Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-05-02
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a. N. WILLIAMS.
CLARKsBURq, Va, is Feb, 1855.
Ny Dean Door Your kind favor of
the 18th is athanl.s | am withyou hear
tily in your wish loFSthe success of the
Democratic party at our next Congress
sional election, but, how are We, AS you
say, to get rid of the INCUBUS that has al
already divided our ranks? If Il COnVen-
ton or any other means were used to pro
| mote the end desired, should Lewis not
be selected, he would run any how, and if
am correct in regard to the motive strons er
than all others now operating upon Col.
Beale, he would not submit to any ar
rangement by which he would be put
aside. He was an applicant for the Office
of Marshall; Pierce refused to give it to
him, and doubt not his anxiety to get
TO Congress is for the purpose of being in
u position where he can make the Ad-
ministratiOn feel his resentment for the
manner in which he was treated.
You will perceive that Lewis failed to
vote on the "Anti Know Nothing" reso-
lutiOns offered by Witte Of Pennsylvania,
but took occasion TO say that had he been
! in the Hall he should have voted against
Mr.. Whites motion. He evidently is
playing for the Know-Nothing vote is
sending to persons here who he suspects
to be members, the g Organ" published
in Washington. Now it seems 10 me he
ought to be made to define his position,
and not suffered to run with the hare and
hold with the hound. II Know Nothing
let him say so. Would not some Of our
Democratic friends call him out through
the papers over their own signatures, for
do not believe he would answer an
anonymous communication. How would
question like this do: Are you mem
Der OF any Secret Society that has any
thing to do with politics, or in other
words. do you belong to an order com,
monty called " Know Nothings o. Let
him define his position, taking one side or
the other, and he can be beaten, and bea
ten TOO by good Democrat, believe.
As for myself, Time and chance must
determine" my course do not want TO
run to be beaten, or in any way contribute
to the election Of Wing. shall there
fore adhere to my intention of remaining
where am, until the waters which are
now disturbed shall settle down, and we
can better discover how the land lies
Do not let anything that has passed be-
tween rs i'll connection with my own as
pirations cause you to hesitate moment
as to the course you should adopt. lam
| but an atom, and not entitled to embar-
rass any one when the good of the party
to which we belong is at stake. l shall
not be candidate unless pretty certain
Of success. do not intend to run against
storm and attempt to turn back the
wind but will rather try to ride on the
storm, direct the wind and prevent it from
doing harm, by the selection of an agent
who may have less of principle and more
Of sel6shuess to guide and direct him.
With great respect your sincere friend,
JNo. S. CARL1IE.
Mr.. Carlile found fault because we said
ave did not believe him base enough to
write such letters, and afterwards accept
a nomination by the Know Nothings. -
At that very time, Us We have since been
credibly informed, Mr.. Carlile, actually
belonged to the Know-Nothing organiza-
tion; yet he writes. 81 am with YOU
heartily in your wish for the success Of
the Democratic party at our next Con,
gressional election" 1t was also then
told us, though we believed it not, that
thB matter was all arranged, and Mr.
Garlic would be the Know~Nothing Caa.
ydidate. The words in his secoud letter
in reference to the time of his comma
out, aud his running in spite of nomi.
nation Of Mr.. Lewis, evidently refer, il
they mean anything. to his intention &c
run as he is now doing. Is there n, man
any where who would not denouucs such
conduct as base Was there not false.
hood in his heart, and deception in the
act, when he penned these lines in refer
ence to his hopes Of the success of the
Democracy Would or could an honest
man do such an act?
Farther on in Ills letter, we find hin,
deuounGing Col: Bznle. for int.A ding to
oppose the Administration but now we
find Mr.. Garlic doing the same thing :
He also would analhematize Mr.. Lewis
because he was not sound on Know. No
thingism. and suggests inevrroga,ions 10
be in order TO test his position. At the
same time, had those intsSrogations been