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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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Henry A. Wise, Virginia congressman, regrets missing a Whig Young Men meeting in New York due to travel. He expresses hope in New York's Whigs to counter other states' losses, criticizing the President's monopoly on patronage powers (public money, lands, offices) as the greatest threat, despite anti-monopoly rhetoric.
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The following is a letter from Mr Wise, the justly distinguished member of Congress from Virginia-the zealous champion of popular rights-the eloquent defender of popular liberty-and
was received in reply to the Committee who invited him to attend the late meeting of New York Whig Young Men at Masonic Hall:
Accomac C. H. Va. Oct. 25th, 1838.
Gentlemen- Yours of the 20th ultimo, reached me not until very lately, too late for me to comply with its flattering request to attend the public meeting of the Whig Young Men of the city of New York on the 10th inst. I had been absent at the Virginia Springs, and attending the courts of the surrounding circuit, when I received your letter and have deeply to regret that I was not in place to get it sooner. for I should have certainly dropped business and every thing to fly to meet you, "face to face." One only hope now is in the State of New York; her Whigs may save us from the infatuation of other States in which our trust seemed sure, but which appear to have fallen into the hands of the enemy almost without a cause- But there is a cause-one I know of. the Executive is too strong for the People."
The very party which raises such an outcry against all monopolies have built up the most immense and fearful of all monopolies--that of political power and money power in the hands of one corporation alone. the President of the United States
There are but three sources of power I know of in the government the Power of the public money, the Power of the public lands, and the Power of the public offices, all three constituting what is called the power of Patronage.
Who has all three of these Powers. and all the incidents to them?- The President. none other! And yet to the anti monopolists there is no terror at all in this monster monopolist of all !!!.
Gentlemen, I thank you for the kind terms of your invitation, and am devotedly your brother Whig,
HENRY A. WISE.
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Henry A. Wise
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Gentlemen
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henry a. wise regrets inability to attend the whig young men meeting in new york and hopes new york's whigs will counter electoral losses elsewhere, attributing them to the president's excessive monopoly on patronage powers including public money, lands, and offices, which he sees as the greatest threat despite anti-monopoly claims.
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