Year: 1859

TuB QUESTION SETTLED.


When man does thing we like to see him do
it with all his strength and with all his heart. For
this reason we like Gov. Wise. 1t may be weak
ness of ours, but he is our dear Governor" as
much as he ia Barney Dounely's His speeches
we consider ~ among our beat periodical light
reading. Talk Of Punch Punch is nothing TO
the Governor. He is an occasional Comic Gov
ernor, issued on the slightest demaud and that,
we take it, is something more than a weekly news
paper. Suppose that when his Excelency mounted
his horse he should never touch the stirrup, but
vault into his saddle, always going clean over half
dozen times before he secured bis seat Who
would not 60 to see him start a-ridingl Conceive
of man doing this in all the actions of his life. 1t
is the way in which Gov Wise makes his speeches;
it s the way he does everything; he always goes
over a great many times before he can stop at the
light place. 1t is the funniest exhibition We know
OF, and, for our part, are never tired of watch
ing it.


His last vault--in which he has not only gone
clear over his (hobby) horse, but made any number
of somersaults while doing twas at Richmond,
on the occasion of the arrival at that place of the
two hundred incipient Pillgarlicks from Philade-
pha. "Sons of Virginia, who come back to us
I" from Philadelphia" screamed the Governor, ave
"welcome your 'You come back, he continued,
to your nursing mothers''-or nursing mother, we
are not sure which--nor does it matter. For like
all great wits, il is what he suggests as well as
what he says, that makes his Excellency always so
entertaining. Then proceeds he in disquisiton
on things in general and particular, touching the
aspect of political affairs at this moment, which is
not less instructive than amusing.


In the FIRST place, he is troubled at the peril o
this crisis. The sight of many sucking doctors nat
uraly snggested TO him that the sickest thing about
the Union. lie seems to regard it in the light o
a case in which these young gentlemen had been
taking a clinical lesson from which, when pro-
nounced hopeless, they had oil fed in alright
to the bosoms of their mammas. But ne, he wishes
it understood, does not mean to fly. II anybody In
tends to give up this patient it is not DR.. Wise. He
proposes to stick to it, and to practice upon il what
doctors call the % heroic" method. For this dis
ease phebotomy is bis remedy. The great Doctor
Sangraddo founded the schoOhe beieyesn, only tha.
this modern practitioner substitutes larger mple-
ment than that used By his great master. ln Short
Gov. Wise does not mean to permit the Union TO
be dissolved, and anybody and everybody who has
that maggot in his head is to be LET blood. He
stands by it; and he stands by al sorts of things
south of Mason and Dxon's line, according to
catalogues; and if anybody, from Black Repubi-
cans down TO fools, intends to take the Union away
from him they will find themselves mistaken, for he
means to fight for it, And that is one way the
blood letting is to come.


But that is not the only nor the chief way. These
Young gentlemen from Philadelphia who, up to this
time, probably, were doubtful whether they were
not receiving banning rather than q blessing,
reassured presently. They have done the patriotic
thing and hereafter Virginia is to make all her own
articles OF consumption from doctors down to
broomsticks; she is to have her own art her own
science, her own manufactures, her own trade, her
own ships, and the outside bsrbarians are to be
starved into submission and good behavior, or fnot
then comes the phlebotomy. seriousy-we beg
the reader to believe that ara not misrepresent
ing "our dear Governor seriously be LAYS down
this proposition, that al the world which now dares
TO be Anti Slavery will cease its 'vicious nermed-
ding when Virginia shall take care of herself;
and if il does not virginia viii make them do it.
In one sense the statement is enough; there
is hardly anyth ng that We may not expect to hap
pen ,cAen Virginia is capable Of self-suPpOrt.


But we are not frightened, for bad as the North
Is there is a worse than the North, and on that is
to fall the chief punisbment. Ii viii be q re-
lief to New England TO know that Gov. Wise
believes that she has been led away in this
matter by Old England, for which, it is evil
dent, he rather pities than blsmes her. II is
Old England accordingly that Is going 10 catch it,
Henry Wilson and Wendal Philips are to BE- set
tied first, and then al the dsunonists are to be
driven straight into Canada. There il TO be no
battle south Of Mason and Dixon--not q BIT of it
The campaign and the forsying are to begin in the
Northern States and then carried among
the Britisbers. All Northern statutes offensive
TO the South are to be repealed at the expense
of all necessary phlebotony, and then England is
to be called upou-Mr Wise being President-to
cease permitting Csnade to be the receptacle Of
fugitive slaves and John Brown Provisional Govern
mcnts. So We know nov what to expect Indeed,