Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1860 — Gov. Wise and his Mammy. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Wise and his Mammy.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Tribune tells the following: Governor Wise owns the woman Charlotte, who nursed, suckled, and occasionly spanked him—on the sly, of course. This faith ul creature is now a venerable old woman, and being past suckling or spanking, in fact having no more work in her, is allowed to go to and fro where she pleases, a sort of privileged character, doing and saying what she j,leases, barring the insolence. She even comes up to Philadelphia among the family of Mr. John Sergeant, whose daughter was Mr. Wise’s first wife, and here she stays and potters about until she gets tired of liberty, and then goes dac.k to old Virginia, there to get tired in turn, and then to renew her visitation here to the family. Agjod many jokes are let off on her, but she has all the spunk of a privileged character. Just now we happen to be favored with her company. One of the family coming into the parlor, and finding Charlotte there, inquired of her in a sporting way, who she belonged to now—if she belonged to Gov. Wise. “No, Sir,” was the old woman’s answer, “I be--1 ngs to nobody; Henry A. Wise belongs to me!”