Year: 1860

Gov. Wise, in a recent speech at Richmond,
before the medical students who left Northern
colleges on account of slavery agitation, thus
spoke his devotion to the Union:


Ifany Black Republican, if any Abolitionist,
if any fanatic if any fool, if any than fool
ifs wicked man among the masses or in the high
places of the country wishes to take this Union
from me, they shall not do it. will fight first
Tapplause1 If the Union is to be dissolved,
they shall dissolve it, not Tapplause7 If any
are to be driven from under the flag that floats
over that Capitol and over the national Capitol
at Washington-the flag of the stars and stripes,
under which the Revolutionary war was fought,
under which the last war with England was
fought, under which the Mexican war was
fought, under which every war, so far as can
will it, will be fought, say, if any are to be
driven out, it shall be those who seek to drive
me out [applause1. jackson said, and will
repeat his words, the % Union shall be preserv-
ed 1t shall be preserved by force of arms if
in no other way [applause].


| tell you now-though | do not send it as a
message to the Legislature of Virginia, for it is
not my part to do so-that if blood must flow, if
the tocsin of war must be sounded, if we must
buckle on our armor, if red battle arM stamp his
foot, this nation alone shall not feel the shock
The real groundwork of dssensions in this
country, the real cause, the real root of the
disease is the foreign influence of Great Britain.
1t would be with aching heart, it would be
with wild fever passion that could be forced
to strike against the bosom of my own country
men of New England, New York, Pennsylvania
or Ohio but if could only be relieved from that
struggle, would gladly take the alternative of
a war with England [applsuse1 My heart
would leap to that alternative like BRIDE
groom to his chamber Tapplause1


! Go to the library in that Capitol and ask for
| the last London Punch. Look at the last page.
| hope the members have seen it. There is in
the air a black eagle-that is the Southland a
white eagle-that is the North-and they are
| fighting in the air above this English print. The
black eagle is held by talon grasping his Vi
tails. and the beak of the white is upon his head
He is under the white, and falling. Below is a
lion, with his claws clutching an elk, but his
attention is drawn from his prey, and he is look
ing up at the war between the eagles, and un-
derneath is the single word watch !" 1t is the
most significant photograph that could be pre-
sented to the eyes of the American people.


The North and the South-the black and
white eagles-are set by foreign influence, beab
and bill and talons fighting each other while
the British lion waits over his own prey for them
to fall. No, must watch, am watching and
the black and the white eagles shall not fight
NO. ana SO help me GOD, II strife must come
they shall both be made to alight upon the back
of the lion itself This will wake up the pat
riots of the North [great applause] There are
some left there, and appeal to the President Of
| the United States to remember that so sure as
there is between the black and white
eagles, the lion is watching; and | would call
upon him to notify the British Government that
their asylum of fugitives from labor and from
justice shall not be allowed to foster dissension
and disunion in the United States.