Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — The Wise Conspiracy in 1856. [ARTICLE]

The Wise Conspiracy in 1856.

At a recent Union meeting in Knoxville Tenn., Judge Bailey, lormerly of Georgia, made a speech, in noticing which the Whig of that city, remarks: “The Judge made onp startling disclosure, which was new to us all. He said that during the Presidential contest Gov. Wise hud addressed letters to all the Southern Governors—and that the one to the Governor of Florida hud been shown him—in which Wise said that he had an army in f Pad m ess to prevent Fremont from taking his seat if elected , and asking the co-operation of those to whom he wrote!” When the Senate gets through investigating the Harper’s Ferry affair, would it not be well to make an equally thorough examination into the nature and extent of this conspiracy of Wf.se, which evidently was the special means ot pointing out thkt locality for the operation of John Brown ?