men being radically vicious and
fundamentally corrupt, the only way to obviate
success is by plot and eounterplot through the in
strumentality of skllfu and insiduous leaders.


All such representations we believe to be degra-
ding and demoraizing, calculated to make young
and aspiring men what they thus learn Others are,
and to prompt the inexperienced candidate to prac-
tice, in his necessarily awkward and ineffective fash
ion, the low arts of rising. At any rate whatever
may be the characteristics of the baser retaners or
intriguing managers Of parties, the feeling with
which this document from Albany was received
throughout the country evinces that the general
feeling of the people is sound, healthful, and sens
lively alive. The end of the matter is not vet The
New York Ne,Us of Monday remarks:


at is due to the Democratic party Of New York
of Virginia, and indeed, Of the whole Union, that
the history of this letter shall be made known
We intend it shall be- The public require all the
circumstances, including the letter written to Gov
Wise by the highly honorable man., alluded to in
this Albany despatch, with full and detailed
statement Of the modus operondi by which some
person or persons have been guilty of the basest
breach Of confidence and the most dishanorable
conduct to secure a mean advantage over a Demo-
cratic opponent. Those who have sowed the
whirlwind shall reap the storm ''-Constiution