Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-24


B4:b, Roekbridge, Bouttetort, Craig, aud
AHegtsuy,embraeing an extent of territory
Oas-lbird IS large as the proposed new
State, add running clear down South of
thirty.ssTen degrees and thirty minutes,
and touching the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad There Was dietatiou With =
vengeance, The question of boundary was
the most intricate and di5euIt of any that
came before the cOuventioa- 1t occupied
nearly month Of earnest and elaborate
discussion; yet the results of all this
thought aud research were swept aside
by a single dash of the pen Of the
gentleman who now goes into periodical
spzsms ofhoiy horror about .sCopgrezsionaI
dic,ation" as though it had been NO more
than cobEeb, and Who now says be
waited to be admitted with the COpsti-
sutton just az it Easl Would that have
been Congressional dietationH or Sir. Car
lilies dictation ? And which would hsre
been the worst auyhoW2
Then Nr. CarliIe vent on TO provide that
there should be another Convention here
in Western Virginia, 10 which all the new
ly appended counties, and the others, we're
to be represented. Why call another Con-
Ventiou1 To frame another Constitution
to be sure. But what did We want another
lConstituriou for2 We shall see. The
Valley had no part in. getting up the pres
ent Constitution and Mr.. Garlic wanted
the Valley to help make one After that
he might eouclude the East WAS upjuatly
excluded from participation, aud propose
another Convention 10 make another Con-
sti;ntiOu, under which the trouble of new
State admission would be saved aito-
getber (J
Now what was to be the work of Mr..
Carlile's Convention No. 81 He provided /:
That the Convention hereinafter provided
for shall IN the Constitution framed by it
make provision that from and after the
fourth day of July, 1868, the children Of all
slave parents born within the limits of said
State shall be tree
Il Here is another deviation from the "Cou-
s.itutiOu as it Is" and this only the second
section Ofthe bill Here is more of that
dictattou. The Constitution didn't say
anything about emancipation. And here
it is required that the Convention to be
called 4sAair' make an emancipation Con-
. stituGon. There IL to be no choice. It's
work Is laid out for it before it meets. Mr.
, Willsy's emancipation provision is Mr.. Car
lilies great bugabOO, yet here he proposes
E substantially the game in advance of Mr.
: Wiley. The difference is that Mr. Wiley
5 proposes to free the slave children born at.
E ter tie fourth of Aareh 1863, instead o.
r the fourth of July 1863, aud by way of ad.
5 ditiOn ''that all the slaves within the statr
: who shall at the time aforesaid be under ID,
i age of ten years, shaIl be free when they
z arrive at the age of twenty lone years, aut
i all slaves over ten aud under twenty on
e years shall be free when they arrive at thu
= age of twenty-five years, aud no slave shall
! be permitted to come into the State fo
permanent residence" This only hasten
# little the work which Mr. Cariile pro
a posed to iuaugurate. The difference i
u only one of circumstance, not of principle
There is no more dictation or iuterfer
;, ence in the one than the other. Yet Mr
e Garlic proposed the one and now denouuc
i es the other, and all the while claims to b
It honest and consistent He will not con
}, sent that the work he proposes shall b
5 done BY the Convention still in esse. Tbs
: would be altogether too prompt, too cheap
:. and too easily accomplished He woul
e have the same work done by Convention
IS which by the very terms creating it eanno
: be called iiiIth war is over; which wOul
IS cost double what the laat one did, aud en-
i in smoke As the last one did not. He woul
d not have the new State dictated to b
= the AAbolittonists" and he hopes by sucI
5 d course to postpone the necessary evil G
2. being dictated to by Congress till all the
: 4bolitionists are dead, 1t is very certain
: he had his way and wish the present gen
e GRAFTON of them would be in their grave
5 and forgotten before ever Western Virgini
, should be free from the East.
: Such was his peuchant for dictatiOu
o Notwithstanding he tried to remsve it s.
: far in the future) that in constituting hi
e pet Convention (which, for the sake Q
e keeping it before tue reader we will thu
E remark in parenthesis Was never contem
4 plated by the Constitution he propose,
s to confer upon Congress the power to die
: tate It's representation. That is to say
, Congress was to determine in the passag
: of his bill the number of delegates eacl
{ county should be entitled to have. W
invite especial attention to thi
5 feature of this bill as something altogeths
} Unprecedented in American Legislation
1t not only required that the Convention
. when assembled should do stated work
roitty niiiy, but even descended to say how