Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-01

mia, but the embryotfc Senator was ueyel
conspicuous for any effort to remand then
to their disloyal masters, lest the Coustitu
tiOn should be infracted and tue Union g
to pot
1t was not till Mr.. Carlile had been made
ia Senator that he became conditions
Unionist Then his aristocrAtic instinct.
began 10 develop themselves. Having
made sure of his interests, he went it
search of his principles. In finding them
he also discovered that what he believed
and felt was more cOngenial to Richmond
than to Boston, and nearer of kin to JEFF
Davis than to Abraham Lincoln. Had ht
reversed the process, and critically exam
ined his principles before looking at. er his
interests, we should have heard of him il
Richmond rather than ia Washington
Yet, anomalous as his position must have
been, he WAS not without co-sympathi2ers
/ in Congress. While he mourned the alb
sence of Wigfall, he was consoled by the
! presence OF WycklifFe. Though bereaved OF
the confidence of Floyd and Cobb, he had
bosom friends in Voorhees, and Vallan-
! digham. He could even fall back upon
! Richardson for support in trying hour
and though deprived of the beniguant and
assuring smile of Breckinridge, lie could
draw life and light from the serene and
soothing aspect of the yet uuexpelled
i Bright. He graYitAted to them as naturally
as an uusound apple TO the ground. If
they smelt au exaggerated African in any
measure, he never failed to discover
where the gigantic Congo was ambuscaded.
| When they imagined that the Constitution
/ had fallen into the hands of the Abolition
Thracians, he exhibited the rents which
the furies had made in its sacred vest
ments. Throughout his career in Con-
| gress he betrayed chronic distress for the
safety ofthe negro, as primary condition
of the safety of the Constitution.
1t is the weakness of Mr.. Cnrlile to aim
for the leadership of hopeless miuorities.-
1t is not tunconinonly the case that medic
ere abilities, with boundless ambition,
seek distinction in that way. What he
| had been at Richmond he became at Wash
| ington, thought was necessary TO reverse
his position in doing so. At Richmond
| his interests were at war with his sympa-
} thies; at Washington his sympathies got
the better of his interests. The radical
lloyalist of the one city became the emf
nently conservative of the other. At
| Richmond treason was Hn objectionable
enormity Mt Washington only abolition
ism was hideous.
Itwas in this unsavory condition that Mr..
Carlile returned to his constituents. His
] hatred OF treason and the rebellion faded
out in proportion as his antipathy to ultra
| ism and abolitionists increased. By the
! time he had journeyed as far as Indianapo-
| lis he had become monomaniac on the
subject. Some people are color blind and
cannot distinguish between the most
strongly coutrasted tints. They lack the
discriminating sense; all colors are alike
to them. Mr.. Carlile may not be color
blind, hut he has been effectually blinded
by color. He has gazed so long and go ar
IDENTIFY on the ebony image Divinely
wrought out aud appointed 10 bondage,
that he cannot distinguish differences
that actually exist. For convenience,
therefore, he divides mankind into two
classes-thOse who do not believe in the
Divine lispensation of slavery, are aboli-
tionists, which is another name for the
nigger without the Constitution; those
who do believe it a peculiar Institution
for the exclusive benefit of white peo-
pie, are conservatives word that embod-
les the nigger with the Constitution; but he
fails to see great middle class who are
for the Constitution, with or without the
uigger, as events may determine but for
the Constitution at allhaZards. This great
middle class Mr. Garlile calls abolitionists.
Administration, which he persists is under
their control and moulded to their Will. In
his devotion to the nigger he narrowly es.
capes being a traitor. a year ago he beg
ged tue mouutaineers to fight for the Gov
ernnent; now he asks them if they will
submit to it, Then he wanted the Federal
soldiers to lay waste the habitations of the
wicked; now he appeals to the wicked
whether they will see their "fair homes de-
stroyed by Abolition tyrants." Then he
declaimed against the objectionable crime
of secession; now he deTotes his fiery in
dignation to Abolitionistn exclusively.
Mr.. Carlile has been unsuccessful with
the mountaineers. Instead of repudiating
the Government they have repudiated him.
In a hopeless minority as eyer He trav-
eled all the way to Indianapolis to teach
the freemen of another State their duty to
their Government, and he is now in a fair
way of being taught his duty TO it by the
freemen of his own. If he execrates the
Abolitionists, as he stigmatizes all who do
mot adhere to his views, halt as bitterly as
his constituents execrate him, his mouth
must be fountain of bitterness, indeed
Next to Bob Letcher he is the best hated
man in the State. A political Erasmus, be
has fallen into disfavor with both parties
and is as much despised by one as he /:
hated by the other. Hisresignation would
be the most grateful offering he could make
Ito the people he has betrayed, and his exc,
dus beyond the lines of the Federal army
would complete the satisfaction which his
resignation would create.
OFFICIAL.