Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-13


oasGtIon worth ConsiderIng.
A day or two ago We quoted Mr. Carlile
In refutstiou of his own position now and
shat of his feIlow-butternuts, 90 the new
State question. The associate editor Of the
Wheeling Prem. with whom Mr.. Carlile
used 10 affiliate at Washington about the
time he was changing his shell. says 'tsueb
quotation is at once gross nisrepresenta-
ton of Mr. Garlic aud an attempted fraud
upon the people," aud that "Nr. Garlic
WAS then, is now, and has been throughout
an advocate oftbe admission of the new
State, bus only, rs the new State ought to
be admitted" Well now We submit that
is very extraordinary statement, aud one
that could not be made by any one who is
familiar with Mr.. Csriiie's course on that
subject, or who wanted to tell the truth
about it if he was. Itmight do very we'll for
an imported cockuey to talk that way ifihe
people of Western Virginia were naturally
born jaekAsses-wbich they are not. There
is not a man Of ordinary Intelligence in
Western Virginia who does not know bet
ter. When the movement first began Nr.
C4rlile BY all his pubiic acts aud declAra-
tons made himself the champion of
new State by every means possible. All his
speeches delivered 10 this city in the Spring
of 1861, and reported aud printed by us,
and now preserved in our files prove it. In
the FIRST convention assembled in this city
he was the bola and persistent advocate of
immediate and revolutionary action. He
offered in that body on the 18th day of
Nay, 1851, the following resolution aud
advocated it with his utmost ability:
ReJoEUed, That the Committee on State
add Federal Relations be instructed to re-
port au ordinance declaring that the con-
nectioR Of the counties of this State COM
posing the Tenth and Eleventh Congress-
ional districts, 70 which shall be added the
csunty OF Wayne, with the other portions OF
the State is hereby dissolved, aud that the
people OF the said counties are in the pos
session aud exercise of all the rights OF
sovereignty which Oelong aud appertAin to
q tree aud independent State in the United
States and subject to the Constitution
thereof; and that said committee be TO-
structed to report a Constitution and form
Government for the said State, to be call
they report q declaration of the causes
winch have impelled the people of said
counties thus dissolve their connection with
the rest OF the State, together with an or
dinsuce declaring that said Constitution
and form of government shall take effect
and be nm act Of this day when the consent
of the Congress of the United States aud
OF the Legislature of the State of Virgin
ia Is Obtained, as is provided for by section
article 4, of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. 3A
Fortunately calmer councils prevailed
aud more regular course of action was
adopted. When he found he could not
lead in the revolutionary way he first pro-
posed, be fell in with the constitutional
method adopted, and was foremost ia its
advocacy. BE held on to this With so much
eousisteucy and irmneps that he was made
o. s. Senator, at the first session of the
Legislature under the reorganized govern
ment BE held on with apparent sincerity
and honesty ofpurpOse through the Angus,
Convention and helped get the ordinance
for division of the State. Very shortly
after that he seems to have got some new
revelations, or to have fallen under some
strange maligu influence; for We find him
plotting with the enemies of the new State
for its defeat, aud warming into open hos.
tilfty aud voting against orr admission
when the question came before the Senate.
Now can any man call that consistent
course Yet that is precisely in brief the
course of Mr.. Garlic. At one time he
thought the new State sought to be" formed
by revolution if need be; then be conclu-
ded it fought TO be" formed in legitimate
and constitutional manner. Nov he thinks
it Hoitgkf to be done at some ''proper
time" ia the future which he believes can
be.so efsctually provided against that it
will never be done ct all. That is precisely
Mr. carlile's present position on the new
State, and it is exactly that of those With
whom be eo-operAtes. No man is deceived
for moment into a belief that the men
now led by j. S. Garlic and the Wheeling
Prets want new State at any time. by any
means, or under any possible or impossible
combination Of Circumstances.
They are the same men who have been
against it from the beginning. They did
al they could against 1t in the Convention
aud in the Legislature. by coujuripg up
d faculties tbatdid not exist. They always
pretended to be friends Of the new State,
but they we're vipers in its bosom. They
stilllkeep up the prsteuse because ii is m
popular 70 be against it,
NOE-s great cry is raised because it is
proposed TO admit the new State under
biIiby which an amendment 10 the Con-
situation is to be submitted to our people.
That amendment is the incorporation of
gradual emancipation. The new State viii
be a free State, not Immediately. bns pros
peetEeIY, Gradually and surely. Aud of